One Voice
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W. Gunther Plaut is an internationally recognized rabbi and scholar, and one of the greatest preachers of the twentieth century. He was born in Germany, but in 1935 fled the Nazis for the United States, where he became a rabbi. He served in Chicago and St. Paul, and, from 1961 to 1977 was Senior Rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. Upon his retirement he was appointed Senior Scholar.
Published on the occasion of his ninety-fifth birthday, this collection of sermons delivered over a period of fifty years includes discussions about religion, faith, and God; ethics and values; being a Jew, Reform Judaism, and Israel; and aging and death. Each sermon is as relevant and meaningful today as it was when first delivered. W. Gunther Plaut is an electrifying speaker who held his audiences spellbound with his charisma and wit. This anthology of his sermons is a fitting tribute to the wisdom and spirit of this great man!
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W. Gunther Plaut was born in Germany, but in 1935 fled the Nazis for the United States, where he became a rabbi. He was President of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and from 1978 to 1985 served as Vice-Chair of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Rabbi Plaut received nineteen honorary degrees and was a Companion of the Order of Canada. He published twenty-five books. Rabbi Plaut passed away in February 2012 at the age of 99.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Religion
- The Individual and the Cosmos
- Is Religion Necessary?
- Faith and Religion in a Secular Age
- Faith and God
- How Can I Believe in God?
- The Search for a Personal Faith
- The Pursuit of God
- The Pursuit of God II
- I Pray Because..
- Faith as a Means to Trump Pessimism
- The Need to Believe
- Who Is the God I Can Believe In?
- Believing in a God Who Is Not Almighty
- Ethics and Values
- On Having Time
- Love Thyself
- Word and Deed
- The Meaning of Life
- The Challenge of Freedom
- Our Disposable Society
- Being a Jew
- Why Remain Jews?
- The Impossibility of Being a Jew
- The Counterforce in Human History
- Who Is a Jew?
- Exile and Israel
- God's Laughter
- The Rescue of God
- Jewish Universalism
- Reform Judaism
- It's Easy to Be Orthodox and Hard to Be Reform
- Conforming and Reforming
- What It Means to Be Religious
- From "We" to "I"
- The Sins of Reform
- Israel
- Israel
- Surrendering Jerusalem
- Is Israel Necessary?
- Our Responsibility to Israel
- My Israel
- Age and Generations
- The Descent From the Mountain
- Becoming "Old"
- Death
- Escape From Reality
- Death
- The Search for Personal Immortality
- On Life and Afterlife
- God and My Wife
- Envoi
- Chazak v'Ematz
- W. Gunther Plaut Bibliography 1997-2003
- Sermon, Lecture, and Article Titles by Occasion Delivered
