A PRECIOUS HERITAGE. RABBINICAL REFLECTIONS ON GOD, JUDAISM, AND THE WORLD IN THE TURBULENT TWENTIETH - Tecno-Libro

A Precious Heritage . is, A brilliantly conceived and carefully annotated retrospective on American and Jewish events through the stormiest years of the twentieth century. Before internet (and, for a while, even TV), the sermons of great rabbis were our weekly window to the world, and Rabbi Sidney Ballon epitomized that greatness. Here, then, lovingly compiled by his son, is a set of enlightening reflections available nowhere else: lessons from World War i. the foreboding atmosphere of 1939. the birth of a Jewish state. the Civil Rights era. the spiritual significance of landing on the moon. The author s accompanying commentary looking back on the sermons from the perspective of today is itself extraordinary. And the sermons themselves are literary masterpieces eloquent, passionate, even profound and representative of the rabbinic best. RABBi LAWRENCE A. HOFFMAN, PH.D A Precious Heritage . captures the essen