Longing : Jewish Meditations on a Hidden God.
Material type:
- 9781532631368
- 1532631367
- 296.311 23
- BM610 .D385 2018eb
- online - EBSCO
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (ebsco)1684224 |
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Intro; Title Page; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Beginnings; Chapter 1: Pulling Away; Chapter 2: Turning Toward; Chapter 3: Finding a Voice; Part 2: Shattering the Vessels; Chapter 4: Only I-You; Chapter 5: God Is Not God; Chapter 6: Sifting through the Broken Images; Part 3: Tikkun/Integration; Chapter 7: Finding Self and Community; Chapter 8: Toward the Other; Chapter 9: God as Ineffable; Epilogue: God as Everything and Nothing; Bibliography.
Longing is a universal human experience, born of the inevitable gulf between dream and reality, what we need and what we have. While the experience of longing may arise from loss or the awareness of a void in one's life, it may also become a powerful engine of spiritual growth, prompting one to draw closer to the hidden yet present ""Other.""Across the range of Jewish teachings, longing takes center stage in one's spiritual life. From the Bible through current frontiers in Jewish belief and practice, God is both known and unknown, immediate and remote, present and in constant eclipse. This book.