The Heart of Torah, Volume 2: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy Volume 2 - Paperback
by Shai Held
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Jewish Publication SocietyISBN-13:9780827613003ISBN-10:827613008UPC:9780827613003Book Category:Religion, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Judaism, JewishBook Topic:Sacred Writings, TheologySize:8.80 x 6.66 x 1.16 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCY1EPF07T
In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays--two for each weekly portion--open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary.
Held probes the portions in bold, original, and provocative ways. He mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature, and astute commentators of other religious backgrounds to ponder fundamental questions about God, human nature, and what it means to be a religious person in the modern world. Along the way he illuminates the centrality of empathy in Jewish ethics, the predominance of divine love in Jewish theology, the primacy of gratitude and generosity, and God's summoning of each of us--with all our limitations--into the dignity of a covenantal relationship.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Jewish Publication SocietyISBN-13:9780827613003ISBN-10:827613008UPC:9780827613003Book Category:Religion, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Judaism, JewishBook Topic:Sacred Writings, TheologySize:8.80 x 6.66 x 1.16 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCY1EPF07T
Rabbi Shai Held is president, dean, and chair in Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar and directs its Center for Jewish Leadership and Ideas in New York City. He is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence and a recipient of the Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education. Rabbi Yitz Greenberg is one of the preeminent Jewish thinkers of our time.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
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