Steven Carr Reuben

Year with Mordecai Kaplan (eBook, ePUB)

Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

You are invited to spend a year with the inspirational words, ideas, and counsel of the great twentieth-century thinker Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, through his meditations on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and eleven Jewish holidays. A pioneer of ideas and action-teaching that "Judaism is a civilization" encompassing Jewish culture, art, and peoplehood; demonstrating how synagogues can be full centers for Jewish living (building one of the first "shuls with a pool"); and creating the first-ever bat mitzvah ceremony (for his daughter Judith)-Kaplan transformed the landscape of American Jewry. Yet much of Kaplan's rich treasury of ethical and spiritual thought is largely unknown. Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, who studied closely with Kaplan, offers unique insight into Kaplan's teachings about ethical relationships and spiritual fulfillment, including how to embrace godliness in everyday experience, our mandate to become agents of justice in the world, and the human ability to evolve personally and collectively. Quoting from the week's Torah portion, Reuben presents Torah commentary, a related quotation from Kaplan, a reflective commentary integrating Kaplan's understanding of the Torah text, and an intimate story about his family or community's struggles and triumphs-guiding twenty-first-century spiritual seekers of all backgrounds on how to live reflectively and purposefully every day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Jewish Publication Society
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780827617810
• Artikelnr.: 56965531

Autorenporträt

Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben is senior rabbi emeritus of Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation in Pacific Palisades, California, and a past president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California. He is the author of numerous books, including Children of Character: Leading Your Children to Ethical Choices in Everyday Life and Making Interfaith Marriage Work.  

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, by Rabbi David A. Teutsch     Acknowledgments     Introduction     1. Genesis (Bere’shit) Bere’shit: Fulfillment     Noä: Good Enough     Lekh Lekha: Purpose     Va-yera’: Interconnectedness     H
ayyei Sarah: Lovingkindness     Toledot: Family     Va-yetse’: Seeking     Va-yishlah
: God-Wrestling     Va-yeshev: Thoughtlessness     Mikkets: Dreams     Va-yiggash: Destiny     Va-yeh
i: Appreciation     2. Exodus (Shemot) Shemot: Revelation     Va-’era’: Mercy     Bo’: Hardened Heart     Be-shallah
: Action     Yitro: Self-Interest     Mishpatim: Human Dignity     Terumah: Indwelling     Tetsavveh: Light     Ki Tissa’: Giving     Va-yak’hel: Community     Pekudei: Building     3. Leviticus (Va-yikra’) Va-yikra’: Prayer     Tsav: Firelight     Shemini: Godliness     Tazriä: Witness     Metsorä: Defilement     ’Ah
arei Mot: Scapegoat     Kedoshim: Holiness     ’Emor: Hunger     Be-har: Oppression     Be-h
ukkotai: Free Will     4. Numbers (Be-midbar) Be-midbar: Wilderness     Naso’: Blessings     Be-häalotekha: Humility     Shelä-Lekha: Perception     Korah
: Rebellion     H
ukkat: Anger     Balak: Dwellings     Pinh
as: Women     Mattot: Vows     Mase
ei: Vengeance     5. Deuteronomy (Devarim) Devarim: Discovery     Va-’eth
annan: Oneness    
Ekev: Gratitude     Re’eh: Choice     Shofetim: Justice     Ki Tetse’: Indifference     Ki Tavo’: Experiencing God     Nitsavim: Generations     Va-yelekh: Teaching     Ha’azinu: Rock     Ve-zo’t ha-berakhah: Divine Kiss     6. Holidays Rosh Hashanah: Sovereignty of God     Yom Kippur: Transformation     Sukkot: Gratitude     Shemini Atzeret: Sharing the Divine Presence     Simh
at Torah: Celebration     Hanukkah: Rededication     Purim: Resilience     Pesach: Freedom     Yom ha-Shoah: Living in the Shadow     Yom ha-Atzmaut: Building a Just Nation     Shavuot: Torah     Epigraph Source Acknowledgments     Notes     Bibliography