Travels with the Evil Inclination: A Rabble-Rousing Renegade Rabbi's Story
According to Jewish theology, the "Evil Inclination," or yetzer ha-ra, is the small inner voice that tempts us into doing wrong. In a tone at once witty and heartfelt, Rabbi Gershon Winkler, a.k.a. the “stand-up theologian,” tells stories of his own struggles with that voice as he passes from yeshiva boy with a strong libido, to earnest infantryman, to Orthodox rabbi, to redneck ranch hand, to the respected "rabbinic trickster" and scholar he is today. Travels with the Evil Inclination offers...
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According to Jewish theology, the "Evil Inclination," or yetzer ha-ra, is the small inner voice that tempts us into doing wrong. In a tone at once witty and heartfelt, Rabbi Gershon Winkler, a.k.a. the “stand-up theologian,” tells stories of his own struggles with that voice as he passes from yeshiva boy with a strong libido, to earnest infantryman, to Orthodox rabbi, to redneck ranch hand, to the respected "rabbinic trickster" and scholar he is today. Travels with the Evil Inclination offers a tongue-in-cheek account of a most unusual life journey, a humorous and sometimes exaggerated tale of personal spiritual dissolution and re-emergence. This moving story of his transition from orthodoxy to what the author calls “flexidoxy” will inspire, entertain, and provoke as Winkler explores roads not only less traveled but virtually unmapped.
Chapter 1Genesis1Chapter 2The Evil One13Chapter 3The Color Olive33Chapter 4War and Peas51Chapter 5Nest Quest65Chapter 6Exodus85Chapter 7The Sexual Revelation99Chapter 8God the Clown109Chapter 9Skeleton Woman121Chapter 10Milagro125Chapter 11The Aquarian Conspiracy137Chapter 12Cowboys and Hittites153Chapter 13Attack of the Zalman171Chapter 14Back to the Backwoods185Chapter 15The Adventures of the Velveteen Rabbi197Epilogue215
