{"product_id":"twenty-six-questions-on-the-path-to-wisdom-paperback","title":"Twenty-Six Questions on the Path to Wisdom - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Patterson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the purpose of creation? How do I break free of this solitude? What is there to love? Why should I care? These are a few of the twenty-six questions on the path to wisdom, with twenty-six corresponding to the numerical value of the Holy Name of Four Letters, \u003ci\u003eyud-hey-vav-hey\u003c\/i\u003e. We live in a time that seems void of meaning, because we live in a time that is empty of wisdom. Undertaking a quest for wisdom, this book turns to the millennial teachings and traditions of Judaism, as well as other traditions. The path to wisdom lies in these teachings--in these questions--that humanity has inherited from its sages. These are the questions that shape a life by enabling us to live a meaningful life. They are not so much the questions that we have but the questions that \"have\" us, that take hold of us, often in spite of ourselves. For each question, the author offers a response, a reflection, but not a final answer. Indeed, the responses to these twenty-six questions are themselves subject to questioning, as they must be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Patterson holds the Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas and is a Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). He has lectured at universities on six continents and throughout the United States. A winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award, and the Holocaust Scholars' Conference Eternal Flame Award, he has published 45 books and more than 250 articles, essays, and book chapters on antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Jewish studies. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eTwenty-Six Questions along the Path to Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e (Wipf \u0026amp; Stock, 2026), \u003ci\u003eRedemptive Antisemitism after Ten\/Seven\u003c\/i\u003e (Academic Studies Press, 2026), \u003ci\u003eEighteen Words to Sustain a Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Wipf \u0026amp; Stock, 2023), \u003ci\u003eJudaism, Antisemitism, Holocaust: Making the Connections\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge, 2022), \u003ci\u003eShoah and Torah\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge, 2022), \u003ci\u003ePortraits: Elie Wiesel's Hasidic Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e (SUNY, 2021), \u003ci\u003eThe Holocaust and the Non-Representable\u003c\/i\u003e (SUNY, 2018), \u003ci\u003eAnti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge, 2015), and \u003ci\u003eA Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67960255217885,"sku":"9798385219667","price":40.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/xBMto56M0j9798385219667.webp?v=1790823073","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/twenty-six-questions-on-the-path-to-wisdom-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}