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The Heart of Torah, Volume 2 Spiral-Bound | 2017-09-01

Shai Held Irving (Yitz) Greenberg (Foreword by)

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"Shai Held is one of the most important teachers of Torah in his generation."--Rabbi David Wolpe, author of David: The Divided Heart

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.

Publisher: Longleaf Services
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 496 pages
ISBN-10: 0827613008
Item Weight: 1.45 lbs
Dimensions: 6.66 x 1.16 x 8.8 inches
"The Heart of Torah is a stunning achievement: textually learned, theologically profound, ethically challenging, spiritually uplifting, and psychologically astute. 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."--Rabbi Sharon Brous, founder and senior rabbi at Ikar, Los Angeles
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.