The Going

Download or read book The Going written by Leon Wiener Dow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 law’s orienting ethos and higher aspirations that often remain opaque.