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Timeless Patterns in Time:
Chassidic Insights into the Cycle of the Jewish Year
Volume II
Touger, Eliyahu
190 pgs.
ISBN 0-8266-0532-x
$18.00
Although all the Jewish holidays commemorate events in our national history, they are far more than mere recollections of our past.
Every holiday provides us with the opportunity to relive, as well as to remember, past events.
Every year, the same spiritual forces which brought about the event commemorated by a holiday are expressed again at those times.
This the fifteenth of Nissan, the date of our exodus from Egypt, is eternally fixed as "the season of our freedom," and the Tenth of Tishrei, the day on which G-d forgave the sin of the Golden Calf, is established for all time as "the Day of Atonement".
The essays in these volumes are adaptations of the works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, which focus on the respective spiritual messages of the holidays.
They endeavor to show how the historic symbolism associated with these days produces eternally relevant lessons that are applicable in our current divine service, infusing energy and vitality into our observance of the festivals.
Table of Contents
Publishers Foreword
The Fast Of Esther
Purim
The Oneness of the Jewish People
Amalek: The Perpetual Enemy of the Jewish People
Unfettered by Intellect
The Challenge of Exile
Pesach
The Exodus: An Experience of the Present as well as the Past
The Education of Jewish Children: Then and Now
How Exile Leads to Redemption
The Significance of Matzah
The Seventh Day of Pesach: The Splitting of the Sea
The Eighth Day of Pesach: The Feast of Mashiach
Sefiras HaOmer
Sefiras HaOmer: Counting More Than Days
Pesach Sheni
Pesach Sheni: A Second Chance for Spiritual Progress
Lag BaOmer
Growing Together on Lag BaOmer: The Legacy of Rabbi Akiva
A Bond of Oneness: The Legacy of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
Shavuos
What Happened at Sinai?
From Sinai to Mashiach
Our Response to the Giving of the Torah
The Revelation at Mt. Sinai: An Experience of the Present as Well as the
Past
Yud-Beis Tammuz
The Power of Resolution
A Redemption of All-Encompassing Scope
Repairing the Breaches
The Three Weeks
Revealing Hidden Love: Making the Beis HaMikdash A Reality
From Exile To Redemption
Elul
A Time to Take Stock: Living in the Spirit of Redemption
The King in the Field
Chai Elul
Chai Elul: Breathing New Life Into Our Divine Service
Glossary and Biographical Index