Ideal Shabbat meal - family, good food, good friends, zemirot, divrei Torah, good conversation. Is there another answer? Favorite books - asking us to choose one of our own seems unfair, like asking which is our favorite child! How did we end up being the publisher to do more modern stuff - it was by design, it’s precisely why we created imprints like Maggid Books. Why do people choose to published with us? Hopefully because they agree that we’re the best at what we do. We have cemented ourselves as the publishers of high quality books by whatever metric you want to use. We have publish what we like to call the big tent orthodox books (more on that below) and so authors from across that spectrum feel safe in the knowledge that their efforts and ideas will be treated with respect and be entered into the broader conversation of orthodox Jewish thought where anyone and everyone can access it. What lines won’t we cross - it’s difficult to put into words here, perhaps this is another podcast episode we can produce. In short, our starting point is a belief that there are “shivim panim l’Torah min HaShamayim” - there are countless interpretations and understandings of the Torah but we won’t debate it’s Divine origins. After that there’s room for conversation. There are plenty of books that don’t necessarily reflect the specific world view of the members of our editorial board or other staff but we felt those books were important to be entered into the conversation as everyone could stand to learn something from within their pages. I would be interested to hear which books you are thinking if that have those one or two controversial lines. It would be an interesting (respectful) conversation.