Very Near to You: Human Readings of the TorahGefen Publishing House Ltd, 2012 - 442 páginas The book is a new interpretation of the weekly torah reading. It is written from a world view deeply committed to Judaism, which places the responsibility of interpretation and identity on each one of us. The Torah is not in heaven but in the heart and mouth of you and me, to study it and to live by it. Through this book the author tries to involve the reader in the language of the five books of Moses that has been present in our lives for thousands of years. It s a language which is human, universal, moral, historical and national. "My interpretation is one of many and I try to invite the reader or student to argue or to agree, to add or to subtract from my interpretation, or even better to develop their own interpretation and spread it around." |
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Vayera He Appeared | 25 |
Chayei Sarah The Life of Sarah | 33 |
Toledot These Are the Generations | 40 |
Vayetze Jacob Left | 48 |
Vayishlach Jacob Sent | 56 |
TazriaMetzora If a Woman Be Delivered The Law of the Leper | 234 |
Acharei MotKedoshim After the Death Ye Shall Be Holy | 243 |
Emor Speak Unto the Priests | 255 |
BeharBechukotai At Mount SinaiIn My Statutes | 264 |
Leviticus | 272 |
Bamidbar In the Wilderness | 279 |
Naso Take the Sum of the Sons | 289 |
Behaalotecha When Thou Lightest the Lamps | 296 |
Vayeshev And Jacob Dwelt | 65 |
Miketz At the End of Two Years | 74 |
Exodus | 79 |
Vayigash Then He Came Near | 85 |
Vayechi And He Lived | 93 |
Genesis | 101 |
Shemot Names | 107 |
Vaera And I Appeared | 116 |
Bo Go In | 125 |
Beshalach When He Had Let the People Go | 136 |
Yitro Jethro the Priest of Midian | 147 |
Mishpatim The Ordinances | 156 |
Terumah Offering | 163 |
Tetzaveh Thou Shalt Command | 173 |
Ki Tissa When Thou Takest | 181 |
VayakhelPekudei And Moses Assembled These Are the Accounts | 190 |
Exodus | 199 |
Leviticus | 203 |
Vayikra And the Lord Called | 205 |
Tzav Command | 215 |
Shemini On the Eighth Day | 224 |
Shelach Lecha Send Thou Men | 306 |
Korach And They Rose Up | 315 |
Chukkat This Is the Statute | 323 |
Balak Balak Saw | 332 |
Pinchas Phinehas the Zealot | 338 |
MattotMasei The TribesThe Stages | 343 |
Numbers | 352 |
Deuteronomy | 357 |
Devarim These Are the Words Which Moses Spoke | 359 |
Vaetchanan And I Besought | 367 |
Ekev Because Ye Hearken | 379 |
Reeh Behold | 387 |
Shoftim Judges | 395 |
Ki Tetzeh When Thou Goest Forth | 404 |
Ki Tavo When Thou Art Come In | 413 |
NitzavimVayelech You Are Standing And Moses Went | 424 |
Haazinu Give Ear | 429 |
Vezot Haberachah And This Is the Blessing | 435 |
Deuteronomy | 438 |
Términos y frases comunes
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