Two Jews, Three Opinions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Jews, Three Opinions write by Sandee Brawarsky. This book was released on 2000-11. Two Jews, Three Opinions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on biblical, rabbinic and literary sources, the world renowned scholar and inspiring teacher Avavah Zornberg presents a colourful, richly imaginative retelling of the story of Exodus
Two Jews, Three Opinions
Two Jews, Three Opinions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Jews, Three Opinions write by Barbara Sheklin Davis. This book was released on 2019-03-22. Two Jews, Three Opinions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two Jews, Three Opinions examines a unique educational movement that began in 1980 when eight school leaders met to create RAVSAK: the Jewish Community Day School Network, an association of schools distinguished by being inclusive of all Jews in their communities. This singularly-purposed segment of the Jewish educational mosaic has not been studied before. As American Jews struggle with changing demographics and identities, it is instructive to see how community day schools and their network anticipated and accommodated many of this century’s most significant Jewish educational challenges. Two Jews, Three Opinions illuminates the community day school network’s embrace of Klal Yisrael, the unity of the Jewish people. It describes what led to RAVSAK’s success and then to its elimination as an entity, the exceptionality and importance of which was vastly undervalued and underserved by the American Jewish establishment. Arguing for the vital importance of pluralistic Jewish education in the twenty-first century, it issues a call to Jewish communal leaders to champion community day schools as guarantors of a knowledgeable and committed Jewish future.
God versus Gods
God versus Gods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God versus Gods write by Reuven Chaim Klein. This book was released on 2018-11-01. God versus Gods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Arguing with God
Arguing with God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arguing with God write by Anson Laytner. This book was released on 1998. Arguing with God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As an old proverb puts it, "Two Jews, three opinions." In the long, rich, tumultuous history of the Jewish people, this characteristic contentiousness has often been extended even unto Heaven. Arguing with God is a highly original and utterly absorbing study that skates along the edge of this theological thin ice--at times verging dangerously close to blasphemy--yet also a source of some of the most poignant and deeply soulful expressions of human anguish and yearning. The name Israel literally denotes one who "wrestles with God." And, from Jacob's battle with the angel to Elie Wiesel's haunting questions about the Holocaust that hang in the air like still smoke over our own age, Rabbi Laytner admirably details Judaism's rich and pervasive tradition of calling God to task over human suffering and experienced injustice. It is a tradition that originated in the biblical period itself. Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and others all petitioned for divine intervention in their lives, or appealed forcefully to God to alter His proposed decree. Other biblical arguments focused on personal or communal suffering and anger: Jeremiah, Job, and certain Psalms and Lamentations. Rabbi Laytner delves beneath the surface of these "blasphemies" and reveals how they implicitly helped to refute the claims of opponent religions and advance Jewish doctrines and teachings.
Judaism's Great Debates
Judaism's Great Debates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Judaism's Great Debates write by Barry L. Schwartz. This book was released on 2012-07-01. Judaism's Great Debates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: David Lerman and Shelley Wallock; D. Walter Cohen, Wendy and Leonard Cooper; Rabbi Howard Gorin; Gittel and Alan Hilibrand; Marjorie and Jeffrey Major; Jeanette Lerman Neubauer and Joe Neubauer; Gayle and David Smith; and Harriet and Donald Young. Ever since Abraham’s famous argument with God, Judaism has been full of debate. Moses and Korah, David and Nathan, Hillel and Shammai, the Vilna Gaon and the Ba’al Shem Tov, Spinoza and the Amsterdam Rabbis . . . the list goes on. Jews debate justice, authority, inclusion, spirituality, resistance, evolution, Zionism, and more. No wonder that Judaism cherishes the expression machloket l’shem shamayim, “an argument for the sake of heaven.” In this concise but important survey, Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz presents the provocative and vibrant thesis that debate and disputation are not only encouraged within Judaism but reside at the very heart of Jewish history and theology. In his graceful, engaging, and creative prose, Schwartz presents an introduction to an intellectual history of Judaism through the art of argumentation. Beyond their historical importance, what makes these disputations so compelling is that nearly all of them, regardless of their epochs, are still being argued. Schwartz builds the case that the basis of Judaism is a series of unresolved rather than resolved arguments. Drawing on primary sources, and with a bit of poetic license, Schwartz reconstructs the real or imagined dialogue of ten great debates and then analyzes their significance and legacy. This parade of characters spanning three millennia of biblical, rabbinic, and modern disputation reflects the panorama of Jewish history with its monumental political, ethical, and spiritual challenges.
