A Year of Divrei Torah

A Year of Divrei Torah

Author: Efroni Schlesinger

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1469199831

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The idea for this book came from a desire I had to provide anyone who wanted to learn with easily understandable material from the Torah. My solution was to send out an e-mail every week to hundreds of people with interesting information on that weeks parsha (Torah portion). The difficulty was writing material that was simple enough for those who had no prior knowledge of the Parsha to understand while keeping it substantive enough to interest those who already had a deep knowledge. Since last June, there have been a few hundred people each week receiving words of Torah from me; Id say the project was, for the most part, successful. However, I wasnt yet satisfied. The recipients were limited to those who were on my e-mail list, and I didnt feel that reading a two minute dvar Torah once a week was enough. Firstly, I wanted to greatly expand the range of availability of my weekly divrei Torah. The number of people who could read and benefit from a weekly dvar Torah is limitless so I didnt want the availability of interesting and understandable words of Torah to have a limit. By writing this book, Im attempting to do everything in my power to ensure that anyone on any level has something that they can learn from, be fascinated by, and then teach to others. By closing every dvar Torah with a lesson taken from the Parsha, I hope that this book will not only be educationally enriching but morally enriching as well.


Unscrolled

Unscrolled

Author: Roger Bennett

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0761178740

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Announcing a smart, daring, original new take on the Torah. Imagine: 54 leading young Jewish writers, artists, photographers, screenwriters, architects, actors, musicians, and graphic artists grappling with the first five books of the Bible and giving new meaning to the 54 Torah portions that are traditionally read over the course of a year. From the foundational stories of Genesis and Exodus to the legalistic minutiae of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, Unscrolled is a reinterpreting, a reimagining, a creative and eclectic celebration of the Jewish Bible. Here’s a graphic-novel version of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, by Rebecca Odes and Sam Lipsyte. Lost creator Damon Lindelof writing about Abraham’s decision to sacrifice his son. Here’s Sloane Crosley bringing Pharaoh into the 21st century, where he’s checking out “boils,” “lice,” and “plague of frogs” on WebMD. Plus there’s Joshua Foer, Aimee Bender, A. J. Jacobs, David Auburn, Jill Soloway, Ben Greenman, Josh Radnor, Adam Mansbach, and more. Edited by Roger Bennett, a founder of Reboot, a network of young Jewish creatives and intellectuals, Unscrolled is a gathering of brilliant, diverse voices that will speak to anyone interested in Jewish thought and identity—and, with its singular design and use of color throughout, the perfect bar and bat mitzvah gift. First it presents a synopsis of the Torah portion, written by Bennett, and then the story is reinterpreted, in forms that range from the aforementioned graphic novel to transcripts, stories, poems, memoirs, letters, plays, infographics, monologues—each designed to give the reader a fresh new take on some of the oldest, wisest, and occasionally weirdest stories of the Western world, while inspiring new ideas about the Bible and its meaning, value, and place in our lives.


Torah of the Mind, Torah of the Heart

Torah of the Mind, Torah of the Heart

Author: Isadore Twersky

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781602803695

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"A collection of thoughts from Professor Rabbi Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky, the Talner Rebbe, on the weekly Torah portion. The volume focuses upon religious-philosophical themes, including humility of behavior, avoiding routinization in our religious life, developing sensitivity to spirituality in our daily encounters, and the centrality of holiness within society"--


A Year with Mordecai Kaplan

A Year with Mordecai Kaplan

Author: Steven Carr Reuben

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0827617836

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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.


Covenant and Conversation

Covenant and Conversation

Author: Jonathan Sacks

Publisher: Maggid

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592640218

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In this second volume of his long-anticipated five-volume collection of parashat hashavua commentaries, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks explores these intersections as they relate to universal concerns of freedom, love, responsibility, identity, and destiny. Chief Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy, and literature to present a highly developed understanding of the human condition under Gods sovereignty. Erudite and eloquent, Covenant Conversation allows us to experience Chief Rabbi Sacks sophisticated approach to life lived in an ongoing dialogue with the Torah.


Days of Awe, Days of Joy

Days of Awe, Days of Joy

Author: Hershel Schachter

Publisher: Torahweb Foundation

Published: 2018-08-12

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780692150269

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This volume collects nineteen years (1999-2017) of divrei Torah from TorahWeb.org on Elul, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and Sukkos. The divrei Torah contained herein were originally written by our rebbeim for TorahWeb.org.


The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis

The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis

Author:

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780802136107

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Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.