When Rabbi Berel Wein aims his pen at the foibles and challenges of everyday life, get ready to raise your eyebrows, position your lips to smile, and open your mind to think. Rabbi Wein distills the best of his many careers - Rabbi Lawyer, Rosh Yeshivah, Historian, Teacher, Lecturer, Observer -- into the scores of keen and cogent observations that make up this precious little book. The rest of us go through life and see a lot but perceive very little. Rabbi Wein observes a bunch of green bananas or two armfuls of loaded shopping bags and discerns a blueprint for more enjoyable, more productive living.

The chapters in this book will amuse, enlighten, provoke and inspire ... Don't be left out; let bunches of green bananas ripen in your mind. We could go on and on, but you get the idea. This book's a treat. Just read it!

Some selections from the Table of Contents

1. Buy Green Bananas
2. Fools, Nitwits, and Other People You'll Meet
3. Don't Grab First
4. Wear a Hard Hat
5. Invest for the Long Haul
6. No Fault? No Way!
7. An Amateur Built the Ark, Professionals the Titanic
8. Learn to Laugh
9. Don't Count Your Chickens
10. Bridging the Generations
11. Don't Argue, Just Debate
12. Spend Your Grandchildren's Money
13. Count Your Blessings
14. Read and Study History
15. Family Trees
    
    
    
    Berel Wein resides in Jerusalem where he teaches, lectures, writes and administers the Destiny Foundation. He has produced film, tapes and written a trilogy on Jewish history-- Triumph of Survival, Herald of Destiny and Echoes of Glory. He is a regular columnist for the Jerusalem Post and a daily instructor of Talmud for adults. He is the recipient of the Covenant Foundation's Educator of the Year award for 1993.