Arie Chark: 5 books

A poetry collection, A Love Letter To Shabbat is not well-suited for conventional use as a birkon ("song book"). A standard birkon structure presents poetic interpretations of blessing candles, blessing time and place, blessing children, blessing wine or bread, and blessing a bountiful meal. Unconventional?...

An idiomatic English interpretation of the weekday sedrot (Torah readings) for Exodus (Shmot), this English version of the Hebrew original intends to uncover the storyteller's craft of Torah transmission. A collection of stories written down, the Torah is not natively literature, for it transmits...

An idiomatic English interpretation of the weekday sedrot (Torah readings) for Dvarim (Deuteronomy), this English version of the Hebrew original intends to uncover the storyteller's craft of Torah transmission. Torah transmits in three voices: prophetic, priestly, and political. Dvarim is exclusively...

This lucid, idiomatic English interpretation of the weekday sedrot (Torah readings) for Bréshit (Genesis) uncovers the storyteller's craft of Torah transmission. This edition intends to instruct those who acquire Torah as drama rather than as Scripture: it does not include commentary, other...

Leonard Cohen's strong spirituality was probably spiritually Jewish rather than Jewishly spiritual. Is that a useful comparison? I'm not certain, but I don't think so. Spirit is also wind in Hebrew, and the wind blows when and where it must to do what it must. Six Leonard Cohen songs...