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Full Description
This volume contains studies on the weekly Torah
portion (parashah/sidrah) evoking
the memorable and influential
style of Nehama Leibowitz. Using
lesser-known published works
by Nehama and notes of her
private lessons, Moshe Sokolow
elucidates the text and its classic
commentaries in a manner that
engages readers, making them
active participants in Torah study.
About the Author:
Rabbi Dr. Moshe Sokolow is the
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Professor
of Jewish Education at the Azrieli
Graduate School of Jewish
Education and Administration
of Yeshiva University. He
studied with Nehama Leibowitz
(1905–1997) and translated
and edited Nehama Leibowitz:
On Teaching Tanakh (New York:
1987), Nehama Leibowitz: Active
Learning in the Teaching of Jewish
History (New York: 1989), and
compiled Mafteah ha-Gilyonot:
An Index to Nehama Leibowitz’s
Weekly Parshah Sheets (New York:
1993). Professor Sokolow is the
author of numerous scholarly
and popular articles on Bible,
and has conducted a weekly class
on the sidrah at Lincoln Square
Synagogue in New York City for
more than twenty years.
Praise for Studies in the Weekly Parashah:
“Dr. Moshe Sokolow has done a masterful job in bringing the
methodology of Moratenu Nehama Leibowitz to an even wider audience and
with a series of even broader topics of commentary discussion. To a remarkable
extent, Nehama did to the Biblical commentaries what Rav Soloveitchik did to
the Talmudic commentaries: she demonstrated how their different understanding
of the textual material emanated from and resulted in different conceptual views
of crucial Jewish and human issues. All of this becomes exquisitely expressed in
Dr. Sokolow’s study, which serves as both a tribute to a great teacher as well as a
tour de force by a special disciple.”
-Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat and Dean of Ohr Torah Stone Colleges and Graduate Programs
“Prof. Moshe Sokolow, a loyal student of Nehama Leibowitz and a fine Biblical
scholar himself, offers us many valuable insights into Parashat Hashavua through
his diligent analysis of the comments of Rashi and other major exegetes. This
book will be of special interest for teachers of Torah.”
-Gabriel H. Cohen, Bible Dept., Bar Ilan University
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