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Fast Acting Long Lasting: What You Need to Know for Successful Dating
LEARN THE REAL SECRETS TO SMART, SANE DATING
For more than four decades, renowned author and speaker Rabbi Manis Friedman has been counseling and teaching about marriage, love, and intimacy, empowering men and women to create healthy, long-lasting relationships. Now, in Fast Acting, Long Lasting, he focuses on how to navigate the often challenging and confusing world of dating. With practicality and wit, he shares compelling insights into the real “rules of engagement”—insights we need now more than ever.
In this timely guide, you’ll learn the keys to smart and sane dating, including how to achieve the right mindset for dating, how to behave on a date, how to evaluate a potential partner, and finally how to decide to marry. You’ll explore why envisioning the future and managing expectations are important, the harmful misconceptions that can sabotage the dating process, how to achieve greater clarity, and the most important thing you can do while single to prepare for a successful marriage. In addition, Rabbi Friedman invites us to appreciate the thoughtfulness and elegance of the traditional Jewish way of dating and its many valuable lessons.
The sage advice and sensible tools you’ll learn in this book will not only help you breathe easier while dating but will also make a tremendous difference to your marriage, your children, and your community for years to come.
For more than four decades, renowned author and speaker Rabbi Manis Friedman has been counseling and teaching about marriage, love, and intimacy, empowering men and women to create healthy, long-lasting relationships. Now, in Fast Acting, Long Lasting, he focuses on how to navigate the often challenging and confusing world of dating. With practicality and wit, he shares compelling insights into the real “rules of engagement”—insights we need now more than ever.
In this timely guide, you’ll learn the keys to smart and sane dating, including how to achieve the right mindset for dating, how to behave on a date, how to evaluate a potential partner, and finally how to decide to marry. You’ll explore why envisioning the future and managing expectations are important, the harmful misconceptions that can sabotage the dating process, how to achieve greater clarity, and the most important thing you can do while single to prepare for a successful marriage. In addition, Rabbi Friedman invites us to appreciate the thoughtfulness and elegance of the traditional Jewish way of dating and its many valuable lessons.
The sage advice and sensible tools you’ll learn in this book will not only help you breathe easier while dating but will also make a tremendous difference to your marriage, your children, and your community for years to come.
90 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 15, 2023
About the author
Manis Friedman
17 books51 followersWorld-renowned author, counselor, lecturer and philosopher, Rabbi Manis Friedman uses ancient wisdom and modern wit as he captivates audiences around the country and around the world. He hosts his own critically acclaimed cable television series, Torah Forum with Manis Friedman, syndicated throughout North America. Over 150,000 copies of his provocative yet entertaining tapes, both audio and video have been sold.
Rabbi Friedman’s first book, DOESN’T ANYONE BLUSH ANYMORE?, published by Harper San Francisco in 1990, was widely praised by the media. BLUSH is currently in its fourth printing. Following the publication of the book, he was featured internationally in over 200 print articles, and interviewed on more than 50 television and radio talk shows. He has appeared on CNN, A&E Reviews, PBS, and BBC Worldwide, and has been the subject of articles in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Seventeen, Guideposts, Insight, Publisher’s Weekly and others.
Rabbi Friedman is a noted Biblical scholar, recognized for his sagacious grasp of Jewish mysticism. In 1971, he founded Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies in Minnesota, the world’s first yeshiva exclusively for women, where he continues to serve as dean. From 1984-1990 he served as simultaneous translator for the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s televised talks.
Rabbi Friedman is a professionally ranked member of the National Speakers Association. His speaking tours take him to every part of this country as well as Israel, England, The Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Canada, and Hong Kong.
Rabbi Friedman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1946 and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1950. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbinical College of Canada in 1969.
Rabbi Manis Friedman enthuses each of his listeners and readers with a sense of purpose and definite direction.
Rabbi Friedman’s first book, DOESN’T ANYONE BLUSH ANYMORE?, published by Harper San Francisco in 1990, was widely praised by the media. BLUSH is currently in its fourth printing. Following the publication of the book, he was featured internationally in over 200 print articles, and interviewed on more than 50 television and radio talk shows. He has appeared on CNN, A&E Reviews, PBS, and BBC Worldwide, and has been the subject of articles in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Seventeen, Guideposts, Insight, Publisher’s Weekly and others.
Rabbi Friedman is a noted Biblical scholar, recognized for his sagacious grasp of Jewish mysticism. In 1971, he founded Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies in Minnesota, the world’s first yeshiva exclusively for women, where he continues to serve as dean. From 1984-1990 he served as simultaneous translator for the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s televised talks.
Rabbi Friedman is a professionally ranked member of the National Speakers Association. His speaking tours take him to every part of this country as well as Israel, England, The Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Canada, and Hong Kong.
Rabbi Friedman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1946 and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1950. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbinical College of Canada in 1969.
Rabbi Manis Friedman enthuses each of his listeners and readers with a sense of purpose and definite direction.
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August 7, 2025
Great book!
Easy to read, many good and valuable recommendations. Very applicable to the modern world, relationships, communication, imteractions between spouses, c9nflict resolution.
Easy to read, many good and valuable recommendations. Very applicable to the modern world, relationships, communication, imteractions between spouses, c9nflict resolution.
February 7, 2026
Good. A concise , reference-level advice that circles a kind of paradigm shift— remedial to modern dating.
A handy, valuable guide.
I think this book accomplishes what it set out to accomplish.
A handy, valuable guide.
I think this book accomplishes what it set out to accomplish.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews