Guides For an Age of Confusion : : Studies in the Thinking of Avraham Y. Kook and Mordecai M. Kaplan / / Jack J. Cohen.

Guides for an Age of Confusion compares and contrasts the views of the two great Jewish philosophers Avraham Y. Kook and Mordecai M. Kaplan. Although these two thinkers stand at opposite ends of the spectrum of Jewish thought, they are united in their love for the Jewish people and in their belief i...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]
©1999
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (386 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Why This Confrontation? An Introduction
  • 2 Two Worlds
  • 3 The Mystic and the Rationalist
  • 4 Halakhah and Modern Society
  • 5 The Search for God
  • 6 Prayer
  • 7 Teshuvah
  • 8 Values
  • 9 Jewish Identity and Character
  • 10 Chosenness and Responsibility
  • 11 Exile and Redemption: The Role of Eretz Yisrael
  • 12 Jewish Education
  • 13 Judaism and Democracy
  • 14 On Women
  • 15 Judaism and Esthetics
  • 16 An Excursion to the Future
  • Glossary
  • Index