Living Emunah on Shidduchim - by Rabbi David Ashear - Hardcover, ArtScroll

"Bring Serenity to Shidduchim - With Emunah!" Rabbi David Ashear's title says what the sefer is for. Shidduchim generate more anxiety than almost anything else in Jewish family life, and this is a volume that addresses the anxiety itself rather than offering tactics for the process.

It applies the approach of Rabbi Ashear's Living Emunah writing specifically to the parshah of shidduchim: bitachon as something you practice while the phone is not ringing, not merely a conclusion you reach afterward. Across 352 hardcover pages there is enough material to read a piece at a time over a long stretch, which is generally how a sefer like this gets used.

The 6.00 x 9.00 inch hardcover reads comfortably in an armchair and holds up to being passed around a household. Its readers tend to be parents in the middle of the process, singles carrying the weight of it themselves, and the mothers and shadchanim fielding the phone calls on both sides.

It is also one of the more thoughtful things you can give a friend whose family is in shidduchim - a present that acknowledges the strain without saying anything awkward out loud.

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