For Heaven's Sake: The Chief Rabbi's Diary

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780620258258
  • Publisher: Lionheart Publishing, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/1/2000
  • Pages: 330

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Glossary
I Personal
1 A Holy Start 2
2 The Oldest Chaver 7
3 Influences 11
4 "Rabbi of the Match" 19
5 Three London Synagogues & A Myriad of Students 23
6 Induction Into Office 37
7 The African Chief 41
8 Likes and Dislikes 53
II Pastoral
1 The Reviving Touch 64
2 The Long Day 68
3 Happy Ever After? 71
4 No Way Out 75
5 Together With The Community 79
6 The Open Hand 82
7 The Permanent Shadow 85
8 Silence is Golden 88
9 Old Bones 91
10 Defeating El Nino 95
11 The Thread of Life - Thin and Thick 99
III Communal
1 The Ideal Rabbi 106
2 The Ideal Gabbai 111
3 Good Jewish Schools 116
4 The Power of Community 123
5 Proper Prayer 129
6 Seven Up! 133
7 The Perils of Preaching 137
8 Unions of Synagogues 144
9 Of Commas and Baritones 149
10 What Makes Synagogue Services Effective? 156
IV National
1 The First Elections 162
2 Communist Friends 167
3 Inauguration Day 174
4 Constitutional Tensions 181
5 Getting the Get Bill 188
6 The Lovely and the Hideous 194
7 Inter-faith Concord 199
8 Madiba 206
9 Much Truth, Little (So Far) Reconciliation 216
10 "Egbok!" 225
V Festive
1 New Year Wishes 234
2 "The New Me" 238
3 Following Through 242
4 The Many Faces of Freedom 245
5 The Dance of Pesach 248
6 A Gentle Nudge 251
7 Wind Blown Leaves 254
8 The Touch of Beauty 257
VI Humanitarian
1 Tears-Upon-Tears 264
2 The Moral Repudiation of Apartheid 269
3 Giving and Taking 274
4 Caring and Sharing 278
5 The Incomplete Family 283
6 Helping To Put Things Right 288
7 On Being Human 294
VII Spiritual
1 The Efficacy of Prayer 302
2 Shabbat Bliss 307
3 The Essential Jewish Identikit 311
4 "Even Stevens" 320
5 Approaching the Kotel 323
6 Holiness Sublime 327
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