Jewish renewal : a path to healing and transformation / Michael Lerner.
1994
296.3 L616j 1994
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Title
Jewish renewal : a path to healing and transformation / Michael Lerner.
Author
ISBN
039913980X (acid-free paper)
9780399139802 (acid-free paper)
9780399139802 (acid-free paper)
Imprint
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, ©1994.
Language
English
Description
xxviii, 436 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
296.3 L616j 1994
System Control No.
(OCoLC)30154349
(OCoLC)30154349
(OCoLC)30154349
Summary
In Jewish Renewal, Lerner helps us reunderstand the classic Jewish texts, presents a startling new approach to God and prayer, and offers a masterly reinterpretation of Jewish history and destiny from the ancient world through the Holocaust and contemporary Israel. Finally, his book opens to us the process of Jewish renewal, which is today bringing thousands of Jews back to a Judaism that they are both discovering and helping create.
Lerner maintains that there are two voices in the Torah that have contended with each other throughout Jewish history: the voice of accumulated pain and cruelty that is passed from generation to generation and that masquerades as a patriarchal god, and the voice of God, whose massage of healing and compassion insists the world can be fundamentally transformed. Neoconservatives and some right-wing Israelis have used the Holocaust to justify a Judaism that is cynically "realistic" and demeaning of non-Jews. But that tendency to do unto others what was done to us can be overcome, Lerner says, and Jewish renewal attunes us to the voice of God and strengthens our ability to recognize the image of the divine in every human being.
Jewish Renewal is more than a rethinking of Judaism - it is also a concrete and empathic guide to building a spiritually rich Jewish life. Its ideas are at the vanguard of Jewish thought, but its style assumes no previous knowledge and thus makes it a perfect introduction to what is most exciting in Jewish thought.
Lerner maintains that there are two voices in the Torah that have contended with each other throughout Jewish history: the voice of accumulated pain and cruelty that is passed from generation to generation and that masquerades as a patriarchal god, and the voice of God, whose massage of healing and compassion insists the world can be fundamentally transformed. Neoconservatives and some right-wing Israelis have used the Holocaust to justify a Judaism that is cynically "realistic" and demeaning of non-Jews. But that tendency to do unto others what was done to us can be overcome, Lerner says, and Jewish renewal attunes us to the voice of God and strengthens our ability to recognize the image of the divine in every human being.
Jewish Renewal is more than a rethinking of Judaism - it is also a concrete and empathic guide to building a spiritually rich Jewish life. Its ideas are at the vanguard of Jewish thought, but its style assumes no previous knowledge and thus makes it a perfect introduction to what is most exciting in Jewish thought.
Note
"A Grosset/Putnam book."
Lerner maintains that there are two voices in the Torah that have contended with each other throughout Jewish history: the voice of accumulated pain and cruelty that is passed from generation to generation and that masquerades as a patriarchal god, and the voice of God, whose massage of healing and compassion insists the world can be fundamentally transformed. Neoconservatives and some right-wing Israelis have used the Holocaust to justify a Judaism that is cynically "realistic" and demeaning of non-Jews. But that tendency to do unto others what was done to us can be overcome, Lerner says, and Jewish renewal attunes us to the voice of God and strengthens our ability to recognize the image of the divine in every human being.
Jewish Renewal is more than a rethinking of Judaism - it is also a concrete and empathic guide to building a spiritually rich Jewish life. Its ideas are at the vanguard of Jewish thought, but its style assumes no previous knowledge and thus makes it a perfect introduction to what is most exciting in Jewish thought.
Lerner maintains that there are two voices in the Torah that have contended with each other throughout Jewish history: the voice of accumulated pain and cruelty that is passed from generation to generation and that masquerades as a patriarchal god, and the voice of God, whose massage of healing and compassion insists the world can be fundamentally transformed. Neoconservatives and some right-wing Israelis have used the Holocaust to justify a Judaism that is cynically "realistic" and demeaning of non-Jews. But that tendency to do unto others what was done to us can be overcome, Lerner says, and Jewish renewal attunes us to the voice of God and strengthens our ability to recognize the image of the divine in every human being.
Jewish Renewal is more than a rethinking of Judaism - it is also a concrete and empathic guide to building a spiritually rich Jewish life. Its ideas are at the vanguard of Jewish thought, but its style assumes no previous knowledge and thus makes it a perfect introduction to what is most exciting in Jewish thought.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Pt. I. The Metaphysics of Healing and Transformation. Ch. 1. Cruelty Is Not Destiny. Ch. 2. Abraham and the Psychodynamics of Childhood. Ch. 3. Moses and the Revolutionary Community. Ch. 4. Something Happened. Ch. 5. The Struggle Between Two Voices of God in Torah. Ch. 6. Compassion for Wounded Healers
Pt. II. God Shattering: The Retreat from God in Jewish History and Contemporary Jewish Life. Ch. 7. How the Revolutionary Message Got Repressed and Abandoned. Ch. 8. Holocaust, Evil, and the Conservatizing of Jewish Sensibilities. Ch. 9. Post-Zionism. Ch. 10. A Politics of Jewish Renewal
Pt. III. God Healing: Jewish Renewal in Daily Life. Ch. 11. Making Judaism More Alive. Ch. 12. Sexism. Ch. 13. The Ecological Religion. Ch. 14. Shabbat. Ch. 15. Jewish Holidays. Ch. 16. Renewing the Life Cycle. Ch. 17. Prayer. Ch. 18. Who Is God?
Pt. II. God Shattering: The Retreat from God in Jewish History and Contemporary Jewish Life. Ch. 7. How the Revolutionary Message Got Repressed and Abandoned. Ch. 8. Holocaust, Evil, and the Conservatizing of Jewish Sensibilities. Ch. 9. Post-Zionism. Ch. 10. A Politics of Jewish Renewal
Pt. III. God Healing: Jewish Renewal in Daily Life. Ch. 11. Making Judaism More Alive. Ch. 12. Sexism. Ch. 13. The Ecological Religion. Ch. 14. Shabbat. Ch. 15. Jewish Holidays. Ch. 16. Renewing the Life Cycle. Ch. 17. Prayer. Ch. 18. Who Is God?
Available in Other Form
Online version: Lerner, Michael, 1943- Jewish renewal. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1994
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