Research Catalog

Title

Commitment and complexity : Jewish wisdom in an age of upheaval : selections from the writings of Yehuda Amital / selected and edited by Aviad Hacohen ; translated by Kaeren Fish.

Author

ʻAmiṭal, Yehudah, 1924-2010

Publication

Jersey City : Ktav Pub. House, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hacohen, Aviad, 1962-
• Fish, Kaeren
• Ziegler, Reuven

Description

162 p.; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

Ḳol Yehudah. English.

Alternative Title

Ḳol Yehudah.

Subject

• ʻAmiṭal, Yehudah, 1924-2010 > Teachings
• Jewish philosophy
• Jewish ethics
• Judaism
• Jewish philosophy

Genre/Form

Festschriften

Note

• This collection was originally published in Hebrew as a tribute to Rav Amital on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Am Yisrael -- Chillul Hashem and Kiddush Hashem -- Commitment -- Complexity -- Controversy -- Daâ¿¿at Torah -- Derekh Eretz -- Diaspora -- Divine Providence -- Eastern Philosophy -- Education -- Enthusiasm -- Eretz Yisrael -- Eulogy -- Faith -- Family -- Fear of God -- Framework and Content -- Fraternal Hatred -- Frumkeit -- Government -- Halakha -- Happiness -- Hearing the Babyâ¿'s Cry -- Historical Perspective -- Holocaust -- Honesty -- Humanity -- Independence -- Individual and Community -- Insubordination -- Jewish Identity -- Kahanism -- Kibbutz Movement -- Major vs. Minor Issues -- Minorities -- Modesty -- Murder of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin -- Natural Morality -- Non-religious Jews -- â¿¿Now-ismâ¿¿ -- Peace -- Permissiveness -- Politics -- Prayer -- Questioning -- Rabbis -- Rav Kook -- Redemption -- Reform Jewry -- Religious Experience -- Religious Insecurity -- Religious Zionism -- Repentance -- Responsibility -- Rosh Yeshiva -- Service of God -- Settlement -- Social Justice -- Society -- Speaking Out -- State of Israel -- Stringencies -- Suffering -- Superstition -- Tolerance and Pluralism -- Torah Scholars -- Torah Study -- Values -- War -- Who is a Jew? -- Yeshiva -- Sources and Resources.

ISBN

• 9781602800304
• 1602800308

OCLC

• 213080402
• SCSB-11445608

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library