Repentance
Subtitle: the meaning & practice of teshuvah
By: Louis E. Newman ; foreword by Harold M. Schulweis ; preface by Karyn D. Kedar
Edition: Hardcover ed.
Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Woodstock, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781580234269
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The "yet" of teshuvah : turning; title: Our human capacity for change; title: Exploring teshuvah; title: Pt. I. The nature of sin. Dimensions of sin ; Sin as illness ; Suffering shekhinah ; Reverence for sin ; Sin, guilt, and impurity ; Sin, idolatry, and truth; title: Pt. II. Release from sin. Between two absolutes : God's demands and God's forgiveness ; Responsibility and accountability ; Freedom, fate, and repentance ; Atoning through sacrifice ; Day of atonement ; Suffering atones ; Death as atonement; title: Pt. III. The way of teshuvah. Turning : the meaning of a metaphor ; Step-by-step on the path of repentance ; It is I ; Remorse ; Announce your sins ; Apologize yet again ; Making others whole again ; Soul reckoning ; Teshuvah, complete and unending; title: Pt. IV. Teshuvah in three dimensions. Repentance, prayer, and righteousness ; Being fully oneself ; The dignity of penitents  ; Reconciliation and divine forgiveness ; Teshuvah of love versus teshuvah of fear ; Returning to the source; title: Pt. V. Experiencing teshuvah. A theological virtue ; Devotion to truthfulness ; Cultivating humility ; God's role in teshuvah ; One day ahead ; Seeing the goodness ; Faith in the certainty of renewal ; Turning faults into merits; title: Pt. VI. Teshuvah : its problems and limits. Sinning against repentance ; Jonah, justice, and repentance ; Irredeemable sinners ; A hardened heart ; Repenting to the dead; title: Pt. VII.Teshuvah : its moral and spiritual meaning. Overcoming guilt ; As God sees us ; Divine freedom ; Primordial teshuvah ; Past and future ; Ahead of the righteous ; Repentance and redemption ; The mystery of teshuvah; title: Teshuvah in our time.