Spiritual Activism: A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World
"Avi doesn't only talk the talk, or even walk the walk. He writes the instruction manual. This book shows a way, perhaps not the only way but one indispensable way, of being an activist on behalf of the Jewish people. Read it and learn."
—from the Foreword by Alan M. Dershowitz
In this age of perpetual strife and conflict, we need now more than ever to find out how to be proactive in repairing our broken world. Rabbi Avraham Weiss's provocative and challenging guidebook will show you just that—and so much more.
With easy-to-follow steps, accessible explanations of the principles of spiritual activism and an exploration into the foundations of spiritual activism as rooted in the Torah, Weiss offers more than simply a user manual—he provides an in-depth approach to changing your role in the world.
Topics include:
- Why, How and When Do We Engage in Spiritual Activism?
- Choosing the Cause
- Making Partners
- Designing the Strategy
- Leading Other People
- Seeing the Big Picture
- And more
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Book details
- Author
- Rabbi Avraham Weiss
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 224
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Religion › Leadership - Topics
- Jewish leadership · social justice · Torah · tikkun olam · Judaism · religious leadership
- ISBN-13
- 9781580233552 (Hardcover)9781580234184 (Paperback)
About the author
RABBI AVRAHAM WEISS is the founder and president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, the Modern and Open Orthodox Rabbinical School in New York, and senior rabbi of the Hebrew Institute in Riverdale. He is the author of Spiritual Activism: A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World.
Weiss was named one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America by Newsweek magazine. He also founded Yeshivat Mahara't, an Orthodox school ordaining women to become spiritual leaders.