TY  - BOOK
AU  - Held,Shai
TI  - The heart of Torah
SN  - 9780827613362
AV  - BS1225.53 
U1  - 222/.107 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Philadelphia, Lincoln
PB  - Jewish Publication Society, University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Pentateuch
KW  - Commentaries
KW  - RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / Theology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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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