A modern interpretation of
Emil Fackenheim - one of the greatest contemporary philosophers, standing in a row of such thinkers of modern and contemporary, as Kierkegaard, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Elie Wiesel. In accessible and well written book, along with the introduction of the essence of Judaism is considered a modern sense in light of the Holocaust and the State of Israel.
Starting with a discussion of what is a Jew in the new era, the author examines such fundamental concepts of Judaism, the Jewish people, Zionism, God, the Bible, and such "eternal" problems such as anti-Semitism, assimilation, the relationship of Judaism with other religions. The most important concepts of the religious faith of Judaism, among them - prayer, repentance, the Messiah, considered from the point of modern Jewish philosophy.
One compact volume, "What is Judaism?" Represents a meaningful, stimulating presentation to reflect the modern meaning of Judaism.
"The most profound and exciting introduction to the essence of the Jewish religion to the reader of our time"
-JEWISH BOOKS IN REVIEW, N.Y.
Great book - a concentrated exposure to those (also for non-Jews) who wish to understand the meaning and content of Judaism in the most important period of its history.
- Los Angeles Times
The book ... deep and clear, both to practitioners in the Jewish faith, and for non-professionals.
- Jewish Press
Emil Fackenheim - one of those who are capable and worthy - thanks to their knowledge and moral authority - the best way to pave the way for the future of Jewish thought.
- Leo Straus
Table of contents
1.
CURRENT STATUS OF RELIGIOUS JEWS
Summaries of the essence of Judaism
Judaism and Modernity
About the Jewish nation, the Jewish secularism and Zionism
Judaism in the age of Auschwitz and the rebirth of the Jewish state
EPILOGUE
Part I
PAST
BASIC COMPONENTS OF JUDAISM
2
JEW AND LOYALTY
Where to start
The traditional definition of a Jew
Assimilation and Jewish loyalty
Anti-Semitism and Jewish identity
Tshuva as a source of Jewish loyalty
Epilogue
3.
JEW AND MODERN JEWISH BIBLE
Portable home
Jewish loyalty to the Torah
The idea and the reality of the canon
Written and Oral Torah
Haggadah and Halakhah
Protest movement
Biblical criticism
Tanakh - the sacred or national history?
EPILOGUE
4.
GETTING THE JEWISH BOOK AS THE TORAH or REVELATION - between creation and deliverance
Be open faith
Creation
A world in need of salvation
Salvation
Revelation
EPILOGUE
Part II
PRESENT
JUDAISM life through the ages
5.
IDEAS AND REALITY TESTAMENT OF JEWS WITH GOD
Awesome contradiction
"Evolution" from "particularism" to "universalism"?
The biblical idea of the chosen people
Testament to why someone else? Why Israel?
Testament: can the people of flesh and blood to perform it?
Testament: its purpose
The Chosen People and the Present
Reconstructionism
"The people that dwells alone" today?
Unprecedented idolatry
EPILOGUE
6.
Halacha or life of Torah
Six hundred and thirteen mitzvot
The centerpiece of the mitzvot in Judaism
Mitzvot - a burden or a joy?
The law, mercy, and God-given mitzvot
"Moral" and "purely ceremonial" midrash
Modernity and the problem of authority
EPILOGUE
7.
EXPLORING TORU
A scientist who studies the Torah, and the people
Torah study and academic scholarship
Regarding via contemplativa
Regarding via activa
Damage
Torah study
EPILOGUE
8.
ETHICS OF JUDAISM: God's love to the widow, the orphan, the stranger, the poor
Being a Mench
The main source of Jewish ethics
How to love the poor
Ethics of personal behavior
Justice
Amalek
EPILOGUE
9.
Stands before God in prayer
Prayer, sacrifice animals and the modern man
The roots of Jewish prayer - in the temple worship and sacrifice
Dialectics of Jewish prayer
Amida: thanksgiving and praise to please
"Hear" a prayer?
Is there an answer to prayer?
EPILOGUE
10.
JEWISH ANNUAL CYCLE
Weekdays
Shabbat
Sacred History: Pesach, Shavuot, Sukkot
Eternity: "Days of Awe"
Let's go back to history
EPILOGUE
Part III
FUTURE
JUDAISM UPDATES TO CENTURY OF JEWISH STATE
11.
JUDAISM AND THE NEW JEWISH STATE
Tel Aviv, May 14, 1948: State
Basel, Petah Tikva and Rishon Lezion, August 1903 - August 1905: Earth
Jerusalem, June 7, 1967: city
Judaism and the State of Israel
EPILOGUE
12.
ISRAEL AND PEOPLES
Who is called to account?
Place apologetics to explain Judaism today
Testament November
Reason and revelation
Judaism and its "daughter religions" - Christianity and Islam
The righteous among the nations
epilogue
13. The latter:
The Messianic THE COMING DAYS AND WORLD
Swords - into plowshares?
The origin of the messianic hopes
Saving the messianic hope in the centuries
Christianity: Messianism without human
Contemporary worship progress: Messianism without God
Messianism and the Holocaust
The State of Israel and the Jewish messianism today
A world that is to come
Death - it's not the end, this is the beginning
A world that is to come, and the Holocaust
EPILOGUE
14.
GOD IN AGE AND RENAISSANCE JERUSALEM Auschwitz
After
Divine Infinity
Divine Infinity and Divine nearness
The presence of God in history
God in the age of Auschwitz and Jerusalem updates
EPILOGUE
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