With God in Hell - Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits
- Michel Benhayim
- 29 avr.
- 1 min de lecture
With God in Hell is a study on religious faith and its role in Judaism through examination of the persistence of אֱמוּנָה Emunah in the most trying circumstances, during the Shoah. It discusses issues such as the preservation of human dignity (creation in God's Image), the authenticity of existence, confronting the final truth, living vs. surviving. It relates many instances of Jewish observance, contending that "the authentic Jew" acted from a position of spiritual freedom.
Rabbi Berkovits received his rabbinical training first under Rabbi Akiva Glasner, and then at the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin as a disciple of Rabbi Yechiel Weinberg, and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Berlin. He served in the rabbinate in Berlin (1934–1939), in Leeds, England (1940–1946), in Sydney, Australia (1946–50), and in Boston (1950–1958). In 1958 he became chairman of the department of Jewish philosophy of the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie. At the age of 67, he immigrated to Israel in 1976 where he taught and lectured until his death in 1992... |  |
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