Danny Siegel

Radiance

Creative Mitzvah Living
Herausgeber: Gold, Neal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This first anthology of the most important writings by Danny Siegel, spanning and modernizing fifty years of his insights intersperses soulful Jewish texts with innovative Mitzvah ideas to rouse individuals and communities to transform our lives, communities, and world.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jewish Publication Society
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780827615021
• ISBN-10: 0827615027
• Artikelnr.: 57977710

Autorenporträt

Danny Siegel

Inhaltsangabe

A Rebbi's Proverb
Foreword: Teaching Goodness by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Seeking Out Places Where Light is Hidden by Rabbi Neal Gold
            About This Book
            How to Get the Most Out of This Book
            Using This Book in Your Personal and Organizational Life
            Notes on Language and Utility
 
Part I: Prose
1. Mitzvahs and How to Implement Them
The Dress (1981)
Gym Shoes and Irises (1982)
Proposed Course Titles (1987)
Why People Who Are Blind Should Own Their Own Cars or: How to Think
Mitzvahs
            (1995)
Holy Balloons (1997)
Songs of Love (1997)
Three Prongs (2000)
Occupation: Mitzvahs (2000)
David Copperfield (2000)
The Starfish (2000)
The Butterfly (2000)
Wow à Duh! (2000)
The Pedestal (2000)
Whatever I Want for Myself, I Want for Other People (2000)
24 Questions Parents May Wish to Ask Themselves (2004)
100 Possible Reasons Why You May Have Decided to Do More Tikkun Olam—in No
Particular Order of Importance (2006)
A First Exercise: The Relationship Between Doing Tikkun Olam Jewishly and
Your “Jewishness” (2006)
The Four Questions (2006)
The Good Stuff and the Crud (2006)
            Jewish Optimism—From Radical to Mainstream (2019)
 
2. Interpretations of Jewish Texts
The Angels (1980)
Commentary on Bava Batra 8a (1989)
Life (1995)
Life is the Good People (1995)
Jewish Jewish Leadership (1995)
DNA Analysts: Parashat Shemot (1996)
Va-yishlah: Our Ancestor Jacob, the One with the Bad Hip, and Other Tales
(1999)
Teaching Jewish Texts Today (2019)
 
3. Portraits of Mitzvah Heroes
The Giants of Jerusalem (1981)
Trevor Ferrell (1988)
Yossi Samuels and Shoshana Weinstock (1997)
The Rabbanit Bracha Kapach (1988)
Samantha Abeel: The Kid Who Got It All Wrong in Class (1998)
Mitzvah Heroes are Everywhere—We Just Have to Know How to Look (2019)
 
4. Living a Life of Menschlichkeit
My Father’s Personal Passover Ritual (1978)
A Tribute to My Friends in the Rabbinate (1981)
A Story I Once Heard from a Medical Student (1981)
The Lamed Vavniks (1988)
The College Interview (1988)
Li’at in the Park (1988)
Klal Yisrael—All Jews (1989)
Tzedakah and Tzedek (2019)
 
5. How and Why to Give Tzedakah Money Away
The First Tzedakah Report (1975)
Theology and Tzedakah: Two Points (1982)
The Second Rule of Tzedakah: There’s No Such Thing as a Small Mitzvah
(1982)
Does Tzedakah Money Really Belong to You? (2006)
What Does It Mean “to Do Tzedakah Jewishly”? (2006)
Should You Always Do Your Tzedakah Giving Anonymously? (2006)
Will You Find “The Meaning of Life” by Doing Tzedakah? (2006)
How Do You Evaluate Financial Information from a Tzedakah Program So You
Can Decide to Whom to Give or Not to Give? (2006)
From the Ziv Tzedakah Fund Final Report (2008)
A Smaller World (2019)
 
Part II: Poetry
6. From Soulstoned (1969)
Father Abraham–Genesis Chapter 22 Slightly Changed
 
7. From And God Braided Eve’s Hair (1976)
The Crippler
A Recent Immigrant Comes from the Soviet Union to His Family in the U.S.
Selig and the Judge
Personal Preference
Hebrew
Psalm 55
Mashiachtzeit or Davidson from Egged
Knife, Birds
 
8. From Between Dust and Dance (1978)
A Blessing
Frumka
 
9. From Nine Entered Paradise Alive (1980)
Surveying the Jewish Multitudes
Erev Shabbas
Blessing the Children
The Tree and the Mashiach
 
10. From Unlocked Doors (1983)
Children’s Games
Rav Sheshet and the Angel
Carolyn’s Last Snow
 
11. From The Lord is a Whisper at Midnight (1985)
The Geese and Hoopoes Praise You
Number My Days This Way
A Prayer for Teachers of Torah
 
12. From The Garden (1985)
All Red White and Blue, We American Kids
Wallenberg I
Wallenberg II
Snows of My Childhood
 
13. From Before Our Very Eyes (1986)
Sunflower Seeds and Name-Brand Shirts
A Certain Holiness
Summer 1976, Wine in the Streets
 
14. From The Meadow Beyond the Meadow (1991)
Anthropology
With a Kiss
The Old Tapestry in the Den
The Imaginary Conference of the International College of Poets, Tampa, June
12-15, 1982
Spring Storm
The Four Children
Be Not Irrelevant
 
15. From A Hearing Heart (1992)
King Solomon Asks for a Hearing Heart
Above All, Teach This Newborn Child
Bat Mitzvah Speech of a Fifty-Year-Old Woman
Mitzvah Therapy
The Late Bloomer
Where Heaven and Earth Touch So Closely, They Appear to Be Kissing
A Recitation for Students of Anatomy
Statement by a Woman Who Has Chosen to Be a Jew
Commencement Address for Rabbinical School
Speech to the Camp Counselors Just Before the Kids Arrive
A Dream: A Touch of Glory
 
16. From Healing: Readings and Meditations (1999)
The 23rd Psalm (Adapted)–A Responsive Reading
The Restaurant of Broken Dreams
 
17. From From the Heart (2012)
Muse
The Bears
In Loco Eshet Chayil