The Jewish Experience of Time Philosophical Dimensions of the Jewish Holy DaysPhilosophical Dimensions of the Jewish Holy DaysPhilosophical Dimensions of the Jewish Holy Days

by Schweid, Eliezer

• ISBN13: 9780765761057
• ISBN10: 076576105X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-31
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

Presented here is a systemized worldview of how the sequence of time is structured through mitzvot, symbols, prayers, as well as weekly festival and holiday Bible readings and study.

Author Biography

Professor Eliezer Schweid is Emeritus Professor for Medieval and Modern Jewish Philosophy at the Hebrew University, Senior Professor at Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, and Vice-President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Jewish Calendar: The Significance of Time Cycles	1	(24)
Indicators of Time: Holidays and Festivals	25	(11)
The Sabbath: Recalling the Creation---Remembering the Exodus	36	(21)
Rosh Hashanah: The Holiday of Creation	57	(19)
Yom Kippur: Confession, Atonement, and Repentance	76	(27)
Teaching Joyfulness in the Festival of Sukkot	103	(28)
The Tension Between Martyrdom and Who is Lord Over Us (The Ideational progression of Hanukkah)	131	(22)
The Twice-Averted Gaze: Purim, Holiday of Exile	153	(25)
Passover: Education to a Life of Freedom	178	(41)
The Confrontation With Suffering (Holocaust Memorial Day and Tisha B'Av)	219	(60)
Spiritual Freedom and Political Freedom (Passover and Independence Day)	279	(31)
Reparing Exile: The People, the Land, and The Torah (Shavuot)	310	(31)
The Individual Enters the Convenant	341	(29)
Afterword: Commentary on the Holiday	370	(21)
Index	391