Spiritual Activism: A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World
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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 CauseMaking PartnersDesigning the StrategyLeading Other PeopleSeeing the Big PictureAnd more ... Publishers Weekly What can one person possibly do to change the world? Rabbi Weiss, a Jewish activist par excellence who has participated in hundreds of demonstrations, marches, vigils, hunger strikes and acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, outlines his answers clearly in this handbook. Activism is not reckless or impulsive behavior, he writes.Its goal-to help others and thereby to help repair the world-is based on a serious analysis of moral, political and logistical issues, bound by Torah. Weiss describes the foundations of spiritual activism and delineates its principles: choosing the cause, making partners, designing the strategy, leading other people and seeing the big picture. He expands and elucidates each facet with personal examples, from his efforts to free Soviet Jews to protesting Yasser Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize and installing handicapped ramps in his synagogue. Though the book has a Jewish focus, its principles are universal.Readers may not agree with all of Weiss's choices, but it is hard not to be moved when he asks, "For me the question is not, Why go to the end of the world to help another Jew? But rather, How can one not go to the end of the world to help another Jew?" (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Foreword xiA Parable xiiiPreface xvWhat Is Spiritual Activism? xviiiSpiritual Activism Is a Tree of Life xixPart I Foundations of Spiritual Activism 11 Why Do We Engage in Spiritual Activism? A Partnership between God and Humankind 52 How Do We Engage in Spiritual Activism? A Balance between Public Protest and Quiet Diplomacy 93 When Do We Engage in Spiritual Activism? Action That Benefits the Larger Community 15Part II Pillars of Spiritual Activism 194 Loving Other Jews Ahavat Yisrael 235 Acting on Behalf of Other Jews Pe'ilut Yisrael 276 The Unity of Israel Achdut Yisrael 317 Nurturing Jewish Spirituality Ruach Yisrael 358 The Centrality of the State of Israel Medinat Yisrael 399 Loving Humankind Ahavat Habriyot 43Part III Principles of Spiritual Activism 4710 Step 1: Choosing the Cause 5111 Step 2: Making Partners 7512 Step 3: Designing the Strategy 10113 Step 4: Leading Other People 12714 Step 5: Seeing the Big Picture 151Every Action Counts 167The Spiritual Activist's Action Plan 171Notes 185Acknowledgments 190
