Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering

by Carmy, Shalom; Hirt, Robert S.; Orthodox Forum 1995 (New York, N. Y.)

• ISBN13: 9780765760500
• ISBN10: 0765760509
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc

Summary

This collection of essays seeks to understand the tension between contemporary and traditional elements in the thought, practices, and life of Modern Orthodox Jewry. Together, they are a fascinating study of the balance that occurs between modernity and traditionalism, whereby faith and practice emerge from the encounter adapted but not wholly transformed.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Shalom Carmy
The Long and Winding Road: By Way of Introduction	1	(20)
Shalom Carmy
The Duties of the Heart and Response to Suffering	21	(42)
Aharon Lichtenstein
Pain: Halakha and Hashkofah	63	(34)
Moshe D. Tendler
``Tell Them I've Had a Good Enough Life''	97	(58)
Shalom Carmy
The Contribution of Rabbinic Thought to a Theology of Misfortune	155	(58)
Yaakov Elman
Metapsychological Dimensions of Religious Suffering: Common Ground between Halakhic Judaism and Psychoanalysis	213	(64)
Moshe Halevi Spero
Theological Responses to the Hurban from within the Hurban	277	(20)
Nehemia Polen
Popular Jewish Religious Responses during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath	297	(34)
Yaffa Eliach
Annotated Bibliography to the Problem of Evil	331	(14)
Yitzchak Blau
Contributors	345	(2)
Index	347