Mitch and his Rabbi(who he calls eRb) have meeting with each other and talk about their faith and their life.

The book starts off with Mitch Albom having to go back to his childhood town because his childhood rabbi Albert Louis requested that he wrote his eulogy for him because he knows he will soon die. This story is actually a true story and the main character in the book is the author Mitch Albom. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself. In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last request and writes the eulogy. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds-and indeed, between beliefs everywhere. Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.Īs America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen what heaven is intermarriage forgiveness doubting God and the importance of faith in trying times. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor-a reformed drug dealer and convict-who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds - two men, two faiths, two communities - that will inspire readers everywhere.Īlbom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.įeeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?

Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom