Word: judaisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judaism and Christianity have always placed primacy in man. Now this primacy is being attacked by what I call the neoconservative ecological approach to life: the idea that nature has primacy and man is subordinate, and thus must abandon what is best for himself in order to do what is right for the earth...
...century after its original publication, has the entire text of The Star of Redemption been available in English. Now, in a courageous translation by William W. Hallo (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $10), U.S. readers will get a chance to sample the very core of Rosenzweig's complex philosophy of Judaism...
Holiest of Days. Then, while doing postgraduate work in jurisprudence at Leipzig, Rosenzweig met a converted Jew, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, who had abandoned his Judaism for Lutheranism. In a climactic all-night conversation in July 1913, Rosenzweig agreed to follow Rosenstock's lead, but vowed to enter the church "as a Jew," like the earliest Christians. While preparing for the leap, Rosenzweig went to services in a small Orthodox synagogue in Berlin on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. He never publicly revealed what happened to him at the service, but he emerged from it a changed...
...academic life. The long, lonely hours in trenches and on Balkan mountaintops gave him time to think, and out of it emerged The Star of Redemption. In it everything came together: his disillusionment with Hegelian idealism, travels to the brink of Christianity, his profoundly mystical embrace of Judaism...
...ethnic imperative. The Jews, he says, have been elected to grasp intuitively this intimate structure of reality. By their blood inheritance of God's ancient Covenant with Abraham, the Jews have the truth in as rich abundance as man is allowed-if they want it. For Judaism is at the very heart of the star, its burning center. Christianity forms the "rays" of the star, or "the eternal way" toward its heart. Like Rosenzweig, Jews need not convert to Christianity in order to find God; pagans do. Jews are a timeless people, apart from history, overarching eternity...