TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sessler,Tal
TI  - The veracity of Torah: essays in Jewish spirituality 
SN  - 1627343210
AV  - BM45 
U1  - 296.3 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Irvine, Boca Raton
PB  - Universal-Publishers, Inc.
KW  - Bible
KW  - Pentateuch
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Pentateuque
KW  - Critique, interprétation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Spiritual life
KW  - Theological anthropology
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Philosophie juive
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Vie spirituelle
KW  - Anthropologie théologique
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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
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