TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerson,Mark
TI  - The telling: how Judaism's essential book reveals the meaning of life 
SN  - 9781250624246 (hbk.)
AV  - BM674.79 .G47 2021
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - St. Martin's Essentials
KW  - Haggadah
KW  - Seder
KW  - Passover
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - Life
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Machine generated contents note: The Methodology -- The Real Jewish New Year -- Haggadah: When a Great Book Is Not Meant to Be Read -- God's Business Card -- The Craziest Dream Comes True: How We Live in Moses's World -- Getting Ready: When the Preparation Is Part of the Event -- Singing the Table of Contents: Why Highly Religious Married Women Are So Sexually Satisfied -- Music and Food: The Theology and Science of Remembering -- What We Can Learn from an Egg: The Logic of the Seder Plate -- Invite That Self -- The Greatest Principle of the Torah -- Just Who Are You Calling a Stranger? -- Love and Responsibility: Israel -- Judaism in a Word: Newness -- There Is Such a Thing as a Bad Question -- and Sometimes a Good Reason for It -- The Great Jewish Permission -- The Greatest Seder of All -- Feeling God's Pleasure -- The Story Is Yours: Where Are Moses, Joseph, and the Women of the Exodus? -- Living by Principles -- Humility Can Be a Sin -- When to Find God -- Commitment -- The Jewish Secret of Parenting -- How Intellectual Inquiry Is of Limited Value: Considering the Wise Son -- The Fundamental Principle of Judaism: Considering the Wicked Son -- Who Is the Ideal Husband? Considering the Simple Son -- What Should We Be Asking? Considering the Son Who Does Not Know How to Ask -- Finding the Image of God (It's Not Hard) -- Identify Enemies -- and Also Friends -- The Jewish Way of Learning -- Destiny's Ingredients: Family and Dreams -- Imagination: The Most Important Part of Reality -- Judaism: A Religion of Character -- You Are in the Story -- Stars -- Risking Congratulations -- Why Did God Wait? When Bad Things Happen to Good People -- Jew Hatred, Explained -- The Prayer -- What It Means to Know -- The Unfinished: The Jewish Way of Life and Death -- Why Jewish Boys Emerge from the Womb Uncircumcised -- Why Any Plagues? -- First, Harmless Magic -- The Logic of Rationality: Fighting Blood, Frogs, and Lice with More Blood, Frogs, and Lice -- Habits: How the Pharaoh Teaches Us to Live Freely -- "All My Plagues": The Essence of God, Revealed in Hail -- "Can't You See Egypt Is Lost?": When Change Is Harder Than It Should Be -- The Ninth Plague: When Even Lighting a Candle, to Save My Life, Is Impossible -- Prelude to the Tenth Plague: Moses Becomes a Leader -- Allegiances Build: The Architecture of Relationships, the Constitution of Society -- Haste: The Moral Imperative of Speed -- The Tenth Plague: What It Means That the Jews Are the Chosen People -- Hovering, Rescuing, and Protecting: No One "Passed Over" Anything, and Why That Is Important -- Watching: The Existential Experience -- Why Political Arguments Are Usually a Waste of Time, or Worse -- The Secret to Happiness and Goodness -- "Dayenu": How to Express Gratitude -- Always a Second Chance
N2  - "Life changing wisdom from one of Judaism's most powerful texts the Haggadah, which can be found in Jewish homes around the world, has guided Jewish families and friends through Pesach celebrations for millennia. In The Telling: How Judaism's Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life, author Mark Gerson shows how even the most familiar passages from the Haggadah are sitting on top of buried treasures ready to help us live more meaningful and fulfilling lives today. The Telling will enable readers to make their seder the most engaging, inspiring and important night of the Jew's year - and readers generally to understand how Jewish wisdom can help them to live their happiest, most purposeful and worthwhile lives. The fundamental questions of life that The Telling addresses include those of freedom, blessings, parenthood, dreams, education, idolatry, family, forgiveness, willpower, dreams, memory, wisdom, goodness, analogies, habits, newness, music, food, aging, false humility, the role of the imagination, the purpose of political debate, the cultivation and expression of gratitude, the State of Israel, our relationship with God, the secret of joy, the meaning of history, the presentation of miracles - and much more. The Telling, which calls on disciplines from Talmudic discussion to evolutionary psychology to understand the Haggadah, is a groundbreaking reexamination of one of the most powerful texts in Judaism - and an indispensable source of wisdom and insight for people of all faiths"--Provided by publisher
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