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Ways to Self-Struggle with Classic Morals

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by Michael Alan Ross







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Can a post-denominational, American Jew elucidate both spiritual and practical ways to self-struggle with our traditional Jewish faith in God?

Michael Alan Ross uses his creative poetry, prose, and lyrics to construct modern midrashim and piyyutim, prosaic and poetic commentaries to meet such a challenge.


Mr. Ross has the chutzpah, audacity, to look anew at some of our Jewish texts and experiences.

As a modern, post-denominational, committed, American Jew, he seeks meaningful ways to struggle with our Jewish texts, rituals, good deeds, and beliefs. In his newly published, The Ten Commandments Guidebook, he offers many such ways. He also is author of BostonWalks' The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook - 6 Self-guided Jewish History Walk Tours of Downtown Boston. Here is an example of his dynamic, poetic refresher for conservative Jews, dynamic Jewishness:





dynamic Jewishness

Copyright Michael Alan Ross 2006-2007. All rights reserved.


dynamic Jewishness a coat of many colors for conservative Jews based on a freedom to choose a purposeful, celebration of life entrusted with responsibility 25 hours of savoring each week with song, psalms, study, and special food at communal torah and table based upon our covenant of holiness revealed at sinai between God and Jew and a dynamic oral tradition re-visiting rights and wrongs practices, halacha, aggada, and minhag in each generation anchored by marriage to God, to each other, and to a soulmate ordered by Shabbat, holidays, kashrut, and good deeds and a ladder of mitzvot for climbing higher surprising the intellect by singing, swaying, and steps rocking the synagogue with soaring voices appreciating solitude together studying our texts by listening, analyzing, and debating caring for our words by trying to understand them and eliciting meanings from them reflecting via ritual, rote, and creativeness upon our goodness within and its outward expression of oneness among humans and God








Midrashim and Piyyutim


Mr. Ross' prose and poetry about Jewish texts, his prosaic warm memories of family life, and his lyrical voicing of social concerns can be called by the Hebrew words piyyutim and midrashim, poems and commentaries, which offer uplifting, spiritual and, sometimes, challenging interpretations.
In addition, Mr. Ross frequently offers many suggestions for the reader to consider in struggling with such texts as well as suggestions for good deeds. Mr. Ross' The Ten Commandments Guidebook, ISBN 0970082525, is available for purchase online by clicking here Online Print-out The Ten Commandments Guidebook Order Form. The Guidebook also is for sale in selected bookstores such as Kolbo Fine Judaica and Israel Book Shop in Boston/Brookline. It also can be purchased in multiple copies for Hebrew, day school, and adult classes directly from the publisher. The Ten Commandments Guidebook, ISBN 0970082525, by Michael Alan Ross, BostonWalks Publishers 2004. In paperback, 153 pages, list price: $19.95 (Wholesale purchase of 12 or more copies available at 40% discount.). Contact information: BostonWalks Publishers, 50 Grove St., Belmont MA 02478, email: bostonwalks@hotmail.com, telephone: 617-489-5020.







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The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook

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The Ten Commandments Guidebook

Ways to Self-Struggle with Classic Morals

In Song, Poetry, and Prose

Covers 10 Commandments Plus One Other!

Softcover 153 pages with practical suggestions pages!

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