Jewish Family Secrets · Avi Lieber · Brooklyn, NY

The family secrets my zayde taught at the kitchen table. Written down for you.

Money, family, happiness, and what you leave behind.

Nobody sat most of us down and taught us this. We were just supposed to pick it up. These are the old habits a family used to pass along over dinner: how to keep money quiet, how to keep children close, and how to know when you have enough. They were hardly ever written down. So here they are, in four plain ebooks. And the biggest secret? It was never the money. It was the table.

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AI-generated image of Avi Lieber at a table with the four books of the Kitchen Table Collection

I · The Whole Collection

Everything from the table, as ebooks, for $17.

4 ebooks · 139 illustrated pages · worksheets · every edition and the cards included

The four books, large-print editions, e-reader editions and fridge-door cards

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The Three Jars, on moneyIncluded
The Friday Table, on familyIncluded
Enough, on happinessIncluded
Bonus: What Is Written, on papers and last wordsIncluded
Large-print PDF editions of all fourIncluded
E-reader (EPUB) editions of all fourIncluded
Four fridge-door cards (PDF)Included

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II · The Quiet Mind

The money or the peace at home. You shouldn't have to choose.

Most of what goes wrong with money in a family isn't a big disaster. It's small leaks, and nobody talking about them. My zayde had a slip of paper in his coat and a little black notebook. That was the whole system.

The usual way

An example household, one month

Subscriptions nobody remembers$45
Things bought in a hurry$120
Interest on $3,000 at 24%$60
A month$225

The kitchen-table way

Same household, habits changed

A month with a notebook finds them$0
The 30-day slip of paper$30
Interest, falling as it's paid down$60
A month$90

This is a made-up example to show how the arithmetic works, not a customer's result or a promise. Your numbers will be your own.

But the dollars are the least of it. What this really gets you is one less thing following you to bed.

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III · What's Inside

Four ebooks. Every family secret worth passing on.

Book One · The money book

The Three Jars

The three-jar system, from a line of Talmud about 2,000 years old
The little black notebook and the 30-day slip of paper
Writing down what you owe, and paying it off one debt at a time
Why you never lend to family on a handshake
Stopping the man in a hurry: a family password against phone scams
Money and marriage, later years, and what to do when it has already gone wrong
Worksheets: the 30-day notebook, what I owe, the waiting list
Teaching all of this to children and grandchildren

"The number on paper is always smaller than the number in the dark."

Book Two · The family book

The Friday Table

One fixed meal a week, and what to ask at it
Blessing your children, even the ones with grey in their beards
Keeping a long marriage from going quiet
How to fight in a family, and how to fill an empty chair
Being a guest in your grown child's kitchen
Being the zayde or bubbe they'll remember
The table for one, caring for aging parents, and holidays without the war
Worksheets: questions for the table, stories to ask for

"Abba, are you a guest tonight?"

Book Three · The happiness book

Enough

"Who is rich?" and why the good feeling only lasts nine days
A hundred blessings, and learning to notice
One day a week with the phone in a drawer
The worry hour: making an appointment with it
Getting old without getting bitter
What the tradition of shiva teaches about hard times
Friends, your body, forgiving yourself, and one simple day
Worksheets: the worry pad, a week of thank-yous

"You're on the pad. I'll see you tomorrow after dinner."

The bonus · Papers and last words

What Is Written

The family binder, and a checklist to fill it in
The questions to bring to your lawyer
The talk you've been putting off with your children
The ethical will: a thousand-year-old custom of writing to your children
What's in the tin box, and the list you should start today
Your wishes for your doctor, and a guide for whoever's left behind
Avi's own letter to his children, to borrow from
Worksheets: my ethical will, my list of names, questions for your story

"What is written is remembered."

Plus four fridge-door cards

The Three JarsEvery time money comes in

The Friday TableOne fixed meal a week

Not Today, Not in SecretIf someone calls asking for money

EnoughWhen the day goes badly

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IV · Who It's For

You'll get something out of this if…

You lie awake about money.
Not because you're careless. Because nobody ever showed you a system simple enough to keep.

Your family has gone quiet.
The children are busy, or far away, or there's a chair nobody talks about.

You want to leave more than money.
You have things to say, and papers to sort, and you've been saying "next year."

Jewish or not, you're welcome at this table. Everything Hebrew or Yiddish is explained the first time it comes up.

AI-generated portrait of the character Avi Lieber

V · About Avi

Who's doing the writing-down.

My name is Avraham. Friends call me Avi. I've sold cloth in Brooklyn for thirty-five years, in a business that started with my father's little fabric shop on Orchard Street. I've been married to Miriam for forty years. We have four children and eleven grandchildren, and they don't remember the presents.

My zayde came here in 1923 with a sewing needle and almost nothing else. Most of what I know, I learned at his kitchen table, and the rest I learned by doing it wrong. I'm no rabbi, no adviser, and no doctor. I'll tell you when you need one.

"My zayde never wrote any of it down. So I did. And now it's yours."

Please note: Avi is a fictional character, and his family and stories are invented to carry the lessons. His picture and videos are AI-generated. The Jewish sources he quotes are real.

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VII · Before You Buy

Questions folks ask first.

Do I have to be Jewish?

No. The stories come from one Jewish family and the sources are Jewish, but everything can be used in any home. You don't need candles, only a table.

Why "secrets"?

Because that's how this kind of thing travels: quietly, at home, from a grandparent to a child, and hardly ever on paper. There's no hidden trick and nothing kept from anyone. They're plain old family habits, and anyone is welcome to them.

Is Avi a real person?

No. Avi is a fictional narrator, his stories are invented to carry the lessons, and his image is AI-generated. The sources he quotes are real.

What exactly do I get?

Ebooks, as an instant download: PDF, large-print PDF and EPUB. Read them on your phone, tablet, computer or e-reader. Nothing comes in the mail.

How long are the books?

Each book runs about 35 illustrated pages including worksheets, 139 pages in all, or about an evening or two each. The large-print editions run 218 pages.

Is this financial, legal or medical advice?

No. It's general know-how about habits and family life. The books will tell you when to go see an accountant, a lawyer, a doctor, or your own clergy.

Is it religious? Will it tell me how to keep Shabbat?

It draws on Jewish tradition, but it isn't a guide to Jewish law. For questions about practice, please ask your own rabbi.

What if it's not for me?

Email within 30 days and your $17 comes back. Keep the books.

Not ready? Take a free card. "The Friday Table": one fixed meal a week, and what to ask at it.

Here it is: download the Friday Table card.

You've been saying "next year." This is next year.

My zayde never wrote any of it down. So I did. And now it's yours.

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