Joshua Hammerman - Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi - Mensch-Marks - Reviewed 7/24/19
Joshua Hammerman documents the life lessons that he has learned during his life as a Rabbi. Spanning over his lifetime he brings his life to us in lessons so that many of the Jewish ways and little life lessons can be understood in a different way. From his understanding of his brother's mental problems to the death of his father then on to his life as a Rabbi. Mistakes and failures to his shining star he shows us the roadmap to understanding.

What did I like? This was an interesting book in that many of the things that I had ever heard about the Jewish was clarified for me. Of course, I am not Jewish, but I do have several friends and I have never really understood their ways before. This also gave me the motivation to do some subtle changes to my own life. Maybe we all need a little wake call as to the way to live our life. I have always felt that how I lived mine was full filling and along the right path to the end but now I see that if I change a couple of things, I might feel even better.

What will you like? Well written and shows lots of thought in the manner of writing. I do think the book does need some editing as there were many typos and some of it was disjointed. Other than that, it will be very interesting to read. Lots of life moments that show how life can throw curveballs into the mix of things. Humorous, emotional, sensitive, very expressive and certainly passionate plus some very touching moments. I received this from the Net Galley in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion. All opinions expressed are my own and not edited by anyone but me.

I loved this book, well, actually I love any book that has anything remotely to do with Judaism. However, this was a collection of essays and part memoir as well. It guides us to being better people and definitly makes us think. I would recommend this book to pretty much everyone. I loved it.

I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book free of charge. This is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.

Lessons in faith and humility well told from the perspective of a Rabbi and through it all you get a sense of what it means to be human to care and express gratitude and kindness.
Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.