God Spoke Once, I Heard Twice

Moving from cosmology to creativity to criminology, the Torah explores the breadth of human existence: ethics and ritual, narratives of Patriarchs and Matriarchs, history and a philosophy of history--all of these drive the first five books of Hebrew Scripture. But as Rabbi Hillel Goldberg explains in this probing and insightful commentary, these sacred texts are governed by one idea—one God. God blesses the human being with power, and also imposes limits. A human being may not kill, not commit a