The Wisdom of Love: Man, Woman and God in Jewish Canonic Literature

The Wisdom of Love strives to challenge the discrepancy between the way source texts relate to love and the way they are perceived to do so, introducing readers to the extensive, profound, and significant treatment of love in the Jewish canon. This is a book about love, not its repression; it is an opportunity to study the wisdom of love, not those who lack such wisdom and are unlikely to ever acquire it.

The Wisdom of Love brings about not only a change in perception—recognizing the existen...