The Design
Similar to the traditional design of all Torah text, our design is a Mikra’ot Gedolot. The structure moves instruction from a sermon to a symposium. The teachings I offer in the form of creative essays are never the final word on a topic. I expect every reader to respond and comment to everything I teach. Your commentary becomes part of the text and is Torah. We encounter the Mikra’ot Gedolot format in all formal Torah study and it becomes the emblem of rabbinic studies. The visual of the structure gives the gestalt of the process with one addition, the open space on every page for your comments. Active participation is essential, as in the A.L.P.E.R.N. Seders.
For all English readers I highly recommend The Commentators Bible, The JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot, Exodus by Michael Carasik 2005.
The future of the novel is experienced in ,Blue, A Novel,by Benjamin Zucker, Overlook Press, Woodstock Vermont 2000.
We see an outline for the format of all future websites in this genre transcending magnum opus. Overlook Press is owned by Jewish Lights. I offer a heartfelt thank you to Stuart Maitlen for publishing this visionary novel. I award both palms to Zucker and Stuart.
