EPISODE · Jun 13, 2023 · 3 MIN
Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for Soul by Nachum Shifren
from New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Larissa Abshire
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/686249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for Soul Author: Nachum Shifren Narrator: Nachum Shifren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Growing up under the spell of surfdoms coveted mecca, Malibu Beach, Norm Shifren risks missing his own bar mitzvah to take his first shaky ride at the fabled surf spot. Benignly apathetic about his Jewishness, Shifren pursues his dream of becoming a big-wave surfer, lifeguard, and triathlete. Shifren’s circuitous journey evolves into a spiritual quest that takes him from the pristine waves of Hawaii and Mexico, to intermarriage in Germany, a soldier’s duty in Israel, and finally, to a small shtetl in Israel, where he learns the mysteries of the Jewish ancients. His true-life saga is one of new found Jewish consciousness and eye opening self-revelation. Shifren’s life comes full circle as he finds G-d not in the synagogue, but in the majesty of Jewish mysticism and the vast power of the ocean.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/686249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for Soul Author: Nachum Shifren Narrator: Nachum Shifren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Growing up under the spell of surfdoms coveted mecca, Malibu Beach, Norm Shifren risks missing his own bar mitzvah to take his first shaky ride at the fabled surf spot. Benignly apathetic about his Jewishness, Shifren pursues his dream of becoming a big-wave surfer, lifeguard, and triathlete. Shifren’s circuitous journey evolves into a spiritual quest that takes him from the pristine waves of Hawaii and Mexico, to intermarriage in Germany, a soldier’s duty in Israel, and finally, to a small shtetl in Israel, where he learns the mysteries of the Jewish ancients. His true-life saga is one of new found Jewish consciousness and eye opening self-revelation. Shifren’s life comes full circle as he finds G-d not in the synagogue, but in the majesty of Jewish mysticism and the vast power of the ocean.
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