It seemed like in any area in which there was vulnerability, brokenness or despair, Rabbi Hauer was there— because that’s where the money is
t was a fairly standard question, the sort that generally begets a standard answer.
For a summertime project coordinated by this magazine, various prominent readers were asked to suggest a book they considered worthwhile.
Most of the answers were predictable, but one stood out. Rabbi Moshe Hauer, still in his shanah rishonah as executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, suggested Ish Yehudi, the biography of Rabbi Joseph Zvi Carlebach of Lubek, later Hamburg.
It was an interesting choice for a “beach read,” a serious, thoughtful tome, heavy in ideological implication, its virtuous protagonist facing challenges unthinkable nearly a century later.
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