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Author:   Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman (Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman) ,  Tony Bayfield ,  Will Berkovitz ,  Annette M Boeckler
Publisher:   Jewish Lights Publishing
Imprint:   Jewish Lights Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
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9781580236126

ISBN 10:   158023612
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   13 September 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Acknowledgments ix Part I Sin and Confessi on in Judaism: From the Bible to Today The Liturgy of Confession: What It Is and Why We Say It 3 Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD From Penitence to Nobility: Modes of Jewish Piety 13 Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD Sin, Sanction, and Confession in the Bible 32 Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler The Problem of Repentance: A Dilemma in Late Medieval Sephardic Preaching 39 Rabbi Marc Saperstein, PhD Six Understandings of Confession for Our Time 46 Dr. Annette M. Boeckler Al Chet in Israeli Culture: Israeli Confessions over Everything 60 Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD Part II Ashamnu and Al Chet: The Yom Kippur Liturgy of Confession Editor's Introduction 91 Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD Translator's Introduction 92 Dr. Joel M. Hoffman Annotated Translation 94 Dr. Joel M. Hoffman A. Preamble to Confession (Ki Anu Amekha, ""For We Are Your People"") 94 B. Vidui Zuta: The Short Confession (Ashamnu, ""We Have Been Guilty ..."") 96 C. Vidui Rabbah: The Long Confession (Al Chet, ""For the Sin ..."") 98 Part III Ashamnu and Al Chet: As Prayer Book Editors See Them Finding Ourselves in God 111 Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman Multiplying the Sins 115 Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD For the Sin of ""Unattempted Loveliness"" 119 Rabbi Edwin Goldberg Manifesting as Jews 123 Rabbi Jonathan Magonet, PhD From Staid Sins of Yesteryear to Wrongdoings of Today 128 Rabbi Charles H. Middleburgh, PhD “Our Sins? They're Not All Mine!” 134 Rabbi David A. Teutsch, PhD Part IV Ashamnu and Al Chet: Interpretations for Today We Are All Unrepentant Humanists 141 Rabbi Tony Bayfield, CBE, DD Forgiving God 146 Rabbi Will Berkovitz For the Sin of … Poor Leadership 150 Dr. Erica Brown We Can't Really Be That Evil! 155 Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander, DHL We Have Sinned: T’shuvah in a Globalized World 160 Lisa Exler and Ruth Messinger The Power of Words: Radical Creation, Radical Atonement 164 Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand What We Learn from Having So Many Sins 168 Dr. Joel M. Hoffman From First Confession to Perfection of Character 171 Rabbi Walter Homolka, PhD, DHL The Jewish “ABC Song” 176 Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur Aval Chatanu (“But / In Truth, We Have Sinned”): A Literary Investigation 181 Rabbi Elie Kaunfer Confession and Its Discontents 186 Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, PhD On Hitting Yourself 191 Rabbi Lawrence Kushner What We Do Not Know 196 Rabbi Noa Kushner Vidui and Its Halakhic Contexts 199 Rabbi Daniel Landes Putting the Performance of the Vidui in Its Context 205 Rabbi Ruth Langer, PhD Back to Zero 210 Catherine Madsen Secrets and Silence: The Hidden Power of the Un-confessional Vidui 214 Rabbi Jay Henry Moses The Remembrance of Things Past (and Future), Private (and Public) 218 Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, PhD Can “Sin” Be Redeemed? New Metaphors for an Old Problem 222 Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, DMin “Later He Realizes His Guilt” 227 Rabbi Jonathan P. Slater, DMin Some Are Guilty, All Are Responsible 232 Dr. Ellen M. Umansky Sin, Confession, and … Forgiveness? 235 Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, DD Percussing the Heart 240 Dr. Ron Wolfson Al Chet Shechatanu: Collectively We Own Them All 242 Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel Trying to Say Something, Something: Magnolia and Confession 246 Dr. Wendy Zierler Appendix A: The Personal Prayers of the Rabbis (Talmud, Berakhot 16b–17a) 251 Appendix B: Confessions of the Rabbis (Talmud, Yoma 87b) 254 Notes 256 Glossary 270"

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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman 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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