Authors:Martin S. Cohen, Michael Katz, Martin S. Cohen, Micha
Publisher: The Rabbinical Assembly
Keywords: life, observant
Number of Pages: 981
Published: 2012-04-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0916219496
ISBN-13: 9780916219499

A decade in the making, The Observant Life: Ritual and Ethics in Contemporary Judaism distills a century of thoughtful inquiry into the most profound of all Jewish questions: how to suffuse life with timeless values, how to remain loyal to the covenant that binds the Jewish people and the God of Israel and how to embrace the law while retaining an abiding sense of fidelity to one s own moral path in life. Written in a multiplicity of voices inspired by a common vision, the authors of The Observant Life explain what it means in the ultimate sense to live a Jewish life, and to live it honestly,