The Lilac Tree
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The Lilac Tree

A Rabbi's Reflections on Love, Courage, and History

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The Lilac Tree

A Rabbi's Reflections on Love, Courage, and History

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Applying Jewish values to our personal and communal lives. Ammiel Hirsch has been one of America's leading rabbis for more than three decades. A Zionist activist who spent his formative years in Israel, Hirsch rose to prominence as the executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America and then as the spiritual leader of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in the Upper West Side in Manhattan. The Lilac Tree offers stirring reflections on life and death, science and faith, political activism and deep learning, and history and the future. Hirsch grapples with the harsh realities of COVID-19, anti-Semitism, and America in the wake of the Trump presidency. We travel with him to the ruins of Ancient Greece and Rome, the site of Auschwitz, and a hotel in Basel where Theodor Herzl dreamed of a Jewish state—all seen through his incisive, witty, and eminently Jewish lens.Moving easily between the day-to-dayand the sublime, The Lilac Tree draws upon Hirsch's wealth of Jewish and general wisdom to present a comprehensive worldview that is both eternal in its scope and acutely relevant, even urgent, for our own lives.

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Publisher
Wicked Son
Year
2023
ISBN
9781637587478
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Jewish Theology

Table of contents

  1. The Lilac Tree
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. I. Faith
  6. The Big Bang
  7. The Big Bang of Destruction
  8. Caught in the Maze
  9. Ladder to Heaven
  10. Lords of Literalism
  11. On Miracles
  12. Between Two Worlds
  13. Handprint Under Solomon’s Temple
  14. II. The Jews
  15. The Angel of History
  16. The Other Two Tablets
  17. Natan-Melech
  18. The Arch of Titus
  19. By the Home of Rudolf Höss
  20. A Synagogue in Bratislava
  21. Pavel
  22. III. Israel
  23. The Promised Land
  24. Suite 117
  25. Mount Nebo
  26. Bombs and Bombshells
  27. Peace
  28. Israel and Anti-Semitism
  29. Israel and American Jews
  30. IV. America
  31. America First
  32. Immigration and the American Dream
  33. Our Sacred Honor
  34. For a Mess of Pottage
  35. The Porcupines’ Solution
  36. Cancel Culture
  37. Thoughts on COVID-19
  38. The Roaring River
  39. V. God Has Sent You
  40. On Human Dignity
  41. Collective Responsibility
  42. Aristedes de Sousa Mendes
  43. Olga
  44. On Lesbos
  45. The Flight-or-Fight Moral Reflex
  46. Politics and Religion
  47. VI. The Art of Living
  48. The Art of Living
  49. Reflecting on the Passage of Time
  50. A Thousand Years from Now
  51. The Lilac Tree
  52. Mortality
  53. Happiness
  54. Money
  55. Failure
  56. Stroke of Insight
  57. The Dark Side
  58. The Broad Heart
  59. Afterword
  60. Endnotes