“Evocative...compelling.” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“[Halevi’s] words echo with the possibility of transcendence.” - Los Angeles Times
“At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden is filled with soul-stretching quotations, a treasure trove of devotional practices, and keen insights into the commonalities within the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim mystical traditions. Above all, this is a hopeful and healing book, the kind that comes along all too rarely in these times of contentiousness and adversarial conflict. Read it gratefully.” - Spirituality and Health
“The political landscape of the Middle East has inspired many books, but few have focused on the intersection of its religious paths as healing territory. This is where Jerusalemite Halevi, a transplanted American Jewish journalist, breaks ground…. Readers of all religions will appreciate the honesty of this spiritual walkabout.” - Publishers Weekly
“Extraordinary and heartbreaking...  [Halevi] brings us with him to stand at the gates of the garden, sensing the ways in which those who call themselves Abraham’s children might live together in some kind of humility and willingness to learn. It is a book full of wonders – not at all sentimental – here too there are corrupt and lazy souls, here too there are good men trapped by prejudice; but overall a real glimpse of the hope that might be.” - Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
“One of the most important spiritual memoirs of our time.” - Krista Tippett, host of the radio program, On Being
“[Halevi] writes with the sensibility and passion of a psalmist, creating beautiful images in luminous prose. A highly original work filled with sparks of holiness.” - New York Jewish Week
“Halevi’s free-range orthodoxy may be a real alternative to the hopeless divide between secular humanists and fundamentalists.” - Washington Post Book World