The Travelling Rabbi by Moshe Silberhaft & Suzanne Belling | Country Jews, Cemetery Care

In The Travelling Rabbi: My African Tribe, Rabbi MosheSilberhaft shares heartwarming and often poignant stories from his ministry across South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Dubbed "the rabbi with the largest congregation in the world" (by territory, not numbers), he travels tirelessly to officiate bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, funerals, and maintain over 230 cemeteries in 13 countriesfrom Cape Town to Kenya and Madagascarbringing spiritual care and kosher food to even the most remote Jewish souls 

Rich in vividly told anecdotesfrom toivelling dishes in the sea for kosher dinners in Maputo to conferring halakhic rulings in tiny Karoo townsthis 360-page paperback is both a testament to devotion and a tribute to Jewish rural life that might otherwise fade from memory 

Travelling Rabbi, Moshe Silberhaft, African Jewish communities, Jewish cemeteries, country Jewish ministry, bar mitzvah, kosher outreach, Suzanne Belling, rural Judaism, Jewish biography

Recommended For:

• Those fascinated by religious outreach and itinerant ministry

• Readers interested in African rural life through a Jewish lens

• Collectors of South African or Jewish memoirs

• Great for book clubs, rural community discussions, or heritage preservation readers