The boy on the door on the ox
Subtitle: an unusual spiritual journey through the strangest Jewish texts
By: Martin Samuel Cohen.
Publisher: Aviv Press; UNKNO
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780916219406
Subjects: Mishnah. -- Tohorot (Order) -- Meditations; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Principled wondering : the boy at the edge of the cemetery; title: Productive ambiguity : the woman with a mouthful of coins; title: Playful profundity : teamsters horsing around at river's edge; title: Heroic reasoning : the earless leper; title: Spiritual audacity : the boy on the door on the ox; title: Persistent participation : the dexterous ape valet; title: Unintentional involvement : a scullery maid bent over her oven; title: Displaced contamination : a zav hanging in the balance; title: Educated guesswork : three women/(almost) infinite possibilities; title: Lingering evidence : an old man holding a huge ball of dough; title: Diffusive contagion : a naked man and his bedroom window; title: Heritable paradise : the mishnah's very last lesson.