The Place Where You Are Standing Is Holy: A Jewish Theology on Human Relationships

by Gershon Winkler, Ph.D. author of Magic of the Ordinary, Lakme Batya Elior

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568212180
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	11/01/1994
Pages:	231
Product dimensions:	5.78(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Gershon Winkler is a widely recognized scholar in the fields of Jewish law, lore, theology, and mysticism. A descendant of a scion of rabbis originating in Judea, Rabbi Winkler has devoted much of the past two decades to writing and teaching about the lesser-promulgated wisdoms of Judaism and to Hebraic scriptural interpretation. Rabbi Winkler is also the founder and executive director of Walking Stick Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to the recovery of aboriginal Judaism.

What People are Saying About This

Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi

The Place Where You Are Standing Is Holy: A Jewish Theology on Human Relationships is an eco-ethic for the next era. The authors open the classical sources—that we have often heard about but have seldom seen in English—with erudite scholarship as well as holistic psycho-ethical insight.

Editorial Reviews

Winkler, a rabbi, and Elior, a scholar of Judaica and Winkler's wife, have chosen as their theme what Judaism has to say about interpersonal relationships, i.e., relationships with God, the self, other adults, children, and the earth. As Judaism is a covenanting faith above all else, this important theme is at first developed quite promisingly. Then, unfortunately, two things begin to negate the book's usefulness. First, the authors have a tendency to combine the traditional insights of Judaism with contemporary pop psychology, and second, the writing style is verbose-so much so that it is doubtful if any reader will have the stamina to plow through the entire book, at least a third of which should have been cut. Recommended only for all-inclusive Judaica collections.-Robert A. Silver, formerly with Shaker Heights P.L., Ohio

Library Journal

The Place Where You Are Standing Is Holy: A Jewish Theology on Human Relationships is an eco-ethic for the next era. The authors open the classical sources—that we have often heard about but have seldom seen in English—with erudite scholarship as well as holistic psycho-ethical insight.

Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi