{"id":44706,"date":"2018-03-12T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/?p=44706"},"modified":"2018-05-24T10:48:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:48:05","slug":"stardust-true-stories-people-light-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/stardust-true-stories-people-light-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardust: More true stories of people who light up our world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Four years, against immeasurable odds, he&#8217;d worked for this moment. Now he had to choose between his future- and his Torah<br \/>\n    life.<br \/>\n    Could anyone save this crumbling marriage? The Rebbe had a way&#8230;<br \/>\n    Their grandfathers had hated each other. Now she needed their family&#8217;s chesed. Could old grudges be forgotten?<\/p>\n<p>From where we stand, a star seems to be just a tiny pinpoint of light. But if we could get closer, we&#8217;d be dazzled by its brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>In her true stories, <strong>C.B. Weinfeld<\/strong> gets closer to the light the light inside of every one of us. <strong>Mrs. Weinfeld<\/strong> has a marvelous talent for finding stories about unexpected greatness. Where others see a shabby old lady and her shy granddaughter, she sees a strong and generous personality in the making. An old copper box decorated with pretty engravings holds more than aromatic snuff &#8211; it contains a man&#8217;s desperate desire to succeed, and his even more powerful wish to keep his father happy.<\/p>\n<p>These stories , which originally appeared in <strong>Yated Neeman<\/strong> and <strong>Ami Magazine<\/strong>, leave us amazed. Sometimes they bring a tear to our eye, sometimes they make us laugh &#8211; but always, always, they strengthen our belief in others, and in our own potential for greatness.<\/p>\n<p>Buy this book now on <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.artscroll.com\/Books\/9781422619995.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.artscroll.com\/Books\/9781422619995.html\">Artscroll.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years, against immeasurable odds, he&#8217;d worked for this moment. Now he had to choose between his future- and his Torah life. Could anyone save this crumbling marriage? The Rebbe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[4271,28,13637,13636,4691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44708,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44706\/revisions\/44708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}