Seeking Redemption in an Unredeemed World

Please join the Germantown Jewish Centre Men’s Club for a book talk with author Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison.

Rava said: When assessing one’s life…the Heavenly Tribunal will ask… did you glimpse redemption? (BT Shabbat 31a)

The Jewish view of history rests on three pillars: Creation, Revelation, and Redemption. Arguably Redemption stands pre-eminent among the three. Interestingly, the Hebrew words for Redemption, Yeshu•ah (Salvation), Hatzalah (Deliverance), Pidyon ( Release and Restoration), and Ge•ulah (Redemption). all are abstracted from human activity and applied only metaphorically to God.

The essays in this volume offer diverse glimpses of how redemption might break through the fissures of our all-too- fractured world.  Spanning theology, liturgy and spiritual practice, the arts, sociology, and even politics, they open multiple doors through which the spirit of redemption may be glimpsed, welcomed, and pursued.

Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison is an Associate Professor for Instruction at Temple University, Ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, he earned his PhD at the Graduate Theological Foundation, where he directs its Graduate Program in Jewish Spirituality. A founding teacher of North America’s first Jewish Spiritual Direction training institute, Lev Shomea, he has lectured widely and serves as a spiritual director and dream guide to seekers in the US, Canada and South Africa.  Avruhm’s books include  The Enneagram and Kabbalah, Jewish Spiritual Direction, which he co-edited with his wife, Bobbi Breitman, and the recently published anthology, Seeking Redemption in an Unredeemed World.

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