Covenant & Conversation: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible, Volume 1

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The Toby Press/KorenPub, 2009 - Religion - 356 pages
V. 1. The Torah is an encounter between past and present, moment and eternity, that frames Jewish consciousness. In this first volume of a five-volume collection of parashat hashavua, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks explores these intersections as they relate to universal concerns of freedom, love, responsibility, identity and destiny. Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy and literature to present a highly developed understanding of the human condition under God s sovereignty. Erudite and eloquent, Covenant & Conversation allows us to experience Rabbi Sacks sophisticated approach to life lived in an ongoing dialogue with the Torah. V. 2. This collection makes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks brilliant essays on the weekly Torah portion available in book form for the first time. Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy and literature to present a highly developed understanding of the human condition under God's sovereignty. This second volume in the five-volume series includes several concise essays for each parasha of Shemot. V.3. Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy and literature to present a highly developed understanding of the human condition under God's sovereignty.
 

Contents

The Parasha
1
The Book ofTeaching
15
Noaĥ
41
Lekh Lekha
65
Promise and Fulfillment
87
Vayera
95
Challenging God
103
The Ambivalent Jew
109
Toledot On Clones and Identity
147
The Future of the Past
153
The Courage of Persistence
159
The Other Face ofEsau
167
Vayetzeh
177
The Ladder of Prayer
185
When the I is Silent
191
Hearing the Torah
203

The Miracle of a Child
117
Land and Children
123
Prayer and Conversation
129
Parental Authority and
135
OnJudaism and Islam
141
Vayeshev
243
Miketz
271
Vayigash
301
Vayeĥi
329
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