>>An absolutely GREAT book which I've read perhaps half a dozen times. Having had a very Reform upbringing, it was for a long time my only frame of reference about Hassidism.

>Yeah, I've read it repeatedly. Wish I liked his other stuff as well. IIRC, Potok was my former rabbi's study partner at the seminary.

Since starting college, The Chosen is the only book of fiction I've read more than once and is the only fiction I have kept.
It is to date my favorite. I also read the sequel The Promise.

I would think to have known Chiam Potok is superior to knowing Bill Gates :-)