Ha-Meir La-Aretz Ve-la-Darim is a two sided book with an anthology of High Holy Day sermons written and delivered by Max "Meir ben Isak" Frankel on one side and and a mouth-watering collection of "Torat Imekha," Purim recipes from the kitchen of Gloria "Golda bas Shmuel Hayim HaLevi" Frankel on the other. Max Frankel Born in 1928 as the youngest of Isak and Breintze Golde Frankel's five children, Max was an exclusively Yiddish speaking twelve-year-old who immigrated to the United States after escaping Nazi occupied Austria with his parents in 1940.? A graduate of Yeshiva Israel Salanter (now SAR Academy in Riverdale, New York), Max went on to attend Yeshiva University's high school and college.? A cum laude graduate of the Teachers Institute of Yeshiva University and the Yeshiva College of Liberal Arts, Max served form 48 years as a master educator and educational administrator in Rochester, Erie, Boston, Philadelphia, and finally, Cincinnati.? When Max retired after 25 years as the Executive Director of Cincinnati's Bureau of Jewish Education, he was the most senior in length of service of all directors of