With Might and Strength
An Autobiography
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
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Even during his lifetime, Rabbi Shlomo Goren (1917–1994) stood as an exemplar of rabbinic leadership, a gadol renowned for his wisdom and courage, responsibility and dedication. The young boy from Poland who grew up tilling the land of newfound Israeli villages, enlisted in the Jewish underground, and fought in the War of Independence, rose to become the first chief rabbi of the IDF and, later, the State of Israel. Drawing on his exceptional Torah knowledge, Rabbi Goren confronted the halakhic challenges of sovereignty, molding the character of the Jewish military and state.
Based on a first-person account recorded in the final years of his life, With Might and Strength tells the story of a legendary chief rabbi and halakhic decisor, a leader who left his indelible imprint on twentieth-century halakha and the modern State of Israel.
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Editor Rath explains that this "book does not presume to be scholarly, but rather to disseminate Rabbi Goren's life story as he felt it, saw it, and experienced it." As constructed by Rath from the words of Goren, the late chief rabbi of Israel, this memoir assumes a great deal of familiarity with both Orthodox Judaism and Israeli history. The lack of footnotes or endnotes for instance, explaining what an admor is, or who Count Bernadotte was and why his assassination by Jewish extremists was significant will make the text difficult for general readers. Goren was a witness to history; his family moved to Haifa from Warsaw in the 1920s, and he shifted from a Talmudic prodigy to a member of the Jewish underground fighting both the British and the Arabs before Israeli independence. He became the Israeli Army's first chief rabbi and used his knowledge of Jewish law to craft rulings that took into account practical realities. Goren's version of events will raise some eyebrows, as when he gives himself credit for persuading two cabinet minister holdouts to authorize the launching of the Six-Day War, and Rath's hands-off approach leaves that account uncorroborated.
