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*The* Ten Commandments



Should orthodox women have the same opportunities to participate in learning, davening, and minhagim as men?


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Sheaylot



by Michael Alan Ross







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Michael A. Ross, a post-denominational, American Jew, and author of the newly published, The Ten Commandments Guidebook elucidates both spiritual, practical, and fun ways to self-struggle with our Ten Commandments. Mr. Ross uses his creative poetry, prose, and lyrics to construct modern midrashim and piyyutim, prosaic and poetic commentaries. Rabbi Ellen Pildis, a post-denominational rabbi, offers praise of his text on the book's back cover. In re-Visiting The Ten Commandments , Mr. Ross finds meaningful and unusual ways to sing about, to wax poetic, to constructively criticize, and to praise in light of our Commandments. Mr. Ross also is author of BostonWalks' The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook - 6 Self-guided Jewish History Walk Tours of Downtown Boston. His writings are drawn from a lifetime of Jewish American experiences. Here is an example of his original, creative, poetic questioning,Sheaylot:








Sheaylot

Copyright Michael Alan Ross 2007-2018. All rights reserved.


  • When a man or a woman grows into a marriage with God;
    how does that commitment affect the responsibilities and privileges of each?


  • If honoring each other is holy, if learning to honor is holy, if practicing respect is holy;
    how does limiting by gender the responsibility and privilege to honor, attain, and practice advance holiness?


  • If words create an existence, if words produce meaning and fullness, if words confirm relationships;
    is it possible that Torah would not want full and equal participation of women and men in the Jewish story, in the rabbinic understandings, and in tefilla and minhagim?


  • If Hashem intended that men and women have distinct and separate responsibilities and privileges;
    wouldn’t God have been wise enough to have placed men and women on different planets?


  • Does God really give men alone the responsibility and privilege of transmitting our story, our interpretations, and our celebrations?
    Does God simply relegate to women a different role?


  • Are the neshamas of men, women, and God intrinsically different?


  • Have we confused the separate biological responsibilities and privileges of insemination and carrying/feeding of birth
    with the souls of those who inseminate and carry/feed?


  • Is not each of us within the image of God?


  • Can we overcome our egotistical commitment to frozen writings and re-imagine and re-interpret our texts?
    Have we not done such dynamic interpretation before?


  • Can we breathe more life into our marriage among ourselves and God?










Midrashim and Piyyutim!


Mr. Ross' poetry about the Ten Commandments, 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, simply appreciative or challenging interpretations. In addition, Mr. Ross offers many suggestions for the reader to consider in struggling with the Ten Commandments, making this Guidebook a fine teaching tool, usable not only for its inspirational reading but also for its suggestions of good deeds.
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