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    Torah & Text

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    Giv­ing: The Essen­tial Teach­ing of the Kabbalah
    Aryeh Siegel
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    Jacob and Joseph, Judais­m’s Archi­tects: Birth of the Ego Ideal
    Nathan Moses Szajnberg
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    The Mus­sar Torah Com­men­tary: A Spir­i­tu­al Path to Liv­ing a Mean­ing­ful and Eth­i­cal Life
    Bar­ry H. Block

    ‘Sacred Sto­ries as Metaphor’: A Mod­ern Retelling of Bib­li­cal Stories

    Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
    August 19, 2019
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    Chil­dren’s
    Cre­ation Colors
    Ann D. Koffsky
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    A Year with Morde­cai Kaplan: Wis­dom on the Week­ly Torah Portion
    Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
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    Glean­ings: Reflec­tions on Ruth
    Stu­art Halpern
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    How Elie Wiesel Taught Me to Grap­ple with Dif­fi­cult Reli­gious Texts

    When a text dis­ap­points us with an anti-human mes­sage, we will avoid the sin of pre­ma­ture for­give­ness, of let­ting the text off the hook too easily.

    Ariel Burg­er
    February 26, 2019
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    What the Torah Tells Us About God’s Gender

    Joy Ladin
    October 23, 2018
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    The Cre­ation Book
    Chani Gansburg; Dena Ackerman, illus.
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    In the Shad­ow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song
    Jerome Charyn
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    From For­bid­den Fruit to Milk and Hon­ey: A Com­men­tary on Food in the Torah
    Diana Lipton
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    Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible
    Jane Yolen, Barbara Diamond Goldin; Vali Mintzi, illus.
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    The Ratio­nal Bible: Exo­dus: God, Slav­ery, and Freedom
    Den­nis Prager
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    All the World Prais­es You!
    Debra Band
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    Path of the Prophets: The Ethics-Dri­ven Life
    Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
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