"As time goes on, we begin to see things more clearly. At fourteen you understand, but your base is very limited. You haven't experienced success. You haven't experienced failure. You haven't experienced making difficult decisions. And you haven't experienced living with their consequences." Sage words, indeed. And even more impressive coming from the pen of a young yeshiva bachur. Yaakov Wolfson is the genuine article, right down to the black hat and the thumb upturned in Talmudic argument. He juggles the demand of sedarim, copes with the vicissitudes of dorm living and muses about life. In these essays, written when the author was between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, Yaakov Wolfson delights us with his thoughts on such very human concerns as the quest for fame, the desire to own, building a home, and the meaning of true accomplishment. Enjoy a unique perspective of the question of learning full time and the need to support a family, building self-confidence, and the definition of success. Meet the sparking cast of characters, who are , after all, the author himself and the ordinary people he meets in the course of a typical yeshiva boy's life. Discover the laughter and the poignancy that lie beneath the surface of every day encounters. You'll emerge the richer for it.
by Yaakov Wolfson