Teshuvah A Guide for the Newly Observant Jew

Name: Teshuvah A Guide for the Newly Observant Jew
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ISBN: 9780029311509

ISBN-10: 0029311500

ISBN-13: 9780029311509

Edition: N/A

Authors: Adin Steinsaltz

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List price: $24.95
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.154
Language: English

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is the editor and translator of Random House's twenty-two-volume edition of the Talmud. He is also the author of many volumes on Jewish thought and practice and has been a resident scholar at both Yale University and the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1988 he was invited to open a Judaic studies center in Moscow, the first such institution in the former Soviet Union in sixty years. Rabbi Steinsaltz lives in Israel.



Preface


The Meaning of Teshuvah


Teshuvah in the Modern World


All or Nothing: The False Dilemma


Where to Begin?


Actions and Intentions


Lapses and Crises


Problems of Faith


Seriousness and Restraint


The Relation to the Past


Heritage and Family


Social Relations


Jews and Non-Jews


The Observant Community


Talmud Torah


Prayer


Shabbat


The Festivals


Pesah


Kashrut


The Home


The Woman's Role


Martial Relations


Dress


Money


Questions and Answers on Teshuvah


Glossary


Suggestions for Further Reading


Index