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Holy Beggars Banquet

Kalman Serkez

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Wonderful stories and teachings from the 70's. 5 out of 5 stars.
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As the editor of the original Holy Beggars' Gazette (1972-77), it is wonderful to see these stories and teaching made available again. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (1925-1994) was truly a great teacher and his stories have touched a multitude of souls around the world.The stories and teachings in this book originated from a special and spiritual period in San Francisco 25 years ago around the House of Love and Prayer founded by Shlomo Carlebach. Thousands of people passed by and they all received from Shlomo and his community of holy beggars. Shlomo was between 45 and 52 years old during this period and many of the seekers who visited are now that same age... Read these teachings and be moved by the simple wisdom - Chassidic Jewish wisdom expressed in stories... Shlomo, we miss your holy presence. May new souls continue to be touched by your stories and teachings. Steven Maimes

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In 1967, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach established the House of Love and Prayer, an outreach center for Jewish spiritual seekers located in San Francisco. One of its activities was the publication of The Holy Beggars' Gazette, a gathering of Jewish wisdom authored by Reb Shlomo and others. This book brings together the contents of The Holy Beggars' Gazette, and is presented chronologically from its beginnings in 1972 until it ceased publication in 1979.

Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues In Postmodern Jewish Philosophy (Radical Traditions)

Steven Kepnes, Peter Ochs, Robert Gibbs

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Postmodern Jewish thinkers understand their Jewishness differently, but they all share a fidelity to what they call the “Torah” and to communal practices of reading and social action that have their bases in rabbinic interpretations of biblical narrative, law, and belief. Thus, postmodern Jewish thinking is thinking about God, Jews, and the world—with the texts of the Torah—in the company of fellow seekers and believers. It utilizes the tools of philosophy, but without their modern premises. Moreover, this form of Jewish thinking provides resources for philosophically disciplined readings of scripture by Jews, Christians, and Moslems seeking alternatives to the reductive discourses of secular academia, on the one hand, and to antimodern religious fundamentalisms, on the other. Postmodern Jewish Philosophy aims to utilize rabbinic modes of thinking to provide a model for ethical and religious thought in the twenty-first century, one which moves beyond the dichotomy of relativism and imperialism and is simultaneously definite and pluralistic.In Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, three preeminent Jewish scholars debate the form and meaning of Postmodern Jewish Philosophy after the failures of the great secular ideologies of modern western civilization. Emulating the methods as well as the premises of Talmudic argumentation, the authors present their responses as dialogues joined by a common love of the rabbinic tradition of commentary and interpretation of the Bible. The composers, Peter Ochs, Robert Gibbs, and Steven Kepnes, contemplate where Judaism has been—and where it is headed: on what basis will modern Jews now reason about the meaning of Jewish existence and the relevance of age-old Biblical traditions to the moral and social crises of the twenty-first century? The dialogues are further enriched by a set of responses from leading Jewish philosophers: Elliot R. Wolfson, Edith Wyschogrod, Almut Sh. Bruckstein, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, and Susan E. Shapiro.

Proceedings of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy

David Novak

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This book grew out of three annual meetings (1987, 1988, and 1989) of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy. The essays included in this volume deal with major issues of Jewish faith in our age and present a diversity of interpretations and positions by the leading Jewish thinkers in North America. Contents: Judaism and God-Talk: Eternal Truths in Changing Form; Jewish Philosophy in Covenantal Context; There's No God Unless God Talks: A Study of Max Kadushin as Rabbinic Pragmatist; Judaism and God-Talk; The Positive Contribution of Negative Theology; In Defense of Images; Idolatry and Love of Appearances: Maimonides and Plato on False Wisdom; Judaism and the Varieties of Idolatrous Experience; The Inevitability of Idolatry; Basic Concepts in Rabbinic Hermeneutics; Hermeneutics in Contemporary Jewish Ethics; Midrash and History in Holocaust Interpretation; Buber's Biblical Hermeneutics and Narrative Biblical Theology.

Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors (Suny Series in the Jewish Writings of Strauss)

Leo Strauss

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Leo Strauss's Philosophy and Law contains a groundbreaking study of the political philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors, and it offers an argument on behalf of that philosophy which is also a profound critique of modern philosophy. Here is an entirely new and complete English translation of Strauss's work, which takes as its ideal the exacting standards of accuracy that Strauss himself emphasized in his own work. It includes a prefatory essay introducing the argument of each of the four sections of Philosophy and Law.

This is a fresh and challenging treatment of the perennial conflict between reason and revelation, or philosophy and religion. Strauss's key contention in this book is that the most influential modern approaches to this conflict have run aground in ways that reflect their loss of key insights developed by the medieval philosophers of Islam and their Jewish pupils, especially Maimonides. Strauss challenges the modern view that scientific enlightenment must ultimately amount to atheism, and that therefore there can be no such thing as enlightened religion. Through a careful, original, and detailed treatment of central works of the medieval Islamic-Jewish tradition, especially Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, Strauss aims to recover their key insights into this question.

God at the Edge: Searching for the Divine in Uncomfortable and Unexpected Places

Niles Goldstein

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Here is a book about adventure, raw experience, and facing inner demons. Niles Elliot Goldstein is a young rabbi who sets out to find God in tough and often scary situations: dogsledding above the Arctic Circle, taking the Silk Road into Central Asia without a visa, being chased by a grizzly bear, cruising with DEA agents through the South Bronx, and spending a night in jail in New York City's Tombs. He explores the connections between struggle and growth, fear and transcendence, and uncertainty and faith, seeking the boundary where the finite meets the Infinite.

Goldstein is not alone in making this kind of pilgrimage. There has always been a strong tradition of seekers who looked for revelation outside conventional religious settings and encountered God in moments of anguish, terror, and pain. Goldstein juxtaposes his own experiences with those of some of the great historical figures of Judaism and Christianity -- Jonah and St. John of the Cross, Moses Maimonides and Julian of Norwich, Nachman of Bratslav and Martin Luther -- as well as lesser known mystics and preachers, and he discovers, as they did, that it can sometimes take a journey to the edge to recognize God's presence in our lives.

Jewish Philosophy in Modern Times

Nathan Rotenstreich

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Exodus to Humanism: Jewish Identity Without Religion (Philosophy and Literary Theory)

David Ibry

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Can Jews rely on religion for their identity? 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book aims at providing an answer to this question. Included with the author's observations and experiences are arguments and explanations from 26 Jewish contributors who have either rejected Judaism or have never believed in it, including Prof. Sir Isaiah Berlin, Prof. Sir Herman Bondi, Prof. Albert Ellis, Prof. Adolf Grunbaum,Rose Hacker, Prof. George Klein, Dr. Henri Morgentaler, Prof. Jean-Claude Pecker, Prof. Ernest Poser, Prof. Howard Radest, Claire Rayner, Prof.Evry Schatzman, Helen Suzman, and Arnold Wesker. The author is concerned about the survival of the Jewish identity when Jews will realize that the religion of Judaism is obsolete and has the guts to face the problem head on. I found it of great help because it opened my mind to the realities of our day.

A Starting Point 5 out of 5 stars.
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I think the most important aspect of this book, aside from the fact that it is well written and unpretentious is that it starts the dialogue-- the inner dialogue one has with one's self and the one between one Jew and another. Ibry astutely avoids providing pat, specious answers, instead throwing open the discussion to fellow Jews and admitting that it is, in fact, a brave new world. Recognizing that old traditions and sentiments are hard to leave behind, he reminds us that the Jews invented Judaism, not the other way around.

The questions and opinions explored in this book, while specifically addressing the Jewish dilemma in the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries, should also have appeal to anyone who feels constrained by the implausibility--if not outright absurdity--of a deity as described in ANY western religious scripture.

If you're looking for a place to begin your transitional journey from theism to rational thought, done with wit, intelligence and emotion, this is the place to start.

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EXODUS TO HUMANISM: Jewish Identity without Religion

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Ethics of Responsibility: Pluralistic Approaches to Covenantal Ethics

Walter S. Wurzburger

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Deep and stimulating. 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is a must read for anyone who enjoys deep invigorating philosiphy. Wurzburger puts a spin on ethical issue that is so prevalent in todays society.

Ethics of Responsibility: Pluralistic Approaches to Covenantal Ethics

Walter S. Wurzburger

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Deep and stimulating. 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This book is a must read for anyone who enjoys deep invigorating philosiphy. Wurzburger puts a spin on ethical issue that is so prevalent in todays society.