On repentance : in the thought and oral discourses of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik / Pinchas H. Peli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peli, Pinchas.

Contributor:

Soloveitchik, Joseph Dov, 1903-1993

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Standardized Title:

ʻAl ha-teshuvah. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Repentance--Judaism.

Repentance.

Jewish ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st Rowman & Littlefield ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2004.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For five decades prior to his death in 1993, Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik was the unchallenged leader of modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States. His understanding of both traditional Judaism and secular philosophy shaped two generations of rabbinic students at Yeshiva University, and charted a new course for American Orthodox Jews. In On Repentance, noted scholar Pinchas Peli has gathered the major points of Rabbi Soloveitchik's teachings on teshuvah (repentance), based on the annual series of lectures on the theme of teshuvah, presented on the anniversary of his father's death.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Biographical Notes; Foreword; Introduction; Acquittal and Purification; Purification Impossible; The Path of Sinners and the Path of Sin; Abundant Loving-Kindness and Truth; A Time to Speak and a Time to be Silent; An Abigail Follows Every Sinner; Two Immersions; The Power of Confession; Service of the Heart; Repentance-As Service of the Heart; ""I Beseech Thee, O Lord""; Confession Before God Alone; God Before Man Sins, God After Man Sins; ""For There Was his Home""; Confession, Sacrifice, Remorse and Shame

The Individual and the CommunityCommunal Sacrifice and Joint Sacrifice; Individual Atonement and Communal Atonement; Itzumo Shel Yom (Essence of the Day) Without Repentance; The Individual in the Community; Two Confessions; Faith-Belief in Knesset Israel; The Relationship Between Repentance and Free Choice; Two Aspects of Faith; The Unseeing Spectator; Coercion and Free Choice; The Illness of Sin and the Cure of Repentance; In the Morning, When the Wine has Gone Out; On the Danger of the Repetition of Sin; The Testimony of the Almighty; Repentance of Redemption; The Redemption of Israel

Free Choice and the Formation of the PersonalityCommunal Prayer and Individual Prayer; Man's Singularity; The Resurrection of the Dead and the Immortality of the Soul; Thou Shouldst Enter the Covenant of the Lord; Two Principles on Release From Vows; The Definition of ""Error""; The Equation: Sin-Sickness; Sin as an Anti-Aesthetic Experience; Repentance Which Requires no Resolve Forthe Future; Repentance Which Begins With Resolution for the Future; Two Sanctuaries Within Man; The Oath Formula in Confession; Toward the Formation of a Rbnewed Covenant; The Bondage That Releases all Bonds

On This Sanctified DayBlotting out Sin or Elevating Sin; Confession-A Separate Category; Despair and Faith Together; ""When any Person Among you Bring an Offering""; Repentance Motivated by Love Versus Repentance from Fear; The Dynamics of Sin; The Intensity of Longing; Expiation, Sufering and Redemption; Of Pardon and Forgiveness; A Trace of Something (""Mashehu""); An Halakhic Element in the Reduction of Sentence; A Second Halakhic Element: Exchange; Suffering and Prayer; The Third Element: Casting Lots; Moving Away from and Toward Him; Joshua's Conquest and Sanctification of Ezra

Returning from the Exile of Sin

Notes:

Previously published: On repentance. Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, 1996; Soloveitchik on repentance. New York : Paulist Press, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

979-82-16-43693-5

1-4616-2987-X

1-283-61764-1

9786613930095

OCLC:

1342134956