Imagine a cake. Now take away the eggs, sugar, water, milk, icing sugar, chocolate...and what's left? A bowl of flour. Now cup your hand, grab a big scoop of flour, and put it in your mouth. And that's what Judaism tastes like for most Yids. We call it chocolate cake, but most shuls taste like a bowl of four.

The Art of Amazement provides numerous theories/practices/ideas to instill profound meaning into the day to day activities of our lives. Rabbi Seinfeld's book provides tools that could, if read, absorbed, practiced, shared and taught (at both the individual and organizational levels) revolutionize the way we live our lives as Jews. If nothing else, you'll think twice about the roots of meditation.

I'm not exaggerating - there's something about this book that speaks to me more than others in the genre. I've read a lot of books on "spirituality", "meditation", "Jewish meditation", "Kabbalah", and so on, and this is the first one that really inspired me to become a better person. The reason may be Rabbi Seinfeld's philosophical clarity - the way he explains the philosophical way to understand "God" (which he calls "The Infinite"), really works for me. He then brilliantly spplies this framework to a number of basic Jewish customs. For the first time, I feel like I understand what the rabbi was always trying to do in Temple, but I think even he didn't understand. It's like the fog has lifted and I see not only Judaism but my whole life dfferently now.

The audio CD was also useful - it was the same content as parts of the book, but good to hear it while driving.