"Fascinating...ultimately important... 
a spiritual autobiography as compelling and original as its author." 
Michael Medved

G	rowing up under the spell of surfdom's coveted Mecca--Malibu Beach--Norm "Shifty" Shifren risked missing his own bar mitzvah to take his shaky ride at the fabled sure spot.   Benignly apathetic about his Jewishness, Shifren pursues his dream of becoming a big-wave surfer, lifeguard and triathlete.
	Shifren's circuitous journey evolves into a spiritual quest that takes him from the pristine waves of Hawaii and Mexico, to intermarriage in Germany, a soldier's duty in
	Israel, and finally, to a small shtetl in Israel, where he learns the mysteries of the Jewish ancients.    His true-life saga is one of the new found Jewish consciousness and eye opening self- revelation.  Shifren's life come full circle as he finds G-d not in the Synagogue, but in the majesty of Jewish mysticism and the vast power of the oceans.