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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Literary CollectionsTable of contents
- The Lilac Tree
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- I. Faith
- The Big Bang
- The Big Bang of Destruction
- Caught in the Maze
- Ladder to Heaven
- Lords of Literalism
- On Miracles
- Between Two Worlds
- Handprint Under Solomon’s Temple
- II. The Jews
- The Angel of History
- The Other Two Tablets
- Natan-Melech
- The Arch of Titus
- By the Home of Rudolf Höss
- A Synagogue in Bratislava
- Pavel
- III. Israel
- The Promised Land
- Suite 117
- Mount Nebo
- Bombs and Bombshells
- Peace
- Israel and Anti-Semitism
- Israel and American Jews
- IV. America
- America First
- Immigration and the American Dream
- Our Sacred Honor
- For a Mess of Pottage
- The Porcupines’ Solution
- Cancel Culture
- Thoughts on COVID-19
- The Roaring River
- V. God Has Sent You
- On Human Dignity
- Collective Responsibility
- Aristedes de Sousa Mendes
- Olga
- On Lesbos
- The Flight-or-Fight Moral Reflex
- Politics and Religion
- VI. The Art of Living
- The Art of Living
- Reflecting on the Passage of Time
- A Thousand Years from Now
- The Lilac Tree
- Mortality
- Happiness
- Money
- Failure
- Stroke of Insight
- The Dark Side
- The Broad Heart
- Afterword
- Endnotes
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