Being Jewish Today gives an account of both the journey of a particular British Jew and the journey of millions of women and men through today's perplexing and difficult world. With honesty and integrity Rabbi Tony Bayfield breaks new ground in exploring the meaning of Jewish identity and its relationship to Jewish tradition and belief. He does so from the perspective of a person fully integrated into the modern Western world. The rigorous questions he asks of his Jewishness, Judaism and the Jewish God are therefore substantially the same as those asked by individuals of all faiths and none.
Beginning with an account of the journey of Jewish people and thought from ancient times to the present day, Bayfield goes on to consider Jewish identity, Israel as land and the scourge of anti-Semitism. He then turns to the twin concerns of Torah: Halakhah - practice, and Aggadah - ethics, along with the matter of belief in a world faced with global extinction. Finally, in addressing the manifest injustice of life, Rabbi Bayfield confronts the widely evaded questions of universal suffering and divine inaction.
Drawing on key religious and secular thinkers who contribute to the force of his argument, Bayfield's masterful, challenging and urgent book will appeal to all Jews, whether religious or cultural, and to anyone curious about the nature of Judaism and religion today.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In a world where anti-semitism is on the rise, the Jewish community is under threat throughout the world. With far right governments being elected in Poland, Hungary and Austria, the rhetoric has dreadful echoes of Germany in the 1930s. Rabbi Bayfield was until recently President of the UK Movement for Reform Judaism. He is intensely aware of the pressure on modern Jewish people marrying outside the community, anti-Israel prejudice, the effects of the feminist movement and the campaign for gay and lesbian rights have all had their impact and have in many ways atomised the Jewish community itself.This leads to a fundamental reconsideration of Jewish identity, of a revitalisation of study of the Torah, of the intellectual case for a religion based on a Covenant and Law made millennia ago. The Jewish religion today is based as it always has been on tradition and hope, both commodities in poor supply at the moment. Rabbi Bayfield draws on key Jewish thinkers who can contribute to the force of his argument Levinas, Maimonides, Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Sacks, Spinoza, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Walter Benjamin and Stephen Jay Gould. Rabbi Bayfield's book is written to appeal to all Jewish people, whether religious or cultural, and to increase the understanding and self-understanding of Judaism today. This is a book which understands and faces the impact of modernity on the Jewish community today. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781472962089
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