Our Man in Jerusalem is a new book from ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications containing amazing stories from Rabbi Yisroel Gellis, journalist, radio personality, and tenth-generation Yerushalmi.
Rabbi Gellis knows Yerushalayim like few people on this earth. He knows its mazes of tiny streets, the tales hidden behind its stone walls. His family had close ties with the great men of the city, its famed Torah leaders, its hidden tzaddikim, and its simple Jews. (Is there such a thing as a “simple” Yerushalmi Jew?)
Renowned as the “Ish Yerushalayim,” the “Man of Jerusalem,” Rabbi Gellis is also a journalist, radio broadcaster, and historian. And he is a person who loves adventure, rappelling into deep caves to discover their dusty secrets, dodging Jordanian bullets during the Six Day War, jumping into the choppy Mediterranean waters (and falling in!) to broadcast his radio show.
Bestselling author Rabbi Nachman Seltzer combines his brilliant storytelling talents with Rabbi Gellis’s unusual life and immense knowledge of all things Yerushalmi, to give us a book as exciting, unexpected and multi-faceted as Yerushalayim itself.
Rabbi Seltzer spoke to Arutz Sheva about this new ArtScroll book.
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Wow. Not bad. I’ve got to check out Rabbi Gellis if I’m zoche to go back to Eretz Yisroel.