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1 | Approaching Judaism | 1 |
Judaism as a religion | 1 | |
2 | The roots of belief and practice - the Bible | 15 |
A people's history and its significance | 15 | |
The structure of the Jewish Bible | 16 | |
The content of the Torah | 19 | |
The content of the Neviim | 23 | |
The content of the Ketuvim | 27 | |
Interpreting the Bible | 28 | |
Transmitting and translating the Bible | 30 | |
3 | The chain of tradition - the Talmud | 33 |
The written and the oral Torah | 33 | |
The varieties of Second Temple Judaism | 35 | |
Living as a holy people without the Temple | 37 | |
Discussing the Mishnah - the Talmud | 41 | |
Legal traditions (halakhah) and narrative traditions (aggadah) | 47 | |
4 | Orthodox Judaism | 52 |
Orthodoxy and belief | 52 | |
Continuity and discontinuity | 54 | |
Orthodox Judaism and the Bible | 57 | |
Ultra-Orthodoxy | 59 | |
Orthodox affiliation today | 61 | |
5 | Non-Orthodox Judaism | 64 |
Reform Judaism and points of departure | 64 | |
Determining the role of women in Judaism | 70 | |
Conservative Judaism | 78 | |
Liberal Judaism | 80 | |
6 | Food Laws | 82 |
The source and purpose of the food laws | 82 | |
Deciding what is kosher | 84 | |
Levels of observance | 88 | |
7 | Life and death matters | 93 |
Expressions of belief | 93 | |
The importance of having children | 94 | |
The sanctity of human life | 97 | |
Grief and hope | 100 | |
8 | Jewish education | 105 |
In the home | 105 | |
In the synagogue | 108 | |
In school | 111 | |
In higher education (academy, seminary, and college) | 112 | |
9 | Marriage | 116 |
Sex and marriage in Judaism | 116 | |
A Jewish wedding | 119 | |
Marriages between Jews and non-Jews | 122 | |
The religious court (Bet Din) and laws of status | 126 | |
A Jewish divorce | 129 | |
10 | Prayer | 133 |
The place of prayer | 133 | |
Communal prayers - ancient and modern | 138 | |
Physical reminders | 144 | |
11 | The Synagogue | 148 |
Terms and functions | 148 | |
Reading the Torah | 150 | |
Language and music | 155 | |
Religious leadership | 157 | |
12 | The Sabbath | 161 |
A sense of time out | 161 | |
Resting from work | 165 | |
Observing Shabbat in home and synagogue | 171 | |
13 | The rhythm of the year - festivals and fasts | 176 |
A sense of time | 176 | |
The lunar calendar | 180 | |
The new moon | 182 | |
The festivals of Hanukah and Purim | 184 | |
Other festivals | 188 | |
Fasts | 190 | |
14 | The pilgrim festivals | 192 |
Passover - the festival of unleavened bread | 192 | |
Freedom - then and now | 193 | |
Counting the days | 198 | |
Freedom to obey - Shavuot | 200 | |
Where true security lies - Sukkot | 201 | |
The four plants | 202 | |
The obligation to rejoice | 203 | |
15 | The New Year and the Day of Atonement | 207 |
The importance of The High Holy Days | 207 | |
Creating the atmosphere | 208 | |
Returning | 211 | |
Fasting | 213 | |
Atonement | 215 | |
16 | The Holocaust | 219 |
Questioning and remembering | 219 | |
A radical answer | 226 | |
A traditional response | 227 | |
Survival and beyond | 231 | |
17 | Israel | 235 |
A focal point for Jews | 235 | |
Zionism and beyond | 236 | |
Identity in a Jewish State | 247 | |
Peace with justice and security | 253 | |
Afterword | 262 | |
Further Reading | 267 | |
Glossary | 268 | |
Index | 275 |
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