Living Time: Festival Discourses for the Present Age
Living Time offers the English-speaking public an opportunity to meet a different facet of Rabbi Shagarโs thought: his efforts to breathe new life into the experience of the Jewish holidays. By creating a unique type of sermon โ one that combines hasidic and philosophic ideas into the discussion of each holidayโs texts, mitzvot, and customs โ Rabbi Shagar seeks to open us to the holidayโs โlight and color,โ and to integrate deep and complex ideas into our experience of the Hebrew calendar.
Living Time offers the English-speaking public an opportunity to meet a different facet of Rabbi Shagarโs thought: his efforts to breathe new life into the experience of the Jewish holidays. By creating a unique type of sermon โ one that combines hasidic and philosophic ideas into the discussion of each holidayโs texts, mitzvot, and customs โ Rabbi Shagar seeks to open us to the holidayโs โlight and color,โ and to integrate deep and complex ideas into our experience of the Hebrew calendar.
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Living Time offers the English-speaking public an opportunity to meet a different facet of Rabbi Shagarโs thought: his efforts to breathe new life into the experience of the Jewish holidays. By creating a unique type of sermon โ one that combines hasidic and philosophic ideas into the discussion of each holidayโs texts, mitzvot, and customs โ Rabbi Shagar seeks to open us to the holidayโs โlight and color,โ and to integrate deep and complex ideas into our experience of the Hebrew calendar.
