The Weekly Midrash: Tz'enah Ur'enah - 2 Volume Set - The Classic Anthology of Torah Lore and Midrashic Commentary (ArtScroll Judaica Classics) [Hardcover]

Yaakov Ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi (Author), Miriam Stark Zakon (Translator)

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Text: English, Yiddish (translation)

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• Hardcover: 1108 pages
• Publisher: ArtScroll, Mesorah Publication Ltd; 1st edition (December 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899069258
• ISBN-13: 978-0899069258
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #714,504 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unending source of thought and wisdom, June 24, 2009

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Francine Jewett (Winamac, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Weekly Midrash: Tz'enah Ur'enah - 2 Volume Set - The Classic Anthology of Torah Lore and Midrashic Commentary (ArtScroll Judaica Classics) (Hardcover)

I bought this set of books after reading The River Midnight by Lilian Natal. She spoke of it in the book as a centerpiece of Jewish family life for hundreds of years. The mothers would read the weekly Torah reading to the children and then read the rabbinic commentary. I think the book was first published for this purpose sometime around the 16th century. It is a wonderful source of wisdom, encouragement, lore, knowledge. It is an encyclopedia of Jewish thought.
Fascinating, wonderful, a real treasure.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How wonderful to know this is in print, January 10, 2005

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Weekly Midrash: Tz'enah Ur'enah - 2 Volume Set - The Classic Anthology of Torah Lore and Midrashic Commentary (ArtScroll Judaica Classics) (Hardcover)

I do not really know this work. But I feel wonderful that it is in print. It is a Torah anthology and Midrashic commentary that by and large was read and used by devout women. My own Bubbe of blessed memory Sarah Wartels Freedman studied and read this work every day for years. Whenever I hear of it I think of her, and think of how this work helped sustain the spiritual life of so many Jewish women.