Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition (The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Green, Arthur

Judaism

Yale University Press

As featured on the cover of Tikkun magazine How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can help us to reframe these realities, so they may yet be viewed as dwelling places of the sacred. In doing so, he rethinks such concepts as God, the origins and meaning of existence, human nature, and revelation to construct a new Judaism for the twenty-first century.

<div>National Jewish Book Award winner An internationally recognized scholar and theologian shares a Jewish mysticism for our times in this&nbsp;"&nbsp;humane, accessible " book (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review) "Green challenges traditional notions of God, Israel, and Torah, offering a radically new understanding and stimulating the reader to join him in a journey of discovery."--Daniel Matt, Graduate Theological Union Judaism, one of the world's great spiritual traditions, is not addressed to Jews alone. In this masterful book, winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book Award in the Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Practice category, Arthur Green calls out to seekers of all sorts, offering a universal response to the eternal human questions of who we are, why we exist, where we are going, and how to live. &nbsp; Drawing on over half a century as a Jewish seeker and teacher, he shows us a Judaism that cultivates the life of the spirit, that inspires an inward journey leading precisely toward self-transcendence, to an awareness of the universal Self in whose presence we exist. As a neo-hasidic seeker, he is both devotional and boldly questioning in his understanding of God and tradition. Engaging with the mystical sources, he translates the insights of the Hasidic masters into a new religious language accessible to all those eager to build an inner life and a human society that treasures the divine spark in each person and throughout Creation.</div>

Judaism for the World: Reflections on God, Life, and Love

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

A welcoming introduction to the most important ideas in Judaism. In an age of fluid identity, many people are honestly asking the question ''Why be Jewish?'' What in this religious and ethnic legacy is worth preserving? Does Judaism have something unique to offer a contemporary seeker free to choose a way of life and a system of values? Here is the answer of a leading spiritual teacher who has faced these questions in conversation with generations of students. With warmth, humor, personal and rabbinic stories and down - to - earth explanations, Arthur Green presents the ideas in Judaism that kept him loyal to the tradition passed on to him. The result is an enticing look into timeless Jewish wisdom that will encourage you to explore further and search out the riches of Judaism for yourself.

Judaism's Ten Best Ideas: A Brief Guide for Seekers [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition]

ReadHowYouWant

Green’s Well or Be’er is a contemporary and personal commentary on the traditional Hebrew prayerbook.\nContemporary Jews, including those who attend synagogue regularly, are well aware of the wide gap between the text of the siddur, composed over the course of many centuries, and their own beliefs. Over the course of the past century, there have been many attempts to alter the language of the prayerbook in order to “update” it.\nBut that is not the way of Jewish tradition. The Jewish path has always been that of maintaining the ancient forms, with their deep echo-chamber of antiquity, and updating their meaning by the ongoing process of reinterpretation.\nThat is the purpose of this volume. It works with the traditional Hasidic prayerbook, skipping nothing. Green is a scholar of Hasidism and Jewish mysticism, but also an open-minded and inquiring seeker. His own faith is deeply shaped by monism, the belief that all is one within God, that we exist as part of an ever-flowing divine universe, manifest in the natural world and alive in each human soul.\nBut how do we pray to such a God? How do we do so while reading from a book written by biblical psalmists, ancient and medieval poets, philosophers and kabbalists, all of whom belonged to another age? Following an introduction that deals with all these questions, Green’s commentary goes through the entire liturgy, offering comments meant to inspire and to stimulate thought.\nThe book begins with the daily liturgy and will be especially helpful to those who engage with it regularly. It is meant to be used as a companion to the prayerbook itself. It then goes on to deal with the prayer services for shabbat, for holidays (including sections on the hallel psalms and the Passover haggadah) and the High Holy Days.\nWell of Living Insight is a must for rabbis, cantors, and other leaders of Jewish prayer. But it is really written for seekers, within the Jewish community and beyond, who long to mine the ancient wisdom of Judaism to shape a contemporary spirituality that is both intellectually rigorous and religiously inspiring.

Well of Living Insight: Comments on the Siddur

Band, Debra

Be'er Press

Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain. In the course of this investigation Arthur Green draws a wide arc including Talmudic, Midrashic, liturgical, Merkavah, German Hasidic, and Kabbalistic works, showing through this single theme the spectrum of devotional, mystical, and magical views held by various circles of Jews over the course of a millennium or more. The first portion of the work deals with late antiquity, emphasizing the close relationship between texts of what is often depicted as "normative" Judaism and their mystical/magical analogues. The mythic imagination of ancient Judaism, he suggests, is shared across this spectrum. The latter portion of the work turns to the medieval Jews who inherited this ancient tradition and its evolution into Kabbalah, where keter plays a key role as the first of the ten divine emanations or sefirot.
The nature of these sefirot as symbols and the emergence of a structured and hierarchical symbolism out of the mythic imagery of the past are key themes in these later chapters. As a whole, Keter takes the reader on an exciting tour of the interior landscapes of the Jewish imagination, offering some remarkable insights into the nature of mystical and symbolic thinking in the Jewish tradition.
Originally published in 1997.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism

Princeton University Press

Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism (Princeton Legacy Library)

Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain. In the course of this investigation Arthur Green draws a wide arc including Talmudic, Midrashic, liturgical, Merkavah, German Hasidic, and Kabbalistic works, showing through this single theme the spectrum of devotional, mystical, and magical views held by various circles of Jews over the course of a millennium or more. The first portion of the work deals with late antiquity, emphasizing the close relationship between texts of what is often depicted as "normative" Judaism and their mystical/magical analogues. The mythic imagination of ancient Judaism, he suggests, is shared across this spectrum. The latter portion of the work turns to the medieval Jews who inherited this ancient tradition and its evolution into Kabbalah, where keter plays a key role as the first of the ten divine emanations or sefirot.
The nature of these sefirot as symbols and the emergence of a structured and hierarchical symbolism out of the mythic imagery of the past are key themes in these later chapters. As a whole, Keter takes the reader on an exciting tour of the interior landscapes of the Jewish imagination, offering some remarkable insights into the nature of mystical and symbolic thinking in the Jewish tradition.
Originally published in 1997.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A biography of the controversial Hasidic rabbi and author of mystic tales, explores the personal conflicts that affected his spiritual philosophy

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Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition (The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series)

Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition (The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series)

Judaism for the World: Reflections on God, Life, and Love

Judaism's Ten Best Ideas: A Brief Guide for Seekers [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition]

Well of Living Insight: Comments on the Siddur

Well of Living Insight: Comments on the Siddur

Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism

Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism (Princeton Legacy Library)

Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism (Princeton Legacy Library)

Tormented Master