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Nahar Deah
Nahar Deah ("the river of knowledge"), the weekly Torah portion
sheets of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, will try each week to present
different aspects of the profusion of ideas that has grown up, around
the Book of Books, in Jewish culture, and in the surrounding societies,
which came into contact with it. To do this we will follow the parashat
hashavua, the weekly Torah portion read in synagogue, and the haphtarah,
a portion of the books of the prophets, which accompanies the Torah reading,
and we will point out some of the many traditions connected to them. The
focus of the discussion will always be a topic in the parashat hashavua,
which will be elaborated upon from many varied viewpoints. In this way
we will open new vistas to look out on this central work, which forms
the basis of the culture of the Jewish people.
We hope that Nahar Deah, the flow of knowledge from our literature,
will quench the thirst of those who seek knowledge and wisdom and will
serve to water the roots of the "tree of knowledge", the fruits of which
generations have, do and will taste.
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