ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THANKS TO:

My editor, Claire Wachtel, for bringing this book back into print;

My agent, Larry Weissman, for persisting;

Hannah Wood, for her gracious help;

James H. Silberman, my first editor, and Pam Bernstein, my first agent, both devoted friends of this book;

Sarah, whose unerring literary sensibility helped form the final result;

Moriah, Gavriel, and Shachar, for the joy they bring me;

Eve and Tom, Glenn and Chani—for help in all ways;

Yoel Glick, spiritual brother, for his love and advice and support on the path;

Allen Afterman and Paul Cowan, friends and mentors who died too soon. This book is in some sense a dialogue with them.