54 Torah Talks

About the Book

"For Ezra had dedicated himself to study the Teaching of the Lord so as to observe it, and to reach laws and rules to Israel."

(Ezra 7:10)

"The Holy One, blessed be He, says: If a man occupies himself with the study of the Torah and with works of charity and prays with the congregation, I account it to him as if he had redeemed Me and My children from among the nations of the world."

(Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot, 8a)

About the Author

Brian Weinstein, BA Yale, Ph.D. Harvard, taught pollitics in the Republic of Guinea, at Tuskegee University, and at Howard University in Washington, DC. He wrote books about Africa and the politics of language. For the last ten years he has been giving lectures or drashot at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington. On the basis of those lectures he published articles about the Bible in the Jewish Bible Quarterly, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis Journal.