{"product_id":"days-of-deliverance-essays-on-purim-and-hanukkah-by-rabbi-joseph-b-soloveitchik","title":"Days of Deliverance - Essays on Purim and Hanukkah. By Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik","description":"Purim and Hanukkah share a rabbinic origin, a festive character, and a generally informal nature.\u003cbr\u003e In the essays collected here both holidays serve as subtext for Rabbi Soloveitchik's classic search for religious meaning in a seemingly cold and arbitrary universe.\u003cbr\u003e For him, Purim and Hanukkah stand at the nexus of faith and history, of human effort and divine intervention, of solemnity and joyous celebration.\u003cbr\u003eIn the Purim essays, the Rav offers not only commentary and textual interpretation, but, primarily, a rich blend of religious existentialism and Jewish historiosophy. \u003cbr\u003eHe transforms the verses of Megillat Esther, and the Purim story as a whole, into a text about man in general and the Jew in particular. \u003cbr\u003eEmploying classical midrash, historical analogy, a deep understanding of human nature, and a fine ear for textual nuance, \u003cbr\u003ehe breathes vivid life into the characters and events of the Megillah, and demonstrates the story's universal and contemporaneous messages.\u003cbr\u003eIn the Hanukkah essays, too, the Rav draws universal lessons from the story of the Hasmonean rebellion and victory. He applies his exegetic and homiletic skills to the account of Hanukkah in Maimonides' Code and in liturgical texts, such as Al ha-nissim and Ha-nerot hallalu. \u003cbr\u003eFor the Rav, the spiritual core of the Hanukkah story also provides the key to explaining distinctive halakhic features of the holiday. \u003cbr\u003eHe views the spiritual struggle waged by Matityahu and his sons as symbolic of the battle for Jewish self-realization carried on by generations of Jews, \u003cbr\u003efrom Jacob and Joseph in the Bible to our own day\u003cbr\u003e224 Pages","brand":"IsraelBookShop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42253423673509,"sku":"KTV-088125944-6","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/KTV-088125944-6.jpg?v=1725092222","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/days-of-deliverance-essays-on-purim-and-hanukkah-by-rabbi-joseph-b-soloveitchik","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}