Now is the time!

The summer is here, Pesach is past and the traditional season for learning Pirkei Avot has arrived.

Regular readers of Avot Today will know that, just under a year ago, Targum published my book, Pirkei Avot: A Users’ Manual. I exercise great self-restraint in not continually plugging it on the Avot Today blog and Facebook group, since I believe that it would be counterproductive to do so and would alienate rather than influence potential purchasers. Having said that, I do believe that the book is worth a read. It is addressed to contemporary readers, it asks lots of questions—some quite provocative—and is even occasionally fun.  Pirkei Avot: A Users’ Manual does not browbeat readers with heavy it seeks to get the reader to love Pirkei Avot and to adopt it as a moral compass.

If you would like to buy the book, it’s available on Amazon and, if you are in Jerusalem, you can pick up a copy from Pomeranz Booksellers. Given its size (it spans three volumes) and weight, it makes a most imposing barmitzvah or batmitzvah present. If you don’t want to buy the book, no problem—you are welcome to keep reading Avot Today for as long as you feel you are getting something out of it.