Bibliograph

The heart of Torah, essays on the weekly Torah portion, Rabbi Shai Held ; foreword by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, V.1

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The heart of Torah, essays on the weekly Torah portion, Rabbi Shai Held ; foreword by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, V.1

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The heart of Torah

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1002660084

Responsibility statement

Rabbi Shai Held ; foreword by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg

Sub title

essays on the weekly Torah portion

Summary

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

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Essays on the weekly Torah portionGenesis and Exodus

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