Israel

by Heschel, Abraham Joshua; Rattner, Abraham; Heschel, Susannah; Rattner, Abraham

• ISBN13: 9781879045705
• ISBN10: 1879045702
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub

Summary

A powerful and eloquent statement on the meaning of Israel in our time.

Table of Contents

New Introduction	xvii
Susannah Heschel
Jerusalem---a charismatic city
You Only See When You Hear	5	(4)
The Intimation of an Answer	9	(5)
The Widow is a Bride Again	14	(5)
The Wall	19	(9)
City in Trance	28	(5)
The Challenge	33	(10)
Engagement to the land
To Repudiate the Bible?	43	(2)
The Bible is Our Destiny	45	(2)
The Eclipse of the Bible	47	(2)
Singularity	49	(3)
The Drama	52	(2)
Continuously Asserting Our Right	54	(4)
In Dialogue with the Land	58	(2)
Memory	60	(7)
Dwelling in the Land	67	(18)
Emissaries	85	(8)
Between hope and distress
Hope	93	(3)
Waiting	96	(3)
Promise	99	(5)
Distress	104	(5)
The Miracle of the Resurrection	109	(2)
Disaster	111	(4)
Pioneers	115	(4)
The Land	119	(8)
Israel and meaning in history
Memory of History	127	(4)
History is not Consumed	131	(3)
Living Toward Redemption	134	(2)
Mount Sinai and Mount Moriah	136	(3)
The Allegorization of the Bible	139	(6)
Body and Spirit	145	(3)
Immediacy of Meaning	148	(7)
Jews, Christians, Arabs
Two Levels of Redemption	155	(6)
The Christian Approach	161	(7)
Islam and the Land of Israel	168	(5)
Arabs and Israel	173	(22)
A rendezvous with history
A Rendezvous with History	195	(5)
Remember	200	(2)
A Re - Examination	202	(3)
A Spiritual Underground	205	(3)
Gratitude	208	(3)
A community of Concern	211	(2)
Peace	213	(6)
Meaning	219	(8)
Index	227