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With eloquence and wit, Wayne Hoffman explores the improbable camaraderie between a Jewish man and an Orthodox rabbi, in this rich, insightful book about love, credibility, faith, and belonging. In Yiddish, there's a word for this: bashert - the individual you are fated to meet. Twenty-something Benji Steiner views the idea with skepticism. But the older rabbi who stumbles into Benji's office 1 day does not have any such questions. Jacob Zuckerman's later wife, Sophie, was his bashert. And today that she's absent, Rabbi Zuckerman grapples with mind-boggling grief and loneliness. Touched by the rabbi's plight, Benji becomes his helper - generating him home after work, sitting in his living room hearing stories. Their camaraderie baffles everyone, especially Benji's sharp-tongued, modestly observant mom. But Benji is rediscovering something he didn't know he'd lost. Yet the test of camaraderie, and of both men's beliefs, lies in the difficult truths they come to talk about. With each revelation, Benji discovers what this means not just to be Jewish, but to be completely human being - imperfect, striving, and looking for the bits of ourselves which come only through another's acceptance.
