By Neil Gillman
The fashionable Jew, dwelling in an international of shattered ideals and competing ideologies, is usually faced with questions of religion. Sacred Fragments is in the event you nonetheless care adequate to proceed the fight. In forthright, nontechnical language the writer addresses the main tricky theological questions of our time and exhibits that there are nonetheless attainable Jewish solutions for even the best skeptics.
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But according to Heschel, even the Bible itself is a human interpretation of some prior, or more primal revelatory content that is beyond human comprehension. Heschel teaches that two events occurred at Sinai: God’s giv ing of the Torah and Israel’s receiving of the Torah. Both parties were active in the encounter, and what emerged is colored by both its divine origin and its human appropriation. ”Yet, as we shall see, Heschel takes the Jewish legal system that emerges out of this revelation very seriously indeed.
His will? And how—in a book? In nature? Or in historical events? It is impossible to deal with all of these questions simulta neously, but it is also clear that how we deal with any one of them will affect our discussion of the remaining two. For exam ple, it might be easier to accept revelation in principle and in fact if what was revealed was God Himself in intimate relation ship with a community (as existentialist thinkers such as Martin Buber would claim), rather than His will as recorded in a book that He dictated (as thinkers such as the nineteenth-century Ger man traditionalist Samson Raphael Hirsch would insist)—or, for some of us, vice versa.
What kind of a God would He be if we could understand Him? The cardinal theological sin for Heschel, then, is literalmindedness, the presumption that our theological concepts are literally true or objectively adequate. ” We understand midrash as a later interpreta tion of a biblical text. But according to Heschel, even the Bible itself is a human interpretation of some prior, or more primal revelatory content that is beyond human comprehension. Heschel teaches that two events occurred at Sinai: God’s giv ing of the Torah and Israel’s receiving of the Torah.