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4.5
The book of Samuel is one of my favorite books in the Bible. I love this book, and so I delight in teaching it every chance I get, and I thought that by now I was familiar with all the commentaries on it: whether Jewish or Christian, medieval or modern, scholarly or imaginative. But I must confess that Rabbi Hillel Millgram's new commentary on the book of Samuel opened my eyes to many, many nuances in the book of Samuel that I had never noticed before. On almost every page, he enabled me to see a story I thought I understood in a fresh and different way.There are a great many excellent scholarly insights in this book, but what impresses me the most are the insights that it contains into how to live. Rabbi Millgram's commentary on the book of Samuel provides fascinating insights into what life was like in the biblical world, and it clarifies many passages in the biblical text, but for the general reader what makes this book so valuable is the lessons it contains into how to live here and now that he finds in the ancient text. And this is why I strongly recommend his book, not only to scholars, but to all those who look upon the Bible as Torat Hayim, as a living Torah, that speaks to us today as well as to those who lived some three thousand years ago.(This book is the first volume of a two volume set that should be bought and read together.) Rabbi Jack Riemer, Boca Raton, FL
