Israel II: Beyond the Basics (Israel Basics Book 2)
Judaism encompasses the communal act of transforming Torah, the Five Books of Moses, from literature into lives well-lived.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
As Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik has explained, the Torah is a covenant of being, not of doing.** The goal is the completion of being, the full realization of humanness. It is not a utilitarian contract designed for useful ends so that if the advantage is lost, the agreement is dropped. The covenant is a commitment on the part of each partner to be
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the point of it all – the sacrifices, the purity laws, the holiness codes, all of it – is to come close to God. We are being trained, throughout Leviticus, to see the ultimate Oneness that underlies the dizzyingly manifold nature of our existence.
David Kasher • ParshaNut: 54 Journeys into the World of Torah Commentary
This distinction between outward act and attitude of heart was quite frequent in the Hebrew Bible,156 and there is no reason at all why Jesus should not have used the idea and indeed made it central to this part of his agenda. This does not make him a good Platonist, or for that matter a good liberal Protestant, rejecting everything ‘material’ or ‘
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