Rabbi Dennis S. Ross
Deepen connections with the people you love.
Build relationships with the people you meet.
We can go through each day—or a
lifetime—as sleepwalkers while awake, tossing and turning
on pillows that are as hard as appointment books, wandering a
paved spiritual wilderness from bank window to house of worship
to hospital bedside. But if we are fortunate enough to happen
upon a vision of the Divine—in a chance chat with a
semi-stranger or a lingering conversation with a good
friend—we can awaken to the spirituality between people
that Martin Buber called I-Thou.
—from God
in Our Relationships
It is possible to infuse every moment of
life with meaning—from the routine act to the
once-in-a-lifetime situation—and this first-of-its-kind
introduction to Martin Buber’s I-Thou shows you how.
Drawing on Jewish tradition, the science
of human behavior, Buber’s ideas and the Hasidic stories
that he loved, Rabbi Dennis Ross illuminates a theology of
relationships in easy-to-understand, accessible language. You
will clearly see how to use the principles of I-Thou to
create new answers to critical issues in life, such as:
• How do I react to others in times
of stress?
• How do I relate to strangers?
• How can I take full advantage of
the time I have to spend with my loved ones?
By unlocking the depths in Buber’s
concepts for spiritual growth, Ross supplies you with the tools
you need to communicate better, love more completely, and find
the sacred in everyday life.
“By interweaving his own life
experience with quotations and insights derived from Martin
Buber’s I and Thou and his Tales of
the Hasidim, Rabbi Ross has
accomplished the remarkable feat of making Buber’s wisdom
accessible in the everyday to men and women in every walk of
life.”
—Maurice
Friedman, author, Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin
Buber
