Believing and its Tensions

the changing nature of belief and where

it can lead us from the life experience

of one of Judaism's leading thinkers.

For over five decades, Rabbi Neil Gillman has helped

people think through the most challenging questions at

the heart of being a believing religious person. In this

intimate rethinking of his own theological journey he

explores the changing nature of belief and the complexities

of reconciling the intellectual, emotional and

moral questions of his own searching mind and soul.

If what we have in recognizing, speaking of and

experiencing God is a wide-ranging treasury of

humanly crafted metaphors, what, then, is the ultimate

reality, the ultimate nature of God? What

lies beyond the metaphors?

If humanity was an active partner in revelation if

the human community participated in what was

revealed and gave it meaning what then should

be the authority of Jewish law?

How do we cope intellectually, emotionally and

morally with suffering, the greatest challenge to

our faith commitment, relationship with God and

sense of a fundamentally ordered world?

Death is inevitable but why is it built in as part

of the total life experience?