Reviews for One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi

The average rating for One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-03-11 00:00:00 Gregory D. Dineen This was a terrible book. I don't know how the author ever found a publisher willing to print it.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-06 00:00:00 TERRY MCCORMICK I'm glad I read Rabbi Lew's books in the order I did, with this last. This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared is really important to me, but I couldn't have predicted that from this book. I think the thing that made this hard to read is that Lew doesn't really apply the life lessons he learned later to the narrative of his earlier experiences. After reading the first third, I was really disappointed and felt sort of like this was a 'don't meet your heroes' situation. As the book went on, I realised the extent of his evolution into the person who wrote this book and, even later on, his later books. If anything, I can credit this book with prompting me to remember that people can change dramatically over the course of their lives and that people I know now might have been completely different 10 or 20 years ago, and likewise will probably be completely different again in 10 or 20 years. However, that learning feels predicated on being already invested in Lew as a thinker, and I won't be pushing this book into people's hands.