as the "breaking of the covenant" between God and the Jewish People. It is also latest stage in God's tzimtzum from the world. According to Greenberg, the Holocaust drives home the point that the fate of the world is in humanity's hands. If there can be such a strong evil in the world as manifest in the Holocaust, there can also be realized in the world the most incredible good. Greenberg's theological views have been criticized by historian David Berger. In the 1980s, Greenberg was involved in a controversial debate with the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. Personal life He is married to the Orthodox Jewish feminist writer Blu Greenberg. Works Cloud of Smoke, Pillar of Fire: Judaism, Christianity, Modernity After the Holocaust (1976) The Third Great Cycle of Jewish History (1981) Voluntary Covenant (1982) The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays (1988) The Ethics of Jewish Power (1990) Judaism and Christianity: Their Respective Roles in the Divine Strategy of Redemption (1996) Covenantal Pluralism (1997) Living in the Image of God: Jewish Teachings to Perfect the World (1998) For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity (2004) Sage Advice - Commentary on Pirkei Avot (2016) References External links Rabbi Irving Greenberg - website Articles by Yitz Greenberg on the Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner "Irving Greenberg and a Jewish Dialectic of Hope" by Michael Oppenheim, from Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Vol. 49, No. 2 Lecture by Greenberg at Boston College 1933 births American Modern Orthodox rabbis Christian and Jewish interfaith dialogue City College of New York faculty Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Holocaust theology Jewish American writers American Jewish theologians Philosophers of Judaism Living people Yeshiva University faculty United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Jewish ethicists Novardok Yeshiva alumni 20th-century American rabbis 21st-century American rabbis