| The Jewish Pilgrimage - An Exploration of Reality, | | | | Dogma cannot grieve. It is the pain of individuals that |
| Mainly in Verse | | | | sears." |
| The Jewish Pilgrimage by Geoffrey Hoffman is clearly | | | | I also really appreciated Half Sight, which discussed |
| written to inspire philosophical discussion. This book | | | | the inability to witness the good and love in life when |
| depicts the author's personal journey to find some | | | | there is so much horror to distract us from it. Today |
| form of understanding about man, our various | | | | Near Watford Market was a very moving piece for |
| versions of God and how this effects society and | | | | me in that it was so visual. It describes an event |
| the use of its knowledge. He debates moral issues | | | | where the author witnesses a man speaking to the |
| and provokes deep thinking in several areas that will | | | | public about his lack of belief in religion. And "circling |
| never leave my mind as I travel along my own road. | | | | like wolves, the true-believers snarled, snapping at |
| Geoffrey questions the justness of creation itself | | | | both his arguments and him." Yet nearby an elderly |
| and the gift of consciousness. Also he cleverly uses | | | | women fell, sprawling her shopping items on the |
| metaphors when he depicts various pieces of himself | | | | ground around her. The non-believer ran over to her |
| by using the universe, planets and astrological colors. | | | | side and helped her on her way, "jostling to her |
| Without a doubt this student of life, takes joy in | | | | assistance through unmoving ranks of true-believing |
| nature. Throughout the book the author makes his | | | | ice". It is a beautiful story about seeing God where |
| awe in the vastness of the universe quite apparent. | | | | you least expect it. |
| My personal favorite piece was Beautiful Among The | | | | In the later part of the book, the author moves |
| Buildings, which used powerful visual statements like: | | | | away from poetry and gets in to verse debating |
| "Night sprawls among the broken lives that line the | | | | who the Jewish people are, what they are perceived |
| broken street; The lonely and unpitied men whose | | | | as being and the persecution of this group of people |
| waste is our defeat. Men stagger from dank cellars; | | | | through the ages. His interesting look at the holocaust |
| men, imprisoned in their cars, Go roaring into | | | | does not dwell on the sorrow or loss of the people - |
| sightlessness - unmindful of the stars." | | | | rather it centers on the people themselves. |
| And the equally powerful anti-war piece, No Frontiers: | | | | By far, Jewish people are not the only race of people |
| "The father carrying the limp body of his child, The | | | | who have suffered at the hands of man and I think |
| soldier staring at his amputated hand, The little girl | | | | the author means to use the example as a tool to |
| among the bloodied pieces of her parents -What | | | | accelerate the intellectual growth of mankind. |
| does it matter if they are of one side or another? | | | | |