Ebook {Epub PDF} Where Judaism Differed by Abba Hillel Silver

 · Where Judaism Differed: An Inquiry into the Distinctiveness of Judaism Abba Hillel Silver. Published by Macmillan Publishing Company. Condition: Very Good Hardcover. Save for Later. From ThriftBooks-Atlanta (AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.) AbeBooks . Dr. Silver rightly starts from the premise that the Jews are a religious people, that developed a way of life, which was service of God. His will, the Torah, the charter of the covenantal relationship between Him as His people could be performed only through ethical conduct and * Where Judaism Differed. By Abba Hillel Silver. Macmillan. pp.  · Abba Hillel Silver (an American Reform rabbi probably best known for his staunch support of Zionism when it wasn't fashionable) takes the reader on a grand tour of Judaism's distinguishing features, comparing it not only with Christianity but also with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism where these are relevant/5.

SILVER, ABBA (Abraham) HILLEL. SILVER, ABBA (Abraham) HILLEL (), U.S. Reform rabbi, Zionist leader. Silver was born in Lithuania and immigrated to the United States with his family in While studying at Yeshivat Etz Chaim (later, the Rabbi Yitzhak Elchanan Theological Seminary; see *Yeshiva University), he founded the Dr. Herzl Zion Club, a Hebrew-speaking group which evolved. Abba Hillel Silver, in his book A History of Messianic Speculation in Israel, acknowledges that "the Messiah was expected around the second quarter of the first century C.E.," not because of Roman persecution, but because of "the popular chronology of that day," derived in part from the book of Daniel. Morris S. Lazaron and Abba Hillel Silver, who succeeded Lazaron at the Wheeling congregation, had very different backgrounds. Lazaron (), born in Savannah Georgia in , came to Cincinnati in from a preparatory www.doorway.ru nine years he earned a B.A. and M.A. at the University of Cincinnati followed by graduation from HUC in

Silver was one of the chief Zionist spokesmen appearing before the United Nations in the Palestine hearings of 2 October in what the Israeli government says was the future nation's acceptance speech, two weeks before Moshe Shertok made the case for Israel on 17 October Silver expressed reservations about the UN partition plan. A practical man, Silver did ultimately accept partition of Palestine as the best means to rapidly create a homeland for the Jewish people. No writer on Judaism commands more respect or a wider audience than Silver. Now he has written a scholarly but none the less lively book on the distinctive traits of Judaism in which he makes clear that its message of unity, freedom and compassion is a religion which springs from the heart of the Jewish people, and is indigenous to them. The Jewish idea of the universal brotherhood of man. Dr. Silver rightly starts from the premise that the Jews are a religious people, that developed a way of life, which was service of God. His will, the Torah, the charter of the covenantal relationship between Him as His people could be performed only through ethical conduct and * Where Judaism Differed. By Abba Hillel Silver. Macmillan. pp. $