Finally, we are offered a personal, meditative exercise designed to enable you to "live in the word."
Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talk
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/1993
With creativity and poetry (and occasional heresy) Kushner dusts off thirty classical Hebrew words, shakes them free of the effects of generations of overuse, "re-translates" them, and liberates their ancient holy power. The result is a contemporary spiritual guide for your personal religious life. According to the Hebrew Bible, God made the world with words. God just spoke and the world came into being. Words therefore are not merely sounds signifying something else; they are instruments of creation, primary reality itself. They need only to be read, spoken, and interpreted. And to know them is to know reality itself. Kushner has designed the book himself, seamlessly blending graphics and content. In doing so he evokes the aesthetics of an ancient manuscript and a vision of our power to shape the future. Each finely crafted chapter begins with a Hebrew word and Kushner's provocative English translation. At the bottom of the page is a transliteration of the Hebrew along with its more customary English rendering. In addition to his own intriguing definition, he includes a biblical citation anchoring the word, along with a more recent text showing the word's evolution.
Finally, we are offered a personal, meditative exercise designed to enable you to "live in the word."
Finally, we are offered a personal, meditative exercise designed to enable you to "live in the word."
- ISBN:
- 9781580230209
- 9781580230209
- Category:
- Judaism
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-11-1993
- Language:
- Italian
- Publisher:
- Jewish Lights Publishing
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 152
- Dimensions (mm):
- 152x229x13mm
- Weight:
- 0kg
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