{"product_id":"the-heart-of-torah-gift-set-essays-on-the-weekly-torah-portion-multiple-component-retail-product-9780827613058","title":"The Heart of Torah, Gift Set; Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion (Multiple-component retail product) 9780827613058","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Heart of Torah, Gift Set\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on the Weekly Torah Portion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eShai Held (Author), Irving (Yitz) Greenberg (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780827613058\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMultiple-component retail product, published 1 September 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e928 pages, 2 indexes\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 6.6 cm, 1.398 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Torah\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement: textually learned, theologically profound, ethically challenging, spiritually uplifting, and psychologically astute. If you want to know what it can mean to read the Torah today with your whole heart and your whole mind, read this book. And then when you’re done, read it again.”-Rabbi Sharon Brous, founder and senior rabbi at Ikar, Los Angeles\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Shai Held deftly brings the wisdom of Torah to bear upon the contemporary human condition. Christians who read this book can discover fresh dimensions within the biblical text, see more clearly where there is common ground between Jews and Christians, and better grasp what it means to understand and live in this world as God’s world.”-Walter Moberly, professor of theology and biblical interpretation at Durham University\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Shai Held is one of the most important teachers of Torah in his generation.”-Rabbi David Wolpe, author of \u003ci\u003eDavid: The Divided Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Shai Held is an extraordinary figure in the world of Torah. Combining deep knowledge of classical Judaica, wide and insightful reading from the religiously diverse world of biblical and theological scholarship, and a keen sense of the human heart, he has produced a set of essays that people from a wide range of affiliations will find well worth reading and pondering.”-Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School and author of the National Jewish Book Award–winner \u003ci\u003eResurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Whatever your level of Torah proficiency or your religious outlook, \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Torah \u003c\/i\u003ewill make you think, ask questions, revisit familiar understandings, and gain a new appreciation for the ability of our written and oral tradition to surprise, elevate, and challenge us all. Rabbi Held consistently sheds new light on seemingly familiar texts-his interpretation of ‘an eye for an eye’ is alone worth the price of the volumes-and insistently prods us to become better Jews and better human beings. If you want solid scholarship, you will find it here; if you want religious inspiration, you will find it here, too. That all-too-rare combination makes \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Torah\u003c\/i\u003e precious indeed.”-Rabbi Asher Lopatin, president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The greatest Jewish books arise from authors who combine deep learning in traditional sources with a keen awareness of the intellectual, moral, and spiritual currents of their time and place. Such is Rabbi Shai Held’s breathtaking new commentary on the Torah. Expertly weaving together a tapestry of core stories from the Hebrew Bible with their interpretive trajectories over the ages, he has created a masterful compendium brimming with immediate relevance to the contemporary reader. Wherever you place yourself on the Jewish spectrum-or beyond-you will rise from reading this extraordinary work renewed, challenged, and deepened.”-Rabbi Aaron Panken, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eA two-volume hardcover set\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In The Heart of Torah\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e Rabbi Shai Held’s Torah essays-two for each weekly portion-open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eVOLUME 1\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Translations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Genesis\u003cbr\u003e Bere’\u003cbr\u003eshit No. 1. What Can Human Beings Do, and What Can’\u003cbr\u003et They? Or, Does the Torah Believe in Progress?\u003cbr\u003e Bere’\u003cbr\u003eshit No. 2. Created in God’\u003cbr\u003es Image: Ruling for God\u003cbr\u003e Noaḥ No. 1. Before and After the Flood: Or, It All Depends on How You Look\u003cbr\u003e Noaḥ No. 2. People Have Names: The Torah’\u003cbr\u003es Takedown of Totalitarianism\u003cbr\u003e Lekh Lekha No. 1. Are Jews Always the Victims?\u003cbr\u003e Lekh Lekha No. 2. Between Abram and Lot: Wealth and Family Strife\u003cbr\u003e Va-yera’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. The Face of Guests as the Face of God: Abraham’\u003cbr\u003es Radical and Traditional Theology\u003cbr\u003e Va-yera’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2. In Praise of Protest: Or, Who’\u003cbr\u003es Teaching Whom?\u003cbr\u003e Ḥayyei Sarah No. 1. Isaac’\u003cbr\u003es Search: On the Akedah and Its Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e Ḥayyei Sarah No. 2. People are Complicated: Or, Sensitivity Is a Dangerous Thing\u003cbr\u003e Toledot No. 1. In Praise of Isaac: The Bible’\u003cbr\u003es Paragon of Marital Empathy\u003cbr\u003e Toledot No. 2. Between God and Torah: Judaism’\u003cbr\u003es Gamble\u003cbr\u003e Va-yetse’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. Can We Be Grateful and Disappointed at the Same Time? Or, What Leah Learned\u003cbr\u003e Va-yetse’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2. No Excuses: Jacob’\u003cbr\u003es Sin and Its Consequences\u003cbr\u003e Va-yishlaḥ No. 1. The Fear of Killing: Jacob’\u003cbr\u003es Ethical Legacy\u003cbr\u003e Va-yishlaḥ No. 2. The Power of Compassion: Or, Why Rachel’\u003cbr\u003es Cries Pierce the Heavens\u003cbr\u003e Va-yeshev No. 1. Against Half-Heartedness\u003cbr\u003e Va-yeshev No. 2. Election and Service: What Joseph Learned\u003cbr\u003e Mikkets No. 1. His Brother’\u003cbr\u003es Brother: Judah’\u003cbr\u003es Journey\u003cbr\u003e Mikkets No. 2. Reuben’\u003cbr\u003es Recklessness: What Disqualifies a Leader?\u003cbr\u003e Va-yiggash No. 1. Humiliation: Judaism’\u003cbr\u003es Fourth Cardinal Sin?\u003cbr\u003e Va-yiggash No. 2. Saving and Enslaving: The Complexity of Joseph\u003cbr\u003e Va-yeḥi No. 1. The Majesty of Restraint: Or, Joseph’\u003cbr\u003es Shining Moment\u003cbr\u003e Va-yeḥi No. 2. Underreacting and Overreacting: Dinah’\u003cbr\u003es Family in Crisis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exodus\u003cbr\u003e Shemot No. 1. Why Moses? Or, What Makes a Leader?\u003cbr\u003e Shemot No. 2. Gratitude and Liberation\u003cbr\u003e Va-’\u003cbr\u003eera’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. The Journey and the (Elusive) Destination\u003cbr\u003e Va-’\u003cbr\u003eera’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2. Cultivating Freedom: When is Character (Not) Destiny?\u003cbr\u003e Bo’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. Pharaoh: Consumed By the Chaos He Sows\u003cbr\u003e Bo’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2. Receiving Gifts (and Learning to Love?): The “\u003cbr\u003eStripping”\u003cbr\u003e of the Egyptians\u003cbr\u003e Be-shallaḥ No. 1. Leaving Slavery Behind: On Taking the First Step\u003cbr\u003e Be-shallaḥ No. 2. Bread From the Sky: Learning to Trust\u003cbr\u003e Yitro No. 1. Does Everyone Hate the Jews? And, Is There Wisdom Outside of Torah?\u003cbr\u003e Yitro No. 2. Honoring Parents: (Sometimes) the Hardest Mitzvah of All\u003cbr\u003e Mishpatim No. 1. Turning Memory Into Empathy: The Torah’\u003cbr\u003es Ethical Charge\u003cbr\u003e Mishpatim No. 2. Hearing the Cries of the Defenseless: Or, We Are All Responsible\u003cbr\u003e Terumah No. 1. Being Present While Making Space: Or, Two Meanings of Tzimtzum\u003cbr\u003e Terumah No. 2. Returning to Eden? An Island of Wholeness in a Fractured World\u003cbr\u003e Tetsavveh No. 1. God in the Mishkan: Present But Not Domesticated\u003cbr\u003e Tetsavveh No. 2. Between Ecstasy and Constancy: The Dynamics of Covenantal Commitment\u003cbr\u003e Ki Tissa’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. The Importance of Character: Or, Why Stubbornness Is Worse Than Idolatry\u003cbr\u003e Ki Tissa’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2. God’\u003cbr\u003es Expansive Mercy: Moses’\u003cbr\u003es Praise and Jonah’\u003cbr\u003es Fury\u003cbr\u003e Va-yak’\u003cbr\u003ehel No. 1. Whom Do We Serve? The Exodus toward Dignified Work\u003cbr\u003e Va-yak’\u003cbr\u003ehel No. 2, Pekudei No. 1. (A) Building with Heart\u003cbr\u003e Pekudei No. 2. Building a Home for God\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Genesis\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Exodus\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Bible Commentaries\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Subject Index\u003cbr\u003e Classical Sources Index\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eVOLUME 2\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Translations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Leviticus\u003cbr\u003e Va-yikra’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. Order Amid Chaos: Connecting to Leviticus\u003cbr\u003e Va-yikra’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2. The Fall and Rise of Great Leaders: Or, What Kind of Leaders Do We Need?\u003cbr\u003e Tsav No. 1. No Leftovers: The Meaning of the Thanksgiving Offering\u003cbr\u003e Tsav No. 2. Buying God Off: Jeremiah and the Problem of Religious Hypocrisy\u003cbr\u003e Shemini No. 1. Is Vegetarianism a Biblical Ideal?\u003cbr\u003e Shemini No. 2. Of Grief Public and Private: Moses and Aaron Face the Unimaginable\u003cbr\u003e Tazria’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. Living on the Boundary: The Complexity and Anxiety of Childbirth\u003cbr\u003e Tazria’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2, Metsora’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. Struggling with Stigma: Making Sense of the Metzora\u003cbr\u003e Metsora’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2. Life-Giving, Death-Dealing Words\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003cbr\u003eAḥarei Mot No. 1. Yom Kippur: Purifying the Tabernacle and Ourselves\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003cbr\u003eAḥarei Mot No. 2, Kedoshim No. 1. The Holiness of Israel and the Dignity of the Disabled\u003cbr\u003e Kedoshim No. 2. Loving Our Neighbor: A Call to Emotion and Action\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003cbr\u003eEmor No. 1. Covenantal Joy: What Sukkot Can Teach Us\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003cbr\u003eEmor No. 2. Between Grief and Anticipation: Counting the Omer\u003cbr\u003e Be-har No. 1. Another World to Live In: The Meaning of Shabbat\u003cbr\u003e Be-har No. 2, Be-ḥukkotai No. 1. God’\u003cbr\u003es Unfathomable Love\u003cbr\u003e Be-ḥukkotai No. 2. Standing Tall: Serving God with Dignity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Numbers\u003cbr\u003e Be-midbar No. 1. Divine Love and Human Uniqueness\u003cbr\u003e Be-midbar No. 2. A Torah for All? Universalism and Its Dangers\u003cbr\u003e Naso’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. On Channeling and Receiving Blessing\u003cbr\u003e Naso’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2. The Risk of Relationality: Or, Why Confession Matters\u003cbr\u003e Be-ha’\u003cbr\u003ealotekha No. 1. It’\u003cbr\u003es Not About You: Or, What Moses Knew\u003cbr\u003e Be-ha’\u003cbr\u003ealotekha No. 2. After Pain, Prayer: What Moses (and Job) Can Teach Us\u003cbr\u003e Shelaḥ No. 1. The Tragedy (and Hope) of the Book of Numbers\u003cbr\u003e Shelaḥ No. 2. (Don’\u003cbr\u003et) Follow Your Heart and Your Eyes: Between Numbers and Ecclesiastes\u003cbr\u003e Koraḥ No. 1. Every Jew a High Priest? The Meaning of Tzitzit and the Sin of Korah\u003cbr\u003e Koraḥ No. 2. Giving, Taking, and the Temptations of Leadership\u003cbr\u003e Ḥukkat No. 1. When Everything Starts to Look the Same: Moses’\u003cbr\u003es Failure\u003cbr\u003e Ḥukkat No. 2. Putting Down Ancient Grudges (and Learning Kindness): Between Israel and Edom\u003cbr\u003e Balak No. 1. The Lampooned Prophet: On Learning From (and With) Balaam\u003cbr\u003e Balak No. 2. Not There Yet\u003cbr\u003e Pinḥas No. 1. When Zealotry Metastasizes: The Passionate Self-Regard of Pinhas\u003cbr\u003e Pinḥas No. 2. Between Zealotry and Self-Righteousness: Or, Was Elijah the Prophet Fired?\u003cbr\u003e Mattot No. 1. Cattle, Cattle Everywhere: The Failure of Reuben and Gad\u003cbr\u003e Mattot No. 2, Mase’\u003cbr\u003eei No. 1. Serving God in All We Do: Israel’\u003cbr\u003es Journeys and Resting-Places\u003cbr\u003e Mase’\u003cbr\u003eei No. 2. Do Not Murder! Shedding Innocent Blood and Polluting the Land\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Deuteronomy\u003cbr\u003e Devarim No. 1. “\u003cbr\u003eDo Not Be Afraid of Anyone”\u003cbr\u003e: On Courage and Leadership\u003cbr\u003e Devarim No. 2. A Bolt from the Blue: Or, When God Falls in Love\u003cbr\u003e Va-etḥannan No. 1. Coveting, Craving . . . and Being Free\u003cbr\u003e Va-etḥannan No. 2. A God So Close, and Laws So Righteous: Moses’\u003cbr\u003es Challenge (and Promise)\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003cbr\u003eEkev No. 1. Will and Grace: Or, Who Will Circumcise Our Hearts?\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003cbr\u003eEkev No. 2. Always Looking Heavenward: Learning Dependence\u003cbr\u003e Re’\u003cbr\u003eeh No. 1. Opening Our Hearts and Our Hands: Deuteronomy and the Poor\u003cbr\u003e Re’\u003cbr\u003eeh No. 2. Women in Deuteronomy-and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e Shofetim No. 1. The Future Is Wide Open: Or, What Prophets Can and Cannot Do\u003cbr\u003e Shofetim No. 2. Give the People (Only Some of) What They Want: Deuteronomy and the King\u003cbr\u003e Ki Tetse’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. Let Him Live Wherever He Chooses: Or, Why Runaway Slaves Are Like God\u003cbr\u003e Ki Tetse’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2. Combating Cruelty: Amalek Within and Without\u003cbr\u003e Ki Tavo’\u003cbr\u003e No. 1. Against Entitlement: Why Blessings Can Be Dangerous\u003cbr\u003e Ki Tavo’\u003cbr\u003e No. 2. Between Fear and Awe: Forgetting the Self\u003cbr\u003e Nitsavim No. 1. Going in Deep: What It Takes to Really Change\u003cbr\u003e Nitsavim No. 2, Va-yelekh No. 1. 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