The Jewish Experience of Time Philosophical

Presented here is a systemized worldview of how the sequence of time is structured through mitzvot, symbols, prayers, as well as weekly festival and holiday Bible readings and study.

Professor Eliezer Schweid is Emeritus Professor for Medieval and Modern Jewish Philosophy at the Hebrew University, Senior Professor at Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, and Vice-President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Preface

vii

The Jewish Calendar: The Significance of Time Cycles

1

(24)

Indicators of Time: Holidays and Festivals

25

(11)

The Sabbath: Recalling the Creation---Remembering the Exodus

36

(21)

Rosh Hashanah: The Holiday of Creation

57

(19)

Yom Kippur: Confession, Atonement, and Repentance

76

(27)

Teaching Joyfulness in the Festival of Sukkot

103

(28)

The Tension Between Martyrdom and Who is Lord Over Us (The Ideational progression of Hanukkah)

131

(22)

The Twice-Averted Gaze: Purim, Holiday of Exile

153

(25)

Passover: Education to a Life of Freedom

178

(41)

The Confrontation With Suffering (Holocaust Memorial Day and Tisha B'Av)

219

(60)

Spiritual Freedom and Political Freedom (Passover and Independence Day)

279

(31)

Reparing Exile: The People, the Land, and The Torah (Shavuot)

310

(31)

The Individual Enters the Convenant

341

(29)

Afterword: Commentary on the Holiday

370

(21)

Index

391

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