We Have Sinned

Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (Prayers of Awe)

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Judaism, Beliefs, Practices, & Rituals

• Author: Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD, Ruth W. Messinger, Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler, Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL, Rabbi Daniel Landes, Rabbi Tony Bayfield, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman, PhD, Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander, DHL, Rabbi Will Berkovitz, Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, PhD, Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel, Dr. Annette M. Boeckler, Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, PhD, Dr. Erica Brown, Rabbi Jonathan P. Slater, DMin, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, Rabbi David A. Teutsch, PhD, Rabbi Ruth Langer, PhD, Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, DD, Dr. Wendy Zierler, Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD, Rabbi Marc Saperstein, PhD, Catherine Madsen, Rabbi Elyse D. Frishman, Dr. Ellen M. Umansky, Rabbi Walter Homolka, PhD, DHL, Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, Rabbi Charles H. Middleburgh, PhD, Rabbi Jonathan Magonet, PhD, Rabbi Noa Kushner, Rabbi Jay Henry Moses, Lisa Exler, Dr. Ron Wolfson
• ISBN: 9781580236751
• Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
• Publication: August 1, 2012
• Imprint: Jewish Lights
• Language: English

A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism.

Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in Judaism, its roots in the Bible, its evolution in rabbinic and modern thought, and the very nature of confession for men and women today.

Featuring the traditional prayers—provided in the original Hebrew and a new and annotated translation—this third volume in the Prayers of Awe series explores the relevance of confession today in what is bound to be the most up-to-date, comprehensive and insightful reconsideration of sin and confession in Judaism.