The God upgrade
Subtitle: finding your 21st-century spirituality in Judaism's 5,000-year-old tradition
By: Jamie S. Korngold ; foreword by Harold M. Schulweis
Edition: 2011 quality paperback ed.
Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Woodstock, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781580234436
Subjects: Judaism; Spiritual life; God (Judaism)
Description: Looks at how the concept of the Jewish God has evolved over the centuries and shows how Judaism can be made more meaningful and relevent to one's life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-143).
Table of contents: title: Running God System 1.0 in a 2.0 world; title: The issues with God 1.0. Looking for lightning ; They taught you that in Sunday school? ; God envy; title: Upgrades through the centuries. God 1.0 : When the world was flat, God had it easy ; God 1.1 : Therapist with superpowers ; God 1.2 : On the farm with God ; God 1.3 : Discovery of afterlife ; God 1.4 : Arguing with God ; God 1.5 : Maimonides on what God is not ; God 1.6 : Spinoza's spin on God; title: Twentieth-century upgrades. God 1.7 : Rabbi Harold Kushner on when bad things happen to good people ; God 1.75 : Rabbi Harold Schulweis says God is in the grammar ; God 1.8 : Rabbi Martin Buber's I-thou ; God 1.9 : Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and praying with our feet; title: God 2.0 : God in the Twenty-first Century. God and the big bang ; Finding God on a mesa ; According to what authority?; title: Judaism 2.0 : a new understanding of God enables a new understanding of Judaism. Why do I feel attached to Judaism even though I never go to synagogue? ; Who wrote the Torah? ; Does God hear our prayers? ; My life is already overbooked.  Why should I make time for Judaism? ; What happens when we die? ; Judaism 2.0 : the upgrade.