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    commentary

    Essay—From the Journal

    Com­ments on Commentary

    Jew­ish learn­ing is not about cre­at­ing some­thing new, but rather about find­ing some­thing new. 

    David Wolpe
    December 22, 2017
    Essay

    Lessons from Bereshit for Con­tem­po­rary Novelists

    Jacob Bacharach
    March 16, 2017
    Essay

    How to Tell Good Chris­t­ian Ladies the Bible Is Weird

    Jacob Bacharach
    March 13, 2017
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    The Zohar: Recep­tion and Impact
    Boaz Huss
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    The JPS Bible Com­men­tary: Song of Songs
    Michael Fishbane
    Cover of Sage Advice: Pirkei Avot, with Translation and Commentary
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    Sage Advice: Pirkei Avot, with Trans­la­tion and Commentary
    Irv­ing Greenberg
    Cover of Shma Koleinu: A Jewish People's Commentary on the Siddur
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    Shma Koleinu: A Jew­ish Peo­ple’s Com­men­tary on the Siddur
    Rab­bi Steven Schwarzman
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    The Aura of Torah: A Kab­bal­is­tic-Hasidic Com­men­tary to the Week­ly Readings
    Rabbi Larry Tabick
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    Chil­dren’s
    Every Pic­ture Tells a Sto­ry: Illus­trat­ed Torah Vers­es and Com­men­tary for Every Age, Vol­ume One: Bereishis
    Chaim Natan Firszt
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    Chil­dren’s
    Every Pic­ture Tells a Sto­ry: Illus­trat­ed Torah Vers­es and Com­men­tary for Every Age — Book Two: Shmos
    Chaim Natan Firszt
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    Jew­ish Text
    A New Psalm: The Psalms as Literature
    Benjamin J. Segal
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    The Medieval Hag­gadah Anthol­o­gy with the Com­men­tary of Rab­bi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
    David Holzer
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    A Jew­ish Pro­fes­sor’s Polit­i­cal Pun­dit­ry: Fifty-plus Years of Pub­lished Com­men­tary by Ron Rubin
    Peri Devaney, ed.
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    Derashot Ledorot: Gen­e­sis, A Com­men­tary for the Ages
    Norman Lamm; Stuart Halpern, ed.; Meir Soloveichik, fwd.
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    Paths of Torah: An Anthol­o­gy of Torah Commentary
    Members of Congregation Netivot Shalom
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    Text Mes­sages: A Torah Com­men­tary For Teens
    Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, ed.
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