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You are invited to spend a year with the inspirational words,
ideas, and counsel of the great twentieth-century thinker Rabbi
Mordecai Kaplan, through his meditations on the fifty-four weekly
Torah portions and eleven Jewish holidays. A pioneer of ideas and
action-teaching that "Judaism is a civilization" encompassing
Jewish culture, art, and peoplehood; demonstrating how synagogues
can be full centers for Jewish living (building one of the first
"shuls with a pool"); and creating the first-ever bat mitzvah
ceremony (for his daughter Judith)-Kaplan transformed the landscape
of American Jewry. Yet much of Kaplan's rich treasury of ethical
and spiritual thought is largely unknown. Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben,
who studied closely with Kaplan, offers unique insight into
Kaplan's teachings about ethical relationships and spiritual
fulfillment, including how to embrace godliness in everyday
experience, our mandate to become agents of justice in the world,
and the human ability to evolve personally and collectively.
Quoting from the week's Torah portion, Reuben presents Torah
commentary, a related quotation from Kaplan, a reflective
commentary integrating Kaplan's understanding of the Torah text,
and an intimate story about his family or community's struggles and
triumphs-guiding twenty-first-century spiritual seekers of all
backgrounds on how to live reflectively and purposefully every day.
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Public Space (Paperback, New)
Stephen Carr, Mark Francis, Leanne G. Rivlin, Andrew M. Stone
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R1,867
Discovery Miles 18 670
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This book reveals the social basis for public space use, design and
management. The authors - an architect/environmental designer, a
landscape architect, an environmental psychologist, and an open
space administrator - offer a well-integrated perspective of how to
integrate public space and public life. They contend that three
critical human dimensions should guide the process of design and
management of public space: the users' essential needs, their
spatial rights, and the meanings they seek. To develop and explain
these three dimensions, the authors draw on the history of public
life and public space, evidence from recent social research, and a
series of original case studies, all amply illustrated. Public
Space offers an innovative approach for adapting the dimensions to
the unique social and environmental context of each project.
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