{"product_id":"roads-to-utopia-the-walking-stories-of-the-zohar-hardcover","title":"Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Greenstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the greatest book of Jewish mysticism, the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e is a revered and much-studied work. Yet, surprisingly, scholarship on the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e has yet to pay attention to its most unique literary device--the presentation of its insights while its teachers walk on the road. In these pages, rabbi and scholar David Greenstein offers the first examination of the \"walking on the road\" motif.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreenstein's original approach hones in on how this motif expresses the struggles with spatiality and the everyday presented in the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e. He argues that the walking theme is not a metaphor for realms to be collapsed into or transcended by the holy, as conventional interpretations would have it. Rather, it conveys us into those quotidian spaces that are obdurately present alongside the realm of the sacred. By embracing the reality of mundane existence, and recognizing the prosaic dimensions of the worldly path, the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e is an especially exceptional mystical treatise. In this volume, Greenstein makes visible a singular, though previously unstudied, achievement of the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Greenstein is rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah, in Montclair, New Jersey. He earned his doctorate in Medieval Jewish Thought from New York University. He is also an award-winning painter and an art teacher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53053909303520,"sku":"9780804788335","price":114.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/DQ9E2X41Pa9780804788335_a6ce6f7a-7cb6-4ce9-b533-5f7f48bcb1dd.webp?v=1781301356","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/roads-to-utopia-the-walking-stories-of-the-zohar-hardcover","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}