Unfinished Rabbi

The most important writings from a lifetime of work by one of the most influential Jewish thinkers in American life over the last half-century. The finest English stylist in the American rabbinate. says Eugene Borowitz. These selections display Rabbi Wolf's boldness of faith, his uncommon respect for students and congregants, and his rare qualities of humanity.

Preface

ix

(2)

Editor's Note

xi

(2)

Foreword

xiii

Eugene B. Borowitz

PART ONE. RABBI AND CONGREGATION

4

(16)

The Rabbi Is a Teacher

4

(3)

What Is a Rabbi? Two Generations' Views

7

(6)

Building the Next Generation of Jewish Leaders

13

(7)

PART TWO. BELIEFS

20

(29)

On Jewish Faith

20

(6)

Remember to Remember

26

(11)

Theology

37

(5)

There Is No Judaism But Orthodoxy-But All Jews Are Really Reform

42

(7)

PART THREE. MITZVOT

49

(27)

Shabbat and Festivals

49

(6)

Rediscovering the Obligation of Welcoming Guests

55

(6)

The Prohibition of Shaming Others

61

(4)

The Obligation of Asking Forgiveness

65

(4)

The Mitzvah of Sex

69

(7)

PART FOUR. JUDAISM AS SOCIAL ACTIVISM

76

(32)

A Theology of Activism

76

(4)

Civil Rights

80

(4)

The Negro Revolution and Jewish Theology

84

(11)

Vietnam

95

(7)

The Cities

102

(3)

Money

105

(3)

PART FIVE. TEACHING

108

(30)

Educating

108

(5)

Teaching the Bible Today

113

(11)

The University

124

(4)

"Find a Lifeboat": The Insecurity of Intellectual Life Today

128

(10)

PART SIX. ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST

138

(22)

Pursuing Peace

138

(6)

"Breira" and Dissent in American Jewry

144

(5)

Looking at Israel

149

(1)

Zionist Dreams, Israeli Reality

150

(5)

Israel as the False Messiah

155

(5)

PART SEVEN. JUDAISM AND OTHER FAITHS

160

(20)

A Jewish-Japanese Encounter: The Emperor's Brother, Friend of the Jews

160

(7)

Jews and Christianity

167

(2)

Rabbi in Nairobi

169

(6)

Seeking Community: Address to the World Council of Churches

175

(5)

PART EIGHT. OUR TIMES

180

(22)

The New Assimilationists

180

(7)

Elections

187

(7)

The Shoah

194

(2)

Overemphasizing the Holocaust

196

(6)

PART NINE. PSYCHOTHERAPY AS JUDAISM

202

(10)

Psychoanalysis and Religious Experience

202

(10)

PART TEN. PERSONALITIES

212

(24)

Abraham Joshua Heschel

212

(3)

Mordecai M. Kaplan

215

(2)

Mordechai Martin Buber

217

(2)

Yeshayahu Leibowitz

219

(5)

Jean-Paul Sartre

224

(5)

The Theology of "Yitz" Greenberg

229

(5)

Nettie S. Wolf

234

(2)

PART ELEVEN. MY LIFE

236

(25)

Fragments of My Life

236

(13)

Moments in My Life

249

(4)

A Sermon for Rosh Hashanah, 1991

253

(8)

Index

261

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