Abaye, 166
Abimelekh, 80
Abrabanel, Don Isaac, 17, 18, 21–22
Abraham, 24, 41, 51–52, 54–58, 64, 74, 75, 80, 90, 92–94, 99–101, 111–113, 129, 130, 147, 152, 188, 191, 199, 217, 226
Abu Simbel, 30
Adam, 68, 76, 80–82, 87, 127, 145, 188
Adams, John, 3–4
Adiabene, kingdom of, 150
Aelia Capitolina, 143
Agriculture, birth of, 68
Ahab, King, 126
Alexandria, synagogue in, 160
Alfonso V, King of Portugal, 17
Alphabet, invention of, 132–135
Alshekh, Rabbi Moses, 7
Amalek, 196
Amiel, Rabbi Moshe Avigdor, 156
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 3, 36
Ansky, Sh., 151
Anti-Semitism, 15–17, 19, 22, 23, 194–198, 200, 202, 207, 213, 214, 221, 225, 227
Holocaust, 19, 28, 91, 94, 96, 101, 143, 185–189, 192, 195, 197, 202, 203, 213, 216, 223, 225
Arama, Rabbi Isaac ben Moses, 11, 12, 14, 18, 21–22, 24–25, 30, 38
Arnold, Matthew, 179
Asch, Sholom, 100
Assyrians, 23, 141, 155, 157, 178
Atonement, 148–150
Auerbach, Erich, 74
Auschwitz, 185–189
Autonomy, concept of, 42
Avot, Ethics of the Fathers, 165
Ayer, A.J., 26–27
Babylonian conquest, 18, 19, 141, 155
Babylonian exile, 134, 143, 164, 199
Bacon, Francis, 131
Balaam, 201
Bar Kochba (Simeon Bar Kochba), 143, 147, 160
Baron, Salo, 158
Benjamin of Tudela, 165–166
Bentham, Jeremy, 179
Berdyayev, Nicolay, 37
Berlin, Sir Isaiah, 91, 120, 223
Bet knesset. See Synagogues
Bet midrash (house of study), 164
British Jewish community, 199–200
Calatayud, Spain, 11
Capitalism, 126
Carlebach, Shlomo, 193
Chesterton, G.K., 225
Chinese inventions, 62
Chosen people, idea of, 91–105
Christianity, 15–16, 65, 84, 86, 90, 99, 100, 117, 144, 146–147, 150, 153–154, 158, 190, 200, 201, 218, 226
Churchill, Winston, 216
Common Era, 144
Communism, 127
Concentration camps, 184–189
Conflicted identity, 193–203
Conscience, 190
Constantine, Emperor, 150
Constitutional government, 128, 156
Conversions, forced (conversos), 15–18, 22
Covenantal morality, 77–90
Covenantal society, 122–141, 154–155
Covenant (brit), 83
Covenant of Sinai, 11–13, 16, 60, 97, 115–118, 151, 163
Creation, account of, 73, 78–79, 161
Cretans, 132
Cromwell, Oliver, 109
Cuddihy, John Murray, 208–209
Cuneiform, 131
David, King, 96, 126, 165, 168
Day of Atonement, 144, 148, 149
Dead Sea, 142
Deborah, 74
Declaration of Independence, 75
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 194
Derashah (homily), 159
Determinism, 170
Diaspora, 19, 156, 175, 197, 198, 221
Dina, 81
Dio, 143
Durkheim, Emile, 103
Dybbuk, The (Ansky), 151
Ecclesiastes, 144
Edot (testimonies), 172
Education, 129–131, 133–135, 163–169, 192
Egypt, 27–28, 30–33, 46, 51, 75, 77, 92–94, 116–117, 131, 137, 177, 178, 191, 207
Einstein, Albert, 216
Eliot, T.S., 195
Emunah (faithfulness), 40, 83, 85
Enlightenment, 42, 53, 99, 194, 207
Epistle to Yemen, The (Maimonides), 16
Equality, 168–169
Essenes, 126
Evil, reality of, 57–58
Ewer, W.N., 129
Exodus, 30, 32–34, 79, 105, 109–121, 130, 153, 170
Family, 79, 80, 83–84, 89, 134, 201
Fate, 102
Ferdinand, King of Spain, 17
Festivals, 110, 111, 115, 134–136, 144, 155, 172, 174
Franklin, Benjamin, 109
Fraternity, concept of, 127, 168, 169
Free market, 126
French Revolution, 99, 127, 168, 194, 224
Frost, Robert, 203
Genesis, 73–75, 77–80, 105, 118, 167, 172, 206
Gideon, 133
Gifts of the Jews, The (Cahill), 41
Glasnost, 213
Greece, 62, 70, 71, 77, 99, 102, 119, 132, 136, 149, 155, 164, 171, 177, 178, 194, 207, 218, 219
Hadrian, 143
Hagar, 112
Hakhamin (rabbis), 164
Haman, 196
Hanina, Rabbi, 156
Hannah, 74
Hanukkah, 155
Hayyim of Brisk, Rabbi, 218
Hedonism, 71–72
Herod, 142
Herzl, Theodore, 174
Hessed (covenantal love), 125, 127–128, 160, 173
Hevrutah (fellowship of study), 169
Hezekiah, 152
High Priest, office of, 144, 148, 152
History of the Jews, A (Johnson), 219
Hofesh (individual freedom), 120
Holocaust, 19, 28, 91, 94, 96, 101, 143, 185–189, 192, 195, 197, 202, 203, 213, 216, 223, 225
Homer, 74
Houses of Hillel and Shammai, 164
Hukkim (statutes), 171–172
Idolatry, rejection of, 74, 85
Imperialism, 92
Individual, birth of, 69–70, 77, 83, 116, 118, 155, 156
Industrial Revolution, 131
Intermarriage, 197, 199–201, 203
Isaac, 52, 80, 92, 112, 113, 147, 199
Isabella, Queen of Spain, 17
Islam, 16, 65, 84, 90, 99, 100, 117, 158, 201, 226
Israel
creation of State of, 174, 175, 191–192, 203, 221, 225
Six Day War (1967), 27–29
Jacob, 80, 92, 204–208, 225, 226
Jefferson, Thomas, 109
Jerusalem, 143, 146, 155, 156, 158, 161, 192. See also Temple in Jerusalem
Jethro, 119
Jethro’s daughters, 46
Jewish ideas, history of, 63–76
Jihads, 91
Johanan ben Zakkai, 163
Johnson, Paul, 4, 54, 164, 219
Joshua, 74
Josiah, 152
Judah, kingdom of, 141
Judah Halevi, 16, 138, 140, 196
Judea, 164
Kaplan, Mordecai, 196
Karnak, 30
Kellner, Menachem, 174
Kibbutz, 126
Kishinev pogroms, 195
Knowledge, hierarchy of, 131
Kovno ghetto, 173–174
Kuzari (Judah Halevi), 16
Labor, division of, 68
Language, Truth and Logic (Ayer), 26–27
Leach, Sir Edmund, 27
Leibowitz, Yeshayahu, 167
Letter to the Romans, 145
Leviticus, 127
Lewis, C.S., 105
Liberal revolution, 27
Limpieza de sangre (purity of blood), 22
Livy, 178
Long Walk to Freedom, The (Mandela), 110
Lot, 80
Luxor, 30
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 224
Maimonides, 16, 165–167, 171, 172
Mandela, Nelson, 110
Marcion, 153
Marriage, 81, 83, 84, 85, 88–89
Marx, Groucho, 193
Masada, 142
Mason, Jackie, 193
McCartney, Paul, 27
Meaning of History, The (Berdyayev), 37
Melchizedek, 119
Mendel of Kotsk, Rabbi Menahem, 162
Merneptah stele, 32
Mesopotamia, 51, 62, 75, 77, 150, 177
Mill, John Stuart, 119
Mishkan (tabernacle in wilderness), 161
Mishpat (justice-as-reciprocity), 125
Mishpatim (judgments), 171
Monarchy, 123–124
Monotheism, 70, 73, 77, 85, 90, 92, 98, 99, 104, 150, 226
covenantal, 77–90
Morganbesser, Sidney, 212
Moses, 6–7, 11–13, 16, 24, 33–34, 41, 45–46, 74, 92, 94, 101, 109, 110, 114, 118, 119, 122, 129, 130, 141, 153, 155, 191, 209, 217, 226
Moses and Monotheism (Freud), 209
Mount Carmel, 87
Mount Horeb, 87
Mount Sinai, 11–13, 16, 60, 97, 115–118, 151, 163
Mysticism, 104
Myth, 67, 68, 70, 72, 73, 104, 130
Nash, John, 138
Nathan, 126
Nebuchadnezzar, 196
Nehemiah, 199
New Age mysticisms, 104
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 146, 190, 223
Ninth of Av, 192
Nitzavim, 11
Nuremberg trials, 186
“Odysseus’ Scar” (Auerbach), 74
Oracles, 102
Ordeal of Civility, The: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity (Cuddihy), 208–209
Outline of History (Wells), 134
Pascal, Blaise, 35–36
Passover (Pesach), 110, 111, 115, 136, 138, 172, 174
Peace, value of, 96
Pentecost (Shavuot), 172
Phoenicians, 132
Pictographic script, 131–132
Pinsker, Judah Leib, 197
Plutarch, 136
Polis, 105
Pompey, 161
Printing, invention of, 62, 70, 132
Private property, 126
Probability, theory of, 35
Prophets, 17, 41, 85–88, 95–96, 102, 152, 154, 157, 167–168, 178, 226
Proverbs, 146
Psychotherapy, 104
Puritanism, 70
Qumran, 142
Ramses II, 30–32
Rationalism, 99
Rav, 166
Rava, 166
Rees-Mogg, William, 4–5
Relationship, search for, 77–83
Renaissance, 70
Romans, 18, 19, 136, 141–143, 146, 147, 149, 156, 163, 177, 178, 194, 207
Rome and Jerusalem (Hess), 23
Rosenzweig, Franz, 172
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 123
Rowse, A.L., 47
Rubin, Rabbi Yitzhak, 243
Russell, Bertrand, 177
Russian Revolution, 99
Sabbath (Shabbat), 83, 104, 134, 136–141, 162, 172, 228
Safire, William, 224
Salanter, Rabbi Israel, 97
Sarah, 51–52, 54, 58, 74, 80, 99, 112, 113, 130, 152
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 42
Saul of Tarsus. See Paul, Saint
Schneersohn, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, 210–211
Secular humanism, 84
Sefer Torah, 39
Self-consciousness, 72
Seneca, 136
Sexual relationships, 80–81
Shapiro, Rabbi Kalonymous, 186
Shavuot, 172
Shechem, 81
Shekhinah (God’s indwelling presence), 168, 223
Shema, 130
Shi’ite Muslims, 16
Shmuel, 166
Simeon bar Yochai, Rabbi, 30
Simeon ben Zemah Duran, Rabbi, 172
Simon ben Shetach, 134
Six Day War (1967), 27–29
Social breakdown, 176–178
Socialism, 126
Societies, emergence of, 68
Society, covenantal, 122–141
Solomon, King, 161
Soloveitchik, Rabbi Joseph, 217–218
Song of Songs, 191
Spanish Inquisition, 22
Spanish Jewry, 15–19, 22–23, 53, 166, 193, 194, 200
Spinoza, Baruch, 225
State, theory of the, 122–125, 128
Stern, M., 157–158
Stoicism, 71–72
Succoth (Sukkot), 133, 172
Survival instinct, 21
establishment of, 157–162, 164
Tabernacles (Sukkot), 172
Tacitus, 136
Tel Lakhish, 133–134
Temple in Jerusalem
destruction of first, 18, 157, 159
destruction of second, 18, 141, 142, 148, 150, 153, 154, 160
Ten Commandments, 115, 117, 172
Teshuvah (return of “sinner” to God), 148–149
Thirteen Principles of Faith, 172
Tigris-Euphrates valley, 67
Titus, 142
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 119
Torah, 24, 39, 52–53, 63, 85, 88, 94, 111, 120, 128, 134–136, 139, 145, 159–161, 163, 165–168, 171, 172, 228
Tosafists, 166
Treblinka, 184
Trilling, Lionel, 69–70
Twerski, Rabbi Abraham, 217
Tzedek (social or redistributive justice), 125–127, 160, 222
Tzidduk ha-din (coming to terms with suffering and loss), 102
Valladolid Synod, 166
Volozhyn yeshivah, 218
Voltaire, 195
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 3, 36
Warsaw ghetto, 186
Weber, Max, 73
Wells, H.G., 134
Wheel, invention of, 62
Wordsworth, William, 7
Writing, invention of, 131
Wycliffe, John, 132
Yemen, 16
Yeshivah (academy), 164
Yetser hara (evil inclination), 145
Yitzhak of Berditchev, Rabbi Levi, 140
Yom ha-Shoah, 192
Yom Kippur, 144