The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters” ...

In a new little devotional book, "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (Knopf), the retired Conservative rabbi from Natick, Mass., revisits "bad things" and other themes as he analyzes the beloved Psalm 23.

Psalm 23 is just one well-spring of insight into the bigger picture. Take a moment, and drink in these words of life: Psalm 23 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Indeed, the Queen selected The Lord Is My Shepherd to be sung at her funeral on Monday, September 19, 2022. The song, based on the words of Psalm 23, is believed to be one of her favourites.

I started unpacking Psalm 23, I’m falling asleep to sheep noises like on YouTube, and I’m getting books on sheep. I need to understand the lens of a sheep to understand how this works.