Burnt offering: A return to the physical and intellectual Jerusalem by Zvi Haim

Dr. Zvi Faier z“l, a Torah and physics scholar and writer. Dr. Faier experienced the travails of the Holocaust as a young child in Poland. Thus, it seems most fitting to present at this time, the anniversary of his passing, a poem and a small sketch that he wrote describing one of his family’s many ordeals during that tragic time.

After the war, Dr. Faier’s family immigrated to Montreal, Canada. He earned a Ph.D in theoretical physics, and taught at the university level.

In 1973, Dr. Faier, together with his wife and children, made aliyah to Israel where he received rabbinical ordination. In 1979 he published his first original work, Burnt Offering: A Return to the Physical and Intellectual Jerusalem, co-authored with physicist Dr. Haim Sokolik.

Dr. Faier passed away in 2009, leaving two manuscripts. The first, A Day is a Thousand Years: Human Destiny and the Jewish People, was published posthumously in 2012. It can be purchased on Amazon.com and through Barnes & Noble. The second, Movements in a Dance: Ways of Knowing, will be available for purchase within the next few months.