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Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the
language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and
Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven
Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new
questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring
Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged
over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the
Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that
divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new
perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.
Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the
language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and
Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven
Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new
questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring
Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged
over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the
Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that
divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new
perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.
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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar,
impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in
the black civil rights movement and the campaign against the
Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary,
and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer. In this sympathetic,
yet critical, examination, Shai Held elicits the overarching themes
and unity of Heschel's incisive and insightful thought. Focusing on
the idea of transcendence-or the movement from self-centeredness to
God-centeredness-Held puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary
Jewish thinkers, Christian theologians, devotional writers, and
philosophers of religion.
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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar,
impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in
the black civil rights movement and the campaign against the
Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary,
and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer. In this sympathetic,
yet critical, examination, Shai Held elicits the overarching themes
and unity of Heschel s incisive and insightful thought. Focusing on
the idea of transcendence or the movement from self-centeredness to
God-centeredness Held puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary
Jewish thinkers, Christian theologians, devotional writers, and
philosophers of religion."
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