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Author:   Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman (Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman)
Publisher:   Jewish Lights Publishing
Imprint:   Jewish Lights Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
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9781580234306

ISBN 10:   1580234305
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 September 2011
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Format:   Hardback
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"Acknowledgments ix PART I KOL NIDRE AND HISTORY Morality, Meaning, and the Ritual Search for the Sacred 3 Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD The Heavenly Assembly 22 Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler What's in a Bowl? Babylonian Magic Spells and the Origins of Kol Nidre 26 Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD Sermons and History: The ""Marrano"" Connection to Kol Nidre 31 Rabbi Marc Saperstein, PhD The Magic of the Moment: Kol Nidre in Progressive Judaism 39 Dr. Annette M. Boeckler The Music of Kol Nidre 67 Dr. Mark Kligman PART II KOL NIDRE AND JEWISH LAW Kol Nidre: A Halakhic History and Analysis 73 Dr. Eliezer Diamond Choice, Commitment, Cancellation: Vows and Oaths in Jewish Law 80 Rabbi Daniel Landes PART III KOL NIDRE: TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY 87 Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD PART IV KOL NIDRE AND THE TESTIMONY OF PRAYERBOOK EDITORS Kol Nidre from Union Prayer Book to Gates of Repentance 99 Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD Memories of the Past, Guidelines for the Future 109 Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD What If Cleverness Is Foolishness and Righteousness an Illusion? 114 Rabbi Jonathan Magonet, PhD Words of Wisdom or Legalese? 119 Rabbi Charles H. Middleburgh, PhD Two Torah Scrolls and Kol Nidre: The Earthly Court Below 123 Rabbi David A. Teutsch, PhD PART V KOL NIDRE AND INTERPRETATIONS FOR TODAY At Least Credit Me with Being Compassionate 129 Rabbi Tony Bayfield, CBE, DD Filling the Void 133 Dr. Erica Brown Words Mean Everything, Words Mean Nothing —Both Are True 137 Rabbi Ruth Durchslag, PsyD ""Woe Is Me That I Have Sworn"": The Power to Annul God's Vows 142 Rachel Farbiarz and Ruth Messinger The Tyranny of Perfection 146 Rabbi Edward Feinstein Disruption, Disorientation, and Restarting: The Kol Nidre Road to Return 150 Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand Lifting the Curtain: The Theatrical Kol Nidre 155 Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur “It’s Rather Hard to Understand”: Approaching God through Sound, Not Translation 159 Rabbi Elie Kaunfer The Sound and Pageantry: Willingness, Aspiration, and Discernment 163 Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar Is Kol Nidre Typical? 168 Dr. Reuven Kimelman All Bets Are Off 174 Rabbi Lawrence Kushner The Room with No Back, Only Forward 178 Rabbi Noa Kushner Imagining Nothing 182 Liz Lerman A Vote of No Confidence 187 Catherine Madsen Over-Promise, Under-Deliver … and Then Forgive 191 Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum Courting Inversion: Kol Nidre as Legal Drama 194 Rabbi Aaron Panken, PhD The Kol Nidre Mirror to Our Soul 200 Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso Release beyond Words: Kol Nidre Even on a Violin 205 Rabbi Jonathan P. Slater, DMin Night Vision: A Gift of Sacred Uncertainty 209 Rabbi David Stern Ritualizing Kol Nidre: The Power of Three 214 Dr. Ellen M. Umansky All Vows? No! Then, Which Vows? 218 Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, DD How Is Kol Nidre Like a Dodgers Game? 224 Dr. Ron Wolfson We Are the Image of God That God Leaves Behind for History to Know 228 Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel The Oath, or My Family Story 232 Dr. Wendy Zierler Notes 237 Glossary 255"

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The blast of the shofar calls us to consider our relationships with each other - and with God: how they fell short in the past year and how we can better them in the coming one. Brilliant philosopher and exceptional teacher Rabbi David Hartman explores this divine/human partnership, further distilling his philosophy of covenantal theology, provocatively looking at what happens when Jewish law conflicts with individual moral probity. From an intensely personal perspective, as a traditionally trained Orthodox rabbi who has developed an expansive pluralistic sensibility, Hartman wrestles with the seemingly insoluble conflict in his most recent book, written with Charlie Buckholtz, The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting & Rethinking Jewish Tradition, (Jewish Lights, $25 hardcover.) Since making aliyah in 1971, and confronting the disparity between his idealized vision of the Promised Land with the reality of the Jewish state, Hartman has sought to reconcile his fierce commitment to Jewish tradition and his personal moral code. Issues such as gender, conversion and Jewish identity have roiled his consciousness and piqued his conscience. His evolving theology, as expressed in his prior books and in the work of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, which is dedicated to developing a new understanding of classical Judaism, is yet again reconstituted as he seeks to answer nagging questions of equality and justice against an intransigent Israeli religious establishment. What is the weight of tradition when it conflicts with one's deep moral sense? he asks. Is making choices that favor moral convictions equivalent to stepping out of the tradition? Conversely, to yield to the tradition, to squelch the ethical impulse ... what is lost? While reasserting his deep reverence for Halacha, and demonstrating not only his knowledge of the law but his facility in the intricacies of its discourse, Hartman skillfully navigates among some of its most erudite commentators - from

The blast of the shofar calls us to consider our relationships with each other - and with God: how they fell short in the past year and how we can better them in the coming one.Brilliant philosopher and exceptional teacher Rabbi David Hartman explores this divine/human partnership, further distilling his philosophy of covenantal theology, provocatively looking at what happens when Jewish law conflicts with individual moral probity. From an intensely personal perspective, as a traditionally trained Orthodox rabbi who has developed an expansive pluralistic sensibility, Hartman wrestles with the seemingly insoluble conflict in his most recent book, written with Charlie Buckholtz, The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting & Rethinking Jewish Tradition, (Jewish Lights, $25 hardcover.)Since making aliyah in 1971, and confronting the disparity between his idealized vision of the Promised Land with the reality of the Jewish state, Hartman has sought to reconcile his fierce commitment to Jewish tradition and his personal moral code. Issues such as gender, conversion and Jewish identity have roiled his consciousness and piqued his conscience. His evolving theology, as expressed in his prior books and in the work of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, which is dedicated to developing a new understanding of classical Judaism, is yet again reconstituted as he seeks to answer nagging questions of equality and justice against an intransigent Israeli religious establishment. What is the weight of tradition when it conflicts with one's deep moral sense? he asks. Is making choices that favor moral convictions equivalent to stepping out of the tradition? Conversely, to yield to the tradition, to squelch the ethical impulse ... what is lost? While reasserting his deep reverence for Halacha, and demonstrating not only his knowledge of the law but his facility in the intricacies of its discourse, Hartman skillfully navigates among some of its most erudite commentators - from Moses Maimonides to Abraham Joshua Heschel to his own teacher, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik - to make a compelling case for informing Halacha with more egalitarian and pluralistic sensitivity. He calls for creating a relationship with the divine that is framed by Talmudic precept but infused with compassion and moral intuition.Another pre-eminent Jewish scholar, this one American though hailing originally, as Hartman does, from Canada, Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman offers a second, superlative choice for holiday reading. All These Vows, Kol Nidre (Jewish Lights, $25 hardcover) is a compilation of writings from more than 30 commentators who examine the Kol Nidre prayer, which for generations has been the memorable highlight of the Yom Kippur liturgy.Hoffman, who has served for more than three decades as a professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute for Religion in New York, offers a compelling mix of viewpoints and interpretations, illuminating a variety of facets of the prayer from its history to its meaning and longevity.Did you know that the text of the prayer, which as Hoffman explains in the book's introduction essentially allows for the nullifying of vows, has been traced back to the period of the Spanish Inquisition when Jews were forced to vow to live as Christians? Rabbi Marc Saperstein, president of London's Leo Baeck College, delves into this story in his essay, Sermons and History: The 'Marrano' Connection to Kol Nidre. And did you know that Kol Nidre is the only night of the year when the tallit is worn? And that the haunting melody is repeated three times? Dr. Ron Wolfson offers these and other trivial tidbits in his humorous piece, How Is Kol Nidre Like a Dodgers Game? (Wolfson, of course, hails from Los Angeles, where he is Fingerhut Professor of Education at American Jewish University.) There is lots to read, consider and even chuckle about.A third choice, which can inspire not just introspection, but action, is Rabbi Jill Jacobs' Where Justice Dwells, A Hands-On Guide to Doing Social Justice in Your Jewish Community (Jewish Lights, $25 paperback). Jacobs, who has written and spoken widely on the Jewish imperative to do justice, offers a how-to book for those inspired to do good but in need of a clear road map. Jewish tradition holds out the promise of a messianic era, writes Jacobs in the book's introduction, .. . But this picture of the ideal world can be too big. Jacobs provides a three-part plan for reducing the oversized messianic vision to more realistic, bite-sized projects. She describes how to craft a vision, to identify underlying principles and to take action. She provides action plans for providing direct service, for giving or investing money, for advocacy and for community organizing. She includes a comprehensive listing of social-justice resources and an extensive bibliography for further reading. Jacobs ends with a call to create communities that exemplify Jewish values, communities that reflect that justice dwells here. --Vicki Cabot The Jewish News of Greater Phoenix (09/21/2011)

The blast of the shofar calls us to consider our relationships with each other - and with God: how they fell short in the past year and how we can better them in the coming one.Brilliant philosopher and exceptional teacher Rabbi David Hartman explores this divine/human partnership, further distilling his philosophy of covenantal theology, provocatively looking at what happens when Jewish law conflicts with individual moral probity. From an intensely personal perspective, as a traditionally trained Orthodox rabbi who has developed an expansive pluralistic sensibility, Hartman wrestles with the seemingly insoluble conflict in his most recent book, written with Charlie Buckholtz, The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting & Rethinking Jewish Tradition, (Jewish Lights, $25 hardcover.)Since making aliyah in 1971, and confronting the disparity between his idealized vision of the Promised Land with the reality of the Jewish state, Hartman has sought to reconcile his fierce commitment to Jewish tradition and his personal moral code. Issues such as gender, conversion and Jewish identity have roiled his consciousness and piqued his conscience. His evolving theology, as expressed in his prior books and in the work of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, which is dedicated to developing a new understanding of classical Judaism, is yet again reconstituted as he seeks to answer nagging questions of equality and justice against an intransigent Israeli religious establishment. What is the weight of tradition when it conflicts with one's deep moral sense? he asks. Is making choices that favor moral convictions equivalent to stepping out of the tradition? Conversely, to yield to the tradition, to squelch the ethical impulse ... what is lost? While reasserting his deep reverence for Halacha, and demonstrating not only his knowledge of the law but his facility in the intricacies of its discourse, Hartman skillfully navigates among some of its most erudite commentators

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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, has served for more than three decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He is a world-renowned liturgist and holder of the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual.

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