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You Don't Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism
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Average Rating:  out of 7 Reviews
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $12.47
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Manufacturer: Harmony
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780307382979
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Brad Hirschfield
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Publisher: Harmony
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 201.5
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Publication Date: 2007-12-31
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: “We live in a world,” says Brad Hirschfield, “where religion is killing more people than at any time since the Crusades.” And when it comes to fanaticism, Hirschfield is not speaking abstractly; he once embraced it. As a young man in the early 1980s, he left his family’s upscale North Shore Chicago neighborhood for the West Bank city of Hebron, where he joined a group of settlers who were committed to reconstituting the Jewish state within its biblical borders. He carried a gun and, on one occasion, used it. He still doesn’t know if his bullets found their mark.
Now, Hirschfield has renounced all such rigid delineations of people into categories of totally right and totally wrong, entirely good and entirely evil. He seeks to build bridges among people of different faiths—and those with no faith at all. He is devoted to teaching inclusiveness, celebrating diversity, and delivering a message of acceptance—not as feel-good pabulum but as forceful and indispensable antidotes to the blind passions and willful ignorance that threaten us all.
Grounded in biblical scholarship and interwoven with personal stories, You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right provides a pragmatic path to peace, understanding, and hope that appeals to the common wisdom of all religions. Pointing the way through the continuum of conflict, Hirschfield addresses:
• the ways faith has many faces
• how justice can coexist with forgiveness and mercy
• how unity does not necessitate uniformity
• the ways we can learn to disagree without disconnecting
Though conflict is an inevitable part of life—a function of being connected to one another—Hirschfield is a voice of peace and reconciliation, showing us that conflict is also an opportunity to learn and grow and often to grow closer.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Dialogue facilitating |
Date: 2008-09-18 |
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Details: This book is an excellent resource for anyone facing disagreements about or within politics, religion, churches, family or any other issues which separate and disturb us. |
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Review Summary: An alternative subtitle might be "A Practical Guide to Saving the World" |
Date: 2008-04-10 |
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Details: In the realm of dialogue, where I both study and work, there is a lot of agreement and good feelings. We get together with like minded individuals who have different shades of skins, different gods, different sexual orientations, or nationalities and we all congratulate ourselves on our open spirits.
Unfortunately, that's not quite enough. It's not enough because you are preaching to the choir and where the conversation must happen is where you cannot find easy agreement, where you must struggle to deal with difference and must learn to let their "Thou" exist even if it is something you oppose.
Rabbi Hirschfield in this book (and even moreso if you hear him speak, I recently heard him speak to a crowd at a university that left nary an eye dry) explains how one may live a life and have a conversation that both honors the other and allows you to honor yourself as well. This is an important book, and I hope that those reading it go far beyond those who are normally a part of this conversation. |
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Review Summary: Encouragement For The Spiritual Journey |
Date: 2008-02-24 |
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Details: Hirschfield's work here is a wonderfully sane, insightful and balanced account of his journey from religious zealotry to the healing wisdom of authentic faith.
May this book find many readers, those beginning to sense the deficiencies of religious belief along their personal path to the wholeness which is real salvation. |
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Review Summary: Faith without Imposing One's Own Truth on Another |
Date: 2008-01-20 |
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Details: Rabbi Hirschfield has written a highly accessible and personal account of the hard-learned lesson that one can have a deep and abiding faith WITHOUT the necessity of losing one's ability to maintain what Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has termed "the Dignity of Difference"--i.e. the ability to respect the possibility that an other can have legitimate faith and access to truth as well. This is an incredibly important lesson for our time. At a time in world history in which the secular pursuit of truth that has dominated the Western world for the past 400+ worlds is not yielding the promised fruit, and people are turning back to the faith traditions for ultimate answers to the questions of "Why?" and "Who am I?" (ie. questions of meaning and identity, respectively), there is a burning need to recognize and develop the positive values of religion and belief for humankind, and to minimize the risk of faith-driven mutually assured destruction. For, as Chief Rabbi Sacks has pointed out, the greatest and most powerful weapon of mass destruction is the human mind. And yet, at the same time, it is also the most powerful engine of hope for humanity. |
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Review Summary: Happily even-keeled |
Date: 2008-01-13 |
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Details: Being to the "right" of the author (both religiously and politically), I anticipated another in a line of Shalom Auslander- Richard Dawkins-Christopher Hitchens anti-religious rant against those who are orthodox in their beliefs. Surprisingly, Hirschfield actually validates those who believe, in all forms and ideals. What is new and even refreshing is the lessons he brings from a life of open voyage. Truthfully, we can find disagreement on the issues of intermarraige as well as eating lobster on shabbos- but I think Hirschfield would have it no other way.
Towards the end of the book, when Brad writes "idealism is a part of faith, or perhaps faith is the ultimate expression of idealism", he encapsulates the essence of belief and religion for so many. The striving for unprovable understanding, grasping the intangible. Simply, a must read philosphical treatise in under 250 peages. |
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