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Drawing from both traditional and contemporary Jewish sources, this book explores Jewish lifecycle passages such as birth, bar/bat mitzvah, conversion, marriage, illness, and the end of life. Using profound insights, meditations and poetry on the events and rites that frame Jewish life, Rabbi Schulweis provides insight and a greater sense of the meaning behind these rites of passage. It is precisely these lifecycle events and the rituals that accompany them that help us connect to one another and to the Image of God within ourselves and others. Rabbi Harold Schulweis is known and respected as one of modern Judaism's most significant and creative thinkers and authors. He is the senior rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, CA, and the founder of the Jewish Foundation of the Rescuers.
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Bernd Nitsche
reviewed Finding Each Other in Judaism: Meditations on the Rites of Passage from Birth to Immortality on December 08, 2013
Finding Each Other in Judaism: Meditations on the Rites of Passage from Birth to Immortality
This collection of dual-meditations / commentaries on key passages from the Torah offers lots of rabbinic insights, old and new, from Kushner (a scholar, author, and rabbi) and then more of a layperson's perspective on the text from Mamet (a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright). Most of their reflections offer a deep wrangling and wrestling with the meaning of the text and its application. Some of the reflections seemed tangential and didn't seem to actually offer any engagement with the chosen text for the day. Overall, I enjoyed these reflections. They may be a bit scholarly in some aspects, but on the whole this book offers a companion to keep on hand when reading the Torah. In it, you will find many points of reflection for your own personal wrestling with the first five books of the Bible.
The word TORAH comes from the verbal root YAH-RAH, which means literally to "toss, throw" and that is what rabbis do. They "toss out" and "throw" their teaching to their pupils. Those who "hear" the word then "catch" what is being "tossed" their way. To not heed the teachings of the Torah is thus, metaphorically speaking, to "drop" or "let fall to the ground" these important teachings, commandments, narrative stories, etc.
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