Shabbat - Why? The Biblical Origin Of The Sabbath Laws

Name: Shabbat - Why? The Biblical Origin Of The Sabbath Laws
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ISBN: 9781936778799

ISBN-10: 1936778793

ISBN-13: 9781936778799

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alan Smith

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"Shabbat - Why?" is a book for the general reader rather than for the scholar. The Biblical injunction concerning the Sabbath is generally taken as a cryptic reference, itself without meaning, to a series of unconnected laws supplied only by oral tradition. The author, Alan Smith, disagrees. He shows that understanding the words of the Biblical text correctly, and not as generally taught, enables most of the laws in the Talmud attributed to the Torah to be deduced from the text itself. As a result, the entire concept of the Sabbath as taught needs to be revised. The laws then cease to be unconnected, illogical and unacceptable to the 'man in the street'. Other matters connected with the…

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List price: $12.00
Publisher: Mazo Publishers
Pages: 132
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.38" tall