Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical TheologyGod 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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