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A Book of Jewish Thoughts

by Joseph H. Hertz

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  1. 1Dedication — Prefatory Note
  2. 2I — I Am an Hebrew
  3. 3Ye Are My Witnesses
  4. 4I Am an Hebrew
  5. 5The Good Fight
  6. 6Every Israelite Holds the Honour of His Entire People in His Hands I
  7. 7II
  8. 8The Paths of Life I
  9. 9II
  10. 10In the Old Ghetto
  11. 11The Jewish Woman
  12. 12The Jewish Mother
  13. 13Yiddish Cradle Song
  14. 14Religious Education
  15. 15The Sacred Tongue
  16. 16The Hebrew Language
  17. 17What Is Culture?
  18. 18The Student of the Torah
  19. 19Bar Mitzvah Prayer
  20. 20On the Threshold of Manhood
  21. 21A Father’s Admonition
  22. 22What Makes a Man a Jew?
  23. 23‘I Believe’
  24. 24Judaism a Positive Religion
  25. 25The Mission of Israel
  26. 26Tolerance I
  27. 27II
  28. 28Our Heritage
  29. 29Our Fathers
  30. 30The Obligations of Heredity
  31. 31Zedakah​ — Charity — Tur, II, § 247
  32. 32Zedakah​ — Justice
  33. 33The Jewish Poor
  34. 34At ‘The Old People’s Rest’, Jerusalem
  35. 35Sharing the Burden I
  36. 36II
  37. 37The Duty of Self-Respect
  38. 38Anti-Semitism I
  39. 39II
  40. 40III
  41. 41The Jew as a Patriot
  42. 42The Jewish Soldier
  43. 43The Jew’s Love of Britain
  44. 44To England
  45. 45Judaism and the Jew in America I
  46. 46II
  47. 47The Deluge of Fire (1914–1918)
  48. 48The Healing of the Nations
  49. 49The Messianic Hope
  50. 50The Vision of a United Humanity
  51. 51Trust Ye in the Lord for Ever
  52. 52II — The People of the Book
  53. 53Israel Immortal
  54. 54The Eternal Riddle
  55. 55The Secret of Israel’s Immortality
  56. 56The Book of Books
  57. 57The Bible
  58. 58A Jewish Version of the Bible I
  59. 59II
  60. 60III
  61. 61IV
  62. 62V
  63. 63Israel the People of Revelation
  64. 64There Is No God but God and Israel Is His Prophet
  65. 65Moses
  66. 66The Prophets I
  67. 67II
  68. 68The Talmud
  69. 69Jewish Literature
  70. 70The Work of the Rabbis
  71. 71Israel’s History Never-Ending
  72. 72The Meaning of Jewish History
  73. 73The Hallowing of Jewish History
  74. 74Israel’s Martyrdom
  75. 75Under the Roman Emperors
  76. 76In Mediaeval Rome
  77. 77The First Crusade (1096)
  78. 78The Second Crusade
  79. 79Jewish Suffering
  80. 80The Jews of York (1190)
  81. 81The Expulsion From Spain, 1492
  82. 82The Exodus (August 3, 1492)
  83. 83A Song of Redemption
  84. 84Shylock
  85. 85On the Eve of the Re-Settlement in England
  86. 86Jewish Emancipation
  87. 87The Jewish Question
  88. 88The Jews of England (1290–1902)
  89. 89Welcome of the Hebrew Congregation, Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A.,…
  90. 90British Citizenship
  91. 91The Russian Jew
  92. 92Yiddish
  93. 93Russo-Jewish Education
  94. 94Passover in Old Russia
  95. 95The Pogrom — October, 1905
  96. 96Under the Romanoffs
  97. 97‘Soldiers of Nicholas’
  98. 98Bontzye Shweig (Bontzye the Silent)
  99. 99The Watch on the Jordan (Zionist Hymn)
  100. 100The Tragedy of Assimilation
  101. 101The Valley of Dry Bones
  102. 102Palestine
  103. 103The Last Corpses in the Desert
  104. 104Zionism
  105. 105The British Declaration on Palestine — November 2, 1917 — April 24,…
  106. 106Judaism and the New Judea I
  107. 107II
  108. 108III — The Testimony of the Nations
  109. 109World’s Debt to Israel
  110. 110Israel and His Revelation
  111. 111Israel, Greece, and Rome
  112. 112What Is a Jew?
  113. 113The Book of the Ages
  114. 114The Bible, the Epic of the World
  115. 115The Bible in Education
  116. 116The Bible and Democracy
  117. 117The Hebrew Language
  118. 118Rebecca’s Hymn
  119. 119Moses
  120. 120The Burial of Moses
  121. 121Israel’s Psalter
  122. 122The Psalms in Human Life
  123. 123The Spacious Firmament on High (Psalm 19)
  124. 124‘O God, Our Help in Ages Past’ (Psalm 90)
  125. 125The Living Power of the Jewish Prophets
  126. 126The Book of Jonah
  127. 127Job
  128. 128Ecclesiastes
  129. 129The Book of Esther
  130. 130The Talmud
  131. 131The Humanity of Jewish Wisdom
  132. 132The Pharisees
  133. 133The Jewish Prayer Book
  134. 134In a Synagogue
  135. 135The Torch of Jewish Learning
  136. 136During the Crusades
  137. 137The Expulsion From Spain and Portugal, 1492–1497
  138. 138A Protest Against the Auto-da-Fé of September 20, 1761, Lisbon
  139. 139The Bible in Elizabethan England
  140. 140For the Emancipation of the Jews
  141. 141Ignorance of Judaism
  142. 142They Are Our Elders
  143. 143The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
  144. 144The Jew as a Citizen
  145. 145In the East End of London
  146. 146The Russian Agony — I. The Beginnings
  147. 147II — In the Nineteenth Century
  148. 148III — In the Twentieth Century
  149. 149IV — The Moral
  150. 150The Blood Libel — British Protest, 1912
  151. 151Jewish Nationalism
  152. 152A Jewish National Home
  153. 153Israel’s Preservation
  154. 154Israel and the Nations
  155. 155IV — The Voice of Prayer (The Jewish Year)
  156. 156On Prayer and Praise
  157. 157On Morning Service
  158. 158שַׁחַר אֲבַקֶּשְׁךָ at the Dawn I Seek Thee
  159. 159Morning Prayers
  160. 160Adon Olam I
  161. 161II
  162. 162Adon Olam and Modern Science
  163. 163שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל — The Shema
  164. 164אֱלֹהָי נְשָׁמָה — ‘The Soul Thou Hast Given Me Is Pure’
  165. 165זְכוּת אָבוֹת — The ‘Merit of the Fathers’
  166. 166The Kaddish
  167. 167The Holiness of Home
  168. 168Kindling the Sabbath Light
  169. 169לְכָה דוֹדִי
  170. 170Sabbath Prayer
  171. 171The Sabbath
  172. 172Prayer Before the New Moon
  173. 173The Seder
  174. 174לֵיל שִׁמּוּרִים — Israel’s Watch-Night
  175. 175Passover and Freedom
  176. 176‘Addir Hu’
  177. 177שָׁבֻעוֹת — The Feast of Weeks
  178. 178A Self-Denying Guild
  179. 179אַקְדָמוּת
  180. 180The Bible
  181. 181The Sepher Torah
  182. 182Religion and Morality
  183. 183Symbols and Ceremonies
  184. 184Custom in Religion
  185. 185‘In Accordance With the Times’
  186. 186Faith
  187. 187צִיּוֹן הֲלֹא תִשְׁאֲלִי — Ode to Zion (Hymn for the Fast of Ab)
  188. 188The Eternal City of the Eternal People
  189. 189רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה — New Year
  190. 190Written and Sealed
  191. 191The Shofar
  192. 192My King
  193. 193The Lord Is King, the Lord Was King, the Lord Shall Be King for Eve…
  194. 194If Not Higher
  195. 195יוֹם כִּפּוּר — Day of Atonement
  196. 196The Message of Yom Kippur
  197. 197אָמְנָם כֵּן־סָלַחְתִּי — ‘Forgiven’
  198. 198תֶר מַלְכוּת — Confession
  199. 199Yom Kippur Meditations I
  200. 200II
  201. 201The Infinite Mercies of God
  202. 202Brotherhood
  203. 203Atonement Promise and Admonition I
  204. 204II
  205. 205Lord, Thine Humble Servants Hear
  206. 206אֵל נוֹרָא עֲלִילָה — God That Doest Wondrously (Ne’ilah)
  207. 207Tabernacles זְמַן שִׂמְחָתֵנוּ
  208. 208Palms and Myrtles
  209. 209The Harvest Festival
  210. 210Joyous Service
  211. 211Rejoicing of the Law שִׂישׂוּ וְשִׂמְחוּ
  212. 212Simchas Torah
  213. 213The Maccabean Warriors
  214. 214The Feast of Lights
  215. 215The Menorah
  216. 216The Story of the Maccabees
  217. 217Chanucah Hymn
  218. 218Purim
  219. 219Servant of God
  220. 220Hymn of Glory
  221. 221V — The Voice of Wisdom
  222. 222God, Whom Shall I Compare to Thee!
  223. 223Great Is Truth
  224. 224The Right Life
  225. 225The Goodness of God’s Work
  226. 226The Two Natures in Man
  227. 227Freedom of the Will
  228. 228The Wicked Saith in His Heart
  229. 229Repentance of the Wicked
  230. 230Wise Counsel I
  231. 231II
  232. 232III
  233. 233The Duty of Holiness
  234. 234The City of God
  235. 235Humility
  236. 236Sayings From the Talmud I
  237. 237II
  238. 238III
  239. 239IV
  240. 240The Dedicated Life
  241. 241God and Man
  242. 242Golden Rules
  243. 243Deeds the Best Commendation
  244. 244A Mediaeval Jewish Moralist I
  245. 245II
  246. 246III
  247. 247The Mystery of Pain
  248. 248Meeting Adversity
  249. 249The Contemplation of Death
  250. 250Light in Darkness
  251. 251Whence and Whither I
  252. 252II
  253. 253Time and Eternity
  254. 254Talmudic Parables and Legends I
  255. 255II — ‘We Live in Deeds, Not Years’
  256. 256III — The Acorn
  257. 257IV — Earthly Treasures
  258. 258V — Alexander at the Gates of Paradise
  259. 259VI — Heavenly Treasures
  260. 260VII — Toleration
  261. 261VIII — The Torah Is Israel’s Life
  262. 262IX — Israel’s Loyalty
  263. 263X — The Jewels
  264. 264XI — The Two Ships
  265. 265XII — The Man and His Three Friends
  266. 266XIII — Vanity of Human Pleasure
  267. 267XIV — Body and Soul
  268. 268Almighty, What Is Man?
  269. 269הַצּוּר תָּמִים — Resignation
  270. 270Immortality
  271. 271Eternal Hope
  272. 272True Wisdom
  273. 273I
  274. 274II
  275. 275III
  276. 276IV
  277. 277V

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