Because a welter of details sometimes conceals the Torah's aura of
holiness, Jewish mystics and spiritual teachers have for centuries
attempted to reveal that aura through creative interpretation of
the Torah text. The Aura of Torah explores these attempts in an
effort to bridge the gap between the Torah text and the modern
Jewish spiritual quest.The book collects a wide variety of
interpretations of Torah passages, commentaries, and midrash rooted
in the mystical side of Jewish tradition, translated by Rabbi Larry
Tabick, with original Hebrew and Aramaic texts included. The quoted
authors span many centuries and speak from many schools of thought:
kabbalists writing within the tradition of the Zohar and other
gnostic works; Hasidic teachers from the modern movement founded by
the Ba'al Shem Tov in eighteenth-century Ukraine; and German
pietists, or Hasidei Ashkenaz, of the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries. Tabick examines how these texts build on the underlying
principles of the Torah--the supremacy of God, the
interconnectedness of nature and morality, and the unique (though
not exclusive) role of the Jewish people in the divine plan for all
humanity--to point to a deep spiritual truth in the world of the
divine and the soul.
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