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    <body><![CDATA[I re-read Potok’s Book of Lights.  I picked it up because Sunday I am preaching on light and I thought it would help me.  The Kabballa is a major charcter, and is only one illusion of light. It is a difficult book.  Much of the story centers around Arthur Leiden’s struggle because his father is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18811845">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I began reading Potok as a teen, beginning The Chosen.  It was like a fascinating peek into a world I had never known existed.  I read this book earlier and didn't like it as much.  But, I picked it up again as an adult and knowing more about Los Alamos and the history of the bombs and the people wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7570469">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Over the years I have read several novels by Chaim Potok. I don't think I would have enjoyed this one 20 years ago - it is slow in some places and I imagine many readers would find it too slow. I found it beautifully written, exquisitely painful at times, exquisitely joyful at others. Interweaving t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19638700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In all my Jewish exploration this is my first Chaim Potok book.  A housemate lent it to me and I am excited about the juxtoposition of Kabbala and Nuclear doomsday and its not even sci-fi!  Thanks Cold War. <br/><br/>The book was clear and straight forward but dragged.  The guilt of the Nuclear bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4260121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like many Potok novels, the philosophical debate between the Talmud and Kabbalah underlines the action. However, in this case Gershon, our hero, has decided to follow the path of the Kabbalah &quot;light&quot;. What I really loved about this book was the evolution of the protagonist: seeing Gershon ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24204125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my fourth Potok and he remains a favorite, to be sure.  This book didn't disappoint, but unlike the other novels I've read, I probably won't read it again.  If I could, I'd actually give it 3.5 stars.<br/><br/>This book deals with war--but (again) unlike the other books I've read and repor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18350487">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My grandfather fought in the Pacific theater in WWII, and we never cease to have respectful disagreements on a regular basis about the ethics and justifications of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... hence, my interest in this book. Potok teases our collective bipolarity concerning this histori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40132778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Highly stylized, with elaborate use of symbols and allegory. Takes a distant third-person narrator through decades of the protagonist's life, in two or three very well-developed settings (slums, seminary, army).  The author's challenge is to demonstrate how minor characters will affect the plot twis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65249078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a book that you want to rush through, I found. My first thought was that The Book of Lights is markedly different from My Name is Asher Lev, yet some of the same themes dominate the book. What does it mean to be a Jew? What are one's responsibilities to one's family? Should one go through the mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64990104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gershon Loran, a quiet rabinical student, is troubled by the dark reality around him. He sees hope in the study of Kabbalah, the Jewish bok of mysticism and visions, truth and light. But to Gershon's friend, Arthur, light means something else, the Atom bomb, his father helped create. Both men seek d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75580980">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit slow in parts, but really the only book I've read dealing with the Korean War.  As a main character Gershon was a little too apathetic for me.  He seemed to drift quite a bit, and even by the end of the book, I didn't quite have a handle on his character.<br/><br/>Reading about Arthur's stru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44546548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating and heartfelt view about chaplains in the Korean War. There is a strong sense of ethics. Terrific book, great characters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Potok does it again.  This is just as well-written as anything else he does, although not quite the calibur of Asher Lev or The Chosen.  Still, Potok gets me really emotionally worked up about his fictional characters, which is unusual for me.  There is even an LDS character who is written about in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27603087">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book did several things- it made an anti-war statement, gave some insight into the teachings of Judaism, specifically Kabbalah, and followed the rather aimless life of a young rabbi. While I enjoyed the character development and the emphasis on spiritualism, I felt that the book was lacking som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6005889">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book better than other Chaim Potok novels, although I think they are all well written. The characters were interesting and Iooked forward to their growth and reflections. It delves into the connection between things of this world and spiritual realm; evidence of the God of Abraham in un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53174711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Potok is here wonderful, as always, at portraying conflicted people.  He is psychologically astute and compassionate.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Book of Lights by Chaim Potok (1982)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gershon Loran lives with his aunt and uncle, who have never been the same after they lost their son in the war. He is studying in a seminary in order to become a rabbi, and they have just made it so that in order to get your rabbinate, you must be  a chaplain in the military for two years. His roomm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53645235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw Charlotte's review of this book and remembered that I had been intrigued by another Potok book I had read years ago.  I found it deeply thoughtful and melodic (the rhythm of the style stuck in my head for days).  Reading this book as a non-Jewish person reminded me of a book I read last summer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21336195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, but not my favorite Potok.]]></body>
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