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Personal Encounters
It is strange how vividly early memories come back to one. And the older one gets, the more does the mind insist on recalling the past. When we are young, we live in the future, in dreams and hopes of what is to be. When we begin to feel the approach of old age, the process is reversed: Instead of living in the future, we instinctively relive the past. Nature (for the religionist, God) has fashioned human beings with many different sensibilities, with special inclinations manifest in various areas of life. Thus, some have special propensity for history, some for politics, sports, psychology, for human relations, for literature, for religion. We could of course, go on and on. My special incli...
Monotheism
In this revised version of his 2018 book, The Idea of Monotheism, Jack Shechter offers a detailed clarification of the ideational development within each of the tenets that flow from the Oneness of God that is the core of the monotheistic idea as it has evolved over the centuries. The Idea of Monotheism historically traces the concept of God as it emerged in the ongoing life of the people in specific time periods; it reflects the newly perceived perspectives about the deity due to changing times, locales, and climates of opinion. However, so profoundly One is God in Judaism, these transformations had no effect whatever on this eternally uniform substance. Thus, what man did over time was to uncover God's true nature; he unraveled that which was always there--the nonexistence of other gods and His universality.
In Search of the Religiosity in Religion
This book is designed to locate the inner meaning, the essential spirit and underlying purposes of a set of Jewish ideas and practices. It seeks to unpack, to "excavate," what the great theologians of our time, Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel, have urged us to discern as the "religiosity" embedded in Judaism's sacred thought and action--their seminal current all too often unrealized.
The Land of Israel
This book explores the relationship between God, the Jewish people, and the Land of Israel, bringing clarity to issues of great moment - both in the past and in our time. The author's analyses are rooted in Biblical and rabbinic texts themselves, in addition to other scholarly disciplines that relate.
Journey of a Rabbi
This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator. What threads its way throughout these writings is a persistent search for ways and means to revitalize Jewish life in our time. Written in lucid and compelling fashion, the story portrays early family influences and mentoring of a searching youth, experiences of a rabbinical student, army chaplain, and pulpit rabbi that brought into focus the tasks ahead. The story proceeds to detail the work as a denominational executive, which broadened concern for the larger community and return to pulpit work devoted to fashioning a “Synagogue-Center.” It then segues into depiction of the comprehensive initiatives in education, the arts and community outreach as Dean at the University of Judaism. Interspersed throughout are “thought” essays about religious phenomena, faith, the personal life, the land of Israel, and “lessons learned” from a lifetime of experiences.
The Idea of Monotheism
Jack Shechter offers a detailed clarification of the ideational development within each of the tenets that flow from the Oneness of God that is the core of the monotheistic idea as it has evolved over the centuries. The Idea of Monotheism historically traces the concept of God as it emerged in the ongoing life of the people in specific time periods; it reflects the newly perceived perspectives about the deity due to changing times, locales, and climates of opinion. However, so profoundly One is God in Judaism, these transformations had not effect whatever on this eternally uniform substance. Thus, what man did over time was to uncover God's true nature; he unraveled that which was always there—the nonexistence of other gods and His universality.
The Real Name of God
Reveals the real, whole name of God and its place within each of us • Explains how none of the God-names commonly used in the Bible is God’s real name • Shows how the real name of God unites all religions from both West and East • Includes spiritual techniques, prayers, poems, and meditative chants to bring each of us into deep, personal, intimate, living relationship with God Of the many names of God commonly used in the Bible and other sacred literature, none is God’s real name. Every God-name, including YHWH, reflects only one of God’s many aspects, such as the loving creator, the militaristic authoritarian, or the all-knowing judge. None embodies the wholeness, the totality, ...
Journey of a Rabbi
This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator. What threads its way throughout these writings is a persistent search for ways and means to revitalize Jewish life in our time. Written in lucid and compelling fashion, the story portrays early family influences and mentoring of a searching youth, experiences of a rabbinical student, army chaplain, and pulpit rabbi that brought into focus the tasks ahead. The story proceeds to detail the work as a denominational executive, which broadened concern for the larger community and return to pulpit work devoted to fashioning a “Synagogue-Center.” It then segues into depiction of the comprehensive initiatives in education, the arts and community outreach as Dean at the University of Judaism. Interspersed throughout are “thought” essays about religious phenomena, faith, the personal life, the land of Israel, and “lessons learned” from a lifetime of experiences.
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology
A comprehensive review of the entire tradition of Jewish Theology from the Bible to the present from leading world scholars.
Sacred Thought, Sacred Action Revisited
This book locates inner meaning, essential spirit, and underlying purposes of a set of basic Jewish ideas and practices. It unpacks what the great theologians of our time Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel have perceived as the "religiosity" embedded in Judaism's sacred thought and action--the seminal current all too often unrealized.
