“The whole Torah is Holy,” says Rabbi Akiva, “but the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies.”
“I read every word of “The Song” as a word that I address to God my Beloved AND as a word that is addressed to me by God. Each word of the Song is also the word that I address to my lover AND each word is spoken by my lover to me. Love is given and received at once.”
In the Fever of Love
An Illumination of the Song of Songs
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Initiation onto the Path of Love
A Devotional Commentary
Chapter One: A Call to Intimacy
Chapter Two: Surprise Me on the Jagged Mountain
Chapter Three: Like a Pillar of Smoke
Chapter Four: This Moment of Love
Chapter Five: In the Fever of Love
Chapter Six: Leaning Into Love’s Embrace
Chapter Seven: There I will Give You My Love
Chapter Eight: Let Me Enter Your Garden
The Commandments of the Song of Songs
Praise
“A daring and original commentary to the Song of Songs.”
Arthur Green, Dean of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College
“Shefa Gold opens for all of us a path to open-hearted awareness.”
Sylvia Boorstein, author of Happiness is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
“… she audaciously proposes a Judaism whose ten commandments are mandates to love.”
Jay Michaelson, author of Another Word for Sky: Poems and God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice
“An amazing, loving and poetic commentary on this sacred text.”
Rabbi David A. Cooper, author of God Is a Verb