The Heart of Torah, Volume 1: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion, Genesis and Exodus
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0827612710 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. In The Heart of Torah, Ra
. Rabbi Yitz Greenberg is one of the preeminent Jewish thinkers of our time. 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 Shai Held is president, dean, and chair in Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar and directs its Center for Jewish Leadership and
"Stunning essays that speak with deep empathy to the human condition" according to Shoshana Zucker. Rabbi Shai Held skillfully melds close reading of text, traditional Jewish interpretation, and modern commentaries, both religious and academic, into moving essays that speak with deep empathy to the modern human condition. I wholeheartedly recommend these books n. "He opens up the Torah in a way that countless other books of the same genre (even great ones!" according to JHW. As one enters middle age, it is rare to encounter a book that can profoundly change how one views the world. Rabbi Held teaches a Torah that will change your relationships with friends, spouses, kids, acquaintances and God. He opens up the Torah in a way that countless other boo. "The next best thing to being in a class with the exceptional" according to Jack L. Moline. The next best thing to being in a class with the exceptional Shai Held is reading his teachings. From the time I met him -- when I was a jaded middle-aged rabbi and he was pretty much a kid -- Rabbi Held has inspired me in ways that echo with the insight, scholarship and prophet
-----Walter Moberly, professor of theology and biblical interpretation at Durham UniversityShai Held is one of the most important teachers of Torah in his generation. -----Rabbi David Wolpe, author of David: The Divided Heart. -----Rabbi Sharon Brous, founder and senior rabbi at Ikar, Los AngelesShai Held deftly brings the wisdom of Torah to bear upon the contemporary human condition. Christians who read this book can discover fresh dimensions within the biblical text, see more clearly where there is common ground between Jews and Christians, and better grasp what it means to understand and live in this world as God s world. If you want to know what it can mean to read the Torah today with your whole heart and your whole mind, read this book. The Heart of Torah is a stunning achievement: textually learned, theologically profound, ethically challenging, spiritually uplifting, and psychologically astute