Ebook223 pages3 hours
From the Heart of Israel: Jewish Tales and Types
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
"Is Saul also among the prophets?" With my mental ear I hear thus exclaim those in whose view the teller of tales stands immeasurably higher than the rabbi, minister, preacher, scholar, or whatever else may be called he whose vocation it is to disseminate Hebrew religion and wisdom, when they see that one of the latter class has dared to intrude among those who take fiction as their exclusive and legitimate field, and has also ventured before the public with a book of tales. "What would the priest in the house of graves (cemetery)?" I hear, on the other hand, indignantly ask those who deem the wisdom of the Torah alone worthy of attention, and who think it degradation and sin to turn away even for a moment from the study and the teaching of Holy Writ and the words of the sages to waste time with the telling of empty tales. Both agree in their application to the present case of the Latin and English proverb " Ne sutor ultra crepidam "("Let the shoemaker stick to his last"); and that they are not right is not for the one who is responsible for the present effort to say, but must be left to the decision of an impartial public, which will not fail to tell truthfully whether it has found aught of pleasure or profit in the stories of Jewish life hereinafter contained. But it may be permitted to the writer to say that, in his humble opinion, both of the criticisms quoted above are based on erroneous conceptions. The telling of tales is neither independent of nor contradictory to the Torah; that is to say, it may be a most excellent method of inculcating pure and noble lessons, and has always been used for such purpose by the great teachers in Israel.
Related to From the Heart of Israel
Related ebooks
From the Heart of Israel: Jewish Tales and Types Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWinds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Jews of Barnow: Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHellenism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Legend of the Baal-Shem Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Children of the Ghetto (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Study of a Peculiar People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Magic and Witchcraft Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Land Is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Jew in English Fiction (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Soul of an Indian:: An Interpetation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Jews of Barnow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Forgotten Ally Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Children of the Ghetto Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Judith Trachtenberg: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wonderful Story of Ravalette Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsZionism and Anti-Semitism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Top 10 Short Stories - The Germans Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistory of the Indians of North and South America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pitaval Casebook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen in Doubt...Blame a Jew!: A Personal and People's Memoir of Anti-Semitism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Bondage and My Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I – Life as a Slave; Part II – Life as a Freeman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Soul of the Indian Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jewish Life in Medieval Spain: A New History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStudies in Judaism, First Series Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJews and Christians Together: An Invitation to Mutual Respect Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Female, the Tree, and Creation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWinds of Doctrine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDaniel Deronda Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Religious Fiction For You
Women Talking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stranger in the Lifeboat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Temptation of Christ Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifth Mountain: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower: And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Recital of the Dark Verses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Robe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shardik Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Power and the Glory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman Is No Man: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gospel According to the New World Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Heart of the Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Distant Shore: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disobedience: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Butcher's Daughter: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gods and Kings (Chronicles of the Kings Book #1): A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The All of It: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell Is a World Without You Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Temple Folk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Lineage of Grace Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eve: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Hidden School: Return of the Peaceful Warrior Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: The Sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for From the Heart of Israel
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
From the Heart of Israel - Bernard Drachman
2I3^ book_preview_excerpt.html |ˎH寰j xӫQ"!eՒPг3N iF2<]v/hw/s5#=$e@"I{\s7)P͝^{*)9/z?Unl#~OQQ_~7wnܾ?}Ї7?ys<Ç777]}{{kϾyg|qfWCup+c7oMun~ws/w?Ton_~mXի~yG^y{^C./Dok}^]բ_^žzswo>jw}ͻWo(7~x:Giji-u:ƇUPΟȅҷpf2iKq:4~[;|;iH3 DŽ
э3Mm7-7I}a=xib)۪Յz,WO8oXAվX4/YoB3XDŽ˷X
T2/sr/=99(_&ܢy?sHY8Yw<`l\'qӪHomf<X}aIˌ=.\$`V
Oꍟm]-A yZ:yn6Vc+,<_(NhcP~ly&wU2W)~? %#1G ` BA}opx{`Ab-\?F>OtaU }C}@L9['vw3}Դ-9AyWڳIseE a~^"suc540KGS3,`[k h pb:ضҒp|%7Ftal
5)ej_f:/
9a@QoG7Dfh.UNúY_lꊒTG⬃F{`u5𬺕X/@ f=mQ! ~jc'|{#X|xU#Ln**Go
ƐrT'~>j:J X,eJu-LT6-ţ'fwG>DڠsvxOT{*<