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Book Review: A bit of Wit, A World of Wisdom, by Yehoshua Kurland

A Bit of Wit, A World of Wisdom, is a small book in page numbers, but a big book in content. From beginning to end it has only 162 pages, but each page is a gem.

The book is easy to read and accomplishes its goal. Each essay begins with a short witty piece, and then a longer piece of wisdom expressing a lesson on life - the two pieces, the wit and the wisdom are generally connected, though in some essays more loosely than in others.

We have a rule in Judaism about starting a speech or a lesson with words of humor and wit. The humor and wit opens the readers heart and mind to then absorb the coming lesson. The wit draws the reader in and makes him or her open to further discussion. This book uses that formula. And it works. The witty pieces were very enjoyable, even though I was familiar already with some of them, and I was always curious as to what lesson would be expressed in the vein of the story or joke that had just been related.

The wisdom portions are truly wise, and even though some of them contain ideas many of us probably already know or have heard before, Kurland expresses them with a clarity and style that makes the reader open to absorbing them.

A Bit of Wit, a World of Wisdom by Yehoshua Kurland is definitely worth a read, and it will be an enjoyable and thought-provoking one!

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