Sweet Soul

""To read Citrin's remarkable book, Sweet Soul, is to step inside the mind and heart of an inspired and visionary leader, Isaiah Shy Zeldin. Citrin brings Shy to life through his personal love of and respect for Rabbi Zeldin, as well as his extensive research. Every page offers a new lesson in the power of community, the imperative to evolve, and the importance of principled leadership. Sweet Soul is a nourishing, healing balm for our own souls."" --Stacy Friedman, Rabbi, Congregation Rodef Sholom, San Rafael, California ""Few practicing Catholics would count among their spiritual advisors and teachers a learned rabbi. Yet for thirty years, Rabbi Zeldin was that for me. I attended High Holy Day services to hear his sermons and to worship with him. More than anything, he was a good friend."" --Gray Davis, Former Governor, California ""Would that we could all have a Shy in our lives to mentor and guide us. Rabbi Zeldin lived the Jewish tenet daily to leave the world a little better than how he found it. Through Rabbi Citrin's sharing of Rabbi Zeldin's story, and for those of us who have spent our careers in Jewish education, we are reminded through this book of the way to live, the way to lead, and the way to be."" --Dale Cooperman, Director of Early Childhood Education, Congregation Albert, Albuquerque, New Mexico ""Rabbi Shy Zeldin was the most influential Reform Rabbi in the western United States in the last half of the twentieth century. Rabbi Paul Citrin, who was Shy's student, colleague, and now biographer shares in Sweet Soul his perspectives on his mentor and rabbi. Rabbi Zeldin was a great man, and this biography does him full credit."" --Paul L. Warner, Past President, Temple Beth-El, Berkeley, California