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Encountering God: El Rachum V'chanun-God Merciful and Gracious

By Lawrence A. Hoffman PhD (Editor)
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By Lawrence A. Hoffman PhD (Editor)
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It is time to recover rabbinic lessons of late antiquity: God is a God of grace and love; human beings can aspire to goodness and promise; on Yom Kippur the two of them meet—God's love energizes human potential and the world is reborn with hope restored.

The God of Jewish tradition is far from the strict God of justice commonly understood to be the God of the Hebrew Bible. God’s self-introduction to Moses atop Mount Sinai does indeed conclude with the image of punishment throughout the gener...

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