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The Miracle of the Seventh Day Adin Steinsaltz

The Miracle of the Seventh Day By Adin Steinsaltz

The Miracle of the Seventh Day by Adin Steinsaltz

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In the Fourth Commandment, God instructs us to observe the Sabbath and to withdraw temporarily from the stress and pressures of our secular activities. This books helps us understand the Sabbath as God's gift and an opportunity for us to renew ourselves and experience personal transformation.

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The Miracle of the Seventh Day: A Guide to the Spiritual Meaning, Significance and Weekly Practice of the Jewish Sabbath by Adin Steinsaltz

In the Fourth Commandment, God instructs us to observe the Sabbath and to withdraw temporarily from the stress and pressures of our secular activities. This books helps us understand the Sabbath as God's gift and an opportunity for each of us to renew ourselves and experience personal transformation. Step-by-step, this guide shows how to observe the Sabbath in our homes each week and includes commentary on every potential ritual, prayer and song. It should serve as both an introduction to and a programme for designing one's own way of observing the Sabbath.

The Miracle of the Seventh Day Reviews

This companion for the Sabbath table is intended for novices as well as those well-versed in Shabbat law and observance. It is a tribute to Steinsaltz--rabbi, scholar, author and teacher--that he navigates both audiences successfully, balancing a step-by-step guidebook with a treasury of information about the history, development and significance of prayers and traditions. The Sabbath, Steinsaltz explains, is not just a day of passivity based on a set of laws that prohibit work, but an opportunity to transform inactivity to joy and inner peace. He reveals the reasons for many customs and laws, from the number of loaves of bread (two, to match the double batch of manna that fell on the Sabbath) to the practice of standing during kiddush, the blessing over the day with a cup of wine. (This, he says, is like bearing testimony, which Jewish law stipulates must be done standing up.) His illuminating commentaries, replete with mystical allusions, are not for those who want a quick or abridged version of Sabbath ritual. Instead, Steinsaltz provides the text for a lengthy celebration meant to extend the job of Shabbat, complete with zemirot (traditional Shabbat songs). All texts appear in Hebrew, with the transliteration and English translation. A few quibbles include the non-grammatical line breaks in the Hebrew text; traditional gendered translation; and lack of music for the songs. These considerations, however, should not deter readers from absorbing Steinsaltz's scholarship and carefully crafted wisdom. Apr.) ("Publishers Weekly", March 31, 2003)

About Adin Steinsaltz

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is internationally regarded as one of the greatest rabbis of this century and of the last. Scholar, teacher, mystic, scientist, and social critic-- and hailed by Time magazine as "once-in-a-millennium scholar"-- Rabbi Steinsaltz has been a resident scholar at Yale University, at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and at the Woodrow Wilson Institute in Washington, D.C. Best known for his monumental translation of and commentary on the Talmud, Rabbi Steinsaltz has also founded a network of educational institutions and outreach programs in the United States, Israel, and the former Soviet Union, Great Britain, and Australia. He is the recipient of the Israel Prize and of the French Order of Arts and Literature. The author of many books including the contemporary classic, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, Rabbi Steinsaltz is widely known throughout the world as an extraordinary teacher. He has been featured on Good Morning America and National Public Radio, as well as in People, Newsweek, and many other publications and media.

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CIN0787965456VG
9780787965457
0787965456
The Miracle of the Seventh Day: A Guide to the Spiritual Meaning, Significance and Weekly Practice of the Jewish Sabbath by Adin Steinsaltz
Adin Steinsaltz
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2003-03-25
240
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