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The Last Words of Moses
Micah Goodman; Translated by Ilana Kurshan
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R635
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A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author "A
must for anyone who wants to understand the tectonic forces
underlying Israeli politics."-Rabbi Robert Orkand, Reform Judaism
"An eloquent expression of the distant hope that deeply committed
human beings can stop, inhale deeply, listen, change, and
compromise."-Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Since the Six-Day War,
Israelis have been entrenched in a national debate over whether to
keep the land they conquered or to return some, if not all, of the
territories to Palestinians. In 2017, best-selling Israeli author
Micah Goodman published a balanced and insightful analysis of the
situation that quickly became one of Israel's most debated books of
the year. Now available in English translation with a new preface
by the author, Catch-67 deftly sheds light on the ideas that have
shaped Israelis' thinking on both sides of the debate, and among
secular and religious Jews about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Contrary to opinions that dominate the discussion, he shows that
the paradox of Israeli political discourse is that both sides are
right in what they affirm-and wrong in what they deny. Although he
concludes that the conflict cannot be solved, Goodman is far from a
pessimist and explores how instead it can be reduced in scope and
danger through limited, practical steps. Through philosophical
critique and political analysis, Goodman builds a creative,
compelling case for pragmatism in a dispute where a comprehensive
solution seems impossible.
A publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in
Israel, the original Hebrew edition of Maimonides and the Book That
Changed Judaism has been called the most successful book ever
published in Israel on the preeminent medieval Jewish thinker Moses
Maimonides. The works of Maimonides, particularly The Guide for the
Perplexed, are reckoned among the fundamental texts that influenced
all subsequent Jewish philosophy and also proved to be highly
influential in Christian and Islamic thought. Spanning subjects
ranging from God, prophecy, miracles, revelation, and evil, to
politics, messianism, reason in religion, and the therapeutic role
of doubt, Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism elucidates
the complex ideas of The Guide in remarkably clear and engaging
prose. Drawing on his own experience as a central figure in the
current Israeli renaissance of Jewish culture and spirituality,
Micah Goodman brings Maimonides's masterwork into dialogue with the
intellectual and spiritual worlds of twenty-first-century readers.
Goodman contends that in Maimonides's view, the Torah's purpose is
not to bring clarity about God but rather to make us realize that
we do not understand God at all; not to resolve inscrutable
religious issues but to give us insight into the true nature and
purpose of our lives.
A celebrated Israeli author explores the roots of the divide
between religion and secularism in Israel today, and offers a path
to bridging the divide "A thoughtful social, political, and
philosophical examination of Judaism. . . . A cogent consideration
of the place of religion in the modern world."-Kirkus Reviews
Zionism began as a movement full of contradictions, between a pull
to the past and a desire to forge a new future. Israel has become a
place of fragmentation, between those who sanctify religious
tradition and those who wish to escape its grasp. Now a new middle
ground is emerging between religious and secular Jews who want to
engage with their heritage-without being restricted by it or losing
it completely. In this incisive book, acclaimed author Micah
Goodman explores Israeli Judaism and the conflict between religion
and secularism, one of the major causes of political polarization
throughout the world. Revisiting traditional religious sources and
seminal works of secularism, he reveals that each contains an
openness to learn from the other's messages. Goodman challenges
both orthodoxies, proposing a new approach to bridge the divide
between religion and secularism and pave a path toward healing a
society torn asunder by extremism.
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