Hineini in Our Lives: Learning How to Respond to Others through 14 Biblical Texts & Personal Stories
One simple, powerful word—hineini—contains the key to deepening your relationship with God and with others.
Hineini (Here I am!). This single spoken word appears only fourteen times in the Bible–each time in a memorable and meaningful story: Abraham offering Isaac as a sacrifice to God, Jacob deceiving his father for Esau's birthright, Moses answering the call that comes from the Burning Bush.
Scholar and popular teacher Norman Cohen explores each of these powerful stories and shows what each can reveal about you as parent, spouse, sibling, lover and friend. By probing these dynamic biblical relationships, Cohen challenges you to think about the ways you relate to the people in your life and God.
And, to add other fascinating perspectives to the conversation, eleven insightful authors and teachers share personal reflections that exemplify each of the hineini passages.
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Book details
- Author
- Norman Cohen
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Religion › Biblical Studies › Old Testament - Topics
- Jewish spirituality · Hebrew Bible · biblical stories · personal relationships · Old Testament study · Jewish scholarship
- ISBN-13
- 9781580232746 (Paperback)9781683361121 (Hardcover)
About the author
DR. NORMAN J. COHEN is a rabbi, professor emeritus of midrash, and former provost of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. His recent books include Masking and Unmasking Ourselves, Moses and the Journey to Leadership and Hineini in Our Lives.
Cohen lectures frequently to Jewish and Christian laypeople and scholars on Bible study and finding contemporary meaning from ancient biblical texts. He was a participant in Bill Moyers’s Genesis: A Living Conversation on PBS.