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Bob Talbert, Detroit Free Press • Weddings • Anniversaries • Private/Corporate Parties • Bar/Bat Mitzvahs Call Simone for the best personal service in town, with an exciting night of dancing and fun at your party. 7/31 1998 86 Detroit Jewish News ers that God is "in the between, in between us." Rabbi Sasso explains that this book was inspired partly by reading Martin oes God ride a bicycle?" a Buber's writings about finding God in 4-year old recently asked, relationships. "Once we can see God leaving her parents amused in the faces of others, we can see God but sweating over how to in the world around us," she says. respond. Another message of the book is the Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, an idea of "what faith enables us to do." author of children's books who shares She adds: "You have to really know the pulpit of an Indianapolis syna- what you believe in order to write for gogue with her husband, Rabbi Den- children." nis Sasso, feels strongly that parents In Sasso's books, God is a should engage in conversations about metaphor. And God is God, not God with their children, even if they Hashem, as in books written from a don't have all of the answers. more traditional point of view. The "It's fine to say I don't know, this is people pictured are from diverse races something I've been thinking about. and backgrounds. The most important thing is to She says that her books explore the question," she .(:\ are for "children of all says. religions. While I feel that God In Between, beautiful- it's important for kids to ly illustrated by Sally Sweet- have a strong religious land (Jewish Lights; $16.95), identity in their particular is Rabbi Sasso's fifth book tradition, it's important to for young children. Her first have books in which they book, God's Paintbrush, is can share a common con- something of a publishing versation and understand Sandy Eisenberg . phenomenon, having sold what unites them with —/ Sasso: "Parents can more than 60,000 copies learn a lot about others." since its 1992 publication, faith from their At the same time, she and it continues to sell (in chi ren." points out that her books most cases, a 20,000 copy are used by Orthodox fami- sale is considered successful). lies and there's nothing in them that That book is the best-selling title in would be offensive to "anyone in any Jewish Lights' 8-year history. Rabbi religious community." Sasso is also the author of In God's While Rabbi Sasso believes that Name, which has sold 45,000 copies, kids need concrete metaphors to But God Remembered: Stories of Women understand abstract concepts, she says,-_-----/\ from Creation to the Promised Land and A Prayer for the Earth: The Story of it's important to give them a "multi- plicity of images" of God; each image Naamah, Noah's Wife. is a partial knowing and "one image The latest book is the story of can move into idolatry." townspeople in a town with no roads, Talking about God in terms of love homes with no windows, who try to or justice is appropriate too, she says search for God. They send a search — as long as they "don't get stuck on party of two to find God in the one idea." mountains, sea or desert; each searches Rabbi Sasso, who was the first alone, unsuccessfully. woman to be ordained by the Recon-C ( But ultimately they find God in structionist Rabbinical College; the helping each other, clearing a path first rabbi to become a mother and the between their homes and building first to share a pulpit with her hus- windows. They return to tell the oth- band (who's a Conservative rabbi), feels that her books can help parents Sandee Brawarsky is a New York- to open up spiritual conversations based book critic. SAND EE BRAWARS KY Special to The Jewish News