Waiting for Rain: Reflections at the Turning of the Year

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Jewish Publication Society, 1 апр. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 252
In Israel, the High Holiday cycle marks the transition from summer to the rainy season. Here, Bryna Levy offers a collection of meditations that examine the Biblical and liturgical readings associated with the High Holidays, from Rosh Hashanah to Simhat Torah.

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Стр. 231 - It shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Стр. 228 - Choose us out men, and go ' out, fight with Amalek : to-morrow I will stand on the ' top of the hill with the rod of GOD in mine hand.
Стр. 84 - And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people); and when he opened it, all the people stood up: and Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen...
Стр. 49 - For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Стр. 77 - Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God ; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water...
Стр. 25 - Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.
Стр. 228 - So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses...
Стр. 6 - The LORD saw how great was man's wickedness on earth, and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time. 6] And the LORD regretted that He had made man on earth, and His heart was saddened.

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Bryna Jocheved Levy is a senior lecturer in Bible at Matan - The Women's Institute for Torah Studies, where she is also the founder and director of the graduate program in Bible, a joint program with Hebrew University. Levy has an M.A. in Biblical Interpretation from McGill University and, in 1987, was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in Bible from Yeshiva University. One of the most esteemed Bible teachers in Israel and a leader in the movement for women's Torah study, Levy recently created a website, Visions and Voices, dedicated to women and Jewish life.

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