Small Acts Of Kindness Striving For Derech Eretz In Everyday Life

Shalom (Seymour) Freedman was born in Troy, New York, and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Cornell University. He moved to Israel in 1974 in the wake of the Yom Kippur War. He studied Hebrew in the ulpan at Beit Ha’am and served in the civil defense unit of the Israeli Army over a period of twelve years. He works in Israel as a free-lance writer and translator, and has contributed to a variety of Jewish publications. For many years he has participated in traditional Jewish learning in houses of study in the holy city of Jerusalem. He has co-authored two works of interviews with teachers of Bible which center on the theme of devotion to God, In the Service of God and Learning in Jerusalem, and a book on the life and thought of Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Living in the Image of God.Freedman, Shalom is the author of 'Small Acts Of Kindness Striving For Derech Eretz In Everyday Life', published 2005 under ISBN 9789657108598 and ISBN 9657108594.