In this Book
- The Heart of Torah, Volume 1: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Genesis and Exodus
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Jewish Publication Society
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- A Note on Translations
- pp. xix-xx
- Introduction
- pp. xxi-xxxvi
- GENESIS
- EXODUS
- Shemot No. 2. Gratitude and Liberation
- pp. 128-133
- Pekudei No. 2. Building a Home for God
- pp. 221-224
- A Note on Bible Commentaries
- pp. 265-270
- Bibliography
- pp. 271-296
- Subject Index
- pp. 297-330
- Classical Sources Index
- pp. 331-358
Additional Information
ISBN
9780827613355
Related ISBN(s)
9780827612716
MARC Record
OCLC
1001287340
Pages
408
Launched on MUSE
2017-08-31
Language
English
Open Access
No