All About Love

You learn about your subject, and you learn about yourself.

Like most of my other books, this one grew out of a magazine tribute, but that was no easy feat either. Rav Dovid Trenk was niftar on a Sunday, which in magazine terms, is the eleventh hour. If we were going to cover it that week, the article would have to be written within hours. And while it’s never simple to speak to those closest to a niftar, after a few days, at least they have some clarity, the ability to express themselves. But now, when the pain was still so fresh and searing?

There’s such a thing as too soon.

Still, this was Rabbi Trenk. Just saying his name caused people to smile, for he was a man who’d spent the better part of his life teaching people not to say “I can’t,” to live big and be big — and so we had to try.