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Talmud Torah

Ways to God's Presence through Learning: An Exercise in Practical Theology

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Talmud Torah

Ways to God's Presence through Learning: An Exercise in Practical Theology

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This is a work of practical theology, a book not about Judaism but of Judaism. Talmud Torah does two things. First, in its pages, which highlight representative sources of the Oral Torah of Judaism, readers study about studying the Torah, which Rabbinic Judaism put forth as the way to God's presence. Second, text by text, readers find that they study Torah everywhere, following the Torah that was set forth by the masters of the normative writings of Rabbinic Judaism. The focus throughout is on text-study, which makes possible both studying about the Torah and the concrete act of studying Torah.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction: Why Did I Write this Book, and for Whom?
Chapter 3 Meeting God in the Torah: The Tradition of Sinai
Chapter 4 Meeting God in Torah-Study
Chapter 5 What is the Torah's Main Point
Chapter 6 What Do We Mean by "Torah"?
Chapter 7 Values: What Does the Torah Value?
Chapter 8 The Torah and Israel, God's First Love
Chapter 9 Meeting God in the Torah: The Encounter in History
Chapter 10 Meeting God in the Torah: The Encounter in Love
Chapter 11 Epilogue: What Now?
Chapter 12 Appendix: The Classical Books of the Oral Torah

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Published Jan 30 2002
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 144
ISBN 9780761821762
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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