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Foundation of Faith: A Tapestry of Insights and Illuminations on Pirkei Avot Based on the Thought and Writings of Rabbi Norman Lamm
Foundation of Faith: A Tapestry of Insights and Illuminations on Pirkei Avot Based on the Thought and Writings of Rabbi Norman Lamm
 
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Author: Mark Dratch
Format: Hardcover


Product Code: 9781602804746
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Foundation of Faith, a commentary on Pirkei Avot based on Rabbi Norman Lamm's thought and writings, is an outstanding compilation of selections from Rabbi Lamm's oeuvre, all related to the ethical, philosophical, and theological themes of Pirkei Avot. Inspiring and profound, the commentary is a scintillating demonstration of Rabbi Lamm's invaluable message for contemporary Jewry. From Foundation of Faith… Torah is not only God-given; it is also Godly. The divine word is not only uttered by God, it is also an aspect of God Himself. All of the Torah its ideas, its laws, its narratives, its aspirations for the human community lives and breathes godliness. Hillel Zeitlin described the Hasidic interpretation of revelation (actually it was even more true of their opponents, the Mitnagdim, and ultimately derived from a common Kabbalistic source) as not only Torah min hashamayim (Torah from Heaven) but Torah shehi shamayim (Torah that is Heaven). It is in Torah that God is most immediately immanent and accessible, and the study of Torah is therefore not only a religious commandment per se, but the most exquisite and the most characteristically Jewish form of religious experience and communion. For the same reason, Torah is not only legislation, Halachah, but in broadest meaning, Torah teaching, a term that includes the full spectrum of spiritual edification: theological and ethical, mystical, and rhapsodic.

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