Torah Umadda: The Encounter of Religious Learning and Worldly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradition - Couverture rigide

Lamm, Norman

 
9781592643097: Torah Umadda: The Encounter of Religious Learning and Worldly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradition
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1592643094 ISBN 13 : 9781592643097
Editeur : Toby Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

This classic work analyzes and embraces the tension between Torah study and secular learning by exploring the philosophies of Moses Maimonides, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Abraham Isaac Kook and other influential Jewish thinkers. Challenging, illuminating and synthesizing, it offers a seminal mission statement for modern Orthodoxy. This special, 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author and an afterword by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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À propos de l?auteur

Rabbi Norman Lamm is a distinguished rabbi, philosopher, teacher and author who currently is Chancellor of Yeshiva University and Rosh HaYeshiva of its rabbinical school, the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He was born in Brooklyn, attended Yeshiva College, and pursued advanced scientific studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He was ordained as a rabbi and earned a PhD in Jewish philosophy from Yeshiva University. Rabbi Lamm served on the faculty of Yeshiva University for seventeen years, and as its President from 1976 to 2003. He was also a synagogue rabbi for 25 years. Rabbi Lamm has gained wide recognition for his writings and discourses on the interpretation of Jewish philosophy. He is the author of ten books, the editor of more than twenty volumes, and the founder of Tradition, the Torah Umadda Journal, and the Orthodox Forum.

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Éditeur
Toby Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1592643094
ISBN 13 
9781592643097
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
3
Nombre de pages
247
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