RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Mishnah, Book Of Deuteronomy
5 Jan 2016
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Love in jewish traditions continued: preface: judism is a practice of ethical and monotheism, theres one god and you use ethics in order to worship that one god, divine love (=honour and obedience) a. Its importance: absolute essential foundation in judaism. i. ii. Aim of love of god is not to experience a union with god himself, so much as it is to honor and give total obedience and honor to god. Hear, o israel: the lord is our god, the lord alone. You shall love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your might. Jewish community very small, didn"t have a kingdom or place to settle: the origin: in ancient near east or middle east. 1000bc. i: monotheist, must larger religious sea, most people were not jewish. v, most people in near east was polytheist, most important goddesses, fertility goddess and love goddess ishtar.
