KesheHaShamayim Bakhu
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description: Many tears have been shed throughout the history of our people, from the destruction of the Temple, through the long years of exile, and down to our own day. Tears of loss, of longing, of yearning for better days. Alongside these tears, the Sages present an image no less daring and unsettling: the Holy One, blessed be He, also weeps. He too mourns the destruction of His House and the distance of His children. What does God weep over? Who seeks to prevent Him from weeping, and why? Why do the Sages choose to employ such a surprising—and perhaps even subversive—image of a weeping God? When the Heavens Wept focuses on rabbinic teachings that describe God’s weeping, His sorrow, and His mourning in the aftermath of the destruction. In striking, candid, and sensitive interpretations, the Sages offer us a different theology of rupture—one that acknowledges pain and seeks its healing, recognizes distance and yearns for closeness, and does not leave the individual alone in grief. With fluid prose and a masterful touch, Dr. Achinoam Jacobs draws out the religious, psychological, and conceptual meanings embedded in this collection of teachings depicting God’s tears. For the first time, she demonstrates how these teachings stand at the very heart of the project of spiritual reconstruction fashioned by the Sages in the wake of the destruction. Readers are invited to enter the dramatic encounter between tears below and tears above, to join the Sages in weaving a language of faith grounded in mutual relationship and closeness between God and humanity, and to walk with sensitivity and courage along a path that passes through mourning and ultimately finds consolation. Dr. Achinoam Jacobs teaches at the Migdal Oz Beit Midrash for Women and Herzog College, and is a fellow in the Katvuni program at Matan Women’s Institute for Torah Studies. ____________________________________________________ Dr. Jacobs’s book is a courageous and fascinating journey into the deepest mysteries of the wo…
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