Table of Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1 To Cultivate and to Guard: The Universal Duties of Mankind 1
Chapter 2 In All Your Ways, Know Him: Two Modes of Serving God 25
Chapter 3 Mitzva: A Life of Command 45
Chapter 4 Make Your Torah Permanent: The Centrality of Torah Study 55
Chapter 5 Determining Objectives in Religious Growth: Spiritual Specialization or Spiritual Breadth? 67
Chapter 6 Being Frum and Being Good: On the Relationship Between Religion and Morality 89
Chapter 7 Bittachon: Trust in God 117
Chapter 8 I Am with Him in Distress: The Challenges of the Holocaust 141
Chapter 9 If You Remain Silent at This Time: Concern for the Jewish People 147
Chapter 10 Teshuva: Repentance and Return 159
Chapter 11 A Pure Heart: Refining Character and Balancing Values 177
Chapter 12 Centrist Orthodoxy: A Spiritual Accounting 193
Glossary of Terms 221
Glossary of Names, Books and Acronyms 229
Index of Biblical, Rabbinic and Maimonidean Sources 233
General Index 241
About the Author 251