Jewish Wayliving the Holidays
Autor Irving Greenbergen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 1998
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780765760272
ISBN-10: 0765760274
Pagini: 463
Dimensiuni: 161 x 235 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-10: 0765760274
Pagini: 463
Dimensiuni: 161 x 235 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Notă biografică
Rabbi Irving Greenberg is the Founding President of CLAL¿The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, an organization dedicated to the renewal of clal Yisrael¿the unity and totality of the Jewish people. He has been a pioneer in leadership education and a leading figure in intra-Jewish dialogue and the development of pluralism. An Orthodox rabbi and Harvard Ph.D., Rabbi Greenberg has been a seminal thinker in confronting the Holocaust as an historical transforming event and Israel as the Jewish assumption of power and the beginning of a third era in Jewish history. Rabbi Greenberg has published articles and monographs on Jewish thought and religion, and is the subject of a book, Living in the Image of God: Jewish Teachings to Perfect the World (Conversations with Rabbi Irving Greenberg as Conducted by Shalom Freedman), published by Jason Aronson Inc. He is currently President of CHAverIM Kol Yisrael/Jewish Life Network, a Michael and Judy Steinhardt Foundation, which develops new institutions and projects in religion, education, and culture to strengthen the inner life of American Jewry.
Cuprins
Preface
A Word to the Reader
PART I: THE VISION AND THE WAY
1. The Holidays as the Jewish Way
2. Judaism as an Exodus Religion: Passover
3. The Covenant of Redemption: Shavuot
4. Journey to Liberation: Sukkot
PART II: PERSONAL LIFE ALONG THE WAY
5. The Dream and How to Live It: Shabbat
6. Rebirth and Renewal: High Holy Days
PART III: WALKING THE WAY¿THROUGH JEWISH HISTORY
7. Confronting Jewish Destiny: Purim
8. Assimilation, Acculturation, and Jewish Survival: Hanukkah
9. Destruction and Response: Tisha B'Av
PART IV: UNFOLDING THE WAY: JEWISH HOLIDAYS IN OUR TIME
10. The Shattered Paradigm: Yom Yashoah
11. Resurrection and Redemption: Yom Ha'Atzmaut
AFTERWORD
Appendix A: Two "Minor" Festivals: Rosh Hodesh and Tu B'Shvat
Appendix B: Passover¿Prayer for the Seder
Appendix C: For Study and Discussion
Bibliography
Glossary of Names
Index
Descriere
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