The Going A Meditation on Jewish Law [Hardcover]

In a work that casts philosophical and theological reflections against a backdrop of personal experience, Leon Wiener Dow offers a learned discourse that elucidates the telos of Jewish law and the philosophical-theological commitments that animate it. To the reader gazing upon the halakha from the outside, this book offers a glimpse of its central, orienting concepts. To the reader who lives amidst the rigor of halakha, this book bestows an insightful glance at the laws orienting ethos and higher aspirations that often remain opaque.

1. Beginnings

2. Saying, Writing, Doing

3. Shared Spacetime: Community

4. The Ineffable

Epilogue. Parting ways

Leon Wiener Dow is a research fellow and a member of the faculty at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel.

In a work that casts philosophical and theological reflections against a backdrop of personal experience, Leon Wiener Dow offers a learned discourse that elucidates the telos of Jewish law and the philosophical-theological commitments that animate it. To the reader gazing upon the halakha from the outside, this book offers a glimpse of its central, orienting concepts. To the reader who lives amidst the rigor of halakha, this book bestows an insightful glance at the laws orienting ethos and higher aspirations that often remain opaque.

Provides a phenomenological study of halakha

Addresses both philosophical and theological audiences

Allows reader to enter the discourse irrespective of the level of their prior knowledge
Provides a phenomenological study of halakha

Addresses both philosophical and theological audiences

Allows reader to enter the discourse irrespective of the level of their prior knowledge