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Tables of Contents for A Living Covenant
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
20
Part One THE HUMAN BEING IN JUDAISM
21
162
1. Fundamentals of a Covenantal Anthropology
21
21
2. Assertion Versus Submission: The Tension Within Judaism
42
18
3. "Halakhic Man": Soloveitchik's Synthesis
60
29
4. Ethics and Halakhah
89
20
5. Human Beings in the Presence of God
109
22
6. The Spirit of Judaic Prayer
131
29
Appendix: Halakhic Critique of Soloveitchik's Approach to Prayer
150
10
7. Individual and Community in Prayer
160
23
Part Two THE COVENANT AND THE LIVING GOD OF HISTORY
183
117
8. Rabbinic Responses to Suffering
183
21
9. The Rabbinic Renewal of the Covenant
204
25
10. Two Competing Covenantal Paradigms
229
27
11. The Celebration of Finitude
256
22
12. The Third Jewish Commonwealth
278
22
Postscript
300
5
Notes
305
28
General Index
333
4
Index of Jewish Sources
337