SELECTED  ARTICLES
 
contemporary theological reflections
Many
of the articles in this section have appeared as part of the Portal on Jewish
Prayer and in Keeping God
at the Center.
Personality as a Quality of God and Humans
Holiness as a Quality of God and Humans
Universes of Discourse in Theology
Dealing with Unsystematic Theology
Translated into French by P. Lambert et J. Duhaime: Le repentir et le pardon
Translated into Slavic by Barbora Lebedová.Translated into Hungarian by Elana Pavlet.
on prayer 
Many of the articles
in this section have appeared as part of the Portal on Jewish
Prayer and in Keeping God
at the Center.
 
Mystical
Meditation on the Prayerbook 
         Le
Kaddish, la prière juive pour les morts
Kavvana,
The Art of Jewish Prayer
         Kavvana: l'art de la prière juive 
A Spiritual
Guide for the Jewish  Patient 
Praying Ashrei, a web-based essay
          Ha-Aderet veha-Emuna, with Sally Chambers Pias
 
on the abusing God 
 
Confronting the
Character of  God: Text and Praxis
Theodicy: Dissonance in Theory
and  Praxis
Angesichts des missbrauchenden  Gottes: Eine Protesttheologie
The  Violence of God: Dialogic Fragments, with
Julie Shoshana  Pfau
Protesting an
Abusive God: Response to Bernard Schweizer 
Emil  Fackenheim:
Theodicy and the Tikkun of Protest 
Soul Repair: A
Jewish View; reprinted in Canopy Forum, Part
One; Part
Two; Part
Three.
 
on mysticism 
 
Maimonides:
Prayer, Worship, and  Mysticism
Philosophic Mysticism: The Ultimate Goal of Medieval Judaism
Maimonides'  Philosophic Mysticsm 
Maimonides' Intellectualist Mysticism and the Superiority of the Prophecy of Moses
Croyance et attributs essentiels dans  la théologie médiévale et moderne 
The Creator and the Computer, a web-based essay
Commentary to Sefer Yetsira (follow
Kabbalistic Texts links) 
On Being a Rationalist
and a Mystic 
From Medieval Mystic to
Madonna: The Strange Path of Im Nin`alu 
 
on the banality of evil 
 
Perpetrators
and  Rescuers: Two Key Factors
How  to Do Good: Links to Prosocial Sites
How Might Another Shoah Be Prevented
         Comment empêcher un nouvel holocauste? 
  
autobiographical 
 
From Wissenschaft  to 
Theology: A Mid-Life Re-Calling
 
other 
 
Auschwitz and
Hiroshima:  Icons of Our Century
(revised 8/1/2003)
Memory and Meaning in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Cross Disciplinary Notes on
Teaching the Shoah: Four Questions for Most Holocaust Courses 
"Beware of Your
Beliefs": A Holocaust Scholar's Reflections on the Palestinian-Israeli
Conflict 
“What Did Joseph Want from His Brothers, “ TheTorah.com 
"The Akeda and Rosh HaShana: the Original Oath God was Forced to Make", The Torah.com
“The Rabbinic Chronology of Lech Lecha,” TheTorah.com
Melody for Simhat Torah Reading 
 
"A Play on
Words in the Nineteenth Chapter of Job" (Vetus Testamentum, 16 (1966) 497-501)
Reading
Genesis, a web-based essay
Where God is Not: The Book of
Esther and Song of Songs
Teaching Psalms in the University
Setting
Essays in Christian-Jewish Dialogue
         On the Death of Pope John Paul II
         Three is Not Enough: Jewish 
Reflections on Trinitarian Thinking
Abraham Joshua Heschel:
The Inadequacy of the Ecumenical Perspective
The Rabbi and the Friar (Father Benedict Groeschel); reprinted
The
Rabbi, the Pope, and St. Valentine
 
         Israeli and Topical Judaica
Philately
         Salvador Dali, "Aliyah,
the Rebirth of Israel"
         Lovejoy's Great Chain of Being
and the Medieval Jewish Tradition
         Maimonides' Thirteen Principles
of the Faith 
         Maimonides' Treize principes de la foi
         Michael Wyschogrod,
Interpreter of Judaism in the Late Twentieth Century 
         Jewish Perspectives on Poverty 
 
“Homage
for Abraham Joshua Heschel.”