With poignant and probing reflections on the weekly Torah portions, this collection focuses on important issues like relationships, sexuality, ambition, work and career, aging and body image to show modern men how Torah intersects with their lives today.

"[This] commentary will be placed on my bookshelf close to the biblical text. Ecclesiastes concluded, "Of books there are no end," but the same cannot be said of commentary. Commentary is the testimony of the continuity of the community. The Bible is our family album."
-Rabbi Harold Schulweis, Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, California; author, Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey

"Outstanding?. In voices that are learned and compellingly personal, the writers open the wisdom of Torah to a contemporary generation of men and women alike."
-Rabbi David Ellenson, president, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

"Putting men back in mentors-this insightful collection of teachings is an inspiring reminder of the best that Judaism has to offer the twenty-first century."
-Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder and executive director, Storahtelling (www.storahtelling.org)

"A remarkably diverse contribution to the literature of the synagogue."
-Daniel Boyarin, PhD, professor of Talmudic culture, University of California, Berkeley

"A rare experience ? mirrors the richness of the multiple interpretive voices found in the modern Jewish world."
-Dr. David Hartman, founder and director, Shalom Hartman Institute; author, A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism