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Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet

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About the author:

Harry Kemelman was an American mystery writer and a professor of English. He was the creator of one of the most famous religious sleuths, Rabbi David Small.

His writing career began with short stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine featuring New England college professor Nicky Welt, the first of which, "The Nine Mile Walk", is considered a classic.

The Rabbi Small series began in 1964 with the publication of Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, which became a huge bestseller, a difficult achievement for a religious mystery, and won Kemelman a 1965 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The Rabbi Small books are not only mysteries, but also considerations of Conservative Judaism.

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Quotes from Harry Kemelman:

"Our prayers are rarely petitionary. We don’t so much ask for things that we don’t have as give thanks for what we have received.” “I don’t understand.” The rabbi smiled. “It’s something like this. You Christians say, ‘Our Father who art in Heaven, give us this day our daily bread.’ Our comparable prayer is, ‘Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who bringest forth bread from the earth.’ That’s rather over-simplified, but in general our prayers tend to be prayers of thanksgiving for what has been given to us." — Harry Kemelman (Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (The Rabbi Small Mysteries))

"Oh no, we stem from different traditions, all three of us. Monsignor O’Brien is a priest in the tradition of the priests of the Bible, the sons of Aaron. He has certain powers, magical powers, that he exercises in the celebration of the Mass, for example, where the bread and wine are magically changed to the body and blood of Christ. Dr. Skinner as a Protestant minister is in the tradition of the prophets. He has received a call to preach the word of God. I, a rabbi, am essentially a secular figure, having neither the mana of the priest nor the ‘call’ of the minister. If anything, I suppose we come closest to the judges of the Bible." — Harry Kemelman (Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (The Rabbi Small Mysteries))

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Reviews from the press:

"If Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot had had a son who had naturally become a detective, sharp as Marple in murder, clever as Poirot in conspiracy, he would have been known as Rabbi David Small." - Vogue

„Things in Barnard's Crossing are not kosher. An unfriendly member of the community dies mysteriously and the suspect is a troubled young man. Rabbi Small approaches the case with Talmudic reasoning and insight — and finds a resolution no one else sees... "Enjoyable entertainment... Excellent reading" - AP News Features

„A JIM DANDY STORY! - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

"KEMELMAN HAS A LOVABLE CHARACTER MIXED WITH A HELPFUL SPACE TO GIVE US A SPICY LOOK AT MYSTERY AND INTO THE TALMUDIC AMBIANCE – The San Diego Union

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Reviews from readers:

"I really enjoy this series. I'm glad my sister introduced me to it. The books are informative about Judaism, and thought-provoking about religion in general. The rabbi reasons out the mysteries and the conclusions are usually a surprise to me." - Susan

"I really do like the rabbi in this series. And I particularly like that the people in his congregation and the other people that are interacted with are well-rounded characters. I like Lanigan and the relationship they have. I do not like that the rabbi has a daughter named Hepsibah (really? Hepsibah?), but presumably that's a cultural thing. I enjoyed the mystery here, especially since I didn't see the resolution coming - I will say that the 18 bothered me throughout and I was a bit annoyed when it seemed like it wouldn't be resolved, but I felt the same way about the way the temple board behaved and that didn't get resolved. I do hope that Kaplan felt appropriately chastened for his behaviour." - Andrea Hickman
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