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Informationen zum Autor Danny Siegel is a well-known author, lecturer, and poet and has served as the Tzedakah resource person on the United Synagogue Youth Israel Pilgrimage for more than four decades. He is the author of nearly thirty books, including Where Heaven and Earth Touch: An Anthology of Midrash and Halachah. Klappentext This first anthology of the most important writings by Danny Siegel, spanning and modernizing fifty years of his insights intersperses soulful Jewish texts with innovative Mitzvah ideas to rouse individuals and communities to transform our lives, communities, and world. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Rebbi's Proverb Foreword: Teaching Goodness by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin Acknowledgements Introduction: Seeking Out Places Where Light is Hidden by Rabbi Neal Gold About This Book How to Get the Most Out of This Book Using This Book in Your Personal and Organizational Life Notes on Language and Utility Part I: Prose1. Mitzvahs and How to Implement Them The Dress (1981) Gym Shoes and Irises (1982) Proposed Course Titles (1987) Why People Who Are Blind Should Own Their Own Cars or: How to Think Mitzvahs (1995) Holy Balloons (1997) Songs of Love (1997) Three Prongs (2000) Occupation: Mitzvahs (2000) David Copperfield (2000) The Starfish (2000) The Butterfly (2000) Wow à Duh! (2000) The Pedestal (2000) Whatever I Want for Myself, I Want for Other People (2000) 24 Questions Parents May Wish to Ask Themselves (2004) 100 Possible Reasons Why You May Have Decided to Do More Tikkun Olam—in No Particular Order of Importance (2006) A First Exercise: The Relationship Between Doing Tikkun Olam Jewishly and Your “Jewishness” (2006) The Four Questions (2006) The Good Stuff and the Crud (2006) Jewish Optimism—From Radical to Mainstream (2019) 2. Interpretations of Jewish Texts The Angels (1980) Commentary on Bava Batra 8a (1989) Life (1995) Life is the Good People (1995)Jewish Jewish Leadership (1995) DNA Analysts: Parashat Shemot (1996)Va-yishlah: Our Ancestor Jacob, the One with the Bad Hip, and Other Tales (1999) Teaching Jewish Texts Today (2019) 3. Portraits of Mitzvah Heroes The Giants of Jerusalem (1981) Trevor Ferrell (1988) Yossi Samuels and Shoshana Weinstock (1997) The Rabbanit Bracha Kapach (1988) Samantha Abeel: The Kid Who Got It All Wrong in Class (1998) Mitzvah Heroes are Everywhere—We Just Have to Know How to Look (2019) 4. Living a Life of Menschlichkeit My Father’s Personal Passover Ritual (1978) A Tribute to My Friends in the Rabbinate (1981) A Story I Once Heard from a Medical Student (1981) The Lamed Vavniks (1988) The College Interview (1988) Li’at in the Park (1988) Klal Yisrael—All Jews (1989) Tzedakah and Tzedek (2019) 5. How and Why to Give Tzedakah Money Away The First Tzedakah Report (1975) Theology and Tzedakah: Two Points (1982) The Second Rule of Tzedakah: There’s No Such Thing as a Small Mitzvah (1982) Does Tzedakah Money Really Belong to You? (2006) What Does It Mean “to Do Tzedakah Jewishly”? (2006) Should You Always Do Your Tzedakah Giving Anonymously? (2006) Will You Find “The Meaning of Life” by Doing Tzedakah? (2006) How Do You Evaluate Financial Information from a Tzedakah Program So You Can Decide to Whom to Give or Not to Give? (2006) From the Ziv Tzedakah Fund Final Report (2008) A Smaller World (2019) Part II: Poetry6. From Soulstoned (1969) Father Abraham–Genesis Chapter 22 Slightly Changed 7. From And God Braided Eve’s Hair (1976) The Crippler A Recent Immigrant Comes from the Soviet Union to His Family in the U.S. Selig and the Judge Personal Preference Hebrew Psalm 55 Mashiachtzeit or Davidson from Egged Knife, Birds 8. From Between Dust and Dance (1978) A Blessing Frumka 9. From Nine Entered Paradise Alive (1980) Surveying the Jewish Multitudes Erev Shabbas Blessing the Children The Tree and the Mashiach 10. From Unlocked Doors (1983) Children’s Games Rav Sheshet and...
