...Martha Sonnenberg Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 R eading avivah zornberg’s books requires some effort, and her new book, Moses: A Human Life , is no exception. Zornberg’s books are well worth some effort, because she ultimately speaks to the complexities of the transformative...

... this talmudist, is the God that generates when Moses arrived at the peak of Mount Sinai to receive and is claimed by law, the God that is implicated in and is therefore the Torah, he found God attaching the flourishes to the open to be judged by the categories of law writ large. tops...

... this talmudist, is the God that generates when Moses arrived at the peak of Mount Sinai to receive and is claimed by law, the God that is implicated in and is therefore the Torah, he found God attaching the flourishes to the open to be judged by the categories of law writ large. tops...

... think they don’t have the stomach for it. Additionally, she has to grapple with her own spirituality and evaluate what God means to her. She wrestles with God’s own “coming out.” When Moses has his encounter with God at the burning bush, he asks, “Who are you?” and God nonchalantly answers, “ Ehyeh...

... TO BE,” they oiler a variety of suggestions. I propose instead to ascertain its meaning by how it functions in context, in Exodus 3 and 6. Moses was keeping his father-in-law’s flock on the mountain, just minding his own business, when...

...Public Domain/The British Library What is the common denominator that makes Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Amos, and Ezekiel all prophets? Above, the four living creatures of Ezekiel’s vision appear at the beginning of the Book of Ezekiel in this thirteenth-century copy of the Hebrew Bible. ...

... and texts normalize this queer God, imagining God as a king or emperor surrounded by an angelic court. But the God we encounter in the five books of Moses has no normalizing context, no divine hierarchy to define God’s kingship, no divine family for God to patriarchically dominate, no consort, and no body...

... America at War with Itself , Giroux Henry A. , City Lights Books , 2017 Moses: A Human Life , Zornberg Avivah Gottlieb , Yale University Press , 2016 Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming , LaDuke Winona , Haymarket Books , 2016...

... is, by nature, argumentative. Humans, made in God’s image are argumentative . . . and ‘thick-necked.’” But the most interesting arguments, historically, have been between and among Jews themselves: for example, Moses versus Korach (on the issue of aristocratic privilege) or Ben Zakkai versus the Zealots...

... Moses courage to grasp the snake that becomes the staff that opens the Red Sea). Throughout the letters, Berndt holds out his thoughts, intuitions, and plans, and Smith replies in a thoughtful, affirming way, utilizing his own interpretation of scripture or of past social justice struggles in his own...

...Judith Plaskow Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 Rebekka Dunlap | rebekkadunlap.com Rebekka Dunlap | rebekkadunlap.com T here is perhaps no verse in the Torah more disturbing to the feminist than Moses’ warning to his people in Exodus 19:15, “Be ready for the third day; do not go...

... Israel’s self-destructive and immoral policies. Here are two books that provide us with insightful interpretations of Torah—one focused on Moses, the other on “the transformational journey of Exodus, from the slavery of ego to the promised land of spirit.” Maurice Harris is a Reconstructionist...

... that has taken on its own cultural significance, even outside of religious settings. But what exactly was this substance that saved the Israelites from starvation? God told Moses, “I will cause bread to rain down from heaven for you” (Exod. 16:4), and the notion of it being a kind of bread became part...

... ). For with every word which the Holy One, blessed be He, spoke to Moses, He offered him forty-nine [seven times seven] arguments by which a thing may be proved pure and forty nine-arguments by which a thing may be proved impure.” The dilemma of course is then about what God or the prophet means. So “Moses asked...

.... I was especially inspired by Nachmanides’s interpretation of Leviticus 25:2, which changed my life. Nachmanides (known in Orthodox circles as the Ramban, from Rabbi Moses ben Nachman) remains, nearly 750 years after his death...

... claimed credit for creating us — yes, this time we’ll chant the very last passage once and for all. The one about Moses, the favored son, whom He loved, above all the others, the one who He asked to do His dirty work — to corral all of us complainers into that dreamland, that grand...