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September 2003 Highlights

Sh'ma is now accepting sermons for Living Words VI: Best High Holiday Sermons of 5764. Send your drashot to: SBerrin@JFLmedia.com.
Deadline is December 1, 2003.

Death and Bereavement

 David Wolpe:
Death and Meaning : There is both certainty and mystery in life's limitation

 

 Lynn Greenhough:
The Washer and the Washed: Bound in Sacred Duty : As we begin the taharah, the physical washing of the dead person, we acknowledge God's welling amongst us.

 

 Jan Uhrbach:
The Origin of Death: Early Genesis: Was human death part of God's original plan or was it introduced only as a punishment?


* Koret Foundation Sh'ma Book Reviews

Death: The Deepest Challenge
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Mourning, Suffering
and the Human Condition, Ed. David Schatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky, and Rueven Ziegler.
Reviewed by Julian Sinclair.
(New Jersey: KTAV 2003): 243 pp., $24.50
Rachel S. Hallote, Ivan R. Dee, Death, Burial and Afterlife in the Biblical World, Ed. David Hazony
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001): 237 pp., $26.50

For Sale: Living Words V: A Source Book on Israel in a Time of Struggle


A timely resource for rabbis, educators, and families to address the crisis in Israel. Included are High Holiday sermons, new rituals for celebrating Israel's Independence Day, Responsa on the Prayer for the Peace of Israel, essays and resource materials to teach Israel in synagogues and schools.:

Available June 2003 www.Jflbooks.com
Foreword by Yitz Greenberg bookorders@JFLmedia.com.



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