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    To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility

    By Jonathan Sacks

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    One of the most respected religious thinkers of our time makes an impassioned plea for the return of religion to its true purpose—as a partnership with God in the work of ethical and moral living.

    What are our duties to others, to society, and to humanity? How do we live a meaningful life in an age of global uncertainty and instability? In To Heal a Fractured World, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks offers answers to these questions by looking at the ethics of responsibility. In his signature plainspoken, accessible style, Rabbi Sacks shares with us traditional interpretations of the Bible, Jewish law, and theology, as well as the works of philosophers and ethicists from other cultures, to examine what constitutes morality and moral behavior. “We are here to make a difference,” he writes, “a day at a time, an act at a time, for as long as it takes to make the world a place of justice and compassion.” He argues that in today’s religious and political climate, it is more important than ever to return to the essential understanding that “it is by our deeds that we express our faith and make it real in the lives of others and the world.”

    To Heal a Fractured World—inspirational and instructive, timely and timeless—will resonate with people of all faiths.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateFeb 6, 2007
    ISBN9780375425196
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    To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
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    Jonathan Sacks

    Jonathan Sacks has been Chief Rabbi in 1991 and sits in the House of Lords. He is much sought after as a religious broadcaster and spokesman. He is a lecturer, philosopher, and author, with many honours awarded for his contributions to theology and Jewish life.

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    • 5/5
      A remarkable piece of writing. Rabbi Dr Sacks is a consummate communicator, and in To Heal a Fractured World he takes his reader deep into the heart of Jewish and indeed human ethics. This is not a book whose readership should or could be limited to Jewish practitioners: underlying the ethos of the entire volume is the belief, stated early in the text, that "Unless the holy leads us outward toward the good, and the good leads us back, for renewal, to the holy, the creative energies of faith run dry" (9). With that premise in mind Sacks leads us on a masterful tour through the thoughts of figures from Plato to Beethoven, Yeats to Piaget to Nietzsche to Girard to ... and above all though a sort of applied Moses Maimonides, though the texts of the Hebrew Bible, through the great thoughts of ethicist literature, through the dark labyrinths of the holocaust, into the challenge of being a decent human being. This could be a compulsory text for every practitioner of compassion, regardless of creed, faith or a-faith: this is a spiritual masterpiece.
    • 5/5
      A remarkable piece of writing. Rabbi Dr Sacks is a consummate communicator, and in To Heal a Fractured World he takes his reader deep into the heart of Jewish and indeed human ethics. This is not a book whose readership should or could be limited to Jewish practitioners: underlying the ethos of the entire volume is the belief, stated early in the text, that "Unless the holy leads us outward toward the good, and the good leads us back, for renewal, to the holy, the creative energies of faith run dry" (9). With that premise in mind Sacks leads us on a masterful tour through the thoughts of figures from Plato to Beethoven, Yeats to Piaget to Nietzsche to Girard to ... and above all though a sort of applied Moses Maimonides, though the texts of the Hebrew Bible, through the great thoughts of ethicist literature, through the dark labyrinths of the holocaust, into the challenge of being a decent human being. This could be a compulsory text for every practitioner of compassion, regardless of creed, faith or a-faith: this is a spiritual masterpiece.