The Three Festivals: Sfas Emes

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The Three Festivals: Sfas Emes

Ideas and insights of the Sfas Emes on Pesach, Shavuos, and Succos.

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THFH
Format

Hardcover

Holiday
Language

English

Product Type
Dimensions

6" x 9"

Pages

349

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The Three Festivals — Pesach, Shavuos and Succos — are “Moadim,”
they are the Divinely ordained encounters between the Creator and His
people. And in the process of encountering his Maker, a Jew encounters
himself. How much has he grown? Is he moving in the right direction? How
can he improve?

For four generations, Sfas Emes has been
described as “a mirror of the soul.” The work contains the Sabbath and
Festival discourses of Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Alter of Gur, over a period
of more than thirty years. Profound, scintillating, and pithy, it is
incredibly rich in ideas. Great scholars marvel at it, saying that every
time they review passages, even those they have seen many times before,
they glean new insights. It has been aptly said that what one sees in
the Sfas Emes is a measure of one’s own spiritual station.

But…the world of the Sfas Emes
has been closed to the vast majority of those who knock at its doors –
because of a language barrier and the need for a road map through its
complex and inspiring themes.

Into this breach steps Rabbi Yosef Stern. His attempt to capture the essence of Sfas Emes’
thought on the Three Festivals is an act of great courage – and a
remarkable success. An exceptional Torah scholar and student of Sfas Emes,
Rabbi Stern has isolated the primary trails of thought in many hundreds
of discourses and ties them together, topic by topic, in essays that
are a joy to read, stimulating as well as informative. While the
conceptualizations are his own, Rabbi Stern’s work has received the
blessings of the Gerrer Rebbe zt”l noteworthy indication of the esteem
in which the author is held.

This work gives us a mirror by which
to encounter ourselves. But it is more. It is an entry pass to the
portals of some of the loftiest and most enlightening thought of the
last century.

Spend the Moadim with Sfas Emes — it will take you from where you are to where you want to be.