Walking and Resting With God After the Seven Days of Creation: Sustaining the Order of the World with Jewish Ritual Practices
Stuart Mangel
This course provides a look at how the rituals of Shabbat and Kashrut are based on the creation story of Genesis 1. We will discuss how this creation story was transformed from earlier pre-Biblical creation stories and came to represent a new understanding of God, the world, and the relationship between God and humanity. We will also explore how the covenantal relationship between God and the Jewish people and Jewish ritual practices such as Shabbat and Kashrut evoke and sustain the order of the world that God created, as described in Genesis 1.
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- History and Culture
- Intermediate Text
- Morning Course
Stuart Mangel is a professor at The Ohio State University, where he teaches and does brain research. He is a veteran of many NHC Summer Institutes and has previously taught at the Institute.
