A living covenant : the innovative spirit in traditional Judaism /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodstock, Vt. :
Jewish Lights,
1998
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| Edition: | 1st paperback ed |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The human being in Judaism. Fundamentals of a covenantal anthropology
- Assertion versus submission : the tension within Judaism
- "Halakhic man" : Soloveitchik's synthesis
- Ethics and halakhah
- Human beings in the presence of God
- The spirit of Judaic prayer
- Halakhic critique of Soloveitchik's approach to prayer
- Individual and community in prayer
- pt. 2. The covenant and the living God of history. Rabbinic responses to suffering
- The rabbinic renewal of the covenant
- Two competing covenantal paradigms
- The celebration of finitude
- The third Jewish commonwealth