Seeking Redemption in an Unredeemed World: Essays in Jewish Spirituality
Editor: Howard Avruhm Addison
Contributors: Howard Avruhm Addison, Barbara Eve Breitman, Julie Leavitt, Mordechai Liebling, Herbert J. Levine, James R. Michaels, Simcha Paull Raphael, Charlotte Sutker, Arthur Waskow, Elyssa Wortzman
Page count: 320
Year: 2019
Publisher: GTF Books
Table of Contents
Foreword...............................vii
Preface...............................xi
Editor’s Note...............................xv
on Transliteration, Abbreviation, Textual References
and…Gratitude
Introduction: Celebrating Partial Redemptions (Howard Avruhm Addison)...............................19
Yeshu•ah/Salvation...............................29
The Arc of Becoming: Process Theology and Jewish Spiritual Direction (Barbara Eve Breitman)...............................31
Choreography of Presence (Julie Leavitt)...............................65
Building “Conscious Community” through Art, Imagination and Ritual (Elyssa Wortzman)...............................87
Hatzalah/Deliverance...............................117
Saying “We Believe”: The Blessings of Local Interfaith Dialogue (James R. Michaels)...............................119
New Psalms for a Jewish Paradigm Shift (Herbert J. Levine)...............................139
Pidyon/Release and Restoration...............................155
You Heal Me Through Dreams… (Howard Avruhm Addison)...............................157
Re-Discovering the Afterlife (Simcha Paull Raphael)...............................193
The Soul Lives On: Converts to Judaism and Past Lives (Charlotte Sutker)...............................215
Ge•ulah/ Redemption...............................253
The Shofar and the White House: Festival, Midrash and Eco-Social Justice (Arthur Waskow)...............................255
Imagining a Jewish Theology of Liberation (Mordechai Liebling)...............................281
Contributors...............................307