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A Teacher’s Book for Jewish ethics, philosophy and mysticism

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JEWISH ETHICS
On gratitude
On right and wrong
How the good Jew should behave
On humility
On charity
On speaking evil
On truth and falsehood
On hatred, revenge and pride
On saintliness
A letter on ethical conduct

JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
On doubt and certainty
On creation
On suffering in the world
The world to come
On praising God
Is man free? (Part I)
Is man free? (Part 11)
Is man free? (Part Ill)
Belief in the impossible

JEWISH MYSTICISM
Elijah’s mystical prayer
The soul of the Torah
God is unchanging
God’s withdrawal
God’s glory in the synagogue
On good deeds
The highest form of worship
Dialogue on the Kabbalah
The meaning of the Shema
On prayer
On evolution

jewish ethics philosophy mysticism

In this series

The Chain of Tradition Series Volume I: Jewish Law
A Teacher’s Book for Jewish Law

The Chain of Tradition Series Volume II: Jewish ethics, philosophy and mysticism
A Teacher’s Book for Jewish ethics, philosophy and mysticism

The Chain of Tradition Series Volume III: Jewish Thought Today

The Chain of Tradition Series Volume IV: Jewish Biblical Exegesis

The Chain of Tradition Series Volume V: Hasidic Thought

 

First published 1968

This book attempts to provide you not with lessons, but with the embryos of lessons. For each chapter of text you will find an introduction, which is in most cases a paraphrased precis of the material, and two or more suggestions for handling the material with your class. Some of these suggestions could consume an entire class period, some deserve only brief treatment; no hard and fast rules have been followed here, just as you cannot follow any hard and fast rules in using this text with your class. How you treat the material depends not only on it, but on you, on your class, and even on your mood the day you teach it. No teacher’s guide can tell you what to emphasise, which discussions to prolong, which to cut short, what to omit; that must come out of your estimate of what you and the class can most benefit from. There is nothing obligatory here, nothing that must be learned; but there is everything to learn.

 

Hard copies of this book can be obtained from Behrman House.

 


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