IRV’S GUIDE TO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING: Everything You Need to Know About Life, Family, and Why Tickling a Flamingo Is a Terrible Idea Paperback – March 10, 2026

From the author of the long-running humor column in the Monsey Mevaser...Life is complicated.You have questions. Important ones.Questions about relationships, parenting, growing up, and whether pigeons suffer from whiplash considering how violently they shuckel their heads 24 hours a day.Fortunately, Irv Tavshilin is here to answer every single one of them.Whether or not those answers are helpful is an entirely different matter.For the past seven years, Irv has written a weekly humor column for the Monsey Mevaser, dispensing powerful life lessons, deep philosophical insights, and the occasional 1,000-word investigation into topics nobody asked about in the first place.Now, for the first time, a collection of those life-changing columns has been gathered into one convenient book — perfect for:• Reading on the couch after your Shabbos seuda• Pretending to read while avoiding household responsibilities• Giving as a gift to someone who clearly needs more laughter in their lifeWill this book answer life’s biggest questions?No.But it might make you laugh hard enough to forget you had questions in the first place. Read more