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- catalog contributor b704904.
- catalog created "1986, c1970.".
- catalog date "1986".
- catalog date "1986, c1970.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1986, c1970.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 310-313.".
- catalog description "Part 1. The remarkable survival of the Jews -- A casual question -- God -- Viewpoint -- Purpose -- 1. Who are we? -- What the Bible says -- How true is all this? -- Proud? -- The mystery -- "The chosen people" -- Survival, yes; miracle, no -- 2. The prevalence of symbols -- What symbol does -- The source of Jewish symbol -- The force of symbol -- Conformity -- Part 2. The faith -- 3. We cannot study all of it -- The dormant codes -- The Vilna Gaon's weakness -- The core of Judaism -- Self-isolation -- 4. The Sabbath -- A steep start -- The real point of Genesis -- The Sabbath in Genesis -- A personal digression -- The fourth commandment -- What the Sabbath achieves -- 5. The nature festivals -- The wheel of the year -- A digression on the Hebrew calendar -- Passover: the Seder -- Matzo -- Pentecost: shavuos -- Sukos or tabernacles: the autumn feast -- The palm branch -- Sh'mini Atzeres: the eighth day -- The cycle of nature festivals: summary -- 6. The high holy days -- ".
- catalog description "Popularity of Yom Kippur -- Legal description of days of awe -- The metaphor of the high holy days -- The machinery of penitence -- Community confession -- Immortal individual -- The season for hope -- 7. The minor holy days -- A long gap -- The ninth of Ab: Tisha B'av -- Purim: the feast of Easter -- Hanuka: the feast of lights -- Hanuka today -- 8. The prayers, the synagogue, and the worshippers -- The problem of prayer -- A visit to the synagogue -- A night at the opera -- What the synagogue is -- The creed and the service -- Must prayer be in Hebrew? -- The prayer leader -- Some major variations -- The properties -- Some difficulties -- 9. Symbols of food, clothing, and shelter -- A touchy topic -- The diet -- Kosher rules -- Slaughter -- Degrees of observance -- Why bother? -- Clothing -- Shelter -- 10. Birth and beginnings: mean and women -- Circumcision -- Bar-mitzvah -- Bas-mitzvah -- Men and women -- 11. Love and marriage: and certain elegant variations -- Sex -- Marriage -- ".
- catalog description "The marriage disciplines -- Divorce -- Elegant variations -- 12. Death -- The enigma -- The Hereafter -- The explanation of evil -- Kaddish -- Part 3. The Law -- 13. Where does authority lie? -- 14. The Torah -- The Bible -- Moses -- The Torah of Moses -- The Holy Spirit -- The rest of Hebrew scripture -- The theory of evolution -- The text in hand -- 15. The Talmud -- Down from the shelf -- "Za rabotu" -- What the Talmud is -- What the Talmud is like -- The hagada of the Talmud -- 16. Jewish common law -- Unwritten (oral) law -- The question of amendment -- The slow veto -- The method of the Talmud -- Difficulties in the Talmud -- 17. From the Talmud to the present -- The great change -- "The first ones": Maimonides -- The case against Maimonides -- The shulkhan arukh -- The law today -- Retrospect -- Part 4: The present -- 18. The present -- 19. What the enlightenment was -- 20. Orthodoxy -- "I should have learned English" -- Who is orthodox? -- The decline of the old learning -- ".
- catalog description "The new learning -- The Hasidim -- 21. Dissent -- Reform -- Conservatism overtakes reform -- The blurring of the lines -- Orthodoxy and dissent -- A personal note -- Assimilation -- The assimilator speaks -- The uncertain -- 22. Israel -- The present climax -- How Israel happened -- Today's leaders -- The paradox of Israel -- What Israel is like -- Epilogue -- "How will you survive?" -- The new permission to believe -- The God of Moses -- The outer limits -- "This is my God" -- Notes -- The verdict of archaeology -- The future of Yiddish -- Full texts of Sh'ma and Shmone Esrai -- Hygienic explanation of diet laws -- Wellhausen theory: higher criticism -- Rashi -- The Cabala -- The Torah and slavery -- The guide for the perplexed -- Day schools -- Nietzsche and the Nazis.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 317 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0671622587 :".
- catalog issued "1986".
- catalog issued "1986, c1970.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog subject "296 19".
- catalog subject "BM561 .W65 1986".
- catalog subject "Judaism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part 1. The remarkable survival of the Jews -- A casual question -- God -- Viewpoint -- Purpose -- 1. Who are we? -- What the Bible says -- How true is all this? -- Proud? -- The mystery -- "The chosen people" -- Survival, yes; miracle, no -- 2. The prevalence of symbols -- What symbol does -- The source of Jewish symbol -- The force of symbol -- Conformity -- Part 2. The faith -- 3. We cannot study all of it -- The dormant codes -- The Vilna Gaon's weakness -- The core of Judaism -- Self-isolation -- 4. The Sabbath -- A steep start -- The real point of Genesis -- The Sabbath in Genesis -- A personal digression -- The fourth commandment -- What the Sabbath achieves -- 5. The nature festivals -- The wheel of the year -- A digression on the Hebrew calendar -- Passover: the Seder -- Matzo -- Pentecost: shavuos -- Sukos or tabernacles: the autumn feast -- The palm branch -- Sh'mini Atzeres: the eighth day -- The cycle of nature festivals: summary -- 6. The high holy days -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Popularity of Yom Kippur -- Legal description of days of awe -- The metaphor of the high holy days -- The machinery of penitence -- Community confession -- Immortal individual -- The season for hope -- 7. The minor holy days -- A long gap -- The ninth of Ab: Tisha B'av -- Purim: the feast of Easter -- Hanuka: the feast of lights -- Hanuka today -- 8. The prayers, the synagogue, and the worshippers -- The problem of prayer -- A visit to the synagogue -- A night at the opera -- What the synagogue is -- The creed and the service -- Must prayer be in Hebrew? -- The prayer leader -- Some major variations -- The properties -- Some difficulties -- 9. Symbols of food, clothing, and shelter -- A touchy topic -- The diet -- Kosher rules -- Slaughter -- Degrees of observance -- Why bother? -- Clothing -- Shelter -- 10. Birth and beginnings: mean and women -- Circumcision -- Bar-mitzvah -- Bas-mitzvah -- Men and women -- 11. Love and marriage: and certain elegant variations -- Sex -- Marriage -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The marriage disciplines -- Divorce -- Elegant variations -- 12. Death -- The enigma -- The Hereafter -- The explanation of evil -- Kaddish -- Part 3. The Law -- 13. Where does authority lie? -- 14. The Torah -- The Bible -- Moses -- The Torah of Moses -- The Holy Spirit -- The rest of Hebrew scripture -- The theory of evolution -- The text in hand -- 15. The Talmud -- Down from the shelf -- "Za rabotu" -- What the Talmud is -- What the Talmud is like -- The hagada of the Talmud -- 16. Jewish common law -- Unwritten (oral) law -- The question of amendment -- The slow veto -- The method of the Talmud -- Difficulties in the Talmud -- 17. From the Talmud to the present -- The great change -- "The first ones": Maimonides -- The case against Maimonides -- The shulkhan arukh -- The law today -- Retrospect -- Part 4: The present -- 18. The present -- 19. What the enlightenment was -- 20. Orthodoxy -- "I should have learned English" -- Who is orthodox? -- The decline of the old learning -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The new learning -- The Hasidim -- 21. Dissent -- Reform -- Conservatism overtakes reform -- The blurring of the lines -- Orthodoxy and dissent -- A personal note -- Assimilation -- The assimilator speaks -- The uncertain -- 22. Israel -- The present climax -- How Israel happened -- Today's leaders -- The paradox of Israel -- What Israel is like -- Epilogue -- "How will you survive?" -- The new permission to believe -- The God of Moses -- The outer limits -- "This is my God" -- Notes -- The verdict of archaeology -- The future of Yiddish -- Full texts of Sh'ma and Shmone Esrai -- Hygienic explanation of diet laws -- Wellhausen theory: higher criticism -- Rashi -- The Cabala -- The Torah and slavery -- The guide for the perplexed -- Day schools -- Nietzsche and the Nazis.".
- catalog title "This is my God : the Jewish way of life / Herman Wouk.".
- catalog type "text".