The Heart of Torah, Volume 2: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy Volume 2

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.

Author: Shai Held
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Published: 09/01/2017
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.66w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780827613003
Language: English