So Strange My Path: A Spiritual Pilgrimage

Plot

It is unusual if not unique for an established Catholic Priest to forsake Christianity and covert to Judaism. So Strange My Path reeals the inside story of the former Father Kenneth Cox who embarked upon a dramatic spiritual journey to the Jewish faith. Carmel vividly describes his agonizing period of doubt, his courage and coviction to deny his former religion, and themany obstacles he had to overcome in order to achieve his spiritual goal. After five year of probation and intensive study, Carmel was received by the Bet Din as a proselyte. An observant Jew, Abraham Carmel personified the rare rabbinic type of a ger tzedek, the proselyte of righteousness, who is admitted into the Jewish faith because of a sincere desire to adopt Jewish values and ideals.