Zieglitz’s Blessing: A Novel

by Michael Goldberg

Publisher:

Cascade Books

, 2022

Zieglitz's Blessing tells the story of a multigenerational search for identity and the meaning of a man's life. From childhood, Rod Zieglitz questions the truthfulness of his Hebrew name, which means "God will show mercy." Sometimes that name seems fitting. At other times, though, it strikes Zieglitz as a cruel joke. Only on his deathbed, grappling with the challenges he's faced, does Zieglitz rightly understand the notion of God's blessing for the first time. While Zieglitz's Blessing is often comic and even irreverent, it's an ultimately serious tale that runs the gamut from suffering to consolation, transgression to forgiveness, and faith lost to trust restored.

Praise for Zieglitz’s Blessing

“Michael Goldberg’s new, genre-bending novel is itself a blessing: an unorthodox Rabbi’s quixotic search to heal the wounds he has suffered, and inflicted, since his own bris. Though an entertaining send-up of biblical contradictions and rabbinical hypocrisy, Goldberg also explores his sinner’s inherent decency, honor, and love of family. Zieglitz’s Blessing carves a memory not soon forgotten.”

—Lou Gorfain, Emmy award-winning screenwriter



“Zieglitz’s Blessing follows a man’s life through love, loss, anger, and redemption. At times funny, often heart-wrenching, and consistently thought-provoking, Goldberg’s novel will touch you in ways that will surely surprise you and stay with you long after reading it.”

—Randy Auerbach, film executive and producer



“Rare is the writer who can embed the deepest questions of human existence into a tale as absorbing as Zieglitz’s Blessing. Drawing on his considerable wit and on his lifelong experiences as a rabbi, a hospital chaplain, and as an ethicist, Goldberg has produced a novel that is tragic, comic, and, finally, redeeming.”

—Todd Brewster, New York Times #1 best-selling co-author of the The Century

Product Details

• Title: Zieglitz’s Blessing: A Novel
• Author: Michael Goldberg
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781666740080, 9781666740073, 9781666740066, 166674008X, 1666740071, 1666740063
• Resource ID: LLS:9781666740080
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-19T10:57:59Z

About Michael Goldberg

Michael Goldberg is a Jewish rabbi and has held two university chairs in Jewish Studies. He served as an ethical consultant to the Georgia Supreme Court, and works as a hospital and hospice chaplain, giving spiritual support and guidance to patients of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. He wrote Why Should Jews Survive?: Looking Past the Holocaust toward a Jewish Future, Jews and Christians, Getting Our Stories Straight, and Theology and Narrative: A Critical Introduction.