The veracity of Torah : essays in Jewish spirituality /
Sessler, Tal,
The veracity of Torah : essays in Jewish spirituality / Tal Sessler. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
"Seven decades ago, the Jewish people underwent genocide in Europe. This apocalyptic event, was followed almost immediately by astonishing Jewish political and theological resurrection and renewal. This unique book ponders the tumultuous vicissitudes of the modern Jewish condition. Part memoir, part scholarship, and part theological conjectures, the book posits that to be a modern Jew entails constantly oscillating between seemingly disparate and contradictory polarities such as logos and revelation, worldliness and eternity, tradition and modernity, continuity and change. To be a modern Jew, postulates the author, is both fate and destiny, historicity and vocationalism. The Jewish saga, argues Rabbi Dr. Tal Sessler, is emblematic of the human saga writ large, inasmuch as all of us are, in the words of Abraham, residents and temporary dwellers in this world. Despite the hitherto unrivaled mastery and dominion which humanity achieved in our epoch over the tangible and the concrete, man remains finite and ephemeral, and so are his victories. The song of the soul however, is perpetual and everlasting, for it is an echo of eternity, a sacred murmur, a glimmer of our untarnished inner core, our innermost subliminal longings"--Provided by publisher
1627343210 9781627343213
2020037764
Bible.--Pentateuch--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Pentateuque--Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible.--Pentateuch
2000-2099
Judaism--History.
Jewish philosophy--21st century.
Spiritual life--Judaism.
Theological anthropology--Judaism.
Judaïsme--Histoire.
Philosophie juive--21e siècle.
Vie spirituelle--Judaïsme.
Anthropologie théologique--Judaïsme.
Jewish philosophy
Judaism
Spiritual life--Judaism
Theological anthropology--Judaism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
BM45
296.3
The veracity of Torah : essays in Jewish spirituality / Tal Sessler. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
"Seven decades ago, the Jewish people underwent genocide in Europe. This apocalyptic event, was followed almost immediately by astonishing Jewish political and theological resurrection and renewal. This unique book ponders the tumultuous vicissitudes of the modern Jewish condition. Part memoir, part scholarship, and part theological conjectures, the book posits that to be a modern Jew entails constantly oscillating between seemingly disparate and contradictory polarities such as logos and revelation, worldliness and eternity, tradition and modernity, continuity and change. To be a modern Jew, postulates the author, is both fate and destiny, historicity and vocationalism. The Jewish saga, argues Rabbi Dr. Tal Sessler, is emblematic of the human saga writ large, inasmuch as all of us are, in the words of Abraham, residents and temporary dwellers in this world. Despite the hitherto unrivaled mastery and dominion which humanity achieved in our epoch over the tangible and the concrete, man remains finite and ephemeral, and so are his victories. The song of the soul however, is perpetual and everlasting, for it is an echo of eternity, a sacred murmur, a glimmer of our untarnished inner core, our innermost subliminal longings"--Provided by publisher
1627343210 9781627343213
2020037764
Bible.--Pentateuch--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Pentateuque--Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible.--Pentateuch
2000-2099
Judaism--History.
Jewish philosophy--21st century.
Spiritual life--Judaism.
Theological anthropology--Judaism.
Judaïsme--Histoire.
Philosophie juive--21e siècle.
Vie spirituelle--Judaïsme.
Anthropologie théologique--Judaïsme.
Jewish philosophy
Judaism
Spiritual life--Judaism
Theological anthropology--Judaism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
BM45
296.3