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Turn It and Turn It for Everything Is in It

Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion

By: Jonathan Kligler

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Turn It and Turn It for Everything Is in It

Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion

By: Jonathan Kligler

The Jewish sages taught that when we study the Torah we should continuously turn it and turn it, like a gem with countless facets, looking for new and deeper meanings. In this volume of essays on each weekly Torah portion, Rabbi Jonathan Kligler shares choice insights from his decades of study and teaching. Drawing on both ancient and modern sources, and weaving scholarship and personal stories, Kligler invites the reader to investigate the countless layers of insight and inspiration that vibrant Torah study can provide.

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234

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725251078

ISBN 13

9781725251076

A Rabbi Reads the Torah

By: Jonathan Magonet

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A Rabbi Reads the Torah

By: Jonathan Magonet

Every week in synagogues around the world Jews read a portion from the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, the whole being completed in the course of a year. The reading is usually accompanied by a commentary, a derasha, by the rabbi or a member of the congregation, often drawing on traditional interpretations, but usually finding some point of contact with the realities of today's world. Some passages, especially narratives, lend themselves to immediate associations; others, obscure laws of sacrifice or lists of stages on a journey through the wilderness, represent real challenges to the commentator. Yet others are so familiar to the congregation that the problem is to find something new to say each year! This book arose out of a different kind of 'pulpit', an occasional slot on a weekly radio programme on Friday evenings called 'Shabbat Shalom'. Though ostensibly for a Jewish audience, it reached a far wider public, so the pieces in the book provide enough information to explain the Jewish background at the same time as offering an exploration of the ideas within the text to a broad range of listeners.

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217

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Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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033404913X

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9780334049135

Faith in the Future

By: Jonathan Sacks

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Faith in the Future

By: Jonathan Sacks

Faith in the Future addresses some of the major themes of our time: the fragmentation of our common culture, the breakdown of family and community life, the lack of moral direction, and the waning of religious belief. How, Sacks asks, can we construct a humane social order that honors human dignity and difference, one in which we can be both true to ourselves and a blessing to others? In the confusing state of postindustrial societies in the post-Cold War situation, can we give those who come after us a coherent map of hope? In treating such questions, Faith in the Future is structured in four parts. In the first, The Moral Covenant, Sacks touches on the broadest of issues: morality, the family, and the importance of communities in the life of society. In the second, Living Together, he asks how we can co-exist while remaining faithful to our distinctive identities and traditions. In the third, Jewish Ethics and Spirituality, he sketches some of Judaism's leading themes. There is such a thing, says, as an ecology of hope, and it lies in restoring to our culture a sense of family, community, and religious faith.

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262

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Mercer University Press

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0865545502

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9780865545502

The Talmud and the Internet

A Journey Between Worlds

By: Jonathan Rosen

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The Talmud and the Internet

A Journey Between Worlds

By: Jonathan Rosen

The author explores the relationship between ancient religious tradition and modern technology as he reflects on the very different lives of his two grandmothers--one American, and one murdered by the Nazis.

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132

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Farrar Straus & Giroux

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0374272387

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9780374272388

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Turn It and Turn It for Everything Is in It

Turn It and Turn It for Everything Is in It

A Rabbi Reads the Torah

A Rabbi Reads the Torah

Faith in the Future

Faith in the Future

The Talmud and the Internet

The Talmud and the Internet

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