Echoes of Eden: Sefer Shmot, subtitled Salvation and Sanctity, is the second volume in Rabbi Ari D. Kahn's series of essays on the weekly Torah portion, part of the Me'orei Ha'Aish (Fire and Flame) series, published by Gefen Publishing House together with OU Press.
Moving through the Book of Exodus portion by portion, Rabbi Kahn asks questions such as how the suffering of the Jewish people prepared them for their destiny, and what made it possible for them to receive the Torah. He brings together Kabbalah and Hasidic thought with psychology, literature and Jewish history to shed fresh light on difficult passages.
Rabbi Kahn received rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University, where he studied with Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and directs the Foreign Student Programs at Bar-Ilan University. This hardcover suits anyone preparing a weekly parsha talk or looking for thoughtful Shabbat reading.
Rabbi Ari Kahn received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, where he studied with Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik. He graduated Yeshiva University with a BA in psychology and an MS degree in Talmud. He is the director of Foreign Student Programs at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and is a senior educator at the Aish HaTorah College for Jewish Studies and Matan. Rabbi Kahn is also vice president of Migdal Ohr Institutions in Israel, He has authored over two hundred articles on the weekly parshah and holidays, with a readership in excess of ten thousand. He is also the author of Explorations, an in-depth analysis of the weekly Torah reading, and Emanations, an in-depth analysis of the Jewish holidays. Rabbi Kahn is also a renowned speaker and has lectured worldwide. He has lived in Israel since 1984 with his wife Naomi and five children.
“One of the most exciting exegetical works I have read in years is Rabbi Ari D. Kahn’s Echoes of Eden on Sefer Shemot: Salvation and Sanctity…. Kahn adds a clever rhetorical flourish to the text that is truly ingenious…. If you are interested in studying some stimulating ideas that are full of originality and controversy, Ari Kahn’s Echoes of Eden on Sefer Shemot: Salvation and Sanctity—Insights Into the Weekly Torah Portion is an excellent read.”
-Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel, San Diego Jewish World
