By Divine Design
The Kabbalah of Large, Small, and Missing Letters in the Parshah
ISBN(s): 978-0-9831250-1-3Artikelnummer: 999800017035
Sprache: English
Verlag: Sichos In English
Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin, author of "Letters of Light" (a chapter-by-chapter study of each of the 22 letters) and our bestseller “The Rabbi and the CEO”, co-authered with Thomas Zweifel, Zurich, both books available at booksnbagels.com, takes his lifelong love of Alef-Bet to the next level in this book.
He analyzes the missing letters of the Torah, the enlarged letters and the conflict between the way a word is written and the way it is pronounced (“kri ksiv”), cites midrashic and talmudic source texts and peppers the parshios with warm Chassidic stories and insights that bring the letters' inner meanings to light.
This is not just another book on the parshah. Lay-readers of the weekly Torah portion will appreciate the book's simple writing style and unusual mystical insights; scholars and lecturers of all stripeswill find the book to be a rich resource for their weekly drash. Its stories and jokes are infinitely quote-able, and its arguments well-annotated with numerous cross-references to source materials.
"By Divine Design" is a book that you will return to again and again.
Of that there is no mistake.
Rabbi Raskin is the spiritual leader of a community in Brooklyn, N.Y., an author and speaker on Jewish subjects.
