Recently I was excited to find out that a book I wrote three years ago is finally getting published. My inspiration to write “Freiing Out” came three and a half years ago when I was on a visit to Sydney, Australia. At a Friday night Shabbat dinner I was discussing the issue of why so many children were going off the derech and dropping their Judaism. A woman at the table remarked, “Binyamin, it sounds like you’ve got some good ideas on how to prevent children from going off the derech. You should write a book.”

And so I did. I wrote most of the book in two weeks, spending around twelve hours a day of solid writing. It then took a couple of months to finish it and then a while to get it published.

But thank G-d it looks like it should be available in the next few weeks, and I pray that some of the ideas I share in “Freiing Out” helps Jewish people stay strong in their Judaism.