Full Description
A Great Miracle Happened Here: A Rabbi's Musings from Akiva to Zionism, is the memoir of a ba'al teshuva, a Jew who became religious as an adult. Born in a displaced persons camp to concentration camp survivors, Rabbi Dr. Leon Weissberg went on to earn a doctorate in Education and become a prominent educator of teens and adults in Florida and beyond, specializing on the Holocaust. He has taken over 2,500 teens and adults to Poland and Israel on the acclaimed March of the Living program—and became an Orthodox rabbi at age 74. Leon Weissberg's remarkable story and insights into Jewish law and life, particularly on the role of divine providence and Israel, as well as the observance of Shabbat and kashrut, serve as a beacon of light and hope in a difficult world.
Contents
Foreword by Rabbi Pinny Andrusier
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Great Miracle Happened Here
Chapter 1: Akiva and Me
Chapter 2: Becoming An American
Chapter 3: Becoming An Educator
Chapter 4: The Blessings of Family
Chapter 5: Coming to Florida
Chapter 6: Divrei Torah
Chapter 7: DP Camp Survival
Chapter 8: Finding the Right Path
Chapter 9: God in My Life
Chapter 10: Hester Panim
Chapter 11: The Holocaust: The March of the Living
Chapter 12: The Holocaust: The Shoah Becomes My Calling
Chapter 13: Learning Is Everywhere
Chapter 14: People God Sent Me
Chapter 15: The Power of Prayer
Chapter 16: The Rebbe Got Me
Chapter 17: Shabbat and Kashrut
Chapter 18: Zionism, Israel and Me
Afterword
About the Author
