Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. "If you wish to live, then die": Aspects of Death and Desire in Jewish Spirituality

2. "For Your sake we are killed all day long": The Sanctification of God in Love

3. "As if he sacrificed a soul": Forms of Ritual Simulation and Substitution

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Promotional Information

The work is a blend of scholarly insight into and deep personal engagement with a panoply of Jewish sources that evince a coherent web of religious and psychological themes of love and death. The result is impressive for its clarity of expression, its unencumbered command of a wide range of complex texts and topics, and its intellectual originality and verve. -- Steven D. Fraade, Yale University