God at the Edge Through adventure and raw experience, whether dogsledding above the Arctic Circle or spending the night in a New York jail, Goldstein explores the connections between struggle and growth, fear and transcendence, and uncertainty and his Jewish faith, seeking the boundary where the finite meets the Infinite. Full description

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Niles Elliot Goldstein, the founding rabbi of The New Shul in New York City's Greenwich Village, begins God at the Edge by invoking "a long history of people discovering God in unexpected, unusual, sometimes even uncomfortable contexts". It's an appropriate setup for Goldstein's stories of his exotic pilgrimages, which have included dogsledding above the Arctic Circle, travelling the Silk Road in Central Asia and cruising with federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents through the South Bronx. Revelation on the margins of human experience is, Goldstein explains, a central aspect of Jewish and Christian traditions: "Judaism was born in the wilderness of the desert, at the foot of a mountain, as a people cringed in terror. Christianity traces its origins to a man dying on a cross, crying out in doubt and despair." The stories in God at the Edge bristle with intelligence and wit. Goldstein's adventures are grander than those most of his readers will experience, but even the homebound will find inspiration in the example of his fearless exploration. --Michael Joseph Gross

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