Table of Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Reading through the Prism of Midrash—Making the Text Our Own
PART I: FOURTEEN BIBLICAL TEXTS, FOURTEEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEANING 1. Recognizing the Other2. Being Accessible to the Other3. Awakening to Relationship4. Response in the Everyday5. Unqualified Openness: The Challenge and the Risk6. Fulfilling Past Promises7. The Significant Ramifications of Our Response to Others8. Responding to the Other's Fears9. The Reticence to Respond10. The Difficulty of Discerning the Call11. Fabricating the Call12. The Ever-Present Other13. The Ultimate Call14. The Ultimate Response
PART II: PERSONAL STORIES: MAKING HINEINI COME ALIVE Double CallRabbi Lester BronsteinJacob’s Tangled WebAlan DershowitzBringing My Whole Self to GodRabbi Laura GellerParallel Life JourneysRabbi Neil GillmanBeing Accessible to the Other in Our LivesRabbi Richard JacobsHineini: The Calling?Lawrence KushnerThe Story of a CallingPeter Ascher PitzeleI Am Not Supposed to Be HereRabbi Sandy Eisenberg SassoThe Challenge of Answering HineiniRabbi Zalman Schachter-ShalomiOne Hineini Against AnotherRabbi Harold SchulweisBeholding EsauPhyllis Trible
PART III: A GUIDE TO CREATING OUR OWN PERSONAL MIDRASH: FINDING YOUR OWN VOICE IN THE TEXT
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