The Heart of Torah, Volume 1 : Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Genesis and Exodus.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction -- GENESIS -- Bere'shit No. 1. What Can Human Beings Do, and What Can't They? Or, Does the Torah Believe in Progress? -- Bere'shit No. 2. Created in God's Image: Ruling for God -- Noaḥ No. 1. Before and After the Flood: Or, It All Depends on How You Look -- Noaḥ No. 2. People Have Names: The Torah's Takedown of Totalitarianism -- Lekh Lekha No. 1. Are Jews Always the Victims? -- Lekh Lekha No. 2. Between Abram and Lot: Wealth and Family Strife -- Va-yera' No. 1. The Face of Guests as the Face of God: Abraham's Radical and Traditional Theology -- Va-yera' No. 2. In Praise of Protest: Or, Who's Teaching Whom? -- Ḥayyei Sarah No. 1. Isaac's Search: On the Akedah and Its Aftermath -- Ḥayyei Sarah No. 2. People Are Complicated: Or, Sensitivity Is a Dangerous Thing -- Toledot No. 1. In Praise of Isaac: The Bible's Paragon of Marital Empathy -- Toledot No. 2. Between God and Torah: Judaism's Gamble -- Va-yetse' No. 1. Can We Be Grateful and Disappointed at the Same Time? Or, What Leah Learned -- Va-yetse' No. 2. No Excuses: Jacob's Sin and Its Consequences -- Va-yishlaḥ No. 1. The Fear of Killing: Jacob's Ethical Legacy -- Va-yishlaḥ No. 2. The Power of Compassion: Or, Why Rachel's Cries Pierce the Heavens -- Va-yeshev No. 1. Against Halfheartedness -- Va-yeshev No. 2. Election and Service: What Joseph Learned -- Mikkets No. 1. His Brother's Brother: Judah's Journey -- Mikkets No. 2. Reuben's Recklessness: What Disqualifies a Leader? -- Va-yiggash No. 1. Humiliation: Judaism's Fourth Cardinal Sin? -- Va-yiggash No. 2. Saving and Enslaving: The Complexity of Joseph -- Va-yeḥi No. 1. The Majesty of Restraint: Or, Joseph's Shining Moment -- Va-yeḥi No. 2. Underreacting and Overreacting: Dinah's Family in Crisis -- EXODUS.

Shemot No. 1. Why Moses? Or, What Makes a Leader? -- Shemot No. 2. Gratitude and Liberation -- Va-'era' No. 1. The Journey and the (Elusive) Destination -- Va-'era' No. 2. Cultivating Freedom: WhenIs Character (Not) Destiny? -- Bo' No. 1. Pharaoh: Consumed by the Chaos He Sows -- Bo' No. 2. Receiving Gifts (and Learning to Love?): The "Stripping" of the Egyptians -- Be-shallaḥ No. 1. Leaving Slavery Behind: On Taking the First Step -- Be-shallaḥ No. 2. Bread from the Sky: Learning to Trust -- Yitro No. 1. Does Everyone Hate the Jews? And, Is There Wisdom Outside of Torah? -- Yitro No. 2. Honoring Parents: (Sometimes) the Hardest Mitzvah of All -- Mishpatim No. 1. Turning Memory into Empathy: The Torah's Ethical Charge -- Mishpatim No. 2. Hearing the Cries of the Defenseless: Or, We Are All Responsible -- Terumah No. 1. Being Present While Making Space: Or, Two Meanings of Tzimtzum -- Terumah No. 2. Returning to Eden? An Island of Wholeness in a Fractured World -- Tetsavveh No. 1. God in the Mishkan: Present but Not Domesticated -- Tetsavveh No. 2. Between Ecstasy and Constancy: The Dynamics of Covenantal Commitment -- Ki Tissa' No. 1. The Importance of Character: Or, Why Stubbornness Is Worse Than Idolatry -- Ki Tissa' No. 2. God's Expansive Mercy: Moses's Praise and Jonah's Fury -- Va-yak'hel No. 1. Whom Do We Serve? The Exodus toward Dignified Work -- Va-yak'hel No. 2, Pekudei No. 1. (A) Building with Heart -- Pekudei No. 2. Building a Home for God -- Notes to the Introduction -- Notes on Genesis -- Notes on Exodus -- A Note on Bible Commentaries -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Classical Sources Index.

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