Maasei Avos Siman L'banim I

Torah perspectives on personalities, episodes and periods in Jewish history: that is the brief Rabbi David Cohen set himself, and this is where the series opens.

This is the first volume of Rabbi David Cohen's Maasei Avos Siman L'Banim, and it is the natural place to meet the series. The title states the method: the acts of the fathers are a sign for the children, and each piece reads a figure or an episode from Jewish history as something that continues to explain the present rather than as a closed chapter.

At 88 hardcover pages it is deliberately compact. You can work through a piece in a sitting, which makes it useful for a Shabbos table vort, for a rebbi looking for material with a historical hook, or for a reader who wants substance without committing to a long sefer.

The 6 by 9 inch hardcover matches the later volumes, so a reader who starts here can keep building the set on the same shelf. For anyone who has heard the series quoted and never opened it, this is where to start.

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