A01=Naftali Rothenberg
Author_Naftali Rothenberg
Category=JBSR
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Judaism Sacred Writings
Religious Studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781934843291
- Weight: 494g
- Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2009
- Publisher: Academic Studies Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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"The Wisdom of Love" strives to challenge the discrepancy between the way source texts relate to love and the way they are perceived to do so, introducing readers to the extensive, profound, and significant treatment of love in the Jewish canon. This is a book about love, not its repression; it is an opportunity to study the wisdom of love, not those who lack such wisdom and are unlikely to ever acquire it. The book brings about not only a change in perception - recognising the existence of the wisdom of love per se - but also the realisation that this wisdom is the very foundation of religious wisdom as a whole, rather than a peripheral branch of it. All love derives from a single source: love between man and woman. It is from this source that all other manifestations of love, such as love of God, love of wisdom, love of one's fellow, draw their meaning.
Rabbi Professor Naftali Rothenberg is a senior research fellow and Jewish Culture and Identity chair at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute who also serves as the town Rabbi of Har Adar, Israel. He has authored and edited ten books.
