This special selection of sources and questions for study and research into faith is compiled from Hartman Institute courses and lectures in recent years
November 20, 2008
November 20, 2008
This special selection of sources and questions for study and research into faith is compiled from Hartman Institute courses and lectures in recent years.
What about faith in light of suffering?
Sources
Genesis 1
Job, Chapter 38
Job, Chapter 42
The Babylonian Talmud – Kiddushin 39b
Philo of Alexandria, The Contemplative Life,
The Giants, and the Selections
David Birnbaum, God and Evil
The Babylonian Talmud – Makkot 11a
Background Reading
Jewish Theology and Process Thought, Pages 81-84,
Talking about Genesis, A Resource Guide, Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Is Faith a Collective Enterprise?
Mishnah Berakhot 4:1-4
Mishnah Berakhot 5:1
BT Tractate Berakhot 29b
JT Tractate Berakhot 2:5
Background Reading
Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, "The Community" from The Jewish Philosophy Reader
Eugene B. Borowitz, "The Individual and the Community," in "Jewish Prayer" from Gates of Understanding
Is God Just?
Genesis 6: 5-14
Exodus 34: 4-7
Job: 1-2: 10
Job 38: 1-18
Job 42: 10-17
Background Reading
Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew by Neil Gillman
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