The Sacred Trust: Love, Dating and Marriage: The Jewish View / Here is a book which provides a secure and sensible framework with which to deal with life's most challenging and perplexing phenomena -- love, dating and marriage. It uncovers the suprisingly rich and positive Jewish attitudes toward gender relationships, women and the human body. It appeals to our sense of dignity by urging that we take ourselves seriously as persons, not as objects or things. Using the profound sources of the Torah, Jewish philosophy and law, the author reasons with us in non-technical language, brings out the very best in us and appeals to our higher self-interest. He opens our mind, appeals to our conscience, engages our imagination and reaches deep into our heart with a compelling message of self-improvement and betterment that must oblige us to rethink our values and priorities. Rabbi Pinchas Stolper, internationally renowned pioneer in Jewish youth work, is widely respected as a lecturer, teacher, educator, author and thinker. Rabbi Stolper is the founder of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY) which he served for 18 years as National Director -- from its infancy through its seminal role in the international teshuvah (return to Judaism) movement. During more than forty years of working with Jewish youth, he has met and counselled thousands of young people. One of the world's largest and respected youth movements today, NCSY serves over 40,000 young people in the United States, Canada, Israel and the Ukraine with fresh, innovative and creative educational programs. A disciple of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner, he is a musmach of the Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin / Gur Aryeh Kollel, and holds degrees from Brooklyn College and the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.
