A Shepherd's Song by Michael Leo Samuel

By Michael Leo Samuel

In an age of significant religious disconnection and alienation from the inner most facets of our souls, Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel’s A Shepherd’s track: Psalm 23 and the Shepherd Metaphor in Jewish inspiration, takes us on a non secular trip in the course of the luminous imagery of the shepherd archetype. The transformative energy and message intimated by way of the shepherd metaphor and its background serves to remind us that we're not by myself in a universe that's bereft of God’s moral Presence. undying and inspirational, the shepherd metaphor addresses the basic dating among God and guy, talking on to questions raised through centuries of persecution. what's the nature of affliction in a simply universe? How does ache modify our perceptions of God? How will we rediscover our religion in tough and hard instances? Rabbi Samuel explores questions of religion which are as outdated because the tale of task and as sleek because the Holocaust.

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