One simple, powerful word-hineini (here I am!)-contains the key to deeper relationships with God and with others. Scholar and popular teacher Norman Cohen explores powerful biblical stories of hineini and challenges the way we think about relationships.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading through the Prism of Midrash-Making the Text Our Own
PART I: FOURTEEN BIBLICAL TEXTS, FOURTEEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEANING
1. Recognizing the Other
2. Being Accessible to the Other
3. Awakening to Relationship
4. Response in the Everyday
5. Unqualified Openness: The Challenge and the Risk
6. Fulfilling Past Promises
7. The Significant Ramifications of Our Response to Others
8. Responding to the Other's Fears
9. The Reticence to Respond
10. The Difficulty of Discerning the Call
11. Fabricating the Call
12. The Ever-Present Other
13. The Ultimate Call
14. The Ultimate Response
PART II: PERSONAL STORIES: MAKING HINEINI COME ALIVE
Double Call
Rabbi Lester Bronstein
Jacob's Tangled Web
Alan Dershowitz
Bringing My Whole Self to God
Rabbi Laura Geller
Parallel Life Journeys
Rabbi Neil Gillman
Being Accessible to the Other in Our Lives
Rabbi Richard Jacobs
Hineini: The Calling?
Lawrence Kushner
The Story of a Calling
Peter Ascher Pitzele
I Am Not Supposed to Be Here
Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
The Challenge of Answering Hineini
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
One Hineini Against Another
Rabbi Harold Schulweis
Beholding Esau
Phyllis Trible
PART III: A GUIDE TO CREATING OUR OWN PERSONAL MIDRASH: FINDING YOUR OWN VOICE IN THE TEXT
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