The essays on the weekly Torah portion Volume 1 Genesis and Exodus Held, Shai 1971- creator author. text bibliography Commentaries. Electronic books. pau 2017 monographic eng 1 online resource. 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. Rabbi Shai Held ; foreword by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg. Includes bibliographical references and index. Commentaries RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament RELIGION / Judaism / Theology BS1225.53 .H445 2017 222/.107 Held, Shai, 1971- Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society ; Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017] (DLC) 2016039785 9780827613331 0827613334 9780827613355 0827613350 22573/ctt1tgdmdf JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1576911 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1576911 N$T 170817 20200709060549.0 on1001287340 eng