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A River Flowed from Eden is the perfect addition to your Shabbat table. Rabbi Ari Kahn has collected 54 of his thought-provoking short essays, one for each of the weekly Torah portions, in a volume that is sure to spark interest and meaningful discussion. Rabbi Kahn's newest volume raises existential and philosophical issues and culls contemporary messages from the sacred, timeless text of the Torah while retaining fidelity to rabbinic tradition. In the words of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, Rabbi Kahn’s writings are “rooted in text and rooted in values.” Written in accessible, engaging language, each essay examines a single idea from the weekly Torah reading. Grappling with the challenges presented by the text, the trials and tribulations of Judaism's founding mothers and fathers, and the philosophical underpinnings of observance, Rabbi Kahn illuminates the remarkably contemporary issues of morality and faith, society and sanctity contained in each Torah portion.
- Sales Rank: #1883529 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .53" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 210 pages
About the Author
Rabbi Ari Kahn received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary where he studied with Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik. He graduated Yeshiva University with a BA in psychology and an MS degree in Talmud. He is Director of Foreign Student Programs at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he also is a senior lecturer in Jewish studies. He is the author of Echoes of Eden, Explorations, and Emanations. Rabbi Kahn lives in Givat Ze’ev, Israel, with his wife Naomi and five children.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A deep and flowing river
By Marc Sommer
I must admit, that I am not a fan of “vortlach” and thus, many divrei Torah heard around the Shabbos table tend to not work for me. While I understand that a devar Torah said over before bentching is not the place for a long and complicated idea, I still believe that Torah should never be presented in a way that is cute or “shtick-y”. It was precisely for that reason that I was excited to see Rabbi Ari Kahn’s latest book A River Flowed From Eden: Torah for the Shabbos Table. Having been a big fan of Rabbi Kahn’s Torah for many years, I hoped that he could combine his usual erudition and depth, with the brevity that is required for a devar Torah that is said around the Shabbos table. Thankfully, my hopes were realized.
I first encountered Rabbi Kahn nearly 20 years ago. I was learning in the kollel at Aish HaTorah, where Rabbi Kahn taught a beginners class at the time. Occasionally, when I would get a little “gemara-ed out”, I’d go up to Rabbi Kahn’s classroom and listen as he explained a piece of aggadeta to students who had been in the yeshiva for a very short time. I was incredibly impressed with Rabbi Kahn’s ability to translate and explain a fascinating story from the gemara, and make it understandable to newcomers to the world of Torah, while, at the same time, explaining the story in a novel, creative and intellectual manner. While I have subsequently read and heard many of Rabbi Kahn’s shiurim, it was these classes that I thought back to, as I read his newest book. Once again, Rabbi Kahn manages to combine his own creativity (his devar Torah on Noach is one of the places where he is brilliant and original), and the ideas that he learned from his own revered teachers, Rav Yosef Soloveitchik, Rav Yitzchak Hutner, and Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, zichronam liveracha, and present them in a way that is accessible even for those who do not have the same background.
To cite one example from parashat Shelach, this week’s parsha, Rav Kahn notes that when Moshe delivers instructions to the meraglim at the beginning of the parsha, his words indicate that, in fact, Moshe knows that the land is good. This can be seen from the fact that he instructs them to bring back fruit after asking if the land has fruit trees. If he were unsure of what they would find, Moshe would not have been able to say that. Quoting his rebbe Rav Soloveitchik, Rav Kahn suggests that the meraglim misunderstood their mission. Through the use of an analogy, Rav Kahn explains the sin of the meraglim as being that they saw themselves as spies, whose job was to to ascertain whether the land of Israel was good.. In the space of a few pages, Rav Kahn manages to combine depth, scholarship and creativity, while sharing Torah that will be enjoyed by everyone sitting at the Shabbos table.
Alec Goldstein, of Kodesh Press has done a wonderful job of publishing English Jewish books that are both thoughtful, readable, and attractive. It is my hope and wish that he will continue to have success doing so and that books like “A River Flows from Eden” will find the large audience that it deserves.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Insightful, clever, and informative
By Israel Drazin
Rabbi Kahn’s second book is a series of “topical short essays on the weekly Torah potion” together with one about Yom HaShoah, the Memorial Day for the Holocaust, and one on Rosh Hashanah, New Year. Many sermonettes are sharp and insightful, others sparklingly clever, still others very informative.
Writing on the first Bible portion, for example, he notes that God placed humans in the Garden of Eden to “work and guard it.” These are opposites. Work is an active forward moving act, while guarding is passive, standing still, containment. Kahn tells us that this is how life should be. He reminds us of a saying of his teacher J. B. Soloveitchik who called this “an unresolved Hegelian dialectic, in which thesis and antithesis can – and indeed must – coexist without melting into a synthesis.
It is hard for most people to live a life of opposites, but this is how people should live. A good example, Kahn points out, is how we treat the earth. Some people take one side of the argument and some the other. We work hard to subdue and harness nature for our needs and this is good, but fails to protect nature and this is bad. “We leave behind scorched earth and slain golden geese.” We need to recommit to the Bible’s founding principle: to do both, despite they being opposites: to work and protect.
This is but one example. Life is filled with opposites and we need to accept the Soloveitchik philosophy and learn to adopt them both. This lesson is a river that flowed from Eden, which can enrich our lives.
Looking at Genesis’ final portion, he observes that Joseph’s brothers did not trust Joseph and feared that he would take revenge upon them as soon as their father died for selling him into slavery. In fact, the entire book of Genesis “may be seen, not unjustifiably, as the story of sibling rivalry and family discord.” This leads the rabbi into talking about the value of family and how we must – even as Joseph did when his father died – forgive family members for past misdeeds, even acts as heinous and seemingly unforgivable as what Joseph’s brothers did to him. There is no other way to achieve peace on earth.
In his discussion on the portion Mishpatim, he addresses the issue of “minutia.” Many people find the frequent details of biblical commands off-putting. Why not have a Bible composed of lofty statements such as the Ten Commandments, why all the painful legal detail? Kahn reminds readers that details are important in religion as they are in a loving marriage that is successful when it is filled with details of everyday kindness, care, and consideration. A good lasting relationship is built on “small gifts of flowers or chocolate, a cup of coffee, a smile, any small but meaningful gesture.” This is what is cherished. So too with Judaism, the “legal minutiae are magically transformed into acts and expressions of love, reciprocal gestures that help build a relationship that is spiritual and ethereal, uplifting and inspiring.”
The Bible and Talmud commentator Rashi, Rabbi Kahn notes in his final essay, explains Deuteronomy 34:10-12. The Bible states that Moses is distinguished from all other prophets for what he did “before the eyes of all Israel.” Rashi explains that this refers to Moses breaking the tablets of stone on which the Ten Commandments were written. Why, asks, Kahn, is this so significant? Why is the shattering of the law more important than giving the law?
As in his first essay, Rabbi Kahn offers a keen insight into human psychology. The Bible is teaching that humans are imperfect; they make mistakes. So did Moses. He “ascended Mount Sinai and achieved the highest spiritual level of any human being in history, but he is to be remembered for his response to the failure of his people. He smashed the Tablets, and started again. He worked his way back up the mountain, literally and figuratively, from ground zero. Rather than eradicating the evidence of failure, the shattered Tablets were housed and guarded in the same Holy Ark as the second set that Moshe brought down to the people.” Moses is to be “remembered for all time as the prophet who smashed the Tablets of the Covenant - but did not despair. He started again, undiscouraged, and led the people to a new beginning.” So, too, we should understand that our successes are an outgrowth of our prior failures.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Insightful and thought provoking.
By Ira and Miriam
Rabbi Ari Kahn has once again published insightful and thought provoking essays on the weekly Torah portions. It is a joy to read each week at our Sabbath table.
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