Korach

 

Freedom journeys book cover 

TO ORDER, CLICK HERE: Freedom Journeys: The Tale of Exodus and Wilderness across Millenia
  by Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Rabbi Phyllis Berman.

All those people in our headline, plus more —  Rev. Bob Edgar, head of Common Cause; Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun; Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi; Rev. Michael Kinnamon, head of the National Council of Churches;  Laleh Bakhtiar,  first woman translator of the Qur’an; and many more who have seen advance galleys of Freedom Journeys — now published in March 2011 by Jewish Lights Publishing of Woodstock VT — say it is terrific! Now you can explore for yourself these creative ideas both about how to read anew and reinterpret the ancient text, and how to apply its profound lessons in our own world crisis.

  • Below is advance praise by an amazing array of leaders in many different communities. One example: “It was the Exodus story that undergirded the civil rights movement; but as Arthur Waskow and Phyllis Berman demonstrate in this fascinating book, even Martin Luther King didn’t plumb the entire story, which we need now more than ever.”  —Bill McKibben, author, Eaarth; founder, 350.org

 We invite you to order a copy from The Shalom Center’s  Shouk Shalom

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or  — if you make a tax-deductible donation of $180 or more —

we will send you a copy personally inscribed to you by Rabbis Berman and Waskow   Read more »

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Moses. Korach.

Up there: a far-sighted leader -- or is he arrogant, a tyrant? Down here, facing him: an ambitious troublemaking rebel -- or is he a democratic visionary?

These issues arise again and again in our own lives, inside us and around us:

Facing down our own rigidity -- to shake our selves into a messy puddle, or to shape a new, more fluid dancing in the world?

Challenging a father -- to ruin him, or learn to stand alongside, joyful comrades?    Read more »

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