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really necessary? There are many fas-
cinating tales and Jewish laws about
nature that would better have under-
scored the importance of respecting
all of God's world (Halachah states,
for example, that even in war we are
not permitted to cut down the enemy's
trees). If you're really passionate about
ecology, you would do better to con-
sider those first.

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It's nearly Pesach, and that means
lots of new books from publishers,
both Jewish and secular, who can't
seem to get enough of this holiday.
This book does not actually ask the
Four Questions, but rather states the
answers:
On other nights we don't have to
dip our food. Tonight we dip twice.
The illustrations are cute enough
(check out the sheep with the
Haggadah on back), and this will
make a pleasant little present if you're
a guest and want to bring a holiday-
related gift for a child.

The Silent Psalms of Our
Son: Noah's Holy Life
Above the Five Senses by
Jonathan Jarashow. Copyright
2001, published by Feldheim. 95
pages. Paperback. $9.95.

This is not really a book for reading.
But if you want to make a purchase
and know that your dollars — oll of-
your dollars, not lust a tiny, almost
inestimable, percentage — are going

In honor

°IN.:an Rapt-ad. ai Bksscci

Ei lon:nhan jar,how

to a worthy cause, this is for you.
Noah Raphael Jarashow died of
Tay-Sachs, a genetic disease that pri-
marily strikes Jewish families, when he
was 4. His parents wanted to honor
his memory, which they did with this
book and the establishment of an
organization, Noah's Spark, which
aids families of Tay-Sachs. It is
always breathtaking to consider that
parents, whose anguish must be
unimaginable, turn their mourning into
kindness. All profits from the sale of
Silent Psalms will benefit this charity.
So buy this book. Understand,
though, that the text is much more an
outpouring of grief that readable
material. It is at times inspirational and
tender, but most often obscure, filled
with conversations between the author
and God and the author and his son,
both of which must be profoundly
important to Jarashow but somehow
get lost in the translation here.
Because this author was inspired in
his writing by the death of a child, it
would be cruel, unforgivable even, to
judge it solely on literary merits; nei-
ther would it be fair, however, to pres-
ent this as material in the same cate-
gory as Frank Deford's heartbreaking,
yet inimitably readable, Alex, the Life
of a Child, about his young daugh-
ter's death of cystic fibrosis.
Interestingly, there's a local con-
nection to this book. The
Jarashows are cousins of Rabbi
Mordechai Wolmark, formerly of
Detroit and now rosh yeshiva of
Shaarei Torah in Monsey, N.Y.,
who has written an introduction to
The Silent Psalms. El