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...Torah. In Philadelphia, the Jewish Publication Society of America announced a milestone in its gigantic Biblical scholarship project. After eight years, Jewish scholars led by Hebrew Union College's Harry Orlinsky (who was the only non-Christian on the committee that produced the Revised Standard Version) have completed a new translation of the Torah, the five books of Moses, which will be published in January. They hope eventually to finish the entire Old Testament in a 20-year project that has the backing of all branches of American Judaism-and the best scholars from each...
...began to write before I knew the alphabet. Sabbath was an ordeal for me, because writing was forbidden." His writing drew on traditional sources, since from childhood he studied the Bible, Torah, and, secretly, the cabala. "Cosmic riddles were actual in my home. . . . One could as easily have questioned the validity of reason as the existence of God. . . . The worship of reason was as idolatrous as bowing down to graven images...
...main point of the saying you are quoting from my Tales of the Hasidim [March 23] is expressed not in the words you quote ["What the Torah teaches us is this: none but God can command us to destroy man"] but in the sequel: "And if the very smallest angel comes after the command has been given and cautions us: 'Lay not thy hand upon . . .' we must obey him." I would think it desirable to draw your readers' attention to this part of the saying...
...What the Torah teaches us is this: none but God can command us to destroy...
...traditional concept of Torah (Biblical law), the Reconstructionists maintain, "should be expanded" to include 1) ethical culture, "the fostering of love and justice"; 2) sancta, the heroes, events, texts, places and seasons that are symbolically significant to a people; and 3) "esthetic culture, the arts as a means of expressing the emotional values of Jewish life...