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| Title | : | Black Fire on White Fire: Essays in Honor of Rabbi Avi Weiss |
| Author | : | Daniel Ross Goodman |
| Language | : | en |
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| Uploaded | : | Apr 15, 2021 |
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Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical.
Aug 5, 2016 book review: 'the fire this time' expresses sorrow of black americans woman, were murdered by a white racist simply because they were black. Novelist jesmyn ward edited this collection of essays and a few poems.
Mar 26, 2021 it's a matter of interpretation or the interaction of listener-reader and text. In that relationship, a number of meanings rise, and so the text (all.
T he fire next time is composed of two essays, both of which examine issues of racial inequality in america.
Black fire on white fire: an essay on jewish hermeneutics, from midrash to kabbalah betty rojtman university of california press feb 27, 1998 - literary criticism - 194 pages.
And it appears that the torah that was inscribed in black fire upon white fire was in the manner that we have mentioned: that the writing was continuous, without separation into words, and it was possible to interpret it in the manner of the names or in the manner of our reading.
Nearly 200 selections, including poetry, essays, short stories, and plays, from over 75 cultural critics, writers, and political leaders, capture the social and cultural.
Penniman's new book, farming while black: soul fire farm's practical guide to liberation on the land, details her experiences as a farmer and activist, how she found real power and dignity.
The reason you can open the line on smoke in this situation is that the black-black smoke, a warning sign of flashover, is called “black fire.
One story (in midrash tanchuma) holds that torah is written in black fire on white fire. The black fire makes up the letters of the received text, while the white fire.
Black fire on white fire: an essay on jewish hermeneutics, from midrash to kabbalah.
Reading white fire and practices of each hasidic group, fleshing out the variety in what might look to outsiders as a merely black-and-white-coloured lifestyle.
In the talmud, writing is described as a combination of white and black fire. This creates a tension between presence and absence, speech and silence. This artbook’s covers are formed from empty spaces of my hands.
At the origins of speech, this white space was fire, mingled with the black fire of letters; “the law that god gave to moses was written in black fire on white fire. The black fire refers to what the torah says, the white fire refers to what the torah means.
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A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, the fire next time presents his views on black-white relations, the relationship between the artist and society, what is baldwin's purpose in prefacing the long publi.
Black fire on white fire: an essay on jewish hermeneutics, from midrash to kabbalah (volume 10) (contraversions: critical studies in jewish literature, culture, and society) [rojtman, betty, randall, steven, idel, moslie] on amazon.
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, the fire next time that exhort americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. He was murdered in 1955 – less than 10 years before baldwin wrote these.
Lakish: the torah that the holy one, blessed be he, gave to moses was given to him from white fire inscribed by black fire. It was fire, mixed with fire, hewn from fire and given by fire, as is written, “from his right a fiery law to them.
Rashi (ad loc) comments that the almighty’s torah was written before him as “black fire on white fire. ” nachmanides, in the introduction to his commentary on the torah, explains that just as a scribe must copy one torah scroll from a pre-existing torah rather than writing it from memory, moses too was required to follow the same dictate.
Resh lakish said: the scroll that was given to moses was made of a parchment of white fire, and was written upon with black fire and sealed with fire and was wrapped with bands of fire, and while he was writing it, he wiped his pen on his hair, and as a result he acquired a radiant face.
In other words, the white fire corresponds to the loftier realm of thought and contemplation. The black fire of the letters, on the other hand, is the revelation of intellect into the realm of language — a contraction and limitation of abstract thought into the more concrete level of speech.
The black fire represents the sanctity of the torah's words; the white fire represents the sanctity of the torah's setting. By starting the parsha of vayechi with no margin, with no white fire, the tradition is telling us something about the situation of the jewish nation in egypt, in exile.
The word vayikra (“he called”) is written in an unusual fashion.
Aug 16, 2016 in her introduction to “the fire this time: a new generation speaks about race, ” there are five excellent reasons to buy this book: the essays by the white woman who passed for black and became president of a loca.
24 in order to understand the crucial image of black fire over white fire which will constitute for mallarmé, blanchot, derrida, jabès, sollers, and other writers an archetypical metaphor of writing, one must note that according to the kabbalistic interpretation, the white fire of the written torah consisted solely of the primordial.
The letter of the law the relationship of the orally transmitted torah to the written torah is also likened to this image of 'black fire on white fire' (jerusalem talmud, shekalim 6:1, end).
Black fire on white fire by betty rojtman, 9780520203211, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
When the talmud says that the torah given to moses was written “in black fire on white fire,” it again emphasizes the distinction between the language of the torah, which exists eternally (or, as we now say, virtually), and its physical medium. It is a kind of paradox then that the torah scroll is the most changeless of jewish objects.
The metaphor from rabbinic literature that describes the writing of the torah—black fire on white fire—becomes, in rojtman's analysis, a figure for the differential structures that can be found throughout rabbinic discourse.
“black fire” is a good phrase to describe smoke that is high-volume, turbulent velocity, ultradense, and black. Black fire is a sure sign of impending autoignition and flashover.
Celebrating one of the greatest jewish leaders of our time, black fire on white fire presents fourteen rich, insightful essays from some of the most distinguished rabbis and academics in contemporary jewish scholarship, including jonathan sarna, saul berman, jeffrey gurock, and marc angel, with a foreword from rabbi shlomo riskin.
Aug 30, 2016 fire next time, a two-part essay about the experience of being black the them in this sentence is baldwin's countrymen, white americans.
This idea of figure-ground perception came to mind when i came across simeon ben lakish’s teaching that the torah was written in black fire upon white fire. The black fire forms the figures, the letters and words, the information content.
The rabbis teach that the primordial torah was written as black fire on white fire. Gazing upon the “sefer torah,” they saw the letters forming text as black fire written upon the white fire of parchment.
In the fire this time, these writers' essays, memoirs, and poems explore the gifts is that he's really talented at explaining black experience to white people.
Even deeper, they saw the black fire as representing that which we are able to know in our human finitude, and the white fire as secrets toward which we can only strive. Standing at the hearth of an open torah and chanting its ancient song is a gift of awe that is yours for the learning.
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