Kesher Talk

This week's Pintele Yid recommendation - For our gentile friends and Jews who want to rediscover their heritage - recommending quintessentially Jewish cultural works (books, TV specials, CDs, Torah teachers, poets, websites, and more) which transport you inside a Jewish skin and show you the world through Jewish eyes.

Last week's recommendation.
Introduction to the series and first recommendation.

The Book of Letters: A Mystical Aleph-bait, Lawrence Kushner.
Hebrew characters have long been used by Jewish philosophers to generate mystical as well as concrete meanings. Last week Rabbi Green gave us the words, now Rabbi Kushner gives us the letters, in his own calligraphy.

I recommend this book because I used to be a calligrapher, and because Judaism is the only ethnicity I know of where literally the letters of its alphabet are intricately woven into its theology. (They don't call us the People of the Book for nuthin'.)

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Week 7.
Week 8.

posted by Judith @ 7/14/2003 10:46:25 AM