In "We Jews, " Rabbi Steinsaltz explores the most important issues that concern Jews today as "Jews." He provides wise and uplifting answers to Jews everywhere, whether they are secular and assimilated or orthodox-"Are we a nation or a religion? Are the stereotypes of Jews really true? Why are Jews so controversial? How can we navigate the opposing forces of diversity, culture, and politics? Can we survive intermarriage and the loss of tradition? Do we still worship the Golden Calf?" In this book, Rabbi Steinsaltz sees causes and consequences, achievements and failures, looks at the contemporary world, and observes the dreams and longings of modern Jewish people. Written as an intimate and inspiring internal memo to the whole Jewish family, "We Jews" answers these questions and many more in a way that is at once insightful and inspiring.
In "We Jews, " Rabbi Steinsaltz explores the most important issues that concern Jews today as "Jews." He provides wise and uplifting answers to Jews everywhere, whether they are secular and assimilated or orthodox-"Are we a nation or a religion? Are the stereotypes of Jews really true? Why are Jews so controversial? How can we navigate the opposing forces of diversity, culture, and politics? Can we survive intermarriage and the loss of tradition? Do we still worship the Golden Calf?" In this book, Rabbi Steinsaltz sees causes and consequences, achievements and failures, looks at the contemporary world, and observes the dreams and longings of modern Jewish people. Written as an intimate and inspiring internal memo to the whole Jewish family, "We Jews" answers these questions and many more in a way that is at once insightful and inspiring.
FOREWORD BY ARTHUR KURZWEIL.AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION.I. Are We Actors with Masks?Our Ability to Assimilate Has Been Too Effective for Our Own Good.II. Are We Shattered into Pieces?Despite What Anti-Semites Have Said, Our Infighting and Historical Circumstances Have Never Allowed Unity nor a Unified Leadership.III. Are We a Nation or a Religion?Our People Are Not a Religion, nor a Nation, nor an Ethnic Group, nor a Race.IV. Do We Have Our Own Set of Character Traits?Yes, But Sometimes We Use Them and Sometimes We Abuse Them.V. Is Money Our God?The Slander, Lies, and Misunderstandings Regarding Jews and Money.VI. Why Do We Want to Save the World?Exploring the Jewish Messiah Complex.VII. Are We Excessively Warm or Excessively Cold?The Seemingly Contradictory Phenomena of Jewish Emotionalism and Intellectualism.VIII. Why Are Our People Involved in Idolatry?Our Theocentric Nature and Our Temptation to Create and Worship Idols.IX. What Is Our Role in the World?Our "Chosen" Status Demands That We Be the Priests to the World.X. How Does Our Jewishness Influence Our Thinking Process?Marx, Freud, Einstein, and the Jewish Search for Unifying Principles.XI. How Does Anti-Semitism Affect Other People?The Correlation Between a Country's Health and How Well It Treats Its Jews.XII. What Will Become of the Jewish People?THE AUTHOR.THE EDITOR.INDEX.
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is internationally regarded as one of the greatest rabbis of this century and of the last. Scholar, teacher, mystic, scientist, and social critic - and hailed by Time magazine as a "once-in-a-millennium scholar" - Rabbi Steinsaltz has been a resident scholar at Yale University, at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and at the Woodrow Wilson Institute in Washington, D.C. Best known for his monumental translation of and commentary on the Talmud, Rabbi Steinsaltz has also founded a network of educational institutions and outreach programs in the United States, Israel, the former Soviet Union, Great Britain, and Australia. He is the recipient of the Israel Prize and of the French Order of Arts and Literature. The author of many books including Opening the Tanya and Learning from the Tanya, Rabbi Steinsaltz is widely known throughout the world as an extraordinary teacher.
"...We Jews is informed and thoughtful reading which is completely accessible to the nonspecialist general reader with an interest in Judaism and the Jewish community." - Midwest Book Review
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