Enveloped in Light: A Tallit Sourcebook

Enveloped in Light: A Tallit Sourcebook

A teaching anthology, including all important information about the tallit (tallis, Jewish prayer shawl), including personal stories, academic articles, and halakhic norms. Essays, sermons, poems, and stories from authors including S.Y. Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, Rabbi Reuven Hammer, Rabbi Jack Riemer, Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, and many others. Ideal for bar and bat mitzvah students, high schoolers, and adult education.

Contents:

* Introductionâ€”Steven Schwarzman
* The Tallit and Its Messagesâ€”Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins

The Tallit in Sermons and Commentaries
* A Message from Outer Spaceâ€”Rabbi Jack Riemer
* Knots: A Sermon for Shâ€™lahâ€”Rabbi Shamai Kanter
* â€œAnd the tzitzit shall be for youâ€: A Bar Mitzvah Dâ€™var Torahâ€”Alon Futterman
* Curbing Your Lustful Eyesâ€”Rabbi Pinchas H Peli
* The Fringed Garment: The Mitzvah of Tzitzitâ€”Rabbi Hershel Matt
* My Grandfatherâ€™s Tallisâ€”Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
* The Tallit on Kol Nidreâ€”Rabbi Steve Schwartz
* From Our Own Clothing to Godâ€™s Own Throne: The True Meaning of the Tallitâ€”Rabbi Peretz Rodman
* Lehitatef Batzitzit: Recovering the Meaning of Tallitâ€”Rabbi Kenneth R Leitner
* The Tallit and its Symbolismâ€”Rabbi Martin Samuel Cohen
* Tekhelet â€“ A Royal Reminderâ€”Rabbi Mordecai M Kaplan
* To Wear Tzitzitâ€”Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin
* A Union of Weaversâ€”Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin

The Tallit in Stories
* Another Tallitâ€”SY Agnon
* A Strangerâ€™s Tallitâ€”Allan Rabinowitz
* My Fatherâ€™s Tallit and the Sefer Torahâ€”Ruthy Bodner
* The Babiesâ€™ Aliyah in Jerusalemâ€”Judith Weisberg
* Zaydeâ€™s Tallitâ€”Karen Misler
* Tallit: Wings of Shekhinahâ€”Susan Mitrani Knapp

The Tallit in Poetry
* Gods Change, Prayers are Here to Stayâ€”Yehuda Amichai
* Jerusalem in Snowâ€”Anat Bental
* Tallis: A Poemâ€”Abraham Kinstlinger
* My Tallitâ€”Ruth Brin

The Tallit in History
* Garments of Prayerâ€”Rabbi Reuven Hammer
* In Search of Lost Hilazonâ€”Rabbi Mordecai Kornfeld
* In Search of Holy Snailâ€”Rabbi Ari Zivotovsky

The Tallit in Halakhah and Practice
* The Tallit: A Halakhic Summaryâ€”Rabbi Menachem Raab
* On Wearing Tallit and Tefillinâ€”Dvora E Weisberg
* From Tzitzit to Tallitâ€”Rabbi Moshe Tutnauer
* May You be Wrapped in Warmthâ€”Susan Klingman

Acknowledgements
Contributors

From the Introduction:
â€œAs far as we can tell, this book is the first attempt to bring together a wide variety of sources available in English on the subject of the tallit. In the pages that follow, you can find contributions by a Nobel Prize winner along with everyday people, rabbis and professors along with poets and Internet journalists. By design, weâ€™ve included such different voices in hopes of producing a composite picture; just as the tallit is a very democratic garment, making the audacious statement that each one of us has within us the mark of royalty â€“ while at the same time, enveloping us in a coziness that marks our relationship with Godâ€¦.
The tallit has been around for a few thousand years (as you will learn in some of the historically-oriented contributions herein), but there have also been some exciting developments in just the last few decades as the recipe for tekhelet â€“ the blue dye for tzitzit â€“ has apparently been rediscovered and women have begun (or begun again, as you will read!) to wear tallitot in some communities. We hope that this sourcebook will help more people learn about the beauty of the tallit and its rich potential as a ritual item in adding a spiritual and ethical dimension to Jewish prayer and life.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer Growth Associates
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2004-12-31
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Growth Associates
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2004-12-31
Format	Kindle eBook

Enveloped in Light: A Tallit Sourcebook

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