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...people who gather for a holy purpose who create the sanctuary, not the building," she says. Just as the new minyanim--prayer communities--don't require a specific type of physical structure, they are also open to holding services without rabbis. "Laypeople can lead the service, read from the Torah, give a sermon and take on any of the service's traditional roles," Novey says...
...Leon had every reason to fake his work's pedigree: the Zohar was far too radical to be accepted without a fabricated imprimatur. An utterly original 1,800-page mix of Torah commentary, parody, erotic poetry, numerology and experimental narrative devices, it crams some 400 subplots into a Chaucer-like tale of a band of traveling sages. The book's form alone, says Matt, is "a challenge to the normal workings of consciousness...
Oppenheimer learns more about the religious potential of the bar and bat mitzvah when he visits Judi Gannon, a Torah tutor in Tampa, Florida. For Judi, learning the cantillation, or chanting, of the Torah brought her to teaching and saved her from severe depression. Judi said she hopes to pass on to her students some of the religious knowledge that’s been important...
Sheina is less imbued with Yiddish culture than most Lubavitcher women. Nonetheless, she voluntarily leads a highly regulated life prescribed by Jewish custom and law. "I'm here for a purpose," she says. "To see the beauty and holiness in everyday things. The key is in the Torah, and the way to get there has been shown us in a practical way by the mitzvot," the 613 commandments that define traditional Jewish practice. In Lubavitcher thinking, all matter is filled with holiness, and even minor deeds help prepare for the coming of the Messiah...
TIME's comment that Maimonides was a "philosopher who symbolizes a confluence of four cultures: Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish and Western" ignores Maimonides' own description of himself. In a letter to Rabbi Jonathan HaKohein of Luniel (Provence), Maimonides says, "Torah consecrated me to her before my birth . . . She is my true love, the wife of my youth. The other cultures are but women to serve me and cast grace on my wife . . . Regrettably, they distract me from my only life-mate, the Torah." By his own declaration, Maimonides was purely Jewish...