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Twenty-Six Questions on the Path to Wisdom
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What is the purpose of creation? How do I break free of this solitude? What is there to love? Why should I care? These are a few of the twenty-six questions on the path to wisdom, with twenty-six corresponding to the numerical value of the Holy Name of Four Letters, yud-hey-vav-hey. We live in a time that seems void of meaning, because we live in a time that is empty of wisdom. Undertaking a quest for wisdom, this book turns to the millennial teachings and traditions of Judaism, as well as other traditions. The path to wisdom lies in these teachings—in these questions—that humanity has inherited from its sages. These are the questions that shape a life by enabling us to live a meaningful life. They are not so much the questions that we have but the questions that “have” us, that take hold of us, often in spite of ourselves. For each question, the author offers a response, a reflection, but not a final answer. Indeed, the responses to these twenty-six questions are themselves subject to questioning, as they must be.
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Jewish TheologyTable of contents
- Title Page
- Prologue
- Preface
- Introduction: God is in the question
- Question 1: What is the purpose of creation?
- Question 2: Where are you?
- Question 3: Where is your brother?
- Question 4: Am I my brother’s keeper?
- Question 5: What have you done?
- Question 6: What is your name?
- Question 7: What is righteousness?
- Question 8: Who is wise?
- Question 9: How do I break free of this solitude?
- Question 10: What is there to love?
- Question 11: What is there to fear and to fear for?
- Question 12: What is there to live for?
- Question 13: Who is my family?
- Question 14: What is friendship?
- Question 15: Why all this suffering?
- Question 16: Where is God?
- Question 17: How can we recognize evil?
- Question 18: Why all this hatred?
- Question 19: What is the measure of our days?
- Question 20: Where lies my duty?
- Question 21: Why should I care?
- Question 22: What can I do to help?
- Question 23: Where lies our redemption?
- Question 24: Does my life have any meaning?
- Question 25: Does my death have any meaning?
- Question 26: What is truth?
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
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