| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxx, 428 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Susannah Heschel -- To Be a Jew: What Is It? -- The Moment at Sinai -- Existence and Celebration -- Hasidism as a New Approach to Torah -- Israel as Memory -- We Cannot Force People to Believe -- A Time for Renewal -- Pikuach Neshama: To Save a Soul -- The Meaning of Repentance -- On the Day of Hate -- No Time for Neutrality -- Symbolism and Jewish Faith -- The Spirit of Jewish Prayer -- Toward an Understanding of Halacha -- Yom Kippur -- Teaching Religion to American Jews -- Jewish Theology -- The Mystical Element in Judaism -- A Preface to an Understanding of Revelation -- God, Torah, and Israel -- The Meaning of This War (World War II) -- The Plight of Russian Jews -- The Moral Dilemma of the Space Age -- Required: A Moral Ombudsman -- The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement -- In Search of Exaltation -- A Prayer for Peace -- No Religion Is an Island -- Choose Life! -- On Prayer -- The God of Israel and Christian Renewal -- What Ecumenism Is. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-425). |
| Subject |
Judaism -- Essence, genius, nature.
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Spiritual life -- Judaism.
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Judaism and social problems.
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| Added Author |
Heschel, Susannah.
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| ISBN |
0374199809 hardcover |
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9780374199807 hardcover |
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