The Choice to Be

Winner of the 2011 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience A sweeping exploration of the intellectual issues raised by a Torah worldview. Written for both the serious outsider looking in, as well as for orthodox individuals interested in the basic questions of faith raised by modern experience. Rabbi Kagan, principal of Midreshet Tehillah seminary, brings together years of experience in education with the perspective gained from his transition from a student of philosophy at Yale University to a student of Torah in Jerusalem . The result is a compelling formulation of ancient ideas in modern idiom, capable of meeting the unique challenges of our times.