My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew.
Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
THREE HOLIDAYS (Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot) formulate the core message of Judaism: Exodus, Covenant, and the Way. Shabbat and the Rosh Hashanah-Yom Kippur cluster nurture personal life along the way. All these holidays are instructed in the Torah, the Five Books of Moses (the Pentateuch) that constitute the fundamental text of the Jewish traditi
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Through the Jewish way of life and the holidays, the Torah seeks to nurture the infinite love and unending faith needed to sustain people until perfection is achieved.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
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Second, Shabbat can help us fight consumerism, materialism, and workaholism.
Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
Passover is the holiday of faith; Sukkot is the holiday of faithfulness.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
There is a tradition that every holiday should be celebrated “half and half”—half for God and half for personal pleasure.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
To a great extent, a Jewish way of life is a portable faith: you can take it with you anywhere you go. This