Word: yonah
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Delivered before a group of about 30 people, Schwarzberg’s lecture, entitled “Sefer Yonah: The Climax of the High Holidays,” explored the significance of the story of the prophet Yonah on a day known by Jews as the Day of Atonement...
...story of the prophet Yonah is traditionally read during the second-to-last service of Yom Kippur, according to Schwarzberg. Still, the Divinity School student said yesterday that it was “not often obvious” why the story had been chosen for the holiday and that he wanted to explore its “intellectual depth...
Called by God to tell the city of Ninevah to repent, Yonah famously ran away on a ship only to be swallowed by a large fish...
When he finally did deliver God’s message, the story goes, the Ninevites repented, but Yonah was upset that God forgave them...
...also cited Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist who wrote about the “Jonah [Yonah] Complex...