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Recommended Reading:
- Autobiography of Chaim Cohen (Hebrew)
- Ben Gurion Looks at the Bible, David Ben Gurion
- Chevra V'dat, Menachem Friedman
- Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought, Mendes-Flohr
- Essential Essays on Judaism, Eliezer Berkovits
- Exodus & Revolution, Michael Walzer
- Exploring Genesis,Nahum Sarna
- Fate and Destiny, J.B. Soloveitchik
- Frumspeak, Chaim Weiser
- Halacha V'kabbalah, Yaakov Katz
- Halachik Man, J.B. Soloveitchik
- How to Read the Bible, Marc Brettler
- Jew vs Jew, Samuel Friedman
- Jewish people, Jewish Thought, Robert Setzer
- Judaism and Society, Jacob Neusner
- Judaism as a Civilization, Mordechai Kaplan
- Minhagei Yisrael, Daniel Sperber
- Must a Jew Believe Anything, Menachem Kellner
- Not In Heaven, Eliezer Berkovits
- On Being Free, Adin Steinsaltz
- On The Book of Psalms, Nahum Sarna
- Self Fulfilling Prophecy, Jacob Neusner
- Sliding to the Right, Samuel Heilman
- The Bible as it Was, James Kugel
- The Bible Unearthed, Finkelstein, Silberman
- The Coming Cataclysm, Reuven Bulka
- The Genesis of Ethics,Burton Visotsky
- The Halacha, Ephraim Urbach
- The Hidden Book in the Bible, Richard Friedman
- The Shabbes Goy, Yaakov Katz
- Understanding Genesis, Nahum Sarna
- Understanding Rabbinic Judaism, Jacob Neusner
- We Jews, Adin Steinsaltz
Mission Statement
The foundations upon which Judaism rests is ethics. As in other cultures, law and custom evolve from an undestanding and commitment to an ethical standard.Halachic structures and substructures have their place, but are supported by a bedrock of ethical teachings. Once these teachings and its system begins to erode, the halachic constructs lose their potency and ultimately their value. By obsessing to the extreme and with blind obedience to halacha which has beeen rendered static, the spirit of ethical Judaism has been depleted. This site believes that there is a serious malais in the Jewish community resulting from the inversion of this paradigm. For more on this please visit my website at www.shaelsiegel.com