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In this collection, Martin S. Cohen presents a new approach to Jewish spirituality based on an unconventional, often startling, interpretation of the Book of Psalms.

Comments about Travels on the Road Not Taken

Isn’t the truth either profoundly complicated or embarrassingly simple? Your reading of the Psalms is so beautifully simple that it really does make sense. Bravo!

—Rabbi Perry Raphael Rank

Martin Cohen brings his talents as both a fine scholar and a successful pulpit rabbi to his new book, Travels on the Road Not Taken: Towards a Bible-Based Theory of Jewish Spirituality. The result is work that deals with the real issues of thinking Jews which does not offer the usual “quick fixes” found in so many contemporary “spiritual” works…The selections that Cohen chooses from the private heart of the psalmists and his own scholarly and personal explanation of their contents…demonstrate…the personal, intimate, spiritual side of Judaism in a fresh and challenging manner…

—Bernard Glassman in Conservative Judaism