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

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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.

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.