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Author_Shai Held
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Product details
- ISBN 9781250371799
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 21 Apr 2025
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the face of centuries of this widespread misrepresentation, Rabbi Shai Held - one of the most important Jewish thinkers in America today - recovers the heart of the Jewish tradition, offering the radical and moving argument that love belongs as much to Judaism as it does to Christianity. Blending intellectual rigor, a respect for tradition and the practices of a living Judaism, and a commitment to the full equality of all people, Held seeks to reclaim Judaism as it authentically is. He shows that love is foundational and constitutive of true Jewish faith, animating the singular Jewish perspective on injustice and protest, grace, family life, responsibilities to our neighbours and even our enemies, and chosenness.
Ambitious and revelatory, Judaism Is About Love illuminates the true essence of Judaism - an act of restoration from within.
Rabbi Shai Held-theologian, educator, author-is President, Dean, and Chair in Jewish Thought at the Hadar Institute in New York City. He is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence and The Heart of Torah, a collection of essays on the Torah in two volumes. He lives in White Plains, NY.
