Norman J. Cohen

Hineini in Our Lives (eBook, ePUB)

Learning How to Respond to Others through 14 Biblical Texts & Personal Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One simple, powerful word-hineini-contains the key to deepening your relationship with God and with others.

Hineini (Here I am!). This single spoken word appears only fourteen times in the Bible-each time in a memorable and meaningful story: Abraham offering Isaac as a sacrifice to God, Jacob deceiving his father for Esau's birthright, Moses answering the call that comes from the Burning Bush.

Scholar and popular teacher Norman Cohen explores each of these powerful stories and shows what each can reveal about you as parent, spouse, sibling, lover, and friend. By probing these dynamic biblical relationships, Cohen challenges you to think about the ways you relate to the people in your life and God.

And, to add other fascinating perspectives to the conversation, eleven insightful authors and teachers share personal reflections that exemplify each of the hineini passages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580235242
• Artikelnr.: 49989650

Autorenporträt

Dr. Norman J. Cohen renowned for his expertise in Torah study and midrash, lectures frequently to audiences of many faiths. He is a rabbi, former provost of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and professor of midrash. He is the author of Self, Struggle & Change: Family Conflict Stories in Genesis and Their Healing Insights for Our Lives; Moses and the Journey to Leadership: Timeless Lessons of Effective Management from the Bible and Today's Leaders (both Jewish Lights); and other books.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading through the Prism of Midrash-Making the Text Our Own
PART I: FOURTEEN BIBLICAL TEXTS, FOURTEEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEANING
1. Recognizing the Other
2. Being Accessible to the Other
3. Awakening to Relationship
4. Response in the Everyday
5. Unqualified Openness: The Challenge and the Risk
6. Fulfilling Past Promises
7. The Significant Ramifications of Our Response to Others
8. Responding to the Other's Fears
9. The Reticence to Respond
10. The Difficulty of Discerning the Call
11. Fabricating the Call
12. The Ever-Present Other
13. The Ultimate Call
14. The Ultimate Response
PART II: PERSONAL STORIES: MAKING HINEINI COME ALIVE
Double Call
Rabbi Lester Bronstein
Jacob's Tangled Web
Alan Dershowitz
Bringing My Whole Self to God
Rabbi Laura Geller
Parallel Life Journeys
Rabbi Neil Gillman
Being Accessible to the Other in Our Lives
Rabbi Richard Jacobs
Hineini: The Calling?
Lawrence Kushner
The Story of a Calling
Peter Ascher Pitzele
I Am Not Supposed to Be Here
Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
The Challenge of Answering Hineini
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
One Hineini Against Another
Rabbi Harold Schulweis
Beholding Esau
Phyllis Trible
PART III: A GUIDE TO CREATING OUR OWN PERSONAL MIDRASH: FINDING YOUR OWN
VOICE IN THE TEXT
Notes