{"product_id":"the-hidden-order-of-intimacy-reflections-on-the-book-of-leviticus-by-avivah-gottlieb-zornberg","title":"The Hidden Order of Intimacy: Reflections on the Book of Leviticus by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\"\u003eA masterly analysis of the Book of Leviticus, the newest volume in the award-winning series of commentaries on the Hebrew Bible by \"a celebrated biblical scholar, keen on weaving together traditional Jewish exegesis, psychoanalysis, and postmodern criticism\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif rgb italic font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" font-style:=\"\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe image of the Golden Calf haunts the commentaries that thread through Leviticus. This catastrophic episode, in which the Israelites (freed from Egyptian slavery and forty days after their momentous encounter with God at Mount Sinai) worship a pagan idol while Moses is receiving the Torah from God on the mountaintop, gives the mostly legalistic text a unique depth and resonance. According to midrashic tradition, the post-traumatic effects of the sin of the Golden Calf linger through the generations, the sin to be \"paid off\" in small increments through time. Post-biblical perspectives view this as the diffusion of punishment, as well as a way of addressing the on-going phenomenon of idolatry itself.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e \u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eThese after-effects of the Golden Calf incident are imaginatively explored in Avivah Zornberg's magnificent textual analysis. She brings the rabbis of the Talmud, medieval commentators, Hasidic scholars, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and literary masters—from Aristotle and Rashi to the Baal Shem Tov, Franz Rosenzweig, Sigmund Freud, and George Eliot—into her pathbreaking discussion of the nature of reward and punishment, good and evil, Eros and Thanatos, and humankind's intricate and ever-fascinating encounter with the divine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: font-weight:\u003eAVIVAH GOTTLIEB ZORNBERG \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:\u003eis the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: font-style: italic\u003eThe Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:\u003e (a National Jewish Book Award-winner), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: font-style: italic\u003eThe Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus, Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: font-style: italic\u003eThe Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:\u003e (a National Jewish Book Award finalist). She lectures widely in Israel, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"IsraelBookShop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42254327087269,"sku":"978-0805243574","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/978-1592645930_af733fc3-e27c-4d49-9e84-f764736f595a.jpg?v=1725093851","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/the-hidden-order-of-intimacy-reflections-on-the-book-of-leviticus-by-avivah-gottlieb-zornberg","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}