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The Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides: Transfigurations of a Book

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Ronen S.
Estetyka i Krytyka
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2015
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issue 3(38)
65-84
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The article discusses the metamorphoses of a book: The Guide for the Per-plexed by Moses Maimonides. The receptions of the book from the time of its publication (1191), and especially his translation into Hebrew (1224) were diverse and went through many changes during the last eight centuries. From its publication the book caused a storm among Jewish thinkers and rabbis, and was accused of being a profanation, was banned, and even burned. These facts are particularly intriguing taking into account the authoritative role of Maimonides in the Jewish world, who was considered as the second Moses, was named the “great eagle”, and his book Mishneh Torah, a comprehensive code of Halakhah (Jewish law) is a canonical book since then. Acceptance and rejection of this book can be observed in the Jewish world till today. The book was understood as the source for very different philosophical and theo-logical approaches. Therefore, it has a sense to talk about ‘many Guides for the Perplexed’. The article is concentrated particularly, on modern times: Haskalah and Zionism.
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DID GOD DIE IN AUSCHWITZ? JEWISH THEOLOGICAL REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST (Czy Bóg umarl w Auschwitz? Reakcje teologii zydowskiej na Holocaust)

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Ronen S.
Przegląd Orientalistyczny
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2009
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issue 3-4 (230-231)
197-204
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The Holocaust shatters the Jewish belief in God, who takes care of his people, leads them to redemption. Extermination camps refuted the concepts of omnipotent, merciful and absolutely good God: if God is omnipotent and absolutely good how he allowed Auschwitz? Auschwitz calls the Jews for re-evaluation of their faith and their trust in God. Facing the destruction of the Jewish people a question is raised: In case Jews want to remain Jews how should they continue to live as Jews after the Holocaust? Jewish theologians struggled with this question and proposed either a new way of living for the Jews or a new definition of God. The article presents a few theological reactions which reflect deep and original Jewish thinking. The theologians discussed in this paper are: Richard Rubenstein, Emil Fackenheim, Eliezer Berkovits, Hans Jonas, Irving Greenberg and Ignaz Maybaum.
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Heschel’s Disciples on Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Pope John Paul II

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Ronen S.
Dialogue and Universalism
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2018
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issue 2
201-211
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The article presents the conception of interreligious dialogue developed by Abraham Joshua Heschel in his legendary text No Religion Is an Island. Then, it illustrates the approach to this issue by the next generation of Jewish thinkers, Heschel’s disciples, Harold Kasimow and Byron Sherwin. Another interesting Heschel’s disciple is Alon Goshen-Gottstein who takes a step further in his explicating interfaith dialogue. The last part of the article analyses the understanding of Kasimow and Sherwin of the thought and deeds of Pope John Paul II in the field of interreligious dialogue, and especially, in the attitude of the Catholic Church toward Jews.
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God in Jewish Thinking: Between Incompleteness and Perfection

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Ronen S.
Dialogue and Universalism
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2016
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issue 2
231-251
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The article deals with the concept or the image of God in the Hebrew Bible and the various understandings and interpretations of it by Jewish thinkers through generations. The biblical text, full of contradictions and anthropomorphic assertions about God, was a source of discomfort for Jewish philosophers and theologians. Therefore, the sublima-tion and distillation of the text was necessary, and it was done by use of different her-meneutical methods. The article deals with various attributes of the biblical God, and presents different theological and philosophical interpretations of that issue by major Jewish thinkers.
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