Moored throughout his adult years in a minor- Ity, he views himself as a romantic in mourning for his era’s lost grace and style . Like the early Zionists who called themselves ‘Olim’ (pil-Grims; those who ascend), secular rabbis of a new faith of redemption, he keeps dreaming of a morally perfect society. By all accounts yet fit and robust, his second assay into the realms of writing is with the printer, one more distillation into a remem-brance of things past.