Leon Wiener Dow is a rabbi, a scholar of Judaic studies, an educator, and a writer. He is a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and teaches at Bina’s Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and their five children.
Leon received personal rabbinic ordination from Rabbi David Hartman ז״ל. Though he devotes most of his energies to teaching and writing, he also performs lifecycle events, taking special pleasure in working with couples on their way to marriage and then performing the wedding.
Leon received personal rabbinic ordination from Rabbi David Hartman ז״ל. Though he devotes most of his energies to teaching and writing, he also performs lifecycle events, taking special pleasure in working with couples on their way to marriage and then performing the wedding.
– Leora Batnitzky, Professor and Chair of Department of Religion at Princeton University
A truly dazzling achievement, Wiener Dow’s The Going will open your heart and expand your mind. Lyrical and wise, this book’s grace and depth makes you want to savor it slowly.
Grounded in the particularity of his life journey towards, through, and within Jewish tradition, Leon Wiener Dow weaves bright threads of the Jewish tradition with lived experience to produce a 21st century vision of Jewish community. The pages of this book pulsate with the vital urgency of one who knows that every private encounter with the Divine demands nothing less than the always risky but ever invigorating commitment to community and the life of action.
Following in the footsteps of his great teacher David Hartman, Wiener Dow brings together into shared conversation the dominant voices in modern Jewish philosophy, rabbinic thinkers, and today’s Jew, whose intimate struggles negotiate the tensions between tradition and the contemporary world.
At once lyrical, lucid, and moving, The Going has much to teach both those interested in what it might mean to live an observant, committed Jewish life as well as anyone concerned with the question of how to live today in a world seemingly replete with endless choices.
In this remarkably intimate account of his own religious journey, Wiener Dow draws on his vast reservoir of philosophical and rabbinic knowledge to offer a novel and compelling approach to Torah. Wiener Dow addresses the mind while also touching the soul of those who seek the Divine.
In this powerful, haunting, exhilarating volume, Leon Wiener Dow bravely explores the halakha from the inside out, and the outside in. He brings into the halakhic conversation arresting new readings of what this ever-changing and so often vexed system can and perhaps must be. Like the halakha, his book challenges us to think hard about our lives and to and act with conviction.
In this beautiful new book that cuts across genres, Leon Wiener Dow brings together a keen philosophical sensibility, a phenomenological eye, and a manifest love of traditional Jewish sources. Weaving these strands together, he produces something both rare and precious: a book informed by academic Jewish studies whose beating religious heart can be felt on every page.
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