Bøger af Edwin C. Goldberg

"Divrei Mishkan HaNefesh is designed to serve as a springboard for leading High Holy Day worship. It focuses on the prayers and scriptural offerings in the machzor Mishkan HaNefesh. Rubric by rubric, a commentary offers insight into the machzor editors' perspective and choices, with extra material to engage the worshiper. Essays by members of the machzor's editorial team provide further exegetical and homiletical material, tips, and guideposts. Finally, a set of indexes facilitate access to the machzor's poems and biblical citations"--

In Midrash for Beginners, Rabbi Edwin Goldberg presents English readers with an easily accessible entrance into the fascinating and insightful world of Midrash. Instead of trying to explain or define the Midrash and the midrashic process, Rabbi Goldberg gives beginning students the opportunity to explore and study Midrash themselves by focusing exclusively on the biblical character of Joseph. The story of Joseph is one of the best-known and most-loved tales in the Bible. From his rivalry with his brothers, and his father's apparent favoritism, to his being sold into slavery and rising up to become the second most powerful man in Egypt, Joseph's story contains lessons and symbolism that are as relevant to Jews today as they were to the rabbinic commentators of more than a thousand years ago