TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rayner,John D.
AU  - Rayner,John D.
TI  - An Understanding of Judaism
T2  - Progressive Judaism Today
SN  - 9781800734852
AV  - BM740.2 .R38 1997 
U1  - 296.4/7 
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Jewish festival-day sermons
KW  - Jewish sermons, English
KW  - Reform Judaism
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; GLOSSARY --; FOREWORD --; PREFACE --; Part One AN UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE --; The Myth of the Garden of Eden: Shabbat B’reshit, 20 October 1979 --; Cain and Abel: Shabbat B’reshit, 20 October 1973 --; Never Again? Shabbat Noach, 4 November 1989 --; The Tower of Babel Shabbat Noach, 30 October 1976 --; Abraham and Sodom Shabbat Va-yera, 22 October 1983 --; Ishmael my Brother: Shabbat Va-yera, 2 November 1985 --; The Birthright of a Jew: Tol’dot, 7 December 1956 --; Israel and Edom: Shabbat Tol’dot, 2 December 1978 --; Jacob’s Ladder: Shabbat Va-yetze, 5 December 1981 --; Esau’s Kiss: Shabbat Va-yishlach, 22 November 1980 --; Life and the Use we make of it: Va-yiggash, 18 December 1953 --; The Ten Plagues: Shabbat Bo, 10 January 1981 --; The Spirit of Nachshon: Pesach, 20 April 1987 --; Miriam and Deborah: Shabbat Shirah, B’shallach, 6 February 1993 --; The Jews had Light: Shabbat Va-yak’hel, 9 March 1991 --; Sacrifices: Shabbat Va-yikra, 31 March 1990 --; Loving the Stranger: Acharey Mot – K’doshim, 23 April 1994 --; The Numbers Game: Shabbat B’midbar, 18 May 1991 --; Eldad and Medad: Shabbat B’ha-alot’cha, 24 June 1989 --; The Cushite Woman: Shabbat B’ha’alot’cha, 19 June 1976 --; The Spirit that Affirms: Sh’lach L’cha, 23 July 1973 --; Controversies and Controversies: Shabbat Korach, 3 July 1976 --; The Mortality of Moses: Shabbat Chukkat, 25 June 1977 --; Jews and Non-Jews: Shabbat Balak, 18 July 1992 --; The Signposts of Repentance: Shabbat Ki Tavo, 8 September 1979 --; The Stranger Who Lives Among You: Shabbat Ki Tavo, 19 September 1992 --; Good God? Shabbat Ha’azinu, 10 October 1992 --; Sword or Book: Shabbat R’eh, 25 April 1984 --; Part Two SEASONS OF THE JEWISH YEAR --; Season of Freedom --; Season of Revelation --; Season of Sorrow --; Season of Repentance --; Season of Atonement --; Season of Dedication --; Season of Levity; restricted access
N2  - This is the first of two volumes of edited sermons spanning the greater part of the second half of the twentieth century, and the first major collection of sermons from a Liberal Jewish point ofview produced in Britain since Claude G. Montefiore's Truth in Religion of 1906. It combines forthrightly radical thinking with spirituality, love of Jewish tradition, and an abundance of carefully documented "ations from classical Jewish sources. This combination yields many fresh insights into the interpretation of Scripture, as examined in Part I, and the significance ofthe Jewish festivals dealt with in Part II, and brings out the relevance of both to present-day intellectual and social issues. Both Parts will be found to contain many original ideas, novel formulations, and occasional touches of humour
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