Genesis: The Beginning of Desire Book

Based on her immensely popular weekly lectures in Jerusalem, Zornberg reanimates the ancient characters of the Bible through her lyrical prose and modern sensibilities. We share these characters' struggles to understand the disturbing paradoxes of human existence...why 'not to have is the beginning of desire,' why wisdom must so often be earned through personal suffering, and why blessings sometimes exact so high a price. For ten years, Zornberg has mesmerized audiences as she stuggles personally with these complex texts, sharing her own understanding of how life and text inform each other. In this book she magically weaves together biblical, midrashic, and literary sources into a seamless tapestry. In these pages she wrestles with the parshiyot, the weekly biblical readings and illumines the inevitable tensions that grip human beings as they search for and encounter God: the disorder that threatens order, the instability that shatters stability.Read More