In God's Mirror : Reflections and Essays

by Schulweis, Harold M.; Greenberg, Irving

• ISBN13: 9780881258059
• ISBN10: 0881258059
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Ktav Pub Inc

Table of Contents

Prologue	ix
Introduction	xv
Rabbi Irving Greenberg
In God's Mirror	xix
Pluralism	1	(50)
Jewish Apartheid	3	(13)
The Pendulum of Pluralism	16	(7)
Love with a Bear Hug Around My Soul	23	(9)
From Either/Or to Both/And	32	(19)
The Holocaust	51	(46)
Letting Go/Holding On	53	(13)
Who Are ``They'' to Me?	66	(4)
My Goldfish and Anti-Semitism	70	(3)
Suffering and Evil	73	(24)
Family and Synagogue	97	(118)
Fiddler on a Hot Tin Roof: Portrait of the Mishpachah	99	(14)
Jewish Parents and the Pressures on the Upwardly Mobile Child	113	(6)
Between Sesame and Wall Streets: An Appeal to the Bar and Bat Mitzvah	119	(12)
Raised in an Addictive Culture	131	(10)
Countering the Attraction of Cults: An Argument for Rabbinic and Lay Collegiality	141	(15)
Sex and the Single God	156	(12)
The Hyphen Between the Cross and the Star: Mixed Marriage	168	(10)
Riteless Passages and Passageless Rites	178	(10)
Inreach: Ways Towards Family Empowerment	188	(11)
The Stranger in Our Mirror: Jews by Choice	199	(12)
Tying One's Shoelaces: A Parable for Home and School	211	(4)
Rituals and Festivals	215	(94)
The Shabbat
Kiddush	217	(2)
Kiddush: Jewish Philosophy Squeezed in a Cup of Wine	219	(5)
Havdalah: The Wisdom of Separation	224	(6)
Havdalah: A Song of Distinction	230	(3)
Festivals
Ha-Motzi: Social Ethics in a Loaf of Bread	233	(5)
Overview: Celebration and Commemoration	238	(3)
Space and Time: The Serious Side of High Holy Day Seating	241	(4)
Rosh Hashanah: Creation and Creativity: Meaning and Meanings	245	(4)
Rosh Hashanah: As Servants or as Children?	249	(3)
Yom Kippur: Concealments and Revelations	252	(8)
Sukkot: Imagining Zaydeh's Sukkah	260	(3)
Passover: Commentaries on the Seder	263	(6)
Passover: Elijah's Cup Is Empty	269	(3)
Passover: No Blessing Over the Broken Matzah	272	(3)
Passover: Remembering Shifra and Puah	275	(6)
The Miracles of Passover	281	(3)
Chanukah: To Make a Something Out of Something	284	(3)
Purim: Cursing Haman, Blessing Mordecai	287	(3)
Shavuot: In Quest of Spirituality	290	(6)
Kaddish, Yizkor, and Yahrzeit
It Is Never Too Late	296	(2)
Closure	298	(2)
Strange Envy	300	(2)
I Am Older Now: A Yahrzeit Candle Lit at Home	302	(2)
Holding On and Letting Go	304	(2)
Life and Death	306	(3)
Acknowledgments	309