![]() ![]() In the period after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, talmud Torah (along with liturgical prayer) replaced sacrifices as the primary means of worship. The rabbinic expression “ v’talmud torah k’neged kulam”–usually translated as “…and Torah study is equivalent to all of ”–attests to the importance Jewish tradition assigns to learning. Within the rabbinic world, however, the wide-ranging enterprise called talmud Torah ( Torah study, not to be confused with either the body of rabbinic literature known as the Talmud, or the Torah itself) also became a desired end on its own, rather than simply a means of determining law and practice. One might, assume, then, that the primary goal of studying Torah would be the explication of these commandments and the creation of a system for their implementation. ![]() The Torah presents itself as the source of the commandments governing Jewish practice. My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help Donate ![]()
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![]() While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neil's grasp, Elizabeth's application of her material to the matter of daily living remains important to him, even after her death, in a way that nothing else does. ![]() ![]() Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding yet commanding woman. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. ![]() About the Book "From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 9780465093656 Number of pages: 400 Weight: 338 g Dimensions: 211 x 142 x 26 mm You may also be interested in. Based on interviews with hundreds of children and adults, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude. Alone Together is the result of Turkle's nearly fifteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Even the presence of sociable robots in our lives that pretend to demonstrate empathy makes us feel more isolated, as Turkle explains in a new introduction updating the book to the present day. We turn to new technology to fill the void, but as MIT technology and society specialist Sherry Turkle argues, as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. But this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. ![]() 2013 by Sherry Turkle (Author) 781 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 8.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 26.15 11 Used from 5.59 4 New from 26.15 1 Collectible from 5. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Paperback 7 Feb. ![]() She mourns the end of a time when one could become completely disconnected from ones. ![]() Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Turkle ends with a conversation with her daughter who is studying in Paris. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Governess Affair is a novella of about 32,500 words. She's been a RITA finalist and an RT Reviewer's Choice nominee for Best First Historical Romance. Since then, she's been a New York Times and a USA Today bestseller, and her books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist. He'll have to choose between the life that he needs, and the woman he is coming to love. Courtney Milan's debut novel was published in 2010. A Kiss for Midwinter (a companion novella to The Duchess War) 2. But everything he has worked for depends upon seeing her gone. The Governess Affair (free prequel novella) 1. Unfortunately, fair means don't work on Serena, and as he comes to know her, he discovers that he can't bear to use foul ones. ![]() When his employer orders him to get rid of the pestering governess by fair means or foul, it's just another day at the office. Hugo Marshall is a man of ruthless ambition-a characteristic that has served him well, elevating the coal miner's son to the right hand man of a duke. ![]() But she can't stop trying-not with her entire future at stake.He cannot give in. The formidable former pugilist has a black reputation for handling all the duke's dirty business, and when the duke turns her case over to him, she doesn't stand a chance. It's his merciless man of business-the man known as the Wolf of Clermont. Unable to find new work, she's demanding compensation from the man who got her sacked: a petty, selfish, swinish duke. Three months ago, governess Serena Barton was let go from her position. A new series from New York Times bestselling author Courtney Milan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hand in Glove, Bantam (London, England), 1992, Washington Square Press (New York, NY), 1994.Ĭlosed Circle, Poseidon (New York, NY), 1993.īorrowed Time, Bantam (London, England), 1995. Take No Farewell, Bantam (London, England), 1991, published as Debt of Dishonour, Poseidon (New York, NY), 1991. Into the Blue, Bantam (London, England), 1990, Poseidon (New York, NY), 1991. ![]() ![]() Painting the Darkness, Poseidon (New York, NY), 1989. In Pale Battalions, Poseidon ( New York, NY), 1988. Agent-Simon Trewin, PFD, Drury House, 34-43 Russell St., London WC2B 5HA, England.ĬAREER: Began career as a teacher Devon County Council, Devon, England, educational administrator, 1978–87 full-time writer, 1987–.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Booker Prize nomination, 1986, for Past Caring In Pale Battalions was a Literary Guild alternate selection. Religion: Anglican.ĪDDRESSES: Home-Truro, Cornwall, England. PERSONAL: Born November 13, 1954, in Fareham, Hampshire, England son of William James (a civil servant) and Lilian Margaret Goddard married Vaunda North (a local government officer), September 14, 1984.Įducation: Peterhouse, Cambridge, B.A., 1976, M.A., 1980 University of Exeter, postgraduate certificate in education, 1977. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He may be the eldest and heir to the earldom, but he’s arrogant, annoying, and she’s absolutely certain he detests her. There is only one Rokesby Billie absolutely cannot tolerate, and that is George. ![]() Sometimes you fall in love with exactly the person you think you should. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Sometimes you find love in the most unexpected of places.Įveryone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings, and in this novel, we go back to where it all began. #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents the first novel of the delightful Bridgerton Prequel series in a stunning new package. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've always heard good things about Holly Black, and when Natalie came back from the Smart Chicks Kick It signing with White Cat, she had me read it first (to make sure she'd like it). ![]() ![]() White Cat was a little bit of a slow starter for me, like so many first-in-a-series books. Holly Black has created a gripping tale of mobsters and dark magic where a single touch can bring love - or death - and your dreams might be more real than your memories. Could she still be alive? To find that out, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game, he also wonders what really happened to Lila. They are keeping secrets from him, caught up in a mysterious plot. He's noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. But his façade starts crumbling when he starts sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. You just have to ignore one small detail - he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.Įver since, Cassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. And since curse work is illegal, they're all mobsters, or con artists. Cassel comes from a family of curse workers - people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was a running joke, but it was also a reflection of how Nikole had been cultivating the idea for what became the 1619 Project for many years. Sometimes, reading a draft of one of her articles, I’d ask if she might include even more history, to which she would remark that if I gave her more space, she would be happy to take it all the way back to 1619. As an investigative journalist who often focuses on racial inequalities in education, Nikole has frequently turned to history to explain the present. This wasn’t the first time Nikole had brought up 1619. My notes from the meeting simply say, “NIKOLE: special issue on the 400th anniversary of African slaves coming to U.S.,” a milestone that was approaching that August. ![]() 28, 2019, Nikole Hannah-Jones, who has been a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine since 2015, came to one of our weekly ideas meetings with a very big idea. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now it is up to Bill and Benny to find and rescue him.īased on 10 years of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and primary sources including diaries, unpublished memoirs, and letters half forgotten in basements, The Jersey Brothers is a remarkable story of agony and triumph - from the home front to Roosevelt's White House and Pearl Harbor to Midway and Bataan. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to the Philippines and listed as missing in action after a Japanese attack. ![]() Barton, the youngest and least distinguished of the three, is shuffled off to the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only carriers to escape Pearl Harbor and by the end of 1942 the last one left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Bill is picked by Roosevelt to run his first map room in Washington. ![]() They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war's most crucial moments. ![]() The extraordinary real-life adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II and their mad race to change history - and save one of their own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Further, the arrangement of the Gosforth Crucifixion invokes theological concerns associated with the veneration of the cross, which were expressed in contemporary liturgical ceremonies and remained relevant within the tenth-century Anglo-Scandinavian context of the monument. ![]() The frame, signifying the iconic nature of the Crucifixion image, was intended to elicit the viewer’s compunction, contemplation and, subsequently, prayer, by facilitating a collapse of time and space that assimilates the historical event of the Crucifixion, the viewer’s present and the Parousia. The scheme is analyzed here using earlier exegetical texts and sculptural precedents to explain the function of the frame surrounding Christ, by demonstrating how icons were viewed and understood in Anglo-Saxon England. The carved figural program of the tenth-century Gosforth Cross (Cumbria) has long been considered to depict Norse mythological episodes, leaving the potential Christian iconographic import of its Crucifixion carving underexplored. ![]() |