by Lippman
Bodoff
The author focuses on a number of pertinent questions that help
explain how to create a Jewish ethical and moral society:
What really happened at the binding of Isaac? How was the traditional
interpretation of this pivotal moment in Jewish history misapplied
in Christian theology and Jewish martyrology? Is there even a
case for religious murders in Jewish thought and in the growing
appeal of Jewish mysticism?
What are the underlying premises of Jewry's claim to the Divinely
Promised Land? Have the Jewish people forfeited this claim by
its failure to pursue an active program of nationalism?
How has Judaism developed from its rational, cultural, classical
interest in every aspect of God's creation to its current, largely
insular, rigid and kabbalistically oriented Orthodoxy, in which
even Divine miracles and magic are claimed by certain sages? What
has precipitated the gulf within Orthodoxy between the Hasidic-kabbalistic
sects and the Modern Orthodox?
These, and other modern-day questions, including the proper
relationship between religion and the State, are analyzed and
fully discussed in this groundbreaking volume.
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