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Title: At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden : A Jew's Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land by Yossi K. Halevi ISBN: 0-06-050582-6 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Scrap of Hope for Hard Times
Comment: I just finished reading At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden by Yossi Klein Halevi. I couldn't put it down. In his search for Muslims and Christians who would let him share in their spiritual lives, Halevi tries to find a way to connect with his erstwhile enemies outside of politics. He takes us along on his journey and what an astounding array of people we meet: Sufi sheikhs and French nuns and Armenian monks.
And most of all, we get to know Halevi, an American-born Israeli, sensitive and conflicted , who wants to participate in the rebirth of the Jewish people in its own land without harming other peoples, and understanding the tragedy that these two desires are in conflict.
It's a sad book because it ends with the resumption of armed conflict that began in 2000. But it's also a hopeful book because of all of the people Halevi meets who are willing to clasp hands across the divide. In one beautiful scene, Halevi attends a Moslem Sufi zikr, a session of mystical dancing which allows the participants to connect with each other and with God. Despite initial hostility, the experience brings home Halevy and his hosts together in mutual understanding and respect. It's a scrap of hope we can all use in these difficult times.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Alternative Path to Peace
Comment: Author Yossi Klein Halevi, the son of a Holocaust-survivor, grew up in New York and immigrated to Israel in the early 1980s. A religious Jew and a journalist, Halevi describes his encounters with various Sufi Muslim sheykhs and Christian monastics in Israel as he searches to understand the spiritual insights that each have and to connect through the common experience of the one God's presence. If a book can be a prayer then this would probably qualify, as Halevi shows how religion can be a source of love and healing when we learn to respect and even love the different ways that different faiths relate to God. Halevi is an excellent writer and he avoids unrealistic optimism by detailing his own vascillation between religious hope and love on the one hand and a mix of anger and fear of political realities on the other. I heartily recommend this book to anybody interested in achieving a true peace in the Middle East.
Rating: 5
Summary: A sincere seeker on a challenging quest
Comment: This is a deeply thought-provoking book. I ordered it because I have personally been involved in Jewish-Muslim-Christian dialogues (trialogues?) in the USA, and I resonated with the reviews I had read. What surprised (and saddened) me was the extreme difficulty that Yossi had in even finding people willing to dialogue in the Middle East. I had been told that Israel was a segregated society (not officially, but socially) but I did not realize how deeply the mistrust runs. Villages and monasteries that are within visual sight of each other might as well be on different planets.
To cross the cultural divide can literally mean taking your life inot your hands.
Author Yossi Klein takes that risk. With the help of various unconventional guides, he meets with Sufi shaykhs, Armenian priests, Catholic nuns and many others, hoping to communicate on the level of the soul rather than politics. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes not. On so many occasions, history intrudes with its memories of past brutalities -- Crusades, Inquisitions, the Holocaust. This is not a sugar-coated utopian view of peace, but a scathingly honest chronicle of one seeker's search for common ground in a troubled land. With each new encounter, Yossi struggles with his own anger, distrust, and fear -- as did I when I read the book. Definitely a must-read for everyone who is or wants to be involved in interfaith dialogue.
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Title: Abraham : A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler ISBN: 0380977761 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler ISBN: 0380807319 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: An American Story by Yossi Klein Halevi ISBN: 0316498602 Publisher: Little Brown & Co Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations by Jonathan Sacks ISBN: 0826468500 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Pray Tell: A Hadassah Guide to Jewish Prayer by Jules Harlow, Carol Diament, Claudia R. Chernov, Tamara Cohen, Rochelle Furstenberg, Daniel, Rabbi Gordis, Leora Tanenbaum, Jules, Rabbi Harlow, Claudia Chernov, the Women's Zionist Organization of America Hadassah ISBN: 1580231632 Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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