from Temple University, in 1974 she was the first woman ordained from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Sasso, as spiritual leader of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck. From 1977-2013 she served, along with her husband Rabbi Dennis C. Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso is the director of the Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts Initiative at IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute. In this engaging book, Rabbi Sasso explores how midrash originated, how it is still used today, and offers new translations and interpretations of more than twenty essential midrash texts. They felt free to read back into old stories what happened in future eras, and to see in the early stories of Genesis a foreshadowing of future events." They deemed it their reponsibility to discover connections and harmony where on the surface none appeared to exist. "The rabbis believed that nothing in the Bible, not the choice of words or their spellings, not the order of events or the relationship of one text to another, was haphazard or inconsequential. This understanding of how the Bible mystically relates to all of life is the fertile ground from which midrash emerged. The meaning of a text was more complicated than simply reading it. The Rabbis of old believed that the Torah was divinely revealed and therefore contained eternal, perfect truths and hidden meaning that required elucidation.
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