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Independent Jewish books. We publish Judaism-as-it-is-becoming, not only Judaism-as-it-has-been. Out now: Judaism Disrupted by Rabbi Michael Strassfeld!
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Publisher's weekly says, Eisen (a scholar and former Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary) "delivers a stimulating exploration of his belief in a God." www.publishersweekly... 2/6

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Eisen acknowledges doubt and uncertainty while insisting on the ongoing value of Torah and faith. He suggests that the search for meaning, and the encounter with doubt, is itself part of a meaningful Jewish life. 3/6

But I was taught by my parents and teachers that there is, nonethe- less, Meaning (the capital M became affixed to the word early in my life and has not disappeared) to be found in a life guided by the Torah. An abundance of Meaning, and of pleasure, too, could be derived from studying the Torah’s laws and narratives year after year amid a like-minded Community. (The capital C signifies the seriousness of mutual relation that common study and practice creates among its members.) Accompanied by Jewish commentators from across the centuries and by careful non-Jewish readers of the biblical text like Kierkegaard, one could take part in a conversation that offered great reward in this life and held out the possibility of life in a world to come. That conversation with Torah forms a major part of this essay. I also learned during high school that Jewish theologians had shuttled between faith and doubt long before modern science and the Holocaust posed new challenges to belief
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