Reuven Hammer

Year with the Sages (eBook, ePUB)

Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Year with the Sages uniquely relates the Sages' understanding of each Torah portion to everyday life. The importance of these teachings cannot be overstated. The Sages, who lived during the period from the fifth century BCE to the fifth century CE, considered themselves to have inherited the oral teachings God transmitted to Moses, along with the mandate to interpret them to each subsequent generation. Just as the Torah and the entire Hebrew Bible are the foundations of Judaism, the Sages' teachings form the structures of Jewish belief and practice built on that foundation. Many of these teachings revolve around core concepts such as God's justice, God's love, Torah, Israel, humility, honesty, loving-kindness, reverence, prayer, and repentance. You are invited to spend a year with the inspiring ideas of the Sages through their reflections on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and the eleven Jewish holidays. Quoting from the week's Torah portion, Rabbi Reuven Hammer presents a Torah commentary, selections from the Sages that chronicle their process of interpreting the text, a commentary that elucidates these concepts and their consequences, and a personal reflection that illumines the Sages' enduring wisdom for our era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Jewish Publication Society
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780827617896
• Artikelnr.: 56679638

Autorenporträt

Reuven Hammer

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments     Introduction     1. Genesis (Bere’shit) Bere’shit: A Fence Too Tall     Noä: Human Nature     Lekh Lekha: Making Souls     Va-yera’: Loving One Another     H
ayyei Sarah: Sarah’s Tent     Toledot: The Voice of Jacob     Va-yetse’: The Place     Va-yishlah
: Jacob’s Dilemma     Va-yeshev: Joseph the Youth     Mikkets: The Dangers of Power     Va-yiggash: Learning with a Sage     Va-yeh
i: No Unworthy Children     2. Exodus (Shemot) Shemot: Where Was God?      Va-’era’: Steeped in Idolatry     Bo’: Divine Protection     Be-shallah
: A Surfeit of Prayer     Yitro: Diminishing the Image     Mishpatim: Mitzvot with Meaning     Terumah: Creating the Sanctuary     Tetsavveh: For Whom the Light Burns     Ki Tissa’: Sin and Reconciliation     Va-yak’hel: Enough Gold     Pekudei: A Symbol to the Nations of Forgiveness     3. Leviticus (Va-yikra’) Va-yikra’: Sacrifices Then and Now     Tsav: Concern for Our Welfare     Shemini: Alien Fire     Tazria’: Dealing with Impurity     Metsora’: Speaking Evil     ‘Ah
arei Mot: Attaining Atonement     Kedoshim: The Essence of Torah     ‘Emor: Am I a Barbarian?     Be-har: Do No Wrong     Be-h
ukkotai: The Hope     4. Numbers (Be-midbar) Be-midbar: Surviving the Wilderness     Naso’: Great Is Peace     Be-ha’alotekha: The Evil Tongue     Shelä-Lekha: Fringe Benefits     Korah
: Controversies Proper and Improper     H
ukkat: A Perplexing Law     Balak: The Ways of Peace     Pinh
as: Respecting Difference     Mattot: People before Wealth     Mase’ei: Defiling the Land     5. Deuteronomy (Devarim) Devarim: Words of Rebuke     Va-’eth
annan: The Grace of God     ‘Ekev: Searching for Truth     Re’eh: One Sanctuary for the One God     Shofetim: Justice for All     Ki Tetse’: Cruelty versus Kindness     Ki Tavo’: Coming to the Land     Nitsavim: Not in the Heavens     Va-yelekh: Caring for the Flock     Ha’azinu: Destruction, Vengeance, and Vindication     Ve-zo’t ha-berakhah: The Death of Moses     6. Holidays Rosh Hashanah: Sound the Shofar     Yom Kippur: Sending Our Sins Away     Sukkot: The Festival Par Excellence     Shemini Atzeret: Tarry a While     Simchat Torah: The Never-Ending Cycle     Hanukkah: Light versus Might     Purim: Why Not Bow Down?      Pesach: Festival of Freedom     Yom ha-Shoah: The Cry of the Lowly     Yom ha-Atzmaut: Land of Milk and Honey     Shavuot: The New Covenant     Selected Bibliography