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Jewish Theology

Kaufmann Kohler

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .God is whensoever we call upon Him?”416 saying that “each will realize the nearness of God according to his own intellectual and emotional disposition, and thus enter into communion with Him.” According to another Haggadist the verse of the Psalm, “The voice of the Lord resoundeth with power,”417 teaches how God reveals Himself, not with His own overwhelming might, but according to each man's individual power and capacity. The rabbis even make bold to assert that whenever Israel suffers, God suffers with him; as it is written, “I will be with him in trouble.”418

4. As a matter of fact, all the names which we apply to God in speech or in prayer, even the most sublime and holy ones, are derived from our own sensory experience and cannot be taken literally. They are used only as vehicles to bring home to us the idea that God's nearness is our highest good. Even the material world, which is perceptible to our senses, must undergo a certain inner tr. . . Read More

Community Reviews

A good read!

For a non-religious fellow, I enjoyed very much this good work. It was simple to read and non technical and very informative.

Jewish Theology has always been a field of interest for me, and this book proves to be one of the most essential introductory books in this domain. The chapters are beautifully divided, systematically established, and very clear for the understanding of the reader. Great read.

This is very long, but it seems that much of this is repeated in other books on the subject.