Introduction: Reading through the Prism of MidrashMaking the Text Our Own
xvii
PART I: FOURTEEN BIBLICAL TEXTS, FOURTEEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEANING
1
(112)
1. Recognizing the Other
3
(10)
2. Being Accessible to the Other
13
(8)
3. Awakening to Relationship
21
(8)
4. Response in the Everyday
29
(8)
5. Unqualified Openness: The Challenge and the Risk
37
(8)
6. Fulfilling Past Promises
45
(8)
7. The Significant Ramifications of Our Response to Others
53
(8)
8. Responding to the Other's Fears
61
(8)
9. The Reticence to Respond
69
(8)
10. The Difficulty of Discerning the Call
77
(8)
11. Fabricating the Call
85
(8)
12. The Ever-Present Other
93
(8)
13. The Ultimate Call
101
(6)
14. The Ultimate Response
107
(6)
PART II: PERSONAL STORIES: MAKING H1NEINI COME ALIVE
113
(62)
Double Call
117
(4)
Rabbi Lester Bronstein
Jacob's Tangled Web
121
(4)
Alan Dershowitz
Bringing My Whole Self to God
125
(4)
Rabbi Laura Geller
Parallel Life Journeys
129
(4)
Rabbi Neil Gillman
Being Accessible to the Other in Our Lives
133
(8)
Rabbi Richard Jacobs
Hineini: The Calling?
141
(4)
Lawrence Kushner
The Story of a Calling
145
(8)
Peter Ascher Pitzele
I Am Not Supposed to Be Here
153
(4)
Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
The Challenge of Answering Hineini
157
(6)
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
One Hineini Against Another
163
(6)
Rabbi Harold Schulweis
Beholding Esau
169
(6)
Phyllis Trible
PART III: A GUIDE TO CREATING OUR OWN PERSONAL MIDRASH: FINDING YOUR OWN VOICE IN THE TEXT
175
(12)
Notes
187
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