9:48 PM
Gil Student
I recently made a list of good outreach books for a friend. Let me present it here with a little elaboration:
- Books that try to convince and respond to challenges:
- Nineteen Letters by R. Samson Raphael Hirsch
- Anvil of Sinai by R. Zechariah Fendel
- On Judaism by R. Emanuel Feldman
- A Letter in the Scroll by R. Jonathan Sacks
- This Is My God by Herman Wouk
- Judaism: A Way of Being by David Gelernter
- A Time to Every Purpose by Jonathan Sarna
- On Being a Jew by James Kugel (although written by a controversial figure)
- Halakhic Man by R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- A World Built, Destroyed, and Rebuilt by R. Yehuda Amital
- Commitment and Complexity by R. Yehuda Amital
- By His Light by R. Aharon Lichtenstein
- One Man's Judaism by R. Emanuel Rackman
- The Sabbath by R. Abraham J. Heschel
- God in Search of Man by R. Abraham J. Heschel
- Faith After the Holocaust by R. Eliezer Berkovits God, Man and History by R. Eliezer Berkovits
A book that tries to inspire about the mission of a Jew:
Click here to read moreBooks that describe the meaningfulness of an observant lifestyle:
Books that try to pique curiosity about Judaism:
Books that present a compelling vision of Judaism:
Some good non-controversial books by controversial
figures:
