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God at the Edge Searching for the Divine in Uncomfortable and Unexpected Places

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ISBN-10: 060980488X

ISBN-13: 9780609804889

Edition: N/A

Authors: Niles Goldstein

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Here is a book about adventure, raw experience, and facing inner demons. Niles Elliot Goldstein is a young rabbi who sets out to find God in tough and often scary situations: dogsledding above the Arctic Circle, taking the Silk Road into Central Asia without a visa, being chased by a grizzly bear, cruising with DEA agents through the South Bronx, and spending a night in jail in New York City's Tombs. He explores the connections between struggle and growth, fear and transcendence, and uncertainty and faith, seeking the boundary where the finite meets the Infinite. Goldstein is not alone in making this kind of pilgrimage. There has always been a strong tradition of seekers who looked for…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 4/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Niles Elliot Goldstein is the founding rabbi of The New Shul in New York's Greenwich Village and the National Jewish Chaplain for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Under Lock and Key
Strange Fire
Forests of the Night
Inward Bound
On the Silk Road
God Undercover
Midnight Sun
Views from the Bridge
Conclusion
Bibliographical Sources