Edward Feinstein

The Chutzpah Imperative: Empowering Today's Jews for a Life That Matters

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Produktbeschreibung

This exploration into the heart of Judaism shows that it's time to reconnect with the ancient ideal of chutzpah (Jewish self-empowerment). Seeks to revive collective Jewish life and draw new generations to the Jewish tradition's vital, significant and timely message by reasserting the Bible's prescription of human possibility and responsibilities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 157
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781580237925
• ISBN-10: 1580237924
• Artikelnr.: 40031989

Autorenporträt

Rabbi Edward Feinstein is senior rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. He is an instructor in the Ziegler Rabbinical School of American Jewish University and the Wexner Heritage Program. He is the author of Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adult's Guide to Building a Jewish Life (Jewish Lights) and Capturing the Moon; and the editor of Jews and Judaism in the 21st Century: Human Responsibilities, the Presence of God, and the Future of the Covenant (Jewish Lights). He contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism-Yizkor; Who by Fire, Who by Water-Un'taneh Tokef and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism -Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction
The Wicked Child's Question xv
Chapter One
How to Argue with God and Win 1
Chapter Two
The Road to Eden 22
Chapter Three
Jews Gone Wild 40
Chapter Four
The World Stands on Three Pillars 54
Chapter Five
Returning to the Garden 77
Chapter Six
Like a Fiddler on the Roof 119
Epilogue
The Horizon of Human Possibility 147
Notes 153
Suggested Reading 156