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02759aam a2200313 i 4500 001 B8B747BC90BA11E485F86490DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20141231010035 008 140709s2014 vtu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2014027022 020 $a 1580237924 020 $a 9781580237925 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $d SKYRV $d SILO 050 00 $a BM723 $b .F4298 2014 082 00 $a 296.7 $2 23 100 1 $a Feinstein, Edward, $d 1954- 245 14 $a The chutzpah imperative : $b empowering today's Jews for a life that matters / $c Rabbi Edward Feinstein ; foreword by Rabbi Laura Geller. 264 1 $a Woodstock, VT : $b Jewish Lights Publishing, $c 2014. 300 $a xxii, 157 pages ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Introduction: The wicked child's question -- Chapter 1. How to argue with God and win -- Chapter 2. The road to Eden -- Chapter 3. Jews gone wild -- Chapter 4. The world stands on three pillars -- Chapter 5. Returning to the garden -- Chapter 6. Like a fiddler on the roof -- Epilogue: The horizon of human possibility. 520 $a "Judaism assigns a uniquely important role to the human being, the role of partner with God in creating a world of oneness. This theme, the singular message of Judaism, runs throughout the Jewish tradition, but it has been largely lost to our modern day's leaning toward Jewish ethnic identity and culture. In this clarion call for a new way to "do Judaism," award-winning spiritual leader Rabbi Edward Feinstein urges us to recover this message of Jewish self-empowerment--or chutzpah--to reshape the world. Feinstein begins with the early chapters of Genesis. He then describes how the idea was encoded into the Jewish national narrative through biblical law, and how the Rabbis of Talmud embraced that conviction as the center of Judaism, demonstrating the Rabbis' sense of their own self-empowerment to reshape their religious tradition in response to the destruction of the Temple. Turning to the mystics of medieval Spain and the European Hasidic tradition, Feinstein shows how chutzpah found its expression in thetraditions of Kabbalah. Finally, he explores the theme of empowerment in modernity, as the centerpiece of Zionism and post-Holocaust thought. Inspiring Jews of all denominations, Feinstein presents a bold reminder of the Jewish responsibility to repair the world and a new way to conceive of Jewish community life, Jewish education, prayer and religious activism. 650 0 $a Jewish way of life. 650 0 $a Judaism. 941 $a 3 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722045113.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006082152.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926031230.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B8B747BC90BA11E485F86490DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search