Encountering God

El Rachum V'chanun—God Merciful and Gracious

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2016
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-68442-900-4 (ISBN)

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Contributors from across the spectrum of Jewish life chart the importance of the Thirteen Attributes of God. They explore the kind of God Jews meet in prayer and the consequent self-reflection about the human condition that Judaism recommends on the basis of its idealized image of God as, above all, merciful and gracious.

When it comes to God, it is not belief that matters but experience. Where, in human life, does Judaism promise the possibility of experiencing God?

The Thirteen Attributes (Adonai, Adonai, el rachum v'chanun), a small but critical prayer with which Yom Kippur begins and ends, highlights the Jewish insistence that the God of Jewish tradition is experienced through love. Of all prayers, this one especially tackles head-on the way we encounter God and how that encounter informs the purpose behind human life itself.

Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars and rabbis, artists and thinkers from all Jewish denominations and from around the world—explain how finite human beings can know an infinite God. They explore the history and significance of the attributes that the Hebrew Bible ascribes to God—and how Jewish tradition refines and recasts them as the best way also to understand human nature and our search for meaning.

Prayers of Awe: A multi-volume series designed to explore the High Holy Day liturgy and enrich the praying experience for everyone—whether experienced worshipers or guests who encounter Jewish prayer for the very first time

Contributors:

Rabbi Jonathan Blake
Dr. Annette M. Boeckler
Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler
Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson
Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander, CM, DHL, DD Rabbi David Ellenson, PhD
Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL
Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD
Rabbi Aaron Goldstein
Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD
Rabbi Walter Homolka, PhD, DHL Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, DHL
Dr. Sharon Koren
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Catherine Madsen
Rabbi Jonathan Magonet, PhD
Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD
Ruth W. Messinger
Rabbi Charles H. Middleburgh, PhD Rabbi Jay Henry Moses
Rabbi Julia Neuberger
Rabbi Sonja Keren Pilz, PhD
Rabbi Nicole Roberts
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, DMin
Rabbi Dennis C. Sasso, DMin
Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, DMin Rabbi David A. Teutsch, PhD
Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, PhD
Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, DD
Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel
Dr. Wendy Zierler

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman,PhD, has served for more than three decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He is a world-renowned liturgist and holder of the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual. His work combines research in Jewish ritual, worship and spirituality with a passion for the spiritual renewal of contemporary Judaism. His many books, written and edited, include seven volumes in the Prayers of Awe series: Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef; All These Vows—Kol Nidre; We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet; May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor; All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days; Naming God: Avinu Malkeinu—Our Father, Our King; and Encountering God: El Rachum V'chanun—God Merciful and Gracious. Hoffman also edited the ten-volume series My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and coedited My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (all Jewish Lights). Rabbi Hoffman cofounded and developed Synagogue 2/3000, a transdenominational project to envision and implement the ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first century. In that capacity, he wrote Rethinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life (Jewish Lights).

Erscheinungsdatum	26.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	Prayers of Awe Series
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Paducah, KY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	1-68442-900-5 / 1684429005
ISBN-13	978-1-68442-900-4 / 9781684429004
Zustand	Neuware