No mat­ter our age, we are all like chil­dren. In many realms, we ask our­selves or even oth­ers, ​“Why aren’t we there yet?” espe­cial­ly when log­ic dic­tates that we should have already long arrived. At times, we con­tin­ue to wait; at oth­ers we real­ize that we will nev­er arrive in the way we had hoped. It is in such instances that we need to gird for bat­tle and ensure we aren’t crushed for good: there will be oth­er fields of play and oth­er mean­ing­ful oppor­tu­ni­ties if we can allow our­selves to wipe the dust off and get off the mat.

This book is about devel­op­ing patience, per­se­ver­ance, and pur­pose while nav­i­gat­ing the roller-coast­er of life through the prism of anec­do­tal evi­dence and strength­en­ing faith through the light pro­vid­ed by Jew­ish faith.