Book Release Shabbat

Book Release Shabbat
Friday, October 9 at 7:00 pm

Join us for services and a special oneg to follow in celebration of Rabbi David and Dr. Bos’ new book, Set Apart: Josef and His Family. Copies of their book will be available for sale during the oneg.

“He was the favorite son, the dreamer in the coat of many colors.

Yet Josef rose to become the most powerful man in Egypt, rescuer of a starving world and, ultimately, the one who brought his broken family back together. His is the longest continuous narrative in Genesis and one of the most enduring stories in human history.

In Set Apart, two scholars of the Bible sit together with the ancient text of Josef and listen. Drawing on rabbinical tradition and rigorous scholarship, David Ariel-Joel and Johanna W.H. van Wijk-Bos offer a rich, layered reading of Genesis 37–50 that honors the full complexity of the story: the family rivalries, the silenced women, and the slow arc of character transformation. Where they disagree, they say so, presenting their differing interpretations side by side in the ancient Talmudic tradition.

At its heart, this is a story about change — how it is forced upon us, how we resist it, and how, in the end, it becomes the very thing that saves us. Set Apart is a guide for that journey.”