{"product_id":"the-heart-of-torah-volume-1-essays-on-the-weekly-torah-portion-genesis-and-exodus-volume-1-9780827612716","title":"The Heart of Torah, Volume 1: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Genesis and Exodus Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShai Held is one of the most important teachers of Torah in his generation.\u003c\/b\u003e--Rabbi David Wolpe, author of \u003ci\u003eDavid: The Divided Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Heart of Torah\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays--two for each weekly portion--open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHeld 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRabbi Shai Held \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eAbraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence\u003c\/i\u003e and a recipient of the Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education. \u003cb\u003eRabbi Yitz Greenberg \u003c\/b\u003eis one of the preeminent Jewish thinkers of our time.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jewish Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644527644946,"sku":"9780827612716","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_93007754-ec88-4174-989a-a6473385078a.jpg?v=1733113078","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-heart-of-torah-volume-1-essays-on-the-weekly-torah-portion-genesis-and-exodus-volume-1-9780827612716","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}