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