Rabbi Sasso, senior rabbi emerita of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis, has worked avidly to show both Jews and interfaith audiences, the value of midrash. They read the biblical stories and conversed with them and brought their own personal and historical situation into dialogue with the text.” “That’s what the rabbis did when they created midrash. “The biblical stories are meant to continue to speak to us and we are meant to have a conversation with them,” she told Jewish Woman in a phone interview. “The Bible can be a window into our own lives,” says Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. The Bible is one of the world’s bestselling books, with so many million copies purchased or distributed it’s impossible to even guess at the tally.īut whether people read or understand the Bible, is a completely different matter.
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