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The Heart of Torah, Gift Set: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion

by Shai Held

Weekly Torah portions in conversation with Jewish thought

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Weekly Torah portions in conversation with Jewish thought

This two-volume hardcover set gathers two essays for each weekly Torah portion, using the portions as starting points for questions about God, human nature, and religious life in the modern world. Shai Held draws on Talmud and midrash, writers of world literature, and commentators from other religious backgrounds. Across the essays, recurring concerns include empathy in Jewish ethics, divine love, gratitude, generosity, and the meaning of covenant despite human limitations. The structure offers a portion-by-portion way into biblical commentary, while its range of sources places Jewish interpretation in dialogue with broader literary and religious perspectives.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking essays organized around the weekly Torah portions
  • Those interested in Jewish biblical commentary alongside Talmudic, midrashic, literary, and interfaith perspectives
  • Readers exploring Jewish ethical and theological questions such as empathy, love, gratitude, and covenant

Themes

Weekly Torah portionsJewish biblical commentaryEmpathy and ethicsDivine love, gratitude, and generosityCovenant and religious life

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Book overview

A two-volume hardcover set

In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays--two for each weekly portion--open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary.

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.

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