A Probing and Powerful Look at the Role You Play in Shaping Your Relationship with God "No matter how hard we look, the God of Israel cannot be seen.
Examining faith and doubt, revelation and law, suffering and redemption, Gillman candidly deconstructs familiar biblical moments in order to help you develop and refine your own spiritual vision, so that you are able to discern the presence of God in unanticipated ways..
In this challenging and inspiring look at the dynamics of the religious experience, award-winning author and theologian Neil Gillman guides you into a new way of Seeing the complex patterns in the Bible, history, and Everyday experiences and helps you interpret what those patterns mean to you and your relationship with God.
In order to identify those Traces as reflections of divine presence, we need to re-examine how we see, what we see, and how we interpret that information.
What we look for and see are Traces of God\'s presence in the world and in history, but not God.
Seeing is complicated.
We can look at the dots and still miss the pattern." --from Part I The Torah is replete with references to hearing God but precious few references to Seeing God.
Each of the symptoms is a dot.
It is much more like making a medical diagnosis on the basis of looking at a complex set of symptoms.
Looking is not seeing, and Seeing God is not like Seeing an apple.
A Probing and Powerful Look at the Role You Play in Shaping Your Relationship with God "No matter how hard we look, the God of Israel cannot be seen
