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Breaking the tablets : Jewish theology after the Shoah / David Weiss Halivni ; edited and introduced by Peter Ochs.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halivni, David Weiss, 1927-2022.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust (Jewish theology).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- God (Judaism).
- Prayer--Judaism.
- Prayer.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Bible. Pentateuch--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Pentateuch.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 137 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007]
- Summary:
- How is it possible, after the Shoah, to declare one's faith in the God of Israel? Breaking the Tablets is David Weiss Halivni's eloquent and insightful response to this question. Halivni, Auschwitz survivor and one of the greatest Talmudic scholars of the past century, declares that at this time of God's near absence, Jews can still observe the words of the Torah and pray for God to come near again.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Between Sinai and Auschwitz x
- 1 Prayer in the Shoah 1
- 2 Restoring Scripture 43
- 3 Breaking the Tablets and Begetting the Oral Law 65
- 4 Epilogue: Between Auschwitz and Sinai 103
- Contemporary Works Cited 117.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-119) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780742552203
- 0742552209
- 9780742552210
- 0742552217
- OCLC:
- 123377237
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