The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays

כריכה קדמית
Simon and Schuster, 1 במרץ 2011 - 464 עמודים
Called “enriching” and “profoundly moving” by Elie Wiesel, The Jewish Way is a comprehensive and inspiring presentation of Judaism as revealed through its holy days.

In thoughtful and engaging prose, Rabbi Irving Greenberg explains and interprets the origin, background, interconnections, ceremonial rituals, and religious significance of all the Jewish holidays, including Passover, Yom Kippur, Purim, Hanukkah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Israeli Independence Day. Giving detailed instructions for observance—the rituals, prayers, foods, and songs—he shows how celebrating the holy days of the Jewish calendar not only relives Jewish history but puts one in touch with the basic ideals of Judaism and the fundamental experience of life.

Insightful, original, and engrossing, The Jewish Way is an essential volume that should be in every Jewish home, library, and synagogue.

מתוך הספר

עמודים נבחרים

תוכן

The Holidays as the Jewish Way
24
Passover
34
Shavuot
66
Sukkot
94
Shabbat
127
High Holy Days
182
Purim
224
Hanukkah
258
Yom Hashoah
314
Yom HaAtzmaut
373
AFTERWORD
405
Two Minor Festivals Rosh Hodesh and Tu BShvat
411
PassoverPrayer for the Seder
421
Bibliography
429
Glossary of Names
442
Index
449

Tisha BAv
283

מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל

מונחים וביטויים נפוצים

קטעים בולטים

עמוד 252 - No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of the burning children.
עמוד 316 - Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
עמוד 128 - By the waters of Babylon there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres. For there our captors required of us songs, And our tormentors mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
עמוד 88 - The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; the calf, and the young lion, together ; and a little child shall lead them.
עמוד 231 - Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
עמוד 313 - Their life is short, but their number is endless; they, the Muselmanner, the drowned, form the backbone of the camp, an anonymous mass, continually renewed and always identical, of non-men who march and labour in silence, the divine spark dead within them, already too empty to really suffer. One hesitates to call them living: one hesitates to call their death death, in the face of which they have no fear, as they are too tired to understand.
עמוד 283 - Yet was the misery itself more terrible than this disorder, for one would have thought that the hill itself, on which the Temple stood, was seething hot, as full of fire on every part of it, that the blood was larger in quantity than the fire, and those that were slain more in number than those that slew them, for the ground did nowhere appear visible for the dead bodies that lay on it ; but the soldiers went over heaps of those bodies, as they ran upon such as fled from them.
עמוד 426 - Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.
עמוד 193 - In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 You shall do no laborious work; and you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD.
עמוד 316 - Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

מידע על המחבר (2011)

Rabbi Irving Greenberg is former President of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He has lectured in every major city in the United States and has written numerous essays and monographs. He lives with his wife, Blu Greenberg, in Riverdale, New York.

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