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Reason to Believe - The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs (Hardcover)
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Reason to Believe - The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs (Hardcover)
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Louis Jacobs was Britain’s most gifted Jewish scholar. A Talmudic
genius, outstanding teacher and accomplished author, cultured and
easy-going, he was widely expected to become Britain’s next Chief
Rabbi. Then controversy struck. The Chief Rabbi refused to appoint
him as Principal of Jews’ College, the country’s premier
rabbinic college. He further forbade him from returning as rabbi to
his former synagogue. All because of a book Jacobs had written some
years earlier, challenging from a rational perspective the
traditional belief in the origins of the Torah. The British Jewish
community was torn apart. It was a scandal unlike anything they had
ever previously endured. The national media loved it. Jacobs became
a cause celebre, a beacon of reason, a humble man who wouldn’t be
compromised. His congregation resigned en masse and created a new
synagogue for him in Abbey Road, the heart of fashionable 1960s
London. It became the go-to venue for Jews seeking reasonable
answers to questions of faith. A prolific author of over 50 books
and hundreds of articles on every aspect of Judaism, from the
basics of religious belief to the complexities of mysticism and
law, Louis Jacobs won the heart and affection of the mainstream
British Jewish community. When the Jewish Chronicle ran a poll to
discover the Greatest British Jew, Jacobs won hands down. He said
it made him feel daft. Reason To Believe tells the dramatic and
touching story of Louis Jacobs’s life, and of the human drama
lived out by his family, deeply wounded by his rejection.
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