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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Dennis Prager has put together one of the most stunning commentaries in modern times on the most profound document in human history. It's a must-read that every person, religious and non-religious, should buy and peruse every night before bed. It'll make you think harder, pray more ardently, and understand your civilization better." — Ben Shapiro, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" "Dennis Prager's commentary on Exodus will rank among the greatest modern Torah commentaries. That is how important I think it is. And I am clearly not alone... It might well be on its way to becoming the most widely read Torah commentary of our time—and by non-Jews as well as by Jews." — Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, bestselling author of Jewish Literacy Why do so many people think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated? Why do our friends and neighbors – and sometimes we ourselves – dismiss the Bible as irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible, will demonstrate that the Bible is not only powerfully relevant to today's issues, but completely consistent with rational thought. Do you think the Bible permitted the trans-Atlantic slave trade? You won't after reading this book. Do you struggle to love your parents? If you do, you need this book. Do you doubt the existence of God because belief in God is "irrational?" This book will give you reason after reason to rethink your doubts. The title of this commentary is, "The Rational Bible" because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. As Prager says, "If something I write does not make rational sense, I have not done my job." The Rational Bible is the fruit of Dennis Prager's forty years of teaching the Bible to people of every faith, and no faith. On virtually every page, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world and to your life. His goal: to change your mind – and then change your life.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length14 hrs 54 mins
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Publish dateApr 2, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Why This Commentary?
2Who Is This Torah Commentary For?
3To Jewish Readers
4To Christian Readers
5To Non-Religious Readers
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6The Torah Is Not Man-Made
7Man-Made or God-Made: Why It Matters
8How Was the Torah Transmitted?
9Reason, Torah, and God
10Why Read This Commentary?
11Did the Exodus Happen?
12A Few Details
13Why Exodus Is Volume 1
14BC or BCE?
15God as “He”
16On How to Read This Commentary
17The Use of Post-Biblical Jewish Sources
18Preface
19The Story Thus Far
20Chapter 1
21Essay: The Jews: A Second Creation
22The Jews: God’s Third Attempt to Create a Moral World
23Why Didn’t God Give the Ten Commandments to the First Human Beings?
24Why Do People Think There Are So Many Jews in the World?
25The Indispensable Importance of Remembering
26The Individual and Massive Evil
27The Guilt of the Egyptian People
28Were the Midwives Who Disobeyed Pharaoh Egyptians or Hebrews? I
29The Torah Gives the Midwives’ Names, But Not the Pharaoh’s
30Essay: The Moral Significance of Fearing God
31Were the Midwives Who Disobeyed the Pharaoh Egyptians or Hebrews? II
32When Lying Is Moral
33Essay: Moral Absolutes, Moral Relativism, and Situational Ethics
34More on the Midwives: Egyptian or Hebrew? III
35Chapter 2
36The Preeminent Role of Women in Moses’s life—and in the Torah
37There Is No Miracle in Moses’s Birth
38Why Moses Was Saved In the Same Type of Vessel Noah Was Saved In
39The Daughter of the Israelites’ Killer Saves the Man Who Will Save the Israelites
40Our Mother Is the Woman, and Our Father Is the Man, Who Raises Us
41Why Moses Will Be Chosen to Lead Is Already Apparent
42God Apparently Strongly Approved of Moses’s Act of Homicide
43Moses’s Three Responses to Injustice
44If God Intervened During the Exodus, Why Didn’t He Intervene at Other Times?
45Chapter 3
46Essay: Belief in God is a Choice—and Why to Make It
47The Only Sovereign States that Have Ever Existed in Canaan were Jewish States
48God’s Name Is a Verb—“To Be”
49Chapter 4
50Moses’s Third Objection
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