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Hartman, David : A LIVING COVENANT : THE INNOVATIVE SPIRIT IN TRADITIONAL JUDAISM

New York : Free Press., 1985.

8vo. Xi, 340 pages. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Covenants – religious aspects – Judaism – history of doctrines; Prayer – Judaism; Judaism – essence, genius, nature. CONTENTS: Fundamentals of a covenental anthropology; Assertion versus submission: the tension within Judaism; “Halakhic Man”: Soloveitchik's synthesis; Ethics and halakhah; Human beings in the presence of God; The spirit of Judaic prayer; Individual and community in prayer; Rabbinic responses to suffering; The rabbinic renewal of the covenant; Two competing covenantal paradigms; The celebration of finitude; The third Jewish commonwealth. ISBN: 0029141400. Born in the United States in 1931 to parents who had immigrated from Jerusalem, Hartman studied at the Lakewood yeshiva, Yeshiva University, and Fordham University. In 1971 he emigrated to Israel, which had “religioustheological significance” to him, as he thought that Jews could only live fully as Jews in Israel and that establishing the Jewish state was “the culmination of the historic covenant at Sinai. ” Hartman's entire approach to Judaism revolves around synthesizing historical traditions with the present situations of Jews. To this end he established the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, has trained teachers, worked with senior officers in the Israel Defense Forces, and continues with Jewish endeavors in Israel and internationally. (EJ, 2007) Ex library, otherwise good condition. (RAB-28-10)

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