The paradox of human existence : a commentary on the book of Jonah / Ze'ev Haim Lifshitz.

Author/creator Lifshitz, Ze'ev Haim
Format Book
Publication InfoNorthvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, ©1994.
Descriptionxxv, 269 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects
Bible. Jonah--Commentaries.

Uniform titleḲiyum ṿe-yiʻud. English
Contents The First Encounter -- The Second Encounter -- The Humility of the Seaman. The Story of Jonah -- The Power of Seduction Is a Consequence of the Sin of the Golden Calf -- 1. Approaches to the Biblical Story -- Quality Scale -- The Pagan Approach -- The Symbolic Approach -- The Mythological Approach -- The Intellectual Approach -- The Jewish Approach -- 2. The Book of Jonah -- Applying Ancient Prophecy to the Modern Age -- Jonah the Prophet -- The Prophecy -- Technicalities -- 3. Jonah as a Symbol -- The Question of Incest -- 4. Encounter at Sea -- The Storm -- Natural and Human -- Fatalism: The Essence of a Primitive Mind -- Passive Resistance -- The Logic of the Sea Captain -- Man, God, and Nature -- The Essence of Courtesy -- Polytheists and Ornamental Culture -- Passivity versus Action -- The Moral Dilemma -- Morality versus Religion -- Instinctive Morality: A Volatile Substance -- Lashon Hara -- A Radical Jewish Idea -- Abraham the Hebrew -- Overboard -- The Belly of the Fish -- Omnipresence -- Getting the Message -- 5. Confrontation in Nineveh -- In the Big City -- Teshuvah: Repentance -- The Secret of the Continuity of Creation -- Repentance Has Different Levels of Quality -- Teshuvah in Nineveh -- Freedom of Choice: The Basis of Repentance -- Freedom of Choice: The Sense of Life of the Qualitative Self -- The Connection between Choice and Divine Providence -- Discovering Human Initiative -- What Could Be Bad? -- Words over a Worm
Contents Adam, the Garden, and History -- Tragicomedy: A Double Bind -- The Third Source -- Quality Overpowers Quantity -- Man Absorbs the Divine Power -- Individual Divine Quality -- Man Becomes an Active Partner of God -- An Ordinary Jew -- Judaism Imposes a Third Dimension between Object and Subject -- Judaism against Simplicity, or It's Not Simple to Be a Jew -- Hut versus Vine -- 6. Jews and Gentiles -- Yom Kippur -- Jew and Non-Jew -- How, Why, for What? -- The Measure of Justice and the Measure of Compassion -- 7. The Duality of Existence -- The Double System -- The Meaning of Suffering -- The Inner Circle and the Outer Circle -- 8. Jonah's Kikayon -- The Difference between Gentiles and Jews -- A Different Concept of Deity -- The Individual versus Society -- 9. The Theological Element -- 10. Jonah and Reality -- A Life without Reality and a Reality without Life -- Jonah: The Secret Righteous Man -- 11. Elijah and Jonah: Means and Goals -- 12. Jonah: Time and Place -- Stage I -- Stage II: The Lonely Individual in the Crowd -- The Role of the Place in the Existential Feeling -- Time and Place: Content and Container -- 13. The Concept of Death in Judaism -- 14. The Individual Worshiping God -- The Kikayon: A Symbol of Human Existence -- The Difference between Fear of God and Fear of Sin: The Kikayon -- Fear of God: The Paved Path to Divinity -- Achieving Perfection of Character -- Self-Preservation and Creativity -- Sabbateanism -- 15. Chastenings of Love
Contents Man Is Born to Toil -- What Caused the Split between the Inner and the Outer Realms? -- Self-Awareness Needs Feedback -- 16. The Womb -- The Return to the Jewish Womb -- The Womb: A Creationless Garden of Eden -- Inside, Outside, and the Sea: Korach and Jonah -- The Dynamic Connection between the Inner and the Outer: The Return to the Inner World -- The Need for a Connecting Link -- 17. Invisible: To See and Not Be Seen -- The Double. Conclusion: Jonah -- The Private Person.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-260) and index.
Genre/formCommentaries.
LCCN 94006287
ISBN1568212194 (pbk.)
ISBN9781568212197 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks BS1605.3 .L54 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold