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Every Jew, writes Rabbi Sacks, is a letter. "Each Jewish family is a word, every community a sentence, and the Jewish people at any one time are a paragraph. The Jewish people through time constitute a story, the strangest and most moving story in the annals of mankind." But, says the Chief Rabbi, something has gone wrong. Somehow, in today's world, many Jews have lost the script of the story, "that breathtaking attempt to build, out of simple acts and ordinary lives, a fragment of heaven on earth." Why, he asks, "at the very moment when we are freer than ever before to be Jews, are so many ceasing to be Jews? What is the shadow over Jewish life today?"
Described, in his own words, as "an open letter to the next generation" and as "my own theology of Judaism, something I have never previously written," this tour de force is an attempt to come to grips with those devastating questions. An intensely personal statement of belief, and an epic "journey of discovery" through the ideas, ideals, mysteries and marvels of Judaism, it is, above all, a realisation that, for the Chief Rabbi as for every Jew, being Jewish means being a letter in the eternal scroll, making one's own contribution to the glorious but unfinished story of faith above fate. --Meir Persoff --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Originally written for his son and step-daughter as a wedding gift, Rabbi Jonathon Sacks tells 'the legacy of the world's oldest religion' with such passion and wisdom youll find it impossible to put down. Asking specifically 'why be Jewish', 'who am i' and 'why should i remain a Jew', then looking for the answers magnificently though historical discussion.
What makes this book for me, is the obvious great understanding and teaching, in how we can move forward not only as Jewish people, but human society as a whole - I highly recommend this book.
The book is full of enchanted corners and everytime you bump into one its like having light being cast in your heart. Because its beautifully written and because its based a very moving and real story with no foreseable end.
As someone who is not Jewish but wanted to get to grips with Judaism I could not recomend a better start.
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