The Journey Home Discovering the Deep Spiritual Wisdom of the Jewish Tradition

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman is widely recognized as a leader in bringing spiritual innovation into modern Jewish life and worship. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study, he explores the Jewish way of being in the world-the Jewish relationship to God and to questions of human purpose that lie just below the surface of biblical and rabbinic literature.

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman is professor of liturgy of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He is a regular contributor to The Jewish Week and lectures widely to Jewish and Christian audiences. Author of Israel: A Spiritual Travel Guide, coauthor of What Is a Jew?, and editor of the My People's Prayer Book series, Hoffman is also the author of many scholarly works on Judaism. He lives in Rye, New York.

Chapter One Returning Home:
Spirituality with Jewish Integrity

Chapter Two Connecting the Dots:
The Spirituality of Jewish Metaphor

Chapter Three Living with Blessings:
The Spirituality of Stewardship

Chapter Four Living by Torah:
The Spirituality of Discovery

Chapter Five Having a Home:
The Spirituality of Landedness

Chapter Six Spiritual Thinking:
The Spirituality of Translation

Chapter Seven When It Is Night:
Spirituality for the Suffering

Chapter Eight A Fourth Generation:
Spirituality of Community