Working With Torah A Guide To Employment

Working with Torah - a Guide to Employment

"Working With Torah" was written for people possessing two characteristics: the desire to excel in all aspects of their Torah lives and the need to earn a living. Both these goals lie within reach since, through the Talmud and its commentators, the Torah has provided us with all the guidelines, wisdom and advice necessary to bring success closer."Working With Torah" tries to gather and present this wealth of knowledge and to apply it to today's complex and perilous employment environment.

Working with Torah

The Book of Job in Jewish Life and Thought

Despite its general absence from the Jewish liturgical cycle and its limited place in Jewish practice, the Book of Job has permeated Jewish culture over the last 2,000 years. Job has not only had to endure the suffering described in the biblical book, but the efforts of countless commentators, interpreters, and creative rewriters whose explanations more often than not challenged the protagonist's righteousness in order to preserve Divine justice. Beginning with five critical essays on the specific efforts of ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish writers to make sense of the biblical book, this volume concludes with a detailed survey of the place of Job in the Talmud and Midrashic corpus, in medieval biblical commentary, in ethical, mystical, and philosophical tracts, as well as in poetry and creative writing in a wide variety of Jewish languages from around the world from the second to sixteenth centuries.