A lifetime of hard-won wisdom and insight into the human heart iscontained in this collection of eighty impassioned essays on ethical andspiritual issues ranging from racial injustice and the abuses of power tothe legacy of the Holocaust, from the evolving relationship betweenAmerican Jewry and Israel to raising morally sensitive children, from themystery of death to the meaning of God in the modern world. If there isa single motif dominating this treasury of rabbinic wisdom, it is the needfor ethical accountability on the part of both individuals and institutions.

Each of these sermons...