By COLlive reporter
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 the newly released book Fast Acting, Long Lasting, he focuses on how to navigate the often challenging and confusing world of dating.
With practicality and wit, he teaches 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.
He explored 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 the reader to appreciate the thoughtfulness and elegance of the traditional Jewish way of dating and its many valuable lessons.
As part of the book launch, Rabbi Friedman will be hosting a 4-part dating course with the same name. The live course is designed to help you understand and apply the principles outlined in Fast Acting Long Lasting and will break down the key concepts from the book and provide practical tips and strategies to help you succeed in the dating world.
“This is all part of Rabbi Friedman’s mission to help as many singles as possible find their bashert and settle down,” said his son, Rabbi Zalman Friedman, managing editor and Director of It’s Good To Know.
The course, running online June 5, 6, 7 and 8 at 10 PM Eastern Time, is intended for both those looking for a while, and new to the dating scene. All course participants will be able to participate in a live Q&A session with Rabbi Manis Friedman and will receive a complimentary copy of the new book.
To receive 10% off the course, sign up using promo code COLLIVE10: https://go.itsgoodtoknow.org/optin
When shadchanim don’t answer my phone calls/texts or send me ridiculous out of the ball park ideas-they might be the ones who need a book or advice
Well now, 40 years ago no one would think to give or attend a course on Shidduchim. People didnt need it, because we didnt have a widespread lapse in tznius. And no ridiculous profiles and no pictures. Hence no superficialiry or competition.
Lets take ourselves seriously again.
Until both men and women, single or married, start taking the welfare of their sisters and brothers into account in the way they conduct themselves, we unfortunately will continue to see problems ( God forbid).
But often, people ride on the coattails ( gartels?) of their ancestors, instead of working on themselves.
Is it fair that just bc some of you think we are supposed to compete, and bc you wont spend time learning and going to farbrengens a few times a year, you must ruin things for the rest of us?
The keys are in your hands.
As with any self-help stuff, I try to remove the presenter from the wisdom being shared, and then I usually gain more. Don’t think of it as Manis’s advice. Think of it as the Torah’s wisdom.