The story of Abraham smashing his father's idols might be the
most important Jewish story ever told and the key to how Jews
define themselves. In a work at once deeply erudite and wonderfully
accessible, Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin conducts readers through the
life and legacy of this powerful story and explains how it has
shaped Jewish consciousness.
Offering a radical view of Jewish existence, "The Gods Are
Broken " views the story of the young Abraham as the "primal
trauma" of Jewish history, one critical to the development of a
certain Jewish comfort with rebelliousness and one that, happening
in every generation, has helped Jews develop a unique identity.
Salkin shows how the story continues to reverberate through the
ages, even in its connection to the phenomenon of
anti-Semitism.
Salkin's work--combining biblical texts, archaeology, rabbinic
insights, Hasidic texts (some never before translated), philosophy,
history, poetry, contemporary Jewish thought, sociology, and
popular culture--is nothing less than a journey through two
thousand years of Jewish life and intellectual endeavor.
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