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.
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.
Dr. Norman J. Cohen is widely recognized as one of the great teachers of his generation. A rabbi, professor emeritus of midrash and former provost of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, he frequently lectures to Jewish and Christian laypeople and scholars on Bible study and midrash-finding contemporary meaning from ancient biblical texts. Cohen was a participant in Bill Moyers's Genesis: A Living Conversation on PBS. He is author of Self, Struggle & Change: Family Conflict Stories in Genesis and Their Healing Insights for Our Lives; Voices from Genesis: Guiding Us through the Stages of Life; Moses and the Journey to Leadership: Timeless Lessons of Effective Management from the Bible and Today's Leaders; Hineni in Our Lives: Learning How to Respond to Others through 14 Biblical Texts & Personal Stories and The Way Into Torah (all Jewish Lights).
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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 Notes
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 Notes
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