Yonah and the Sailors

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1. The Book of Yonah

   Rabbi Yaakov Beasley

2. Sefer Yonah - Everyman's Teshuva

   Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein

   תאריך פרסום: תשע"ה | |

   Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein analyzes the “pshat“ storyline of Sefer Yona and brings midrashic sources, too, to tease out the big ideas about teshuva that come to the fore in this short book. What is the nature of teshuva? What is teshuva all about? What is considered legitimate teshuva and what is not? A pattern of teshuva of some sort, Divine salvation, and a dialogue between God and Yona ensues. Yona may yearn for strict judgment, but God takes account of human fallibility and tempers justice with mercy. On Yom Kippur afternoon, we plead for God to have mercy regardless of whether our teshuva is human and flawed, or objectively ideal.

3. Shallow Teshuva in Deep Waters -Real or Ideal

   HaTanakh.com Staff

4. Prophet on the Run: Yonah and Yom Kippur

   Rabbi David Fohrman |

   This class raises two major questions on the book of Yonah: 
   1) Why does Yonah run? Doesn't he know that running from God is futile, especially as he's a prophet?
   2) What message does he learn at the end of the book (with the story of the tree)?

   A close examination of these questions reveals an entirely new approach to the book of Yonah: din and rachamim related to past and potential, and the meaning of true teshuva. 

5. Yonah in the Stormy Sea

   HaTanakh.com Staff