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Title: Wise Men and Their Tales : Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters by ELIE WIESEL ISBN: 0-8052-4173-6 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Wrestling with God
Comment: The name "Israel" means something like "he who wrestles with God". And one of the unique things about the Jewish faith, is that it is the only major world religion whose adherents feel free to dispute with their Maker.
After his horrible traumas in the Holocaust, Wiesel thought for a while that he was through with religion. But his own children came along, and he found himself teaching them Torah. So he has stayed connected with his tradition, however uneasily, and has produced some genuine Jewish classics over the years, questioning all the while.
This tradition of dispute is the real subject here, not so much the sketches of the minor Biblical characters. For each, Wiesel records their appearances in Scripture, and wonders why they meet the fates that they do. "Why" is the constant refrain. Why does Miriam get a harsher punishment than the others around her? Why does Lot's wife look back; and why doesn't Lot? Why is Aaron such a jellyfish? The Almighty isn't talking, so Wiesel just records his puzzlement and sometimes his dismay, and moves on.
This book isn't as rewarding as his first collection of tales of the Hasidim, _Souls On Fire_. Even the most goyish reader could feel part of the Hasidic family in that warm, wonderful book. This one isn't quite up to that level. But he does take the reader places, and it is good to more closely consider these lesser Biblical characters. Even if we don't get all the answers he asks for.
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Title: The Lord Is My Shepherd : Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm by HAROLD S. KUSHNER ISBN: 1400040566 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz ISBN: 047146502X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Ten Commandments of Character: Essential Advice for Living an Honorable, Ethical, Honest Life by JOSEPH TELUSHKIN ISBN: 1400045096 Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Jewish Study Bible: Tanakh Translation, Torah, Nevi'Im, Kethuvim by Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler, Michael Fishbane ISBN: 0195297512 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews by Melvin Konner ISBN: 0670032441 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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