books by Foundation for Jewish Publications (leviticus bamidbar numbers)

books by Foundation for Jewish Publications

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Frameworks: Au Desert / Bamidbar / Numbers

Foundation for Jewish Publications, 2004

A true intellectual adventure; controversial to some, disquieting to many, stimulating to all. From one of the world's foremost Jewish thinkers, here is the first volume of a genre-shattering series that opens to the public the startling sophistication of Torah thought. Matis Weinberg does for Torah what Stephen Gould does for evolutionary biology, what Martin Gardner does for mathematics; each sharing his passion and wonder, involving the ...

Frameworks - Genesis

9 reviews
Matis Weinberg

Foundation for Jewish Publications, 1998

revives torah into once again being life not just learning
rabbi weinberg has a unique ability to take the torah portions and their themes and create a vision of reality. based almost entirely on text he shows how the torah teaches more than just "religious practice" but is infact life. this makes every word of the parshiot ring not only with truth but with life and allows the reader to find themselves therein. gone is the childish reading of "bible ...

FrameWorks : Vayikra-Il Crie-Leviticus

3 reviews
Matis Weinberg

The Foundation for Jewish Publications, 2000

Thoughtful and insightful --a worthy continuation
Each of the books in these series builds on the other, as the issues become more and more complex. It is fascinating how "Leviticus"--probably the lease studied, and lease related to of all the Five Books of Moses --becomes the centerpiece of "Frameworks." Here, Weinberg addresses the primal issues: Good and Evil, evolution, sexuality and sanctity, among many others. The essays proved--as ...

Frameworks - Exodus

2 reviews
Matis Weinberg

Foundation for Jewish Publications, 1999

Another insightful and powerful journey through the Chumash
Matis Weinberg's Frameworks series is, in my view, taking Jewish thought to heights previously unreached. The essays manage to combine an inovative perspective on familiar themes, while remaining solidly grounded in classical orthodox sources. The second volume of the series, on the book of Exodus, is more difficult than than its predecessor on Genesis. Some of the issues dealt with might ...