Intelligent Person's Guide to Judaism (Intelligent Person's Guide)

by Shmuel Boteach

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What does it mean that we are spiritual beings? In tackling this important issue, this book argues that Judaism possesses a core of wisdom that appeals to Jews and non-Jews alike, and rejects Judaism seeking piety in abstractions, in rationalising injustice, in explaining the Holocaust away as a punishment for assimilation. It pleads for recognition of the fact that, unlike Christianity, Judaism is not about death or suffering, but primarily about seeking optimism and spirituality. In a modern world riddled with angst, this book aims to have a positive impact on how our relation to society should be understood.
  • ISBN10 0715629204
  • ISBN13 9780715629208
  • Publish Date 23 February 2001 (first published 26 March 1999)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 February 2013
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Duckworth Overlook
  • Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English