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Arguments for the Sake of Heaven
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Jewish Thought
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Publisher's PrefacePrefaceIntroduction
PART I; PROLOGUE
Chapter 1; A Family Portrait; Jews Today
PART II; PAST
Chapter 2; A Religion or a Nation?Chapter 3; Traditional Alternatives
PART III; PRESENT
Chapter 4; Contemporary AffirmationsChapter 5; The State of SurvivalChapter 6; What Is a Jew?Chapter 7; The Reemergence of Orthodoxy
PART IV; FUTURE
Chapter 8; Assimilationism and AssimilationChapter 9; The Radicalization of OrthodoxyChapter 10; Between Two CovenantsChapter 11; Tradition as ArgumentChapter 12; To Mend the Jewish World
PART V; EPILOGUE
Chapter 13; A Family Portrait; Jews Tomorrow
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Author: Jonathan Sacks
In Arguments for the Sake of Heaven, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks explores contemporary issues that influence Judaism and the controversies that affect its destiny. Setting out the traditional alternatives proposed by Rabbis Samson Raphael Hirsch, Moses Sofer, Abraham Isaac Kook, and Joseph Soloveitchik, Rabbi Sacks uses these models to examine today’s Jewish communities in the United States, England, and Israel. He proposes that in order to achieve Jewish unity, there must be “a candid acknowledgment of what divides Jews and an attempt to locate those divisions within the framework of tradition.”

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