Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology

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Jewish Lights Publishing, 2003 - Religion - 269 pages
God and the Ways of Being --The Secret of the Sh'ma --God Above, God Within --The Two and the One --God as Y-H-W-H: "Is-was-will be" is one! --Speak my Name --Seeking God: Look First to Love --In God's Own Image: Seek My Face --Face to Face --Male and Female: An Excursus --One and Two --Creation --One God, two Ways --Creation and the Jewish Question --Creation and the Struggle for Faith --What Comes "First"? --Two Tales --The One and the Many --Who is at the Center? --Evolution: An Ongoing Process --From Aggadah to Halakhah --The First Mitzvah: Be Aware --In God's Image --Celebrating Creation: The Mitzvah of Shabbat --"To Work it and Guard it": Preserving God's World --Vegetarianism: A Kashrut for Our Age --Human Love and Human Pain --The Human Being: Bearer of Divine Compassion --Revelation --Y-H-W-H and Language --Before the Mountain --Human Understanding and Divine Speech --The Inner Mountain --Torah as the Name of God --Revelation and the Inward Journey --The Role of Covenant: A Reinterpretation --Revelation and Torah --Revelation, Will, and Law --The Personal Path: Accepting the Yoke --Sinai and Language --Sinai and Study --Sinai and Community --The Three Festivals: Sinai and the Sacred Cycle --The Word in Our Day --Redemption --The Light of the First Day --Crying Out for the Light --Redemption as Coming Home --The Bible: A Tale of Exile --Homecoming and Teshuvah --Teshuvah and the Sacred Year --The Redemptive Task: Getting to Work.
 

Contents

THE SECRET OF THE SHMA
3
THE TWO AND THE ONE
11
SPEAK MY NAME
19
SEEK MY FACE
27
FACE TO FACE
34
ONE AND TWO
41
ONE GOD TWO WAYS
47
REVELATION
49
HUMAN UNDERSTANDING AND DIVINE SPEECH
103
TORAH AS THE NAME OF GOD
110
REVELATION AND TORAH
119
ACCEPTING THE YOKE
127
SINAI AND STUDY
133
THE WORD IN OUR DAY
143
THE LIGHT OF THE FIRST DAY
149
A TALE OF EXILE
158

CREATION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR FAITH
53
THE ONE AND THE MANY
60
AN ONGOING PROCESS
68
BE AWARE
75
PRESERVING GODS
82
HUMAN LOVE AND HUMAN PAIN
89
YHWH AND LANGUAGE
97
HOMECOMING AND TESHUVAH
164
GETTING TO WORK
170
ACTOR OR HERALD?
177
NOTES
184
GLOSSARY
265
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Arthur Green, PhD, is recognized as one of the world's preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality. He is the Irving Brudnick professor of philosophy and religion at Hebrew College and rector of the Rabbinical School, which he founded in 2004. Professor emeritus at Brandeis University, he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as dean and president.Dr. Green is author of several books including Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow; Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology; Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer; and Tormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (all Jewish Lights). He is also author of Radical Judaism (Yale University Press) and co-editor of Speaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings from around the Maggid's Table. He is long associated with the Havurah movement and a neo-Hasidic approach to Judaism.

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