For more than four decades, renowned author and speaker Rabbi Manis Friedman has been counseling and teaching about marriage, love, and intimacy, empowering men and women to create healthy, long-lasting relationships. Now, in Fast Acting, Long Lasting, he focuses on how to navigate the often challenging and confusing world of dating. With practicality and wit, he shares compelling insights into the real “rules of engagement”—insights we need now more than ever.
In this timely guide, you’ll learn the keys to smart and sane dating, including how to achieve the right mindset for dating, how to behave on a date, how to evaluate a potential partner, and finally how to decide to marry. You’ll explore why envisioning the future and managing expectations are important, the harmful misconceptions that can sabotage the dating process, how to achieve greater clarity, and the most important thing you can do while single to prepare for a successful marriage. In addition, Rabbi Friedman invites us to appreciate the thoughtfulness and elegance of the traditional Jewish way of dating and its many valuable lessons.
The sage advice and sensible tools you’ll learn in this book will not only help you breathe easier while dating but will also make a tremendous difference to your marriage, your children, and your community for years to come.
