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When Meyer died in 1993, he was only 64 years old, but it was as if he had already lived two very full lives. In the first, he worked as a rabbi in Argentina for 25 years and spoke out frequently against the repressive government. He founded Latin America’s first rabbinical seminary and ran an "underground railroad" that helped people escape the country. In the second, he resuscitated a dying synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and made it one of the most outspoken, active and thriving Jewish congregations in America. Isay, who was one of Meyer’s New York congregants, brings her professional skills as an editor to bear on his considerable corpus of papers, which startled her with their power and relevance. "I felt as if I were encountering a burning bush on every page," she records in the book’s introduction. Isay organizes the book into six basic spiritual themes—faith, confronting God in world events, war and peace, prayer, holy days and the "lessons of Argentina." In the brief excerpts, Meyer tells stories, preaches about justice and draws on biblical prophets like Amos, whom he affectionately calls "a subversive Jew." This is a powerful, fitting tribute to a man who "loved Judaism most because of its intolerance of cruelty."
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Marshall Meyer, who died at age 64 in 1993, was a human rights leader and a powerful voice for justice. People flocked to hear him in Argentina, where he served as a rabbi for twenty-five years. In the mid-1980's, he became the spiritual leader of the fastest growing Jewish congregation in the U.S., Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun. People like Sam Freedman, Richard Bernstein, and Jan Hoffman of the New York Times are members. Harvey Cox, Elie Wiesel, and William Sloan Coffin were close friends.
After the rabbi's untimely death, Jane Isay had urged his widow, Naomi Meyer, partner in faith and action, to create a book from his writings so that his voice would not be silenced forever. Instead of finding the yellowing pages of rabbinic prose or the dry papers of a rabbi-scholar, Jane Isay encountered a powerful voice that implores readers to see the cruelty of our greedy world, begging them to understand the pain of the oppressed, urging them to awaken from their slumber of inactivity, and directing them to act for justice out of respect for the great prophetic vision that is the Jewish gift to civilization.
There is a long Jewish tradition of master rabbis, who attract large followings through their lives and whose teachings live long after they die. The writings collected in this gem of a book combine the best of Jewish prophecy with social action and a great sense of joyfulness.
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When Meyer died in 1993, he was only 64 years old, but it was as if he had already lived two very full lives. In the first, he worked as a rabbi in Argentina for 25 years and spoke out frequently against the repressive government. He founded Latin America’s first rabbinical seminary and ran an "underground railroad" that helped people escape the country. In the second, he resuscitated a dying synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and made it one of the most outspoken, active and thriving Jewish congregations in America. Isay, who was one of Meyer’s New York congregants, brings her professional skills as an editor to bear on his considerable corpus of papers, which startled her with their power and relevance. "I felt as if I were encountering a burning bush on every page," she records in the book’s introduction. Isay organizes the book into six basic spiritual themes—faith, confronting God in world events, war and peace, prayer, holy days and the "lessons of Argentina." In the brief excerpts, Meyer tells stories, preaches about justice and draws on biblical prophets like Amos, whom he affectionately calls "a subversive Jew." This is a powerful, fitting tribute to a man who "loved Judaism most because of its intolerance of cruelty."
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Marshall Meyer, who died at age 64 in 1993, was a human rights leader and a powerful voice for justice. People flocked to hear him in Argentina, where he served as a rabbi for twenty-five years. In the mid-1980's, he became the spiritual leader of the fastest growing Jewish congregation in the U.S., Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun. People like Sam Freedman, Richard Bernstein, and Jan Hoffman of the New York Times are members. Harvey Cox, Elie Wiesel, and William Sloan Coffin were close friends.
After the rabbi's untimely death, Jane Isay had urged his widow, Naomi Meyer, partner in faith and action, to create a book from his writings so that his voice would not be silenced forever. Instead of finding the yellowing pages of rabbinic prose or the dry papers of a rabbi-scholar, Jane Isay encountered a powerful voice that implores readers to see the cruelty of our greedy world, begging them to understand the pain of the oppressed, urging them to awaken from their slumber of inactivity, and directing them to act for justice out of respect for the great prophetic vision that is the Jewish gift to civilization.
There is a long Jewish tradition of master rabbis, who attract large followings through their lives and whose teachings live long after they die. The writings collected in this gem of a book combine the best of Jewish prophecy with social action and a great sense of joyfulness.
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Yom Kippur, Buenos Aires, Marshall Meyer, New York City, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Rosh Hashanah, Days of Awe, Kol Nidrei, Middle East, Plaza de Mayo, Rabbi Amnon, May God, Second World War, State of Israel, Unetane Tokef, Yizkor Eloheinu New!
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Yom Kippur, Buenos Aires, Marshall Meyer, New York City, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Rosh Hashanah, Days of Awe, Kol Nidrei, Middle East, Plaza de Mayo, Rabbi Amnon, May God, Second World War, State of Israel, Unetane Tokef, Yizkor Eloheinu New!
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