In Love Nailed to the Doorpost, Richard Chess offers poems and lyrical prose inspired and informed equally by the pleasures and pressures of everyday life and by sacred and secular texts ranging from Torah to Basho to Robert Creeley. This new work transports us from the biblical past to the present, from creation stories to stories of brotherly struggle to meditations on married and family love.
Love—that’s the thing, whether spontaneously arising or commanded, as it is, the commandment to love inscribed on parchment, rolled up and tucked into a small case, a mezuzah, and nailed to the doorpost of the house. You shall love: the challenges of fulfilling that commandment, and the joy and transformation one experiences when one does: that’s what Chess’s powerful new work explores.
Sometimes there are situations that require human skills to put a person in place. This problem is often not an easy task, given that people are different and they leverage that reliably influence on some, others simply do not understand and will not work on them. In cases when a contact becomes intrusive or tries to hurt you, you must be able to stop the aggressor. How to do it with dignity, avoiding faux pas and rudeness, we describe in this audiobook.