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Loving other human beings is both the trickiest and most important thing we’ll ever do. It's the most important, because the love we share with other people is what gives our lives meaning; it's tricky because the actual people that we love can make us want to tear our hair out. Fortunately, the Jewish tradition has tremendous resources to help us think about our relationships - with our partners, our children, our parents and our friends. How do we love when we are wounded ourselves? How do we express anger without slipping into scorn? How do we love our children as they are, while still ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film. No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked...