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“And You Shall Tell Your Son”

Identity and Belonging as Shaped by the Jewish Holidays

By: Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg

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“And You Shall Tell Your Son”

Identity and Belonging as Shaped by the Jewish Holidays

By: Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg

In this volume, Bible Studies scholar Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg offers an educational, values-based approach to the cycle of Jewish holidays—festivals and holy days—as found in the Jewish calendar. These special days play a dual role: they reflect a sense of identity with, and belonging to, the Jewish people, while simultaneously shaping that identity and sense of belonging. The biblical command “And you shall tell your son” (Exodus 13:8) is meant to ensure that children will become familiar with the history of their people via the experience of celebrating the holidays. It is the author’s claim, however, that this command must be preceded by another educational command: “And you shall listen to your son and your daughter.” The book examines the various Jewish holidays and ways in which they are celebrated, while focusing on three general topics: identity, belonging, memory. Throughout the generations, observance of the holidays has developed and changed, from time to time and place to place. These changes have enabled generations of Jews, in their various communities, to define their own Jewish identity and sense of belonging.

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“And You Shall Tell Your Son”

Identity and Belonging as Shaped by the Jewish Holidays

By: Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg

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Identity and Belonging as Shaped by the Jewish Holidays

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Going Up and Going Down

A Key to Interpreting Jacob's Dream (Gen 28.10-22)

By: Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg

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Going Up and Going Down

A Key to Interpreting Jacob's Dream (Gen 28.10-22)

By: Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg

In Going Up and Going Down Yitzhak Peleg argues that the story of Jacob's dream (Genesis 28.10-22), functions as a mise en abyme ('as a figure, trope or structure that somehow reflects in compact form, in miniature, the larger structure in which it appears', Greenstein). Close examination reveals that focusing on the vision of Jacob's dream and understanding it as a symbolic dream facilitates an explanation of the dream and its meaning. Scholars have historically classified the dream as theophany, the purpose of which is to explain how Beth-El became a sacred place, and as such the vision in Jacob's dream is generally accepted as merely ornamental, or even lacking a message in itself. Whilst Peleg does not contradict or seek to go against identification of the dream as theophany, he sees a more nuanced purpose behind its presentation. Peleg's proposal is that the description of the vision, and especially that of the movement of the angels, is not embellishment, supplementation or scenic background, of God's message, but that it directly symbolizes the path taken by the Patriarchs to and from the Promised Land. Furthermore, the narrative context and visual description in the dream in which 'Angels of God were going up and down it' appears when Jacob is on his way to Harran, that is to say, when he is about to leave Israel.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567660265

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9780567660268

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