These Are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life - Softcover

Green, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580231071 ISBN 13: 9781580231077

Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Examines the meaning, history, and origin of the core Hebrew words that are shared and understood throughout the Jewish world and why it is important for people to know and use these words in their original Hebrew. Reprint.

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Review:

Arthur Green, who is among the foremost scholars of Jewish spirituality, considers Judaism to be a kind of language--a "way of expressing our beliefs, longings, aspirations, dreams.... The vocabulary of Jewish life is the framework through which we hand on the past. It also provides the pegs on which we hang our hopes and dreams for the future." These Are The Words gathers Green's explanations of the basic terms of this language, from Adonai ("My Lord") to zekhut ("merit"). These 149 essays constitute a brief encyclopedia of Judaism--a helpful reminder of what the key Jewish terms mean (in a definitional sense), and of how these words shape the lives of those who speak them.

About the Author:

Arthur (Avraham Yitzhak) Green is Lown Professor of Jewish Thought at Brandeis University and former President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. He is a student of Jewish theology and mysticism who has combined scholarly career and personal commitment. He is the author of Tormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (Jewish Lights), and co-editor of Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer (Jewish Lights), along with other books and articles on Judaism, spirituality and spiritual renewal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1580231071
• ISBN 13: 9781580231077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304