![]() ![]() ![]() In normative Judaism, you ask not for belief you ask for `Emunah,' the Hebrew word, which is `trust.' You're asked not even to trust in God, in Yahweh, but in the trust, you're asked to trust in the covenant between by Yahweh and yourself or between Yahweh and the Jewish people, which includes yourself.ĮLLIOTT: And you no longer have that trust. Professor HAROLD BLOOM (Yale University Author, "Jesus and Yahweh"): I think when I was a very small boy, undoubtedly following the influence of my late mother, I trusted in the covenant. Yet he appears tormented by what he thinks is the absence of the Hebrew God from the world, and Bloom is troubled by the meaning of the covenant, God's promise to preserve and bless his chosen people. Bloom describes himself as a cultural Jew and he reads the Bible as literature. He spoke with us at length from his home in New Haven. Harold Bloom appears to be having his own struggle with God in his new book, "Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine." Bloom is a renowned author and literary critic at Yale University. In the morning, the messenger tells him, `You have striven with beings divine and human and have prevailed.' In the Book of Genesis, Jacob spends a night wrestling with a messenger of God. This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. ![]()
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