كتاب سنه منتديات حوارات نقاشات جاده فضائح جرائم مواضيع عامه ترحيب سياحه سفر طب صحه عالم حواء وظائف حياه اسريه قصص روايات شعر قصائد نثر خواطر نكت طرائف العاب الغاز قروبات رياضه تحميل برامج مسنجر تحميل برامج ماسنجر توبيكات خطب محاضرات اناشيد تصميم جرافيكس صور خلفيات مقاطع صوتيه برامج نوكيا مسجات رسائل وسائط ثيمات نغمات بلوتوث ارشيف العاب ماريو مركز تحميل صور صور حب رسائل حب صور انمي تحميل الماسنجر صور قلوب نكت 2008 صور حلوه صور حلوة مسجات حب تحميل ماسنجر فساتين youtube صور رومنسية خلفيات صور بنات ارشيف توبيكات ملونه مكياج مريام فارس فساتين سهره صور للمسن توبيكات حب مركز تحميل

The eighty-odd essays in Leaves from the Garden contain a rich mixture of careful scholarship and mystic vision, wisdom and wit, personal stories and narratives from the Tanach, the Talmud, and the Midrash.

As with assortments of chocolates, some will be more to one's taste than others. The three pieces by Lise Weisberger combined scholarly insight with writing of unusual grace and charm, and one wished for more of them. Al Hobscheid's pieces on Temple architecture and on "milk and honey" are modest in their scholarship but consistently entertaining with their lateral thinking. Joan Katz's appeal is to music and to the mystical. Northwestern professor Ben Sommer's learned discussion of aggadic midrash is one of the few that made for difficult reading, because it seems to be an outline for a longer essay, and it requires one to fill in the gaps of an elaborate and complex argument.

Richard Tupper appears most frequently, but by no means too frequently: he occasionally does narrative criticism in the mode of Robert Alter and structural analysis in the mode of Jan Fokkelman, but his specialty is Milgromesque analysis of sacrifice and other aspects of Jewish law, which he explains with dash and dry wit, distilling the essence of contemporary scholarship on these issues. Tupper is not merely Milgrom lite, though: His dvar Torah on the homophobic verses in Leviticus 18 and 20, and how we might interpret them in the light of what we know today about the nature of sexual orientation, is scholarly, enlightened and sound.

This is a collection that one can dip into over a year or leaf through in search of interesting ideas. More than anything, it made me feel what an amazingly stimulating congregation the lay-led Egalitarian Minyan of Rogers Park must be--one that I "joined" in reading this book.

Very interesting, quite unique!