Travels with the evil inclination
Subtitle: a rabble-rousing renegade rebel rabbi's story of neo-pseudo-psychospiritual dissolution and re-emergence, and some really crazy stuff in between
By: Gershon Winkler.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Winkler, Gershon, -- 1949-; Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; Yetzer hara (Judaism); Orthodox Judaism.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "According to Jewish theology, the Evil inclination, or yetzer ha-ra, is the little voice inside us all, goading us - against our better judgment - to do bad things. Travels with the Evil Inclination is Gershon Winkler's hilarious account of his struggles with the Evil One and the life journey that takes him from an ultra-Orthodox upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, to an ultra-Flexidox lifestyle in rural New Mexico. Through his early childhood in Denmark and his yeshiva boyhood in Brooklyn, his years in the U.S. Army and those spent ranching in Colorado, Winkler's faith and belief undergo constant upheaval as he grapples towards a reconciliation of his passion for religious tradition with his passion for things more earthly."--BOOK JACKET.