Communings of the Spirit

, by Scult, Mel; Kaplan, Mordecai M.

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Supplemental Materials

Preface

(6)

Introduction

(26)

February 24, 1913-May 27, 1915

(36)

Outline of Lectures That Were Delivered before the Harvard Menorah Society

(1)

The Essence of Religion---A Talk at Harvard

(1)

Religion and Social Life

(1)

The Essence of Judaism

(1)

God as the Power that Makes for Righteousness

(1)

Israel---The Chosen People

(1)

God the Bond of Unity

(1)

Democracy Is a Threat

(1)

God's Transcendence

(1)

Religion and the Pragmatic Method

(1)

Zionism and Religion

(1)

A Definition of Judaism

(1)

A Club at the Seminary Discusses Religion

(2)

Seeking God

(1)

Talking about a Religion of Experience at Yale

(1)

Talking to the Mothers about Jewish Mothers

(1)

Speaking on Ceremony and Community

(1)

A Rabbinic Conclave on Authority at the Jersey Shore

(3)

Abba Baum an Old Friend of the Kaplan Family

(1)

A Sabbath Afternoon on the Boardwalk at Rockaway

(1)

Harry Fischel---The Russian Jacob Schiff

(2)

Kaplan ``Discovers Dushkin and Berkson''

(1)

The Benderly Boys---Future Leaders of Jewish Education

(3)

Kaplan on His Own Religiosity

(1)

The Seminary and Jewish Scholarship

(1)

Services at the 92nd Street Y---The Issue of an Organ

(1)

Older and Younger Members at Kehilath Jeshurun

(1)

Kaplan on His Early Childhood

(1)

Rabbi Moshe S. Margolies Speaks at Kehilath Jeshurun

(1)

Students and Skeptics at the Teachers Institute

(1)

Daughter Naomi Is Born

(1)

Speaking at the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. on Judaism and Community

(1)

Y.M.H.A. and Its Weaknesses

(1)

Jewish Student Life at Harvard

(1)

Trustees of the Bureau of Education Meet at Marshall's House

(1)

Dinner at the Unterbergs

(2)

God as the Power that Makes for Freedom---A Talk at the 92nd Street Y

(1)

The Origin of the Jewish Center---A New Kind of Synagogue

(1)

Kaplan and Ginzberg Clash as They Exit the Seminary Synagogue

(1)

Schechter Lashes out at Seminary Faculty Meeting

(1)

May 30, 1915-August 14, 1918

(38)

Schiff Unhappy with the Bureau of Jewish Education

(1)

Kaplan at the Public Library---Becomes Depressed

(1)

Schechter Cautions Kaplan

(1)

TI Students Make Good-Natured Fun of Kaplan

(1)

United Synagogue Convention---Ginzberg and Schechter Speak

(1)

Kaplan Disgusted with the Y.M.H.A. Directors

(1)

The Death of Solomon Schechter

(2)

Daughter Selma Named after Solomon Schechter

(1)

Setting Up the Jewish Center

(1)

Kaplan Clashes with Jacob Schiff over Loyalty Issue

(1)

Bible Scholar Max Margolis Complains to Kaplan about Adler and Schechter

100

(1)

Jewish Congress Debate at the Astor Hotel---Kaplan's Analysis

101

(1)

A Chance Meeting with Bernard Revel---Head of Yeshiva

102

(1)

Kaplan Visits Mill in Paterson in Search of a New Career

103

(1)

Kaplan Hears Woodrow Wilson Speak

103

(1)

Kaplan at the Shore---Depressed

104

(1)

Kaplan Reminisces when His Father Dies

104

(5)

Rabbis and Preaching---A Class Discussion

109

(1)

What Is Judaism---A Talk in Minneapolis

110

(2)

Kaplan on Ethical Culture

112

(2)

Students at the Seminary---Particularly Louis Finkelstein

114

(1)

A Victory for Jewish Education---The Talmud Torahs

115

(1)

A Talk at Columbia---Is Jewry a Sinking Ship?

115

(1)

Groundbreaking Ceremony at the Jewish Center

116

(2)

Jewish Boys Should Go Willingly into the Army

118

(1)

Bernard Revel and the Forces of Reaction

119

(1)

The Meaning of Judaism---An Outline of a New Approach

120

(1)

The Meaning of Succoth---Return to the Simple

121

(2)

The Jewish People: Stubborn or Strong?

123

(2)

The Seminary: New Developments and Old Problems

125

(1)

The Jewish Center Opens for Services

126

(1)

Kaplan Upset over the Center

127

(1)

Kaplan and the Center: To Lead or Not to Lead

128

(1)

Kaplan Becomes Rabbi of the Center

128

(1)

Will Center Members Return from the Shore for the Holidays

129

(1)

Kaplan Sings the Praises of Samson Benderly

130

(1)

September 17, 1918-August 31, 1922

131

(34)

``I Only Come to High Holiday Services for an Hour or So''

131

(1)

``I See by the Papers''---Kaplan Comments on the Jewish Press

131

(1)

The Great War Is Over

132

(1)

``Perhaps I Should Go and Live in Palestine''

133

(1)

Kaplan the Social Revolutionary

134

(1)

Making the Jewish Center Democratic---The Forty-Hour Week

134

(3)

Center Members Angry at Kaplan ``The Bolshevik''

137

(1)

Magnes Not Strong Enough to Lead the Kehilla

138

(1)

The Meaning of Golus [Exile]---We Have Not Yet Arrived

139

(1)

Kaplan Thinks about Going into the Silk Business

140

(1)

A Rabbi Should Have a Beard

140

(1)

A Question [She'elah] to Kaplan Concerning Cantor Rosenblatt

141

(1)

The Center Building Is Completed

141

(2)

Kaplan Meditates on Friedlaender's Death and Benderly's Depression

143

(1)

Finkelstein Gets ``Infected'' with the Scholarly Virus

144

(1)

Finkelstein and Kaplan---A Problematic Relationship

145

(1)

The Brandeis-Weizmann Controversy

145

(1)

Kaplan Alienated from His Congregation

146

(2)

Rabbi Leo Jung Denounces Kaplan

148

(1)

The Crisis at the Center

149

(4)

On Resigning from the Center

153

(1)

Kaplan Contemplates Joining Stephen Wise at Jewish Institute of Religion

153

(1)

Brandeis versus Weizmann

154

(1)

A Meeting with Weizmann

155

(1)

A Meeting with Brandeis

156

(3)

Organizing the Society for the Advancement of Judaism

159

(1)

The First Bat Mitzvah

159

(1)

Kaplan Defends Himself to Seminary Trustees

159

(2)

SAJ Dinner Dance---Kaplan Bored

161

(1)

Kaplans Sail for Europe

162

(2)

Kaplan Consults Finkelstein about Omitting the Kol Nidre

164

(1)

September 22, 1922-April 16, 1925

165

(42)

Questions and Answers---Why Remain a Jew?

165

(1)

Remembering the Center---Kaplan Happy He Left

166

(1)

Kaplan Loses His Temper

167

(1)

Kaplan Discusses His Belief in God

168

(1)

Examining Finkelstein for Rabbinic Ordination

169

(1)

Granting Finkelstein Rabbinic Ordination---The View Backstage

170

(1)

Kaplan and His Daughter Judith---Some Problems

171

(1)

Kaplan and Judith---Scene II

171

(1)

Finkelstein Speech Reactionary

172

(1)

Lack of Spirituality at the Seminary

173

(1)

S. Wise Invites Kaplan to Jewish Institute of Religion

174

(1)

Seminary Faculty Critical of Kaplan

174

(1)

Weizmann Visits the SAJ

175

(1)

Kaplan to Attend Zionist Congress

176

(1)

Kaplan at the Zionist Congress in Karlsbad

177

(1)

Spiritual Energy of the Zionist Movement

177

(1)

A Young Physician Gives Kaplan Advice on How to Organize His Work

178

(1)

Kaplan Arrives Home---Everyone Cheers

179

(1)

Kaplan Ponders Leaving JTS for JIR

179

(2)

Kaplan Thinks about a New Denomination and Leaving JTS

181

(2)

Interviewing Students for Rabbinical School

183

(1)

The Idea of Judaism as a Civilization Introduced at Friday Evening Services

184

(1)

Kaplan's Courses at the Seminary 1910-1924

184

(2)

The SAJ---The Center for American Civil Religion

186

(1)

A Dinner Dance at the Astor

187

(1)

Cyrus Adler and Kaplan Discuss Faith and Doubt

187

(1)

Kaplan Writes First Chapter of Judaism as a Civilization

188

(1)

Kaplan Feels He Should Be More Focused

188

(1)

A New Building for the Teachers Institute

189

(1)

Kaplan Depressed about the SAJ

190

(1)

Seminary Dinner---Kaplan Anxious

191

(1)

Adult Education at the Seminary---the Friedlaender Classes

191

(1)

Growing Pains at the SAJ

192

(1)

Arguing with Judith about the Sabbath

193

(1)

Kaplan Visits Scranton: The Complications of Setting up a Chapter of the SAJ

193

(2)

A Typical Day---Preparing---Teaching

195

(1)

This and That; Judith; A Seminary Afraid of the Truth

195

(1)

Kaplan Depressed

196

(1)

Kaplan Invited to Dedication of Hebrew University

196

(1)

Kaplan Sails for Jerusalem

197

(3)

Kaplan Visits the Weizmann Home

200

(1)

Kaplan Visits Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz

200

(1)

Weizmann on Board Ship Discusses Hertz

200

(1)

Weizmann---The Mediterranean Will Be a Jewish Lake

201

(1)

First Days in Jerusalem

201

(1)

A Walk to the Wall

202

(2)

A Tour of Bethlehem and Hebron

204

(1)

Opening of the Hebrew University---The Ceremony

204

(2)

Sokolow Speaks---A Gathering of the Famous

206

(1)

June 27, 1925-February 23, 1927

207

(37)

The Secular versus the Religious

207

(1)

A Young Liberal Rabbi Attracted to Hasidism

207

(2)

Studying Some Talmud in the Morning

209

(1)

Preparing a Course for School of Jewish Social Work

209

(1)

TI Faculty Discussion on Instruction in Hebrew

210

(1)

Happiness with Daughter Judith

211

(1)

First Time---Speaking to TI in Hebrew

212

(1)

Dr. Morgenstern, President of HUC, Interviews Kaplan

212

(1)

A Kol Nidre Student Sermon

213

(1)

Kaplan Defends Judith's Behavior at Camp

214

(1)

A Shivering Holiday

214

(1)

Kaplan Discusses God with a Reform Colleague

215

(1)

Lack of Faith among Seminary Students

216

(1)

To Go to HUC or Not to Go

217

(1)

Kaplan and Hebrew Union College---Scene II

217

(1)

Dedication of the SAJ and the Thirteen Wants

218

(1)

God as the Living Universe

218

(1)

Conversion---Accepting Women as Witnesses

219

(1)

Talking about God with Alice Seligsberg

220

(1)

Purim---Kaplan as the Grand Koogle Does the Charleston

221

(1)

God as Mystery---Questions from Rabbinical Students

221

(1)

The Prophetic Mood versus the Rabbinic Mood

222

(1)

Kaplan Meets H. N. Bialik and N. Sokolow

222

(1)

Kaplan Offered the Position as Head of Education in Palestine

223

(1)

Rav Tzair Agrees with Kaplan

223

(1)

Cecil Roth Calls on Kaplan

224

(1)

Kaplan's Ambivalence about Jewish Life

225

(1)

Ginzberg Fumes over Kaplan Sermon

226

(1)

Kaplan and Ginzberg at the Rabbinical Assembly

226

(4)

Self-Doubt---Kaplan Muses on His Education and Ability

230

(2)

Kaplan Helps out Recent JTS Graduates with Holiday Sermons

232

(1)

Kaplan Seeks Ginzberg's Advice

232

(1)

Gloomy over Lack of Achievement

233

(1)

Unhappy with Holiday Sermons

234

(1)

Belief in God and Palestine

235

(1)

Going to the Theater and Feeling Guilty

235

(1)

Reorganizing the ZOA

236

(2)

Weizmann Tells How He Helped the Orthodox

238

(1)

Kaplan Decides to Join Wise at the JIR

238

(1)

Kaplan Resigns from the Seminary

239

(2)

Kaplan Withdraws His Resignation

241

(3)

May 15, 1927-November 24, 1928

244

(39)

``Forty-Six and Still Not a Book to My Credit''

244

(1)

On Being Mediocre and Ambitious

244

(1)

Conservative Rabbis Meet at Asbury Park

245

(3)

Kaplan's Rabbinical Disciples Meet

248

(1)

The Problem of Evil

248

(2)

Worship at Camp---Not for Children

250

(1)

Seminary Student Life

250

(2)

A Heart-to-Heart Talk with Judith on How to Meet Men

252

(1)

Supports Assisted Suicide

252

(1)

Thoughts about Death and Faith at the Death of His Mother-in-Law

252

(2)

Being Tormented over a Public Mistake in Hebrew

254

(1)

Being Grateful for the Greeks---We Ought to Laugh at Our Gods

255

(1)

Midwest Conference---Expanding the SAJ

255

(1)

The Purpose of the Diary---To Keep the Past from Dying

256

(1)

Lunch with Weizmann

257

(1)

Laments Discrimination against Jews

258

(1)

Seeing an O'Neill Play---A Transvaluation of Value---Judith

258

(1)

A Discussion with Judith about Her Future---Is It Advisable for Her to Enter Jewish Work?

259

(1)

The Menorah Society Board Meeting---Lucius Littauer

259

(1)

Forty-Seven and Feeling Depressed

260

(1)

``Judaism as a Civilization''---A New Thought Tool

261

(1)

The RA Law Committee

262

(1)

Folkways: A Talk to the RA

262

(1)

Giving a Belief in God Back to the Students

263

(1)

Finally! Conducting A TI Faculty Meeting in Hebrew

264

(1)

Ambivalence---Wants to Quit SAJ, but Can't

264

(1)

Spinoza and the Belief in God

265

(1)

Henry Rosenthal---A Most Unusual Person

266

(3)

Speaking Hebrew Extemporaneously in Public

269

(1)

Meeting Harry A. Wolfson

269

(2)

The Sukkah---Symbol of a Simpler Life

271

(1)

Daughter Selma Has a Fright

271

(1)

Zionists Give a Reception for Allenby

272

(1)

Benderly Critical of TI Faculty to Their Faces

272

(1)

Visiting the Eldridge Street Synagogue---Memories from Boyhood

273

(2)

RA Committee on Law Discussed Priesthood and Funerals

275

(1)

Reading Klatzkin at Coney Island

276

(1)

The Council for the Advancement of Judaism

277

(1)

Which Is More Significant---My Theory about God or My Private Mental Tortures?

278

(1)

A Banquet at the Astor Hotel---Social Discomfort

279

(1)

A Messy Desk Means a Confused Mind?---Kaplan at Home

280

(1)

Meeting Tchernichowski---The Pagan

281

(1)

Thoughts on Art, Ghandi, and Ice Cream Soda

282

(1)

November 25, 1928-March 9, 1929

283

(31)

Tchernichowski

283

(1)

Dilemma of Introducing Tchernichowski---Praying and Hebrew

283

(2)

Unevenness of the Inner Life

285

(1)

A Hanukah Sermon---Past Does Not Give Guidance

286

(1)

Celebrating Hanukah---Tchernichowski Attends a Congregational Party

287

(1)

Solomon Schechter's Wit

287

(1)

Writing the Diary in the Third Person---The Ego and the Observer

288

(1)

Rebelling against Parents

289

(1)

Thoughts on Jewish Nationhood

290

(2)

SAJ as a New Denomination

292

(1)

Lecturing in Savannah, Georgia---A Description of the Jewish Community

292

(3)

A Sense of Beauty

295

(1)

Jewish Life in St. Louis

296

(1)

Impressions of Jewish Life in Small Town America

297

(4)

Reflections on Traveling

301

(1)

Spiritual Jews Need Wealthy Jews

301

(1)

Shalom Spiegel---Thoughts on a Play

302

(1)

S. Spiegel and Modern Hebrew Literature

303

(1)

Jabotinsky a Hero?

304

(1)

Rabbinical Students at JTS---Irritating

304

(1)

Reading and Reminiscing about European Yeshivas

305

(3)

Being in a Turbulent State

308

(1)

Thoughts on Mysticism---Some Distinctions

309

(1)

Mistakes Philosophy Makes Concerning God

310

(1)

A Dinner for Cyrus Adler---Mixed Feelings

310

(1)

Kabbalah and the Control of Nature

311

(1)

Cyrus Adler on Cyrus Adler

312

(1)

Judith Gets Angry

312

(2)

March 10, 1929-July 22, 1929

314

(33)

The Diary Saves Kaplan from Oblivion

314

(1)

Nincompoops at the Seminary

314

(1)

Judaism as a Civilization---Beginning the Book

315

(1)

Judith Reading Autobiography of Isadora Duncan---Kaplan Concerned

316

(1)

Bodily Discomfort

317

(1)

Believes His Religious Convictions Are ``Freud Proof''

317

(1)

Seeing a Yiddish Play with Lena and Judith

318

(1)

Student Religious Observance at TI---Some Issues

318

(1)

Henry Rosenthal---A Rabbinical Student with ``Beauty of Soul''

319

(1)

Reconstructing the Jewish Past---A Religion of Inwardness

319

(2)

Witnessing an Automobile Accident

321

(1)

Salo Baron Comes to the House for a Visit

321

(1)

Kaplan Entranced with the Jewish Sculptor Enrico Glicenstein

322

(1)

N. H. Imber and Hatikvah as a Metaphor

323

(1)

False Prophets in the Bible?

323

(1)

Does the Passion to Achieve Equal the Creative Urge?

323

(2)

A Hasidic Story at the Seder

325

(1)

The People of Israel and the Land of Israel

326

(4)

Max Kadushin Invited to Be Rabbi of the SAJ

330

(1)

``My Powers Are Not Equal to My Goal''

331

(1)

Family Complications

332

(1)

Feeling Spiritually Starved

332

(2)

Thinks He Always Looks Angry

334

(1)

Seeing a Movie and Feeling Guilty

335

(1)

Wearing a Tallit Katan and a Conversation on Heresy

336

(1)

Receiving an Honorary Doctorate from JTS

337

(1)

Could Work Harder

338

(1)

On Being Immortal through One's Writing: The Diary

339

(1)

Giving a Sermon---Kaplan Remembers His First

340

(1)

The Diary as Other

341

(1)

Meaning of Nationhood

341

(1)

Randomness and the Problem of Evil

342

(1)

Loses His Temper and Some Thoughts on Being a Rabbi

343

(3)

Solomon Goldman---A Court Case in Cleveland Regarding Orthodoxy

346

(1)

August 5, 1929-November 26, 1929

347

(35)

Benderly and the TI

347

(1)

Utilizing the Summer for Jewish Renewal

348

(1)

At the CeJwIn Camp---Teaching and Thinking

349

(2)

Making Jewish Civilization Significant and Some Thoughts on Felix Adler

351

(1)

Reconstructing Jewish Civilization

352

(2)

Commandments as Folkways

354

(1)

Reconstructing the Concept of Torah

355

(2)

Finding Relief from Writing in Sculpting

357

(1)

A Zionist Protest Rally against the Arab Massacre of Jews

358

(2)

Reconstructing the Jewish Religion

360

(2)

The Death of Louis Marshall

362

(1)

Spiritual Religion---Outline for a Course in Homiletics

362

(1)

A Man Named Schneersohn Comes to Dinner---The Enjoyment of Hasidic Melody

362

(2)

Helping Young Rabbis with Holiday Sermons---First Mention of Ira Eisenstein

364

(1)

Problem of Speaking Hebrew---Opening Exercises at TI

364

(1)

Teaching Religion at the TI

365

(1)

Louis Marshall's Funeral---R. M. Z. Margolies Attends

366

(2)

Judaism and the Sacred

368

(1)

Hebrew High Schools and the TI

369

(1)

Making a Bust of His Father

369

(1)

A Biographical Confession

370

(1)

Judaism as a Civilization---The Contest Spurs on the Book

371

(1)

Getting Closer to Judith

372

(1)

Kol Nidre at the SAJ---To Reinstate or Not

372

(2)

On Not Putting on Tephilin and Feeling Guilty

374

(1)

Teaching and Publishing and Lack of Support at JTS

374

(2)

The Value of the Philosophical and the Value of the Spiritual

376

(1)

Palestine as a Cultural Center---Support for Magnes

377

(1)

Spiritual Values

377

(1)

Robert Gordis Calls---Thoughts on Palestine

378

(4)

November 28, 1929-July 30, 1930

382

(37)

Preachers in Training: A Proposal

382

(1)

Rabbis Distort the Bible and the Prayers

382

(1)

A Sermon about Fear

383

(1)

Dr. Faitlowitch, the Falashas, and the Reality of God

384

(1)

A Bad Dream---Feeling Depressed---A Prayer

385

(1)

The Yarmulke as a Sign of Respect

385

(1)

TI Faculty Debates the Place of Hebrew Literature in the Curriculum

386

(1)

Sexual Thoughts Displace Torah Thoughts

386

(1)

God as an Attribute of Reality

387

(2)

God Declares All the Ten Commandments at Once

389

(1)

His Own Decreasing Religious Observance Surprises Him

390

(2)

The Effects of the Crash on Kaplan

392

(1)

``The Story of My Life''

393

(1)

A Family Tragedy---Feeling the Pain

393

(1)

Praying for a New Self

394

(1)

Twenty-Five Years in the Rabbinate---A Celebration

394

(1)

Relaxing and Reading Whitehead

395

(1)

Judenschmerz---or---Is Communism a Better Way?

395

(1)

Working on the Book---Knowing God

396

(1)

Working with the Committee on Law

397

(1)

Sacrifices: A Sermon on Sidra Vayikra

398

(2)

Doing a Conversion and Rabbis Who Have Little Faith

400

(1)

About Writing: ``I Am Like a Woman Who Constantly Miscarries''

400

(1)

The Plan of ``The Book''---``The Future of Judaism''

401

(1)

Ira Eisenstein Comes on Board at the SAJ

402

(1)

Getting Brandeis Back in the Zionist Movement

403

(1)

Brandeis and the Zionist Movement

403

(1)

On the Flyleaf: Kaplan Quotes from Books He Is Reading

404

(1)

Can We Teach Honesty While We Deceive Ourselves?

405

(1)

Rabbinical Students Found Wanting, but Not Felix Adler

405

(1)

Shir Ha-Shirim Rabba---To Edit or Not to Edit

406

(1)

A Conversation with Shalom Spiegel

407

(1)

A Religion Based on Experience---How to Teach It

408

(1)

Gratitude as the Basic Religious Virtue---How to Teach It

409

(4)

Work on ``The Book'' Going Well---Tasting ``the Bliss of Serentity''

413

(1)

A Philosophical Dialogue on the Nature of Evil

414

(5)

August 1, 1930-October 18, 1931

419

(38)

On the Existence of God---A New Way

419

(1)

Kaplan Annoyed at Kadushin's Criticisms of His MS

420

(1)

Idea of Judaism as a Civilization Taking Hold

420

(1)

How Wonderful to Work

421

(1)

``The Tradition is Untenable''---Explaining This to His Mother

421

(1)

A Shabbos Afternoon with J. D. Eisenstein

422

(1)

``Jews without Money''---A Great Book

423

(1)

Judaism and the World to Come

424

(1)

The Kol Nidre Caper

425

(1)

Eliminating the Second Day of Yom Tov

426

(1)

The New Year---The Pull of Zion

427

(1)

Being Happy---Set Realistic Goals

428

(1)

Becoming Dean Instead of Principal at the TI---The Real Story

428

(1)

Kol Nidre Again

429

(1)

Taking Care of My Animal---A Typical Day

429

(1)

The Kol Nidre---The Book---The Stock Market

430

(2)

God as Process

432

(1)

United Synagogue Problems

433

(1)

The Value of Sermons

433

(1)

A Conversation about Bialik and His Conversation

434

(1)

The Evils of Organized Religion---Louis Finkelstein and Other Problems

435

(2)

``I Should Have Gone into Philosophy''

437

(1)

The Self and Civilization

438

(2)

Mind and Body

440

(1)

Eisenstein Becomes Assistant Rabbi at the SAJ---Kaplan Organizes the Seminary College

440

(1)

Biblical Criticism---A Summary and Evaluation

441

(3)

Biblical Criticism---A Lecture Not Delivered

444

(1)

Thoughts on Dewey and Lenin

444

(2)

On Being Fifty Years Old and Mediocre

446

(1)

The Family Sings to Kaplan on His Birthday---In a G&S Mode

447

(3)

A Birthday Note from the JTS Faculty

450

(1)

Finishing ``Judaism as a Civilization''---``But It May Be Too Late''

451

(1)

A Candid Evaluation of Max Kadushin

451

(1)

Working on Shir Ha-Shirim Rabbah

452

(1)

Writing on the Sabbath---Sinning in Private

452

(1)

J. D. Eisenstein Visits

453

(1)

Why People Believe in God---God as Sovereign

453

(2)

``What I Did on My Summer Vacation''

455

(1)

Ritual Sheelot [Questions] to Kaplan

455

(1)

Shalom Spiegel Is ``Music to My Ears''

456

(1)

November 17, 1931-December 19, 1932

457

(33)

A JTS Meeting from the Inside

457

(1)

S. Spiegel Takes a Look at MS of Judaism as a Civilization

458

(1)

The Changing Functions of Religion---Outline of a Lecture

459

(3)

Louis Ginzberg Pays Kaplan a Visit

462

(1)

A Celebration: Finkelstein Speaks---And Praises Kaplan

463

(1)

H. Kohn Talks on Arab Nationalism

464

(2)

Solomon Goldman---A Critical Portrait

466

(1)

Kaplan and Family---Difficulties at Home

466

(1)

JTS Student in a Traffic Accident---The Agony

467

(3)

Talking with S. Spiegel about the Origin of Monotheism

470

(1)

The Threat and Attraction of Communism

470

(1)

Finkelstein and the Rabbinical Assembly

471

(1)

The Frustration of Teaching in Hebrew

472

(1)

On Feeling Dull

472

(1)

Kindergarten Educator Y. Halperin Visits

472

(2)

Salo Baron and Putting on Tephilin while Studying Talmud

474

(2)

Kaplan Elected President of the Rabbinical Assembly

476

(1)

A Rebbe and Rabbis: Israel Levinthal and Max Arzt

477

(1)

Trying to Win over Simon Greenberg

478

(1)

Courses for Rabbinical School Alumni

478

(1)

Reviewing a Book on Philo of Alexandria

479

(1)

Difficulties of Praying

480

(1)

Formulating the Basic Principles of the RA---Disagreements with Finkelstein

481

(1)

Socialism and the Spiritual

482

(1)

At Camp Modin---The Stench of Prayer

482

(1)

Jews and Negroes: Thoughts after Seeing a Musical on Negro History

483

(1)

Thinking about Brooks Atkinson on Shakespeare

484

(1)

Nostalgia for a Traditional Way of Life

485

(1)

Helping Rabbis with Their Rosh Hashanah Sermons

485

(1)

Jewish Civilization over American Civilization

486

(1)

Professional and Nonprofessional Jews---An Unfortunate Distinction

486

(1)

On Wearing a Skullcap at the JIR

487

(1)

Members of the RA Unhappy with Kaplan Speaking at the JIR

487

(1)

Kaplan's Next Book, ``The Meaning of God...,'' Takes Shape

488

(1)

Thoughts on the Meaning of Life in the Wake of a Terrible Accident

489

(1)

A Basic Question to Himself

489

(1)

December 20, 1932-June 1, 1934

490

(37)

Benderly---Kaplan's Best Friend

490

(1)

Communism Will Not Save Mankind

490

(1)

The Essay Contest---Being Nervous and Anxious

491

(1)

Witnessing a Divorce [GET] at the JTS---A Dismal Experience

491

(1)

Using Roosevelt Inaugural in a Sermon

492

(1)

Jewish Education and the Economic Crisis

493

(1)

One Thousand Attend a Gala Dinner for Einstein

494

(1)

Judaism and Social Revolution

495

(1)

A Critical Evaluation of Marx and the Jewish Alternative

496

(1)

Is All Effort Futile?---A Depressing Moment

497

(1)

A Talk with Benderly about the Orthodox

498

(1)

Rabbinical Students Protest the Curriculum

498

(1)

Listening to a Lecture by George B. Shaw

499

(1)

Spirituality and Needing Others

499

(2)

An Encyclopedia Article on Schechter

501

(1)

A Negro Folk Drama and a Jewish Play Compared

501

(1)

Anxieties about Judaism as a Civilization

502

(1)

Rise of Nazis Changes Study Plans for Kaplan's Daughter

503

(1)

A Friendly Gesture from Finkelstein

503

(2)

Praying Is a Form of Thinking

505

(1)

The Bas Mitzvah Is Neglected

506

(1)

Songs about Kaplan from the Family

506

(2)

The Contest---A Disappointment

508

(1)

Organizing the Midwest

509

(2)

Reading Ezekiel Kaufman---``Golah ve-nekhar''

511

(1)

A Conference on Jewish Life Organized by Kaplan

512

(1)

Kaplan Writes a Birthday Letter to Cyrus Adler

513

(1)

Hebrew in the Synagogue

514

(1)

Kaplan Pays a Subsidy to Macmillan to Publish His Book

514

(1)

So Much Misery! The Scottsboro Case

515

(1)

The Attractions of Communism

516

(1)

Modern Rabbis and Social Justice

517

(1)

An Example of Kaplan on Midrash and the Red Heifer

518

(1)

Preparing the Book for Publication

519

(1)

Ira Eisenstein and Judith Are Engaged

520

(1)

Proofs for the Book---Questions

520

(1)

Max Kadushin's Thinking Irritates Kaplan

520

(1)

Lenin and the Jews---A Critical Evaluation

521

(1)

At Long Last the Book Is Out! Two Reactions

522

(1)

``Everyone Lives Happily Ever After''---Ira and Judith Married

523

(2)

A Prayer for God Not to God

525

(2)

Glossary

527

(10)

Index

537

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