Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is one of the most important, significant, and influential contemporary Jewish teachers and thinkers. A beloved figure in the larger movement for renewal in Jewish practice, “Reb Zalman” is the inspiration behind the Jewish Renewal movement and its organization, ALEPH.
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In the present book, Dana Densmore brings to light an unpublished and nearly unknown set of teachings based on readings of the Torah, which is the sole sustained example of Schachter-Shalomi’s approach to scriptural interpretation, published or unpublished. Densmore has selected and transcribed portions of this work, and provided a commentary and extensive notes. In a final section, Densmore develops the claim that the sort of re-visioning exemplified in these teachings is not only the way Judaism has always worked with its Biblical inheritance but that this sort of process is the key to Judaism’s survival and continued vitality through the ages.
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Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is one of the most important, significant, and influential contemporary Jewish teachers and thinkers. A beloved figure in the larger movement for renewal in Jewish practice, “Reb Zalman” is the inspiration behind the Jewish Renewal movement and its organization, ALEPH.
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In the present book, Dana Densmore brings to light an unpublished and nearly unknown set of teachings based on readings of the Torah, which is the sole sustained example of Schachter-Shalomi’s approach to scriptural interpretation, published or unpublished. Densmore has selected and transcribed portions of this work, and provided a commentary and extensive notes. In a final section, Densmore develops the claim that the sort of re-visioning exemplified in these teachings is not only the way Judaism has always worked with its Biblical inheritance but that this sort of process is the key to Judaism’s survival and continued vitality through the ages.
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Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day

Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day

by Dana Densmore
Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day

Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day

by Dana Densmore

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Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is one of the most important, significant, and influential contemporary Jewish teachers and thinkers. A beloved figure in the larger movement for renewal in Jewish practice, “Reb Zalman” is the inspiration behind the Jewish Renewal movement and its organization, ALEPH.
,

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In the present book, Dana Densmore brings to light an unpublished and nearly unknown set of teachings based on readings of the Torah, which is the sole sustained example of Schachter-Shalomi’s approach to scriptural interpretation, published or unpublished. Densmore has selected and transcribed portions of this work, and provided a commentary and extensive notes. In a final section, Densmore develops the claim that the sort of re-visioning exemplified in these teachings is not only the way Judaism has always worked with its Biblical inheritance but that this sort of process is the key to Judaism’s survival and continued vitality through the ages.
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781888009392
Publisher: Green Lion Press
Publication date: 02/07/2014
Pages: 438
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

About My Source Material xvii

Note on Orthography, Transliterations, Translation xxvi

Note on Shading of Schachter-Shalomi Text xxvi

Acknowledgments xxvii

Prologue 1

Primal Myths Case Studies

From the first weekend, "Creation ":

Chapter 1 The Four Worlds of Creation 11

Chapter 2 Male and Female Images 15

Chapter 3 Spiritual Evolution of Humanity 29

From the second weekend, "Genesis ":

Chapter 4 Introduction to the Genesis Retreat 47

Chapter 5 Family Relations 53

From the fourth weekend, "Exodus ":

Chapter 6 Why Go to Egypt? 121

Chapter 7 Rigidity and Change 145

Chapter 8 "Renewal" 183

From the sixth weekend, "Deuteronomy and Ecclesiastes ":

Chapter 9 Deuteronomy and Ecclesiastes: Finding a Balance 191

Chapter 10 Solomon and Solomonic Wisdom 197

Chapter 11 Book of Deuteronomy 209

Chapter 12 Transition to Ecclesiastes 249

Chapter 13 Book of Ecclesiastes 265

Chapter 14 What Do We Do with Difficult Passages? 271

Chapter 15 Questions this Weekend Leaves for Us 279

Schacter-Shalomi's Context in Jewish Tradition

Chapter 16 Continuous Re-Visioning as an Essential Feature of Jewish Tradition 289

Section 1 Introduction 289

Section 2 How Has this Process Unfolded over Time? How Scholars Have Seen It 297

Section 3 Re-visioning within the Biblical Canon 317

Section 4 Re-visioning within the Talmudic Corpus 325

Epilog 365

Life, Work, and Contribution of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi 367

Works Cited 375

Index 385

About Dana Densmore 401

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