Reb Moshe: The Life and Ideals of Hagaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein

by Shimon Finkelman, Nosson Scherman

Book by Finkelman, Shimon, Scherman, Nosson

Genres: Jewish, Biography

270 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1986

Reviews

[Myriam]

It’s not about the book, but about the man, and what a magnificent human being he was.

[Sara]

Amazing! I only wish i had met him.

[Leora Wenger]

The emphasis in this book is not on his teshuvos (responses to Jewish law inquiries) rather on his midos, his ability to sense each person as a worthy human being and how to treat a person in need. He spent his formative years living under the Communists and thus knew oppression well. My issues with the book: 1) most of us need to set boundaries when helping others. We get little sense of this struggle. 2) It is disturbing that he supported a bill under Lyndon Johnson that may have given yeshivos funding, but at the same time, increased the power of the Feds, takong one more step closer to the Communism he had escaped.

[Fred]

Feelgood childhood chicken soup for the yeshiva boy's soul.