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The Jewish Experience of Time: Philosophical Dimensions of the Jewish Holy Days »

Authors: Eliezer Schweid
ISBN-13: 9780765761057, ISBN-10: 076576105X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Date Published: January 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Eliezer Schweid

Book Synopsis

Presented here is a systemized worldview of how the sequence of time is structured through mitzvot, symbols, prayers, as well as weekly festival and holiday Bible readings and study.

	Preface
	The Jewish Calendar: The Significance of Time Cycles	1
	Indicators of Time: Holidays and Festivals	25
	The Sabbath: Recalling the Creation - Remembering the Exodus	36
	Rosh HaShanah: The Holiday of Creation	57
	Yom Kippur: Confession, Atonement, and Repentance	76
	Teaching Joyfulness in the Festival of Sukkot	103
	The Tension Between Martyrdom and Who Is Lord Over Us (The Ideational Progression of Hanukkah)	131
	The Twice-Averted Gaze: Purim, Holiday of Exile	153
	Passover: Education to a Life of Freedom	178
	The Confrontation with Suffering (Holocaust Memorial Day and Tisha B'Av)	219
	Spiritual Freedom and Political Freedom (Passover and Independence Day)	279
	Repairing Exile: The People, the Land, and the Torah (Shavuot)	310
	The Individual Enters the Covenant	341
	Afterword: Commentary on the Holiday	370
	Index	391