The relevance of prophetic thought for the American Rabbi -- "Of a truth the Lord hath sent me" An inquiry into the source of the prophet's authority, The Goldenson Lecture for 1955 -- The Prophet as paradigm -- The dawn of our responsibility -- The theology of Jewish survival according to Biblical sources -- Irony by way of attribution -- "Perish the Day!" A misdirected curse (Job 3:3) -- An effective literary device in Job 31 -- The nearness of God and Psalm seventy-three -- Some observations concerning Biblical prayer -- Men agaist God, the Promethean element in Biblical prayer -- Starting from where you are -- A goundation is to build -- Coming of age in America -- Spoken in the Scheuer chapel on June 7, 1967 -- the close of the "Six Day War" -- To care enough -- spoken in the Scheuer chapel, October 1969: Vietnam Moratorium day -- "The voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride" -- A frontier is a lonely place -- "Know before whom thou standest" -- spoken at the memorial service for Merle Marcus, 1965 -- Spoken at the special convocation honoring Robert Frost, 1960 -- The Sukkah -- its history and promise