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Growing up under the spell of surfdom’s coveted mecca—Malibu Beach—Norm Shifren risks missing his own bar mitzvah to take his first shaky ride at the fabled surf spot. Benignly apathetic about his Jewishness, Shifren pursues his dream of becoming a big-wave surfer, lifeguard and triathlete.
Shifren’s circuitous journey evolves into a spiritual quest that takes him from the pristine waves of Hawaii and Mexico, to intermarriage in Germany, a soldier’s duty in Israel, and finally, to a small shtetl in Israel, where he learns the mysteries of the Jewish ancients.
His true-life saga is one of new found Jewish consciousness and eye opening self-revelation. Shifren’s life comes full circle as he finds G-d not in the synagogue, but in the majesty of Jewish mysticism and the vast power of the ocean.
- Sales Rank: #1000015 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Heaven Ink Pub
- Published on: 2001-01-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .72" h x 5.39" w x 8.52" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Gentiles, Jews, and secular beach rats of all stripe will find adventure here.” -- Scott Hulet, editor, The Surfer’s Journal
“Fascinating…ultimately important…a spiritual autobiography as compelling and original as its author.” -- Michael Medved, film critic, nationally syndicated radio host
“In the spirit of Jack London…an amazing true life story of lifeguarding…and surfing…” -- Arthur C. Verge, Ph.D., Professor of History, El Camino College
“One of the most compelling autobiographies in recent memory, …challenges the foundation of religious outlook…a breathtaking spiritual expedition.” -- Rabbi Aaron Parry, educational director, Jews for Judaism and former spiritual leader, Young Israel of Beverly Hills
“Shifren fuses the raw force and power of the ocean with the essence of Kabbalah and the infinite wonders of the soul…” -- Rabbi Binyomin Lisbon, Bais Bezalel, Los Angeles
About the Author
Rabbi Nachum Shifren is a Southern California native. A disciplined athlete, competitive swimmer, runner and triathlete, he served for 10 years as a Los Angeles County Lifeguard and received a commendation from the Mayor for lifesaving water rescue.
At the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War he became a kibbutz volunteer, and in 1977 emigrated to Israel. Shifren served in the Israeli Defense Forces and received a degree in Combat Fitness Training at the prestigious Machon Wingate Institute for Sports in Netanya, Israel.
Shifren received a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Santa Barbara in Spanish and German Literature. He continued graduate studies in West Germany at the University of Goettingen. Rabbi Shifren is a language teacher and is fluent in Spanish, German, Hebrew and Yiddish.
Rabbi Shifren attended Toras Chayim Yeshiva in Jerusalem and Yeshivat Tomchei Tmimim in Kfar Chabad, Israel, where he received his rabbinical ordination in 1990.
He has been featured in People magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Jerusalem Post, GQ magazine, The Jewish Press, Surfer magazine, The Jerusalem Report, as well as Le Figaro, The Manchester Guardian, Sud-Deutsche Zeitung, and other international media. He has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, Phil Donohue, NPR radio, JTN, Fox TV, Deutsche Welle TV, Dutch, Spanish and Canadian National TV, KNX Radio, KBRT, and KFI Los Angeles. He founded Jewish Surfers International and the Surf & Soul newsletter. A movie based on Surfing Rabbi is currently in development.
Rabbi Shifren lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Rivkah and their 4 children. He is actively involved in physical fitness training, surfing and water safety. He continues to publish, lecture and teach—and is known worldwide as “The Surfing Rabbi.”
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Prologue UZI SURF PATROL “Road Alerts! Precautionary Measures! Avoid unnecessary driving in the Shomron area.”
As the radio barked I instinctively reached under my seat for the Uzi and released the safety, fumbled around in the tool box for another loaded magazine, and placed it in reach.
Driving on the Trans-Samaria highway, the main artery linking the heartland of Israel to the coast, is normally a scenic cruise across ridges with sweeping views and down through historic valleys planted in olive groves, vineyards and fig trees.
Today, though, I had driven through the first Arab village a little faster than usual. After a 15-minute delay at an Israeli army roadblock, we were once again under way.
On the radio the announcer’s voice was tense as he rattled off the number of Israeli casualties in yesterday’s battle at Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem.
“Bulletin! Drivers report shooting! Incidents on the Shomron road! Army officials predict increasing tension!”
I glanced at my wife Rivkah’s face. She was upset.
“Nachum, why are you taking this kind of chance just to go surfing?”
“This is no big deal. When I was on surfari down in Oaxaca, Mexico, in the early seventies, the guerrillas actually held surfers as hostages.”
Somehow this did nothing to calm her fears. Still, the kids wanted to go; the hot weather was their excuse to hit the water with the old man. Hey, I thought, I’d just started vacation. I haven’t been in the salt water in over two weeks, and I’m itching to unload my surfboard and get wet. The last thing I want to deal with on the way to the beach is another intifada.
At the next road block, a squadron of Mercava tanks was positioned for added security, barrels pointed toward the adjacent Arab village. Traffic had slowed to a crawl. I spotted a familiar face among the soldiers, a buddy of mine from a neighboring village.
“Avi,” I yelled out over the exasperated voices of the sweating, kvetching drivers. “What’s all this? Is it under control, or what?”
“You mean other than getting hit by rocks and bricks, Rabbi?” Avi answered with a touch of resignation. Then he leaned down and whispered “Listen, you might want to keep your weapon in your lap. Looks pretty bad this time, Rabbi. You might not be able to get back home if it heats up.”
“OK, OK, I just wanna make sure I paddle out before the tide changes on me.”
“Alright,” he relented as he stood up and signaled to two IDF troopers with Gallils slung barrel-down leaning against the tank’s treads. Then he waved my car and two others through.
The rest of the drive across the coastal plain was an uneasy affair. I turned off the special news bulletins and looked for an old sixties-vintage Dick Dale tape.
“Keep cool,” I said to myself “One more roadblock and it’s clear sailing to the coast.”
Perhaps it was my frame of mind. Maybe it was the by- now-comforting sight of my Uzi lying next to my surf wax. Maybe the familiar guitar riffs of Miserlou made me come to my senses.
Rivkah’s right, I thought. This is nuts. There’s a war going on—and I’m going surfing? What am I doing?
I took a deep breath and reflected on a life that had brought me to this point. How had I managed to get myself into these positions? I’d led the life of a comfortable, assimilated surfer, with a Volvo and a good credit rating. My major world-shattering concerns were wind-direction, wave-size, tide changes and whether I had forgotten to water my alfalfa sprouts before leaving for the day. By what freak of fate was I now going surfing, after passing through a combat zone, road blocks and barbed wire, armed with an automatic weapon and two loaded magazines?
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
From Malibu surfer to Surfing Rabbi
By Rabbi Yonassan Gershom
Not since "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" have two more unlikely activities been combined into one book title. Surfing Rabbi? If that sounds like an oxymoron to you, then you really should read this book. It's the totally honest personal story of a 1960's Malibu beach rat whose love of surf and sand eventually became a spiritual quest to delve more deeply into the power of his own Jewish roots. Today, he is both a Hasidic rabbi and avid surfer, demonstrating that to be a "religious Jew" does not have to mean withdrawing from the modern world.
I read this book on a cold, snowy, Minnesota Sabbath afternoon, which is about as far away from the ocean as a person can get. I knew nothing about surfing when I opened the book, but soon found myself completely caught up in the story. Here was a man so devoted to surfing, that he drove through a war zone just to get to the beach. Foolhardy or adventurous? I had to find out!
Rabbi Shifrin writes in a clear, personal style, so that even a landlubber like me can easily picture the beaches and surfer culture that he describes. Not that every scene comes out of "Endless Summer." Shifrin's first attempt to catch a wave at Malibu was a dangerous disaster that knocked his fantasies down to earth -- but also spurred him on to master this most challenging of sports. He became an expert surfer, lifeguard, and triathelete, so totally focused on riding the waves that he had little time for anything else in his life. Still, something was missing. The quest to fill that void eventually led him back to his Jewish roots and on to rabbinic ordination, where he learned that Judaism, like the ocean, is deep beyond imagining.
Today, Shifrin uses surfing as a form of youth outreach, and is known worldwide as "The Surfing Rabbi." His life, in the words of surf film producer Ira Opper, is about "riding the energy of the universe." Gentiles and Jews alike will find inspiration in this fascinating story.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
CPR for the Soul
By Evan M. Stone
SURFING RABBI: A KABBALISTIC QUEST FOR SOUL Reviewed by Evan M. Stone
"Words that come from the heart enter the heart," said the Sages. Rabbi Nachum Shifren's words will enter the heart of every reader, and if you're a surfing Jew hold on to the rails-tightly. SURFING RABBI: A KABBALISTIC QUEST FOR SOUL takes the brave reader through the white water to contend with the rip current of his Jewish soul. Recounting the highs and lows of his own life, Rabbi Shifren's autobiography shares his personal journey from assimilated Jew to Rabbi. Known as the Surfing Rabbi, Shifren's story is CPR for the soul: "Pure Stoke," to quote John Grissim.
Shifren shared the familiar Southern California middle class upbringing of an assimilated Jew. His parents, hardly religious and heading toward divorce, were not able to relate to the pre-teen Shifren. He ran away shortly before his bar-mitzvah and tells a hilarious story of his kook ride, dropping in on a local Malibu hot shot called, "The Cat." Though he returned in time for his maftir, after high school, he was off to Hawaii for college. While on Oahu, he majored in big wave riding on the North Shore rather than academics. Eventually, Shifren dropped out of college returning to Southern California to pursue his surfing dreams.
The twenty-one year old Shifren landed his dream job as a lifeguard. In top physical shape, he could swim twenty-six miles in the ocean without food. He was comfortable, so he thought. The lifeguard soon discovered rip currents exist in the soul as well as the ocean-a nagging, a yearning, a soft voice asking: "What am I? " The more he listened the stronger the voice grew. His soul searching took him to Israel where he served in the Army, lived on a kibbutz, and fell in love with a German woman whom he married.
While in living in Germany with his wife and two children, Shifren experienced dissonance in his soul as his Jewish neshama demanded attention. A war raged in his heart between his actual life and what his soul yearned for-reclaiming his lost Jewish inheritance. The conflict between his reality Germany and the budding awareness of his Jewish identity engulfed his soul. His marriage painfully disintegrated. Shifren again returned to Southern California, this time to finish his studies and earn a teaching credential. But Shifren learned more than he anticipated after stumbling into the mysterious world of observant Judaism.
The thirty-three year old Shifren met an indefatigable Chasidic black hatter named Rabbi Loschak after Shifren decided on impulse to attend a Chanukah party sponsored by Chabad. Little did Shifren know the candles he kindled that night would indeed burn longer than he expected. Shifren initially reacted to the bearded Chasid with an odd brew of mockery and respect much like any other assimilated Jew would react. Shifren's soul finally found the opportunity it sought. As he nurtured his relationship with Loschak, he chose to let his soul's rip current take him where it may. He became shomer Shabbat and soon realized his calling to study more at a yeshiva in Israel.
Shifren's journey alarmingly highlights the Jewish assimilation problem. He offers hope through his own example of teshuvah. The majority Jews living in the United States gravitate inch-by-inch toward assimilation rationalizing their behavior as they abandon their birthright. The heatbeat of the Jewish soul beats fainter as the modern day Hellenism of America shamelessly sucks each successive generation of Jews into its vortex. The spiritual entropy of the Jewish soul ultimately reduces the assimilated Jew to nothing more than a person with a vague notion of his own Jewishness and few tools to find his way home. Beyond this husk is total annihilation of Jewish identity. Thankfully, a faint heartbeat is still a heartbeat for those who are willing to listen.
The assimilated Jew need only listen to the little voice, constant and nagging, pulling him toward his Judaism. The voice, like a faint alarm clock that will not turn off, asks the Jew to wake up from a comfortable sleep. The sleep of the American Jewish experience though comfortable remains an historical anomaly. Shifren's story is the story of a man who woke up from the sleep of assimilation to reclaim his Judaism. A person can ignore his soul's rip current, but once he begins listening, it grows stronger. As it becomes stronger, one finds himself in an uncomfortable struggle to remain secular and unaware. Indeed, the stronger the rip current, the stronger one must fight to ignore it. The tension between the pull of the unknown and the familiar shore demands resolution. Either one fixes his sights on the shore of familiarity or allows his rip current to carry him into the vast mysteries of OMO. The surfing Rabbi followed his current and delivers the message that we can follow ours.
Rabbi Shifren's autobiography demonstrates that every Jew has the power to return. But one need only look to Abraham, to understand that every assimilated Jew has the spark of Judaism waiting to be stoked into a fire. "Lech Lecha," G-d told Abraham-and he left the comfortable idol worshipping community of his family to a land that G-d showed him. Every assimilated Jew would do well to listen to his spiritual "Lech Lecha."
Rabbi Shifren not only found his Jewish Soul, but he had the courage ride that wave to its conclusion despite the heart wrenching consequences. Rabbi Shifren, a spiritual lifeguard, defibrillates the Jewish neshama jolting the assimilated Jew out of his comatose to re-claim his identity and responsibilities as a Jew. "Words that come from the heart enter the heart." May Rabbi Shifren's words, and ultimately G-d enter yours.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A Short Review by Glenn Hening
By Glenn Hening
Just a quick note of congratulations to Norm on his book. To consistently marry the challenge of surfing with the challenge of his religion represents a fascinating combination of stoke and faith that I've rarely seen, if ever, in my 35 years of riding waves.
As a founder of both the Surfrider Foundation and the Groundswell Society, I have always felt that surfing has to be something more than self-gratification, or else it becomes an obsessive pasttime that has no worth to anyone. Norm has been able to draw parallels between the world of riding waves with his religion that holds up under the scrutiny of long time surfers as well as Orthodox Jews.
Now that Norm has put it all in a book, his efforts, along with his Surf and Soul Magazine, have actually enriched my perspectives on surfing and what's it is worth.
Glenn Hening
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