Want email updates when there is a new post?Enter your email address: tagged: Juliet is utterly distraught: how will she see Romeo that evening? It was yummy. Would recommend this book to Muslims out there who wants to sharpen their understanding and have inquisitive minds with the Quran. My mind, still grappling with the troubles of queer Muslims and depressed Muslims and Muslims living through trauma, was calmed by the cadence of Carla Power’s conversations with Sheikh Akram on Islam. Jonathan Kirsch, The Jewish Journal “Piercingly intelligent...Riveting...What Kurshan has produced is entirely novel.”The Times of Israel“It takes a brilliant intellect to study the Talmud the way Kurshandoes...If All the Seas Were Ink provides a true and clear exampleof text study that benefits the soul as well as the mind.”The Christian Century"An elegant, engaging and daunting tale of the many paths of human passion...This delightful and deep story of life made me feel as if Kurshan and I had several leisurely dinners together, or had met regularly at a cafe." Surprisingly, his view is very broad in places where a Westerner might expect it to be narrow; women, education, reason, etc...His thoughts on veiling of women was fascinating.
As with any religion, there are some stances that Islam takes that I don't agree with, and this is certainly not intended to convert anyone, but I do feel like I understand it just that little bit more, and that's something that much of the world, particularly in America, could do with more of. currently-reading, philosophy, and sports, tagged:
I couldn't see how God could will my mother to die in such a brutal way, indeed I could never believe that death could be so brutal, no one until they see it for themselves belief death can be lingering and so thoroughly painful.
Neither story, however, ever develops sufficient power to become compelling. Every so often, though, those feelings rose to the surface, and I had to confront what I knew to be true: That I have always been a hopeless romantic, and that my sense of romance is deeply bound up in my passion for literature. I had books I would read only in bed; they lived under the blankets and waited patiently while I read more respectable volumes during daylight hours. * I was convinced I'd never re-marry, but one night my imagination got the better of me and I pictured myself again a bride. She also learns that, despite what many would like the world to believe, the Quran flat out commands its followers to treat everyone, regardless of creed, with kindness and respect, and repeatedly condemns violence in every case, with only very narrow and specific exceptions of self-defense. These are a few of the limericks that Ilana Kurshan wrote to sum up that day’s learning: A person who learns and reviews
“I couldn’t think about Rabbi Yochanan being sick without thinking about Keats and beauty and evanescence. HP&PHIL: Voldemort's Agents, Malfoy's Cronies, and Hagrid's Chums: Review: Ancient Civilizations of North America, Review: If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir. When: On Thursday, November 9, at 8 p.m. Co-sponsored by: Congregation Keter Torah, also in Teaneck.
( Log Out / In doing so, they have chosen to exploit laws and customs to carry out oppression, violence, and terror. But it’s rarely seen as a vehicle for memoir. He went out to report on his discovery to his fellow priests, but "he had not yet finished speaking when suddenly he died."
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Want email updates when there is a new post? An utterly original book." When he goes on Shabbat called Andorra. ), I had at this point wondered if I was not the intended audience. That ultimately curling up with a good book always surpassed the inevitable awkwardness of real courtship, with its silly questions of what to wear and when it was OK to write back and how to interpret that passing glance. This week’s podcast features Ilana Kurshan’s memoir If All the Seas Were Ink.Originally written in English, the text translates the study of the Daf Yomi, or “Daily Page,” of the Talmud, into a life story.The Talmud is the main book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years. By that he would still see male mourners on his own and not visit his sisters because he thought was stressful to them. She forms a close relationship with an Islamic scholar, Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, with whom she can study the text. I am outside, in my front yard, sitting on a chair, taking in the gentle breeze and just-cut-grass aroma around me. The Wall Street Journal“Lyrical and erudite. My sole hard-core belief was the same belief I ascribe to any serious religion - that there will always be those who pick and choose parts of their belief to harm others, whether it is gays in Christianity or "Westerners" in Islam. **WINNER of the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the 2018 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature** Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. In seeing the actions and words of Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, one is also presented with a shining example of how to live amongst one's fellow humans with grace and compassion, a lesson that many of us are in dire need of right now.
Her book Why Is This Night Different From Other Nights was published by Schocken in 2005. Grow Your Child's Library with Top Young Reader Series, 50% Off All Funko Wetmore Forest POP!, Plush, and More, Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser, manhattan night by colin harrison paperback, Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't. We have reprinted some here. I enjoyed reading it, and it challenged some of my preconceptions/prejudices. Ilana Kurshan Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award. Surely Juliet longs, each day, for night to come, so she can go out on her balcony to speak to Romeo. Sarna, Jewish Link of New Jersey"Kurshan weaves together intensive Talmud study with personal pain, work, spiritual seeking, and literature." Synopsis The Wall Street Journal: "There is humor and heartbreak in these pages...Ms. Kurshan immerses herself in the demands of daily Talmud study and allows the words of ancient scholars to transform the patterns of her own life.
"If All The Seas Were Ink is a book about passion of many varieties―romantic passion, religious passion, aesthetic passion, but above all else, passion for knowledge. It was late Friday afternoon during that magical, mystical time the rabbis refer to as "between the suns," on the cusp of the day that is waning and the night about to fall. For knowledge accrues. In fact, no religion has women playing so vital a role in its development than Islam. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the ... A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK ... A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK "), and Romeo hangs on to her every sound and gesture ("She speaks! While it reads, at times, like a history textbook, I found it necessary for the reader to understand the context in which Power and the Sheikh were arriving at their conversations.
He could bear it no more — This book is a must-read for policymakers, journalists, community leaders, and anyone (Muslim or non-Muslim) who is interested in a clear, humanist picture of what Islam is all about. In this book Kurshan takes us on a journey through the Talmud, shedding the light into the stories. But as it is, it is compelling reading and can work as a candle in the dark for those looking to understand the scholarly secular philosohpical interpretation of the Quran in greater depth.
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