Choose Light!: Chassidic Tales for Chanukah, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkos, Passover & Shavuos

by Libi Astaire

Overview

For anyone who has ever been touched and inspired by a Chassidic tale, this box set needs no introduction. For anyone who has not yet experienced the warmth and wisdom of Chassidic masters such as the Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Zusha of Hanipoli-welcome! In these volumes you'll find stories that will give you a new appreciation for the Jewish holidays, as well as the Jewish people's ability to remain joyous and optimistic even during the darkest times. By journey's end, hopefully you too will have discovered the secret for how to Choose Light!

Included is the full text of the following ebooks:

• 36 Candles: Chassidic Tales for Chanukah
• Choose Life! 8 Chassidic Tales for the Jewish New Year
• Choose Joy! 15 Chassidic Tales for Sukkos
• Pass Over to Freedom: 15 Jewish Tales for Passover
• The World Is Built With Kindness: 15 Chassidic Tales for Shavuos

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781503136519
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/09/2014
Series:	Chassidic Tales for the Jewish Holidays
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Libi Astaire is an award-winning author who often writes about Jewish history. In addition to her popular Jewish Regency Mystery Series, she is the author of "The Banished Heart," a novel about Shakespeare's writing of "The Merchant of Venice"; "Terra Incognita," a novel about Spanish villagers who discover they are descended from crypto-Jews (Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages); several retellings of Chassidic tales; and "Day Trips to Jewish History," a collection of essays about lesser known people and places in Jewish history.

Her own journey has taken her from Kansas, where she grew up, to Jerusalem, where she now lives.