A Year with the Sages

Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion

Reuven Hammer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2019
Jewish Publication Society (Verlag)
978-0-8276-1311-9 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Rabbi Reuven Hammer is a former dean of the Israel programs of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Jerusalem and a founding director of the Institute for Jewish Studies, today the Schechter Institute. He is the author of many books, including Entering the High Holy Days: A Complete Guide to the History, Prayers, and Themes (JPS, 2005); Sifre: A Taanaitic Commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy; and Akiva: Life, Legend, Legacy (JPS, 2015).

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Genesis (Bere’shit)
Bere’shit: A Fence Too Tall
Noaḥ: Human Nature
Lekh Lekha: Making Souls
Va-yera’: Loving One Another
Ḥayyei Sarah: Sarah’s Tent
Toledot: The Voice of Jacob
Va-yetse’: The Place
Va-yishlaḥ: Jacob’s Dilemma
Va-yeshev: Joseph the Youth
Mikkets: The Dangers of Power
Va-yiggash: Learning with a Sage
Va-yeḥi: No Unworthy Children
2. Exodus (Shemot)
Shemot: Where Was God?
Va-’era’: Steeped in Idolatry
Bo’: Divine Protection
Be-shallaḥ: 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
‘Aḥarei Mot: Attaining Atonement
Kedoshim: The Essence of Torah
‘Emor: Am I a Barbarian?
Be-har: Do No Wrong
Be-ḥukkotai: The Hope
4. Numbers (Be-midbar)
Be-midbar: Surviving the Wilderness
Naso’: Great Is Peace
Be-ha’alotekha: The Evil Tongue
Shelaḥ-Lekha: Fringe Benefits
Koraḥ: Controversies Proper and Improper
Ḥukkat: A Perplexing Law
Balak: The Ways of Peace
Pinḥas: Respecting Difference
Mattot: People before Wealth
Mase’ei: Defiling the Land
5. Deuteronomy (Devarim)
Devarim: Words of Rebuke
Va-’etḥannan: 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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	JPS Daily Inspiration
Verlagsort	Philadelphia
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	0-8276-1311-3 / 0827613113
ISBN-13	978-0-8276-1311-9 / 9780827613119
Zustand	Neuware