A Commentary on Food in the Torah

Food is at the heart of Jewish life and culture, the subject of many recent studies - popular and academic - and countless Jewish jokes. From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey: A Commentary on Food in the Torah spotlights food in the Torah, where it’s used to explore such themes as love and compassion, commitment, character, justice, belonging and exclusion, deception, and life and death. Originally created as an online project to support the innovative food rescue charity, Leket Israel, From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey comprises short essays on food and eating in the parasha by 52 internationally acclaimed scholars and Jewish educators, and a commentary by Diana Lipton.

Proceeds from sales of this book will go to Leket Israel, Israel’s national food bank.

Contents:

Bere'shit	Melissa Lane
Noah	Dan Baras
Lekh Lekha	Alexander Kaye
Va-Yera	Hanne Loland Levinson
Hayyei Sarah	Malke Bina
Toledot	Jack M. Sasson
Va-Yetse'	Alicia Ostriker
Va-Yishlah	Jonathan Price
Va-Yeshev	Stefan C. Reif
Mikkets	Meira Polliack
Va-Yiggash	Diana Lipton
Va-Yehi	Albert Baumgarten

Shemot	Robert Brody
Va-'Era'	Rachel Havrelock
Bo'	Jennie Rosenfeld
Beshallah	Deena Garber
Yitro	Gilla Rosen
Mishpatim	Ed Greenstein
Terumah	Lynn Kaye
Tetsavveh	Ariel Kopilovitz
Ki Tissa'	Jeremy Rosen
Va-Yakhel	Susan Weingarten
Pekudei	Nehemia Polen

Va-Yikra'	Pinchas Roth
Tsav	Harlan Wechsler
Shemini	Gary A. Rendsburg
Tazria	Amit Gvaryahu
Metsora	Uri Gabbay
'Aharei Mot	Shani Tzoref
Kedoshim	Paula Fredriksen
'Emor	Chaim Milikowsky
Be-Har	George Savran
Be-Hukkotai	Sandra Jacobs

Be-Midbar	Simon Goldhill
Naso'	Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Be-Ha'alotekha	Joel Hecker
Shelah-Lekha	Athalya Brenner
Korah	Noam Mizrahi
Hukkat	Amira Meir
Balak	Laliv Clenman
Pinhas	Susan Handelman
Mattot	Nili Wazana
Mase'ei	Adi Marili

Devarim	Ian Gamse & Tamra Wright
Va-'Ethannan	Chaim Hames
'Ekev	Mar Saperstein
Re'eh	Eliezer Segal
Shofetim	Suzanne Last Stone
Ki Tetse'	Yehuda Galinsky
Ki Tavo'	Itay Marienbrg-Milikowsky
Nitsavim	Shira Golani
Va-Yelekh	Yitzhak Peleg
Ha'azinu	Linda Zisquit
Ve-Z'ot Ha-Berakhah	Tova Ganzel

About the Author:
Diana Lipton received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Bible at the University of Cambridge. After almost ten years as Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, she moved to King's College London as a Lecturer and then Reader in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies. She is now an Adjunct Lecturer in Bible at Hebrew University's Rothberg International School. Her published works include Revisions of the Night: Politics and Promises in the Patriarchal Dreams of Genesis, Longing for Egypt and Other Unexpected Biblical Tales, and Lamentations Through the Centuries. Diana has a long history of voluntary work in the Jewish community, and this book emerged from her first project with Leket Israel. Diana has two sons, Jacob and Jonah, and she lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Chaim Milikowsky.

Praise for Forbidden Fruit:
“Diana Lipton’s many insights into biblical texts are well known to contemporary scholars. Her commentary on food in the Torah offers a fresh look at some familiar passages and themes. Definitely eye-opening!”
–James Kugel, author of How to Read the Bible

“Food in the Torah, argues Diana Lipton, is the basis of a rich and subtle language with which God communicates with Israel, Israel addresses God and people speak to each other. This is the theme of a suggestive collection of essays by some great Judaic scholars of our time, yielding delicious fruits of insight and an unusual salad of sustenance and spirituality. A feast to be treasured by all lovers of that full-flavoured mix of food and faith that is Jewish life at its best.”
–Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

“Every generation approaches the Torah in search of insight. Traditional commentaries and even translations reflect this quest. A central concern of our time is food. In this splendid volume Diana Lipton combines an impressive array of contributors with her own commentary to create a wonderful ‘spread table’ of insights from the Torah on a subject that affects us all.”
–Professor Naomi Tadmor, author of The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society and Culture in Early Modern England

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