Between Silence and Speech Essays on Jewish Thought

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ISBN: 9781568213361 | 1568213360
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/1/1995

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In this volume, Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo, highly regarded author and lecturer, examines some of the most controversial topics in Jewish thought and law. Join Rabbi Lopes Cardozo on this journey of discovery as he makes a critical assessment of the Jewish belief system and discovers that the issues he once doubted are really the most profound expressions of Judaic wisdom.

Preface
Acknowledgments
On Silence, Sacrifices, and the Golden Calf	p. 1
The Tent of Meeting	p. 4
The Sin of the Golden Calf	p. 5
The Impudence of Prayer	p. 8
The Future of Sacrifices	p. 10
Idol Worship	p. 11
Sinai	p. 12
On Sleep as Awareness	p. 13
The Tent of Meeting and Overriding the Shabbat	p. 14
Fire	p. 16
The Tent of Meeting and the Creation	p. 19
Sleep	p. 22
Shabbat, an Alert Sleep	p. 24
The Tent of Meeting and the Concept of Work	p. 25
Shabbat, an Act of Liberation	p. 28
Havdalah	p. 31
Religious Obsession	p. 32
On Jewish Identity and the Chosen People	p. 35
Favoritism	p. 35
Equality of All Men	p. 39
The Paradox of Tradition	p. 41
Historical Reality	p. 43
The Tower of Babel	p. 48
Nimrod	p. 50
One Language and Uniform Words	p. 52
The Noachide Holocaust	p. 54
Independence of Nature	p. 55
Centralization	p. 57
Kant's Mistake	p. 58
The State as an Obsession	p. 59
Secularism	p. 60
Language	p. 61
The First Refusenik	p. 62
Anti-Semitism	p. 65
The Land of Israel	p. 67
Opting In and Out	p. 68
Root Experiences	p. 70
613 and 7	p. 72
On the Law of the Mamzer - Fair or Holy?	p. 77
God versus God	p. 79
The Problem of Evil	p. 80
Kedushah (Holiness)	p. 82
Sexuality	p. 83
Akeidat Yitzchak	p. 84
Fairness	p. 85
On Particularism and Universalism	p. 87
Particularism and Universalism	p. 87
Chosen Mankind	p. 90
The Nation of Israel	p. 90
Replacement Theology	p. 92
God's Image	p. 93
Non-Jews and the Obligation to Honor Parents	p. 95
Sanctifying God's Name	p. 95
Laws of Noach	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 99
On the Israeli-Arab Conflict	p. 101
A Biblical Perspective	p. 101
The Israeli-Arab Conflict	p. 102
The Birth of Yitzchak	p. 104
Sarai's Mistake	p. 108
Avraham's Repentance	p. 112
"Pere Adam"	p. 113
World Domination	p. 115
On the Primordial Torah	p. 119
Monologue and Dialogue	p. 121
The Primordial Torah	p. 122
The Torah of Moshe	p. 128
Moshe and the Angels	p. 131
The Torah of the Messianic Age	p. 133
The Oral Torah	p. 138
Moshe and Rabbi Akiva	p. 140
Torah for Other Worlds	p. 145
Addendum	p. 146
On Halachah as the Art of Amazement	p. 151
How Did We Get Like That?	p. 152
Amazement	p. 154
Halachah	p. 157
A New Awareness	p. 160
To Deserve	p. 162
On Milk and Meat	p. 165
Kabbalah	p. 166
The Animal World	p. 168
Milk	p. 169
On Bible Criticism and Its Counterarguments	p. 171
A Short History	p. 171
On Speech and Prayer	p. 195
Chutzpah	p. 196
The First Chutzpah-niks	p. 197
Which Words?	p. 199
Modern Man and Laudations	p. 199
Finding the Right Words	p. 201
The Music of Prayer	p. 202
Mood	p. 204
Silent Prayer	p. 205
Notes	p. 207
References	p. 227
Index	p. 235
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