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050 00 BM723|b.F4298 2014 
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100 1  Feinstein, Edward,|d1954- 
245 14 The chutzpah imperative :|bempowering today's Jews for a 
       life that matters /|cRabbi Edward Feinstein ; foreword by 
       Rabbi Laura Geller. 
250    Hardcover edition. 
264  1 Woodstock, Vermont :|bJewish Lights Publishing,|c2014. 
300    xxi, 157 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-157). 
505 0  The wicked child's question -- How to argue with God and 
       win -- The road to Eden -- Jews gone wild -- The world 
       stands on three pillars -- Returning to the garden -- Like
       a fiddler on the roof -- The horizon of human possibility.
520    "Judaism assigns a uniquely important role to the human 
       being, the role of partner with God in creating a world of
       oneness. This theme, the singular message of Judaism, runs
       throughout the Jewish tradition, but it has been largely 
       lost to our modern day's leaning toward Jewish ethnic 
       identity and culture. In this clarion call for a new way 
       to "do Judaism," award-winning spiritual leader Rabbi 
       Edward Feinstein urges us to recover this message of 
       Jewish self-empowerment--or chutzpah--to reshape the 
       world. Feinstein begins with the early chapters of 
       Genesis. He then describes how the idea was encoded into 
       the Jewish national narrative through biblical law, and 
       how the Rabbis of Talmud embraced that conviction as the 
       center of Judaism, demonstrating the Rabbis' sense of 
       their own self-empowerment to reshape their religious 
       tradition in response to the destruction of the Temple. 
       Turning to the mystics of medieval Spain and the European 
       Hasidic tradition, Feinstein shows how chutzpah found its 
       expression in the traditions of Kabbalah. Finally, he 
       explores the theme of empowerment in modernity, as the 
       centerpiece of Zionism and post-Holocaust thought. 
       Inspiring Jews of all denominations, Feinstein presents a 
       bold reminder of the Jewish responsibility to repair the 
       world and a new way to conceive of Jewish community life, 
       Jewish education, prayer and religious activism"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Jewish way of life. 
650  0 Judaism. 
650  7 Jewish way of life.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00983050  
650  7 Judaism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00984280  
700 1  Geller, Laura,|ewriter of foreword. 
994    C0|bCKE