His book leads us from his upbringing in Jamaica through his troubled teenage years in Brooklyn struggling to fit in, descent into drug deals, his brief career in the Los Angeles music industry, and finally his decision to give it all up and follow the Jewish doctrine and faith.

When Yoseph first opened the Torah, he read that God created the heavens and the seas. The ideas inside appealed to his core and helped lead him away from a lifestyle of materialistic indulgence and crime. He found freedom in the structure and restriction of religion and discovered a life of purpose in Judaism. For the first time, he was God fearing and part of something greater than himself.

The book is not merely Yoseph's autobiography, however. It is a platform to explore the relationship between Jews and blacks in the United States. Yoseph gives first hand accounts of the racial strains that exist in today's Jewish community. He does not want to be seen as just another guy who speaks about religion, but as a man who inspires people to be the best human beings that they can be. He longs to be judged on his renewed character, not superficially by his skin color. He hopes his book will inspire a social movement to build a community between Jews and blacks, especially in the younger generation X and Y demographic.

In the West, there is an implicit ignorance that all Jews are white and of European descent. Yoseph is left to shoulder this burden each day of his new life. Rather than carrying that burden, however, Yoseph tries to confront others' ignorance: the constant questioning of how can you be Jewish if you're black, or the even more disorienting questioning, are you really black?

Yoseph takes the opportunity to educate, instead of taking offense at others' disbelief. According to Yoseph, "In Judiasm, it's the soul, the 'neshama' that constitutes the person. The concept is spiritual and can embody any vehicle or physical body, which is called 'Goeff' in Hebrew." Yoseph concludes by asserting that, "Once people are able to suspend the idea that spirituality is not physical and is not bound by space or time, then a black Jewish man is easy to accept."

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