Title: Professors on the parashah : studies on the weekly Torah reading / edited by Leib Moscovitz.
Material Type: Book
Subject: Bible. Pentateuch Sermons 21st century
Description: Sefer Bereshit: the Book of Genesis -- Parashar Bereshit: faith and science in the third millennium ; Parashat Noah: science and the flood / Moshe Kaveh -- Parashat Lekh Lekha: "o that Ishmael might live by your favor!" / Yair Barkai -- Parashat Vayera: what did Sarah see? ; Parashat Vayera: don't feed the angels / Yonah Bar-Maoz -- Parashat Hayyei Sarah: a parting kiss / Admiel Kosman -- Parashat Toledot: the magic of blessings / David Henshke -- Parashat Vayetze: do the dead tell no tales? / Daniel Sperber -- Parashat Vayishlah: Jacob and Esau: a parting of ways / Menahem Ben-Yashar -- Parashat Vayeshev: Tamar / Yael Tzohar -- Parashat Vayeshev: Jacob and sons / Nathan Aviezer -- Parashat Miketz: Reuben and Judah: a study in contrasts / Yonah Bar-Maoz -- Parashat Vayigash: "your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy people in all" / Rivka Raviv -- Parashat Vayehi: "his eyes are darker than wine" / Aaron Demsky -- Sefer Shemot: the Book of Exodus -- Parashat Shemot: an hour of favor / Devorah Ganz -- Parashat Vaʼera: signs and wonders / Menahem Ben-Yashar -- Parashat Bo: the Jewish calendar / Aaron Demsky -- Parashat Beshallah: "and Miriam chanted for them?" -- Kol Ishah? / Admiel Kosman -- Parashat Yitro: "you shall not murder" -- you shall not commit suicide / Israel Zvi Gilat -- Parashat Mishpatim: cruelty to animals in Jewish tradition / Yael Shemesh -- Parashat Mishpatim: "when men quarrel, when men fight" / Yossi Peretz -- Parashat Terumah: an altar of earth or golden cherubs? / Hayyim Borgansky -- Parashat Tetzaveh: Hyoscyamus aureus and its relationship to the headdress of the high priest / Yehuda Feliks -- Parashat Ki Tissa: "face to face, heart to heart" / Yair Barkai -- Parashat Vayakhel: the glory of God / Avigdor Hurovitz -- Parashat Pekudei: from mountain to tabernacle / Menahem Ben-Yashar -- Sefer Vayikra: the Book of Leviticus -- Parashat Vayikra: Nasi -- king or leader? / Judah Zoldan -- Parashat Tzav: the priesthood -- privilege and obligation / Rachel Lifshitz.
Description: Parashat Shemini: tradition, tradition! / Zohar Amar -- Parashat Tazria: in the presence of God / Rivka Raviv -- Parashat Metzora: birth, purity, and impurity / Yuval Cherlow -- Parashat Aharei Mot: "a woman courts a man" -- mnemonic devices for Torah reading / Yosef Ofer -- Parashat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: the law of the scapegoat / Alexander Klein -- Parashat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: between holy and holy: on the relationship between Aharei Mot and Kedoshim / Abraham Walfish -- Parashat Emor: the Sabbath and Holy Days / Shubert Spero -- Parashat Emor: "he blasphemed God" / Haim Genizi -- Parashat Behar: renewal in the Sabbath year / Yaakov Charlap -- Parashat Behukkotai: Notes on the concept of holiness -- Kadosh, Kedushah / Dov Landau -- Sefer Bemidbar: the Book of Numbers -- Parashat Bemidbar: introduction to the Book of Numbers / David Elgavish -- Parashat Naso: the priestly blessing and social harmony / Aryeh Araz i-- Parashat Behʻalotekha: Moses and Hovav: the art of convincing / Amos Frisch -- Parashat Shelah: the order of the list of spies / Menahem Ben-Yashar -- Parashat Korah: a portion in the Lord, a portion in the Lord / Yisrael Samet -- Parashat Korah: on controversy / Hannah Kasher -- Parashat Hukkat: was Og just a tall tale? / Admiel Kosman -- Parashat Balak: "a houseful of money" / Yaakov Spiegel -- Parashat Pinchas: "lighting a candle or filling a vessel?" / Shaul Regev -- Parashat Mattot: "in His name, after His name" / Yaakov Spiegel -- Parashat Masʻei: Goʼel Ha-Dam -- the blood avenger / Yair Barkai -- Sefer Devarim: the Book of Deuteronomy -- Parashat Devarim: the people's responsibility for their leaders' actions / Itamar Wahrhaftig -- Parashat Va-Ethanan: "a wise and discerning people" / Carmi Horowitz -- Parashat Ekev: how many arks were there? / Itamar Wahrhaftig -- Parashat Reʼeh: "Mikketz" -- beginning or end? / Judah Zoldan -- Parashat Shofetim: "you must not deviate" / Hannah Kasher -- Parashat Ki Tetze: the law of the beautiful captive woman / Israel Zvi Gilat -- Parashat Ki Tetze: ecology in the Torah / Yael Shemesh -- Parashat Ki Tavo: traditions of Torah reading for the Tokhehah passages / Hayyim Talbi -- Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh: the motif of return / Menahem Ben-Yashar -- Parashat Haʼazinu: Hakhel after the destruction of the temple / Judah Zoldan -- Parashat Ve-Zot Ha-Berakhah: "he shone upon them from Seir; he appeared from Mount Paran" / Hannah Kasher.
Date of Publication: ©2005.
Place of Publication: Jerusalem ; New York : Ramat Gan, Israel : Brooklyn, N.Y :
Publisher: Urim Publications ;
Date: ©2005.