{"product_id":"a-year-with-martin-buber-9780827614659","title":"A Year with Martin Buber","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Year with Martin Buber\u003c\/i\u003e, the first Torah commentary to focus on his life’s work, we experience the fifty-four weekly portions and eleven Jewish holidays through Buber’s eyes.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This fresh innovative approach to the Torah portion of the week is appealing and insightful, which is why I carry it with me to read in synagogue on Shabbat mornings, either before or after the reading of the Torah portion. It enlightens and enervates my Shabbat morning experience.\"—Rabbi Ron Kronish, \u003ci\u003eJerusalem Report\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rabbi Ross superbly distills the theology of Martin Buber . . . , a consequential Jewish thinker whose focus on making human interactions meaningful influenced Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail.' . . . An invaluable entry point to a humanist thinker who sought to identify, build, and preserve 'holiness in our daily routines' by putting people, rather than objects, first.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ross makes Buber’s writings eminently readable even as he treats them with full scholarly integrity. And by bringing himself into the story, Ross allows us to go from pure text study to an individual life, as Buber himself would have wanted.”—Rabbi Thomas M. Alpert, Temple Etz Chaim in Franklin, Massachusetts\u003cbr\u003e“What a pleasure \u003ci\u003eA Year with Martin Buber\u003c\/i\u003e is! People of all faiths with an interest in the Bible and bringing ‘divine wonder to the routine of daily life’ will delight in having this inspirational book as a companion.”—Rev. Debra W. Haffner, Unitarian Universalist Church in Reston, Virginia\u003cbr\u003e“This richly textured book will send the reader back, time and again, to revisit its teachings and insights.”—Rabbi Bernard Mehlman, senior scholar, Temple Israel in Boston, Massachusetts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e I. Genesis (Bere’shit)\u003cbr\u003e Bere’shit: Standing Over Against\u003cbr\u003e Noaḥ: Learning to Be Present\u003cbr\u003e Lekh Lekha: Eternal Thou\u003cbr\u003e Va-yera’: Many Forms of Candor\u003cbr\u003e Ḥayyei Sarah: Rising from Grief\u003cbr\u003e Toledot: How Conflict Begins\u003cbr\u003e Va-yetse’: When Time and Space Become Secondary\u003cbr\u003e Va-yishlaḥ: Holy Insecurity\u003cbr\u003e Va-yeshev: On the Narrow Ridge\u003cbr\u003e Mikkets: Trapped in a Dream\u003cbr\u003e Va-yiggash: Learning to Put Feelings into Words\u003cbr\u003e Va-yeḥi: The Importance of Supportive Relationship\u003cbr\u003e II. Exodus (Shemot)\u003cbr\u003e Shemot: Get Off the Road\u003cbr\u003e Va-’era’: Reification\u003cbr\u003e Bo’: History as Strangers, Responsibility as Redeemers\u003cbr\u003e Be-shallaḥ: Daily Spiritual Practice\u003cbr\u003e Yitro: All of Us, Together at Sinai\u003cbr\u003e Mishpatim: Respecting Religious Difference\u003cbr\u003e Terumah: Not Within, Between\u003cbr\u003e Tetsavveh: The Sanctity of Decision Making\u003cbr\u003e Ki Tissa’: Eclipse of God\u003cbr\u003e Va-yak’hel: Shabbat as Cornerstone\u003cbr\u003e Pekudei: There Is No Sin in Having Money\u003cbr\u003e III. Leviticus (Va-yikra’)\u003cbr\u003e Va-yikra’: Will and Grace\u003cbr\u003e Tsav: The Afterglow\u003cbr\u003e Shemini: Learning from Loss\u003cbr\u003e Tazriaʿ: Healing through Meeting\u003cbr\u003e Metsoraʿ: Faith and Science Together\u003cbr\u003e ’Aḥarei Mot: The Curtain Will Part\u003cbr\u003e Kedoshim: Hebrew Humanism\u003cbr\u003e ’Emor: Magic, Manipulation, and Prayer\u003cbr\u003e Be-har: Intersection of Land and Justice\u003cbr\u003e Be-ḥukkotai: Mountains in Time\u003cbr\u003e IV. Numbers (Be-midbar)\u003cbr\u003e Be-midbar: Holiness in Time\u003cbr\u003e Naso’: Words That Bless Children\u003cbr\u003e Be-haʿalotekha: Eternal Thou\u003cbr\u003e Shelaḥ-Lekha: People Want Proof \u003cbr\u003e Koraḥ: When Politics Take a Horrible Turn\u003cbr\u003e Ḥukkat: On Jewish Law\u003cbr\u003e Balak: Quick and Decisive Punishment\u003cbr\u003e Pinḥas: Evolving Jewish Law\u003cbr\u003e Mattot: “Imagine the Real”\u003cbr\u003e Maseʿei: Interfaith Relations\u003cbr\u003e V. Deuteronomy (Devarim)\u003cbr\u003e Devarim: Dealing with Anger\u003cbr\u003e Va-’etḥannan: Chosenness and Universalism\u003cbr\u003e ʿEkev: Spirituality of Eating\u003cbr\u003e Re’eh: Privilege and Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e Shofetim: Ends and Means\u003cbr\u003e Ki Tetse’: Animal Well-Being\u003cbr\u003e Ki Tavo’: The Fugitives\u003cbr\u003e Nitsavim: Equality in Labor\u003cbr\u003e Va-yelekh: Wanting More Time\u003cbr\u003e Ha’azinu: Children in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e Ve-zo’t Ha-berakhah: When There Are No Words\u003cbr\u003e VI. Holidays\u003cbr\u003e Rosh Hashanah: Where Are You?\u003cbr\u003e Yom Kippur: New Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Sukkot: The Holiday\u003cbr\u003e Shemini Atzeret: Sudden Stop\u003cbr\u003e Simḥat Torah: When You Come to the End\u003cbr\u003e Hanukkah: Because We Never Really Get There\u003cbr\u003e Purim: A Day Like Yom Kippur\u003cbr\u003e Pesach: “Education of Character”\u003cbr\u003e Yom ha-Shoah: Nuance in Reconciliation\u003cbr\u003e Yom ha-Atzmaut: A Growing Outcome\u003cbr\u003e Shavuot: Revelation, Then and Now\u003cbr\u003e Epigraph Source Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography","brand":"Jewish Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406205362519,"sku":"9780827614659","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780827614659.jpg?v=1730494921","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-year-with-martin-buber-9780827614659","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}