Chutzpah Imperative
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Rabbi Edward Feinstein is senior rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. He is an instructor in the Ziegler Rabbinical School of American Jewish University and the Wexner Heritage Program. He is the author of Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adult's Guide to Building a Jewish Life (Jewish Lights) and Capturing the Moon; and the editor of Jews and Judaism in the 21st Century: Human Responsibilities, the Presence of God, and the Future of the Covenant (Jewish Lights). He contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism-Yizkor; Who by Fire, Who by Water-Un'taneh Tokef and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism-Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights).
Content
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction
The Wicked Child's Question xv
Chapter One
How to Argue with God and Win 1
Chapter Two
The Road to Eden 22
Chapter Three
Jews Gone Wild 40
Chapter Four
The World Stands on Three Pillars 54
Chapter Five
Returning to the Garden 77
Chapter Six
Like a Fiddler on the Roof 119
Epilogue
The Horizon of Human Possibility 147
Notes 153
Suggested Reading 156