Milton Steinberg
Born
in Rochester, New York, The United States
November 25, 1903
Died
March 20, 1950
Influences
Morris Raphael Cohen, Jacob Kohn, and Mordecai Kaplan
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As a Driven Leaf
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24 editions
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1939
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Basic Judaism (Harvest Book.)
19 editions
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1947
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A partisan guide to the Jewish problem
8 editions
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1986
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The Making of the Modern Jew
10 editions
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1987
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Anatomy of Faith
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1960
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From the sermons of Rabbi Milton Steinberg;: High holydays and major festivals,
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Basic Judaism
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Como una Hoja al Viento: Novela sobre Elisha ben Abuya
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Believing Jew: The Selected Writings
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1951
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Only Human - The Eternal Alibi
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“Then there were so many things to be said that they did not speak of any of them.”
― As a Driven Leaf
― As a Driven Leaf
“Does man not face life with a greater assurance is he believes that a benevolent providence foresees the future? And yet he must at the same time be confident that his will is free, otherwise moral support is meaningless altogether. Doctrines in themselves are not important to me, but their consequences are. For example, I urge upon men that they regard themselves as embodiments of the divine essence. If I convince them, their days are endowed with a sense of abiding significance and unturning glory. Then not all the misfortunes and degradations to which they may be subjected can take from them their feelings of oneness with angels and stars. And as for our people, persecuted and dispersed, they live under the shadow of death, cherishing a dream that is recurrently shattered by the caprice of tyrants and then dreamed again half in despair. What can enable such a people to persist except a conviction of a special relationship to God?”
― As a Driven Leaf
― As a Driven Leaf
“Do you remember, Meir, that epigram quoted in the name of Rabbi Johanan ben Zaccai: 'There is no truth unless there be a faith on which it may rest'? Ironically enough the only sure principle I have achieved is this which I have known almost all my life. And it is so. For all truths rest ultimately on some act of faith, geometry on axioms, the sciences on the assumptions of the objective existence and orderliness of the world of nature. In every realm one must lay down postulates or he shall have nothing at all. So with morality and religion. Faith and reason are not antagonists. On the contrary, salvation is through the commingling of the two, the former to establish first premises, the latter to purify them of confusion and to draw the fullness of their implications. It is not certainty which one acquires so, only plausibility, but that is the best we can hope for.”
― As a Driven Leaf
― As a Driven Leaf
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