Principles of Spiritual Activism

"Over the past three decades, Avi Welss, alongside many colleagues, students, and friends, has engaged in activism on behalf of the Jewish people. Beginning with the movements to free Soviet Jews and to defined the State of Israel, he has taken part in hundreds of demonstrations, marches, vigils, hunger strikes, and acts of nonviolent civil disobedience. In some of the more celebrated of these actions, he has publicly confronted such notorious anti-Semites as David Duke and Louis Farrakhan, climbed over a fence and led supporters in a sit-in to protest the presence of a Carmelite convent at the Auschwitz death camp, and carried a coffin to the official residence of New York City Mayor David Dinkins to decry his allowing police to stand back while Jews were being viciously attacked during the 1991 Crown Heights riots." This book outlines the principles behind those actions. For Avi Weiss, the thread that binds together the moral, political, and tactical equations of activism is Torah. This means that every action is based on a series of principles that are profoundly spiritual in nature. These principles may be likened to the branches of a tree spreading from a trunk of pillar-like strength with roots in the sacred foundation of Torah. The challenge is to ignite the divine spark and become spiritual activists.

Publisher:

Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc

Pages:

210

Date Published:

2001