(Why) Should We Care What God Wants?
Summer Yom Iyyun 2019
Summer Yom Iyyun 2019
Shai Held
Let's explore a crucial question that frequently goes unasked: why should we, as human beings and as Jews, care what God wants of us? We'll see how Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrestled with this question and we'll compare his approach to the way the Torah itself engages with it. Along the way, we'll ask: what's the relationship between our obligations as Jews and our obligations as human beings?
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