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by: Milton Steinberg  List Price: $16.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.53 You Save: $5.42 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780874411034 ISBN: 0874411033 Label: Behrman House Publishing Manufacturer: Behrman House Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: 1996-03 Publisher: Behrman House Publishing Studio: Behrman House Publishing Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Takes you back to the time of the rabbisI literally could not put this book down - it effectively transported me back to Judea and Antioch in the time of the talmudic rabbis, after the destruction of the temple by the Romans. The author embellishes the story of the apostate Elisha ben Abuye in order to discuss the nature of faith, and contrast Greco-Roman culture with Judaism. Rating: - Don't Question Hashem!Because if you do, you're entire life will be messed up and you'll die miserable and alone. Rating: - Fantastic! If you are living in the modern world, this book is for you.After finishing the book, I went to check some reviews only to find so many of them to be absurd and laughable. Some people expect this book to be 100% historically accurate when Steinberg notes that the book is purposefully inaccurate in some places. Reviewers criticize Steinberg for not fully answering the "question." This is obviously a ridiculous criticism because if the book teaches us but one thing, we learn that truth, due to its ephemeral nature, must be a constant revelation renewed every ... Read More Rating: - Tradition and ReasonAs A Driven Leaf is loosely based on tale that appears in several places in classical rabbinic literature. In the classical texts, there are four people that enter paradise, only one of which enters returns in tact. This book is Rabbi Steinberg's version. In it, the main protagonist is confronted between by the tensions between the dogmatic claims of his religious tradition, his own rigorous logic, and his witnessing of tragedies that seem to be at odds with the just, all-powerful God ... Read More Rating: - How, then, do we choose our point of faith?This book makes a fascinating case study for what Jean Gebser described in "The Ever-Present Origin" as the disruption of the mythic circle by directed thought. And just as Gebser emphasizes that the mental consciousness structure cannot replace the mythical, but only layer upon it, Elisha never solves the problem of embracing one and rejecting the other. The protagonist's final conclusion surprised and delighted me (tragic as the ending was) but raises one huge burning question, even bigger than the ... Read More 
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