Preachers, Teachers and Selected Short Features: More Explorations of Jewish Life and Learning

Cows chanting mystical hymns; a talmudic rabbi who is revered as a Christian saint; a learned demon who speedily transmitted rabbinic teachings between distant towns on the sabbath; the laundering of spiritual garments while the righteous slumber; a talmudic proverb that shows up in a Jimmy Cagney film and in the Trump White House-these are but a few of the tantalizing morsels from Jewish tradition that will delight and enlighten the readers of this collection of short essays on Jewish hist...