Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home
A Rabbi Small Mystery, Book 3
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Narrated by:
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George Guidall
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By:
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Harry Kemelman
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With his absorbing mystery series, best-selling author Harry Kemelman transports you to the closely-knit Jewish community at Barnard’s Crossing, a small city near Boston. Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home portrays the unassuming Rabbi Small joyously preparing to celebrate Passover. However, the holiday season is marred when local violence, racism, and misplaced pride run amok. Miffed over the sanctuary’s new seating policy, several families are secretly planning to start their own temple in an unoccupied mansion in the country. When some teenagers break into the house for a party - and one ends up dead - the temple plot is interrupted. Suddenly Rabbi Small must discover what really happened, or the whole community will self-destruct. Savvy Rabbi Small combines earthly chutzpah and divine wisdom to solve the mysterious death that has the entire police force befuddled. Personally approved for this unabridged recording by the author’s estate, veteran narrator George Guidall breathes life into the persistent rabbi and his ambitious congregants.
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- Carôle
- 07-12-20
Good, not great
I wasn’t as enamoured of the murder/mystery aspect of this story, but still fascinated by the new things that I’m learning about the Jewish lifestyle and Judaism.
The characters are funny and fascinating (just by being themselves) and Miriam is incredibly long suffering!
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- Nicola
- 13-11-23
Brilliant
Just loving these books. The logical arguments and the clever and witty plots combined with believable characters. Brilliant.
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- kiskeria
- 07-10-23
Brilliant
I am most fascinated by this series; even if it was written 50 years ago politics, the war between Israel and Palistinians, antisemitism etc haven't changed. Some passages are downright proohetic.
Furthermore, I am learning so many fascinating facts about Judaism in general and the role of a Rabbi in particular.
The speaker makes it to a perfect listening.
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- Mary Carnegie
- 16-11-16
The Rabbi, misunderstood, annoying but wise.
Rabbi David Small is not the most "clubbable" of men! His congregation are always hoping to replace him, and the government of the "Temple" of Barnard's Crossing is usually loaded towards the most worldly and cynical males in the district. Kemelman presents an unsentimental view of Judaism in late 20th c USA. Temple membership is as costly as joining a golf club - no welcome for the poor, no outreach towards the less fortunate - being Jewish in Barnard's Crossing is a class thing. Like any golf club, the politics are deadly. David Small has a clear idea of his job, and it's not to be the puppet of whichever layperson has been recently elected president of the board...
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- Debra K
- 09-03-24
The narrator's voice is like melted chocolate.
It's a whodunit with a congregation of blow hards and a resolution from a quiet voice of education, critical thinking and faith.
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