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"Neil Gillman explains how Jews have encountered God throughout Jewish history--and today - by exploring the many images of God in Jewish tradition how they originated and what they can mean for us. Accompanying award-winning author Gillman on a journey through the Hebrew Bible rabbinic literature and the Jewish prayer book, we explore the Jewish tradition's passionate but also conflicting ways of relating to God. The Way Into . Series offers an accessible and highly usable ""guided tour"" of the Jewish faith, people, history, and beliefs-in total, an introduction to Judaism that will enable you to understand and interact with the sacred texts of the Jewish tradition. Each volume is written by a leading contemporary scholar and teacher, and explores one key aspect of Judaism."

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"Neil Gillman, rabbi and PhD, is professor of Jewish philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he has served as chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and dean of the Rabbinical School. He is author of Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought; The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Publishers Weekly ""Best Book of the Year""; The Way Into Encountering God in Judaism; The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life (all Jewish Lights) and Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, winner of the National Jewish Book Award."

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