Traces Of God

The Torah is replete with references to hearing God but precious few references to seeing God. Seeing is complicated. What we look for and see are traces of God's presence in the world and in history, but not 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.

Rabbi Neil Gillman is professor of Jewish Philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he has also served as chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and dean of the Rabbinical School. Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew (0827604033), winner of the National Jewish Book Award; The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought (1-879045-61-3), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Publishers Weekly ôBest Book of the Year;ö The Way Into Encountering God in Judaism (1-58023-025-3); and The Jewish Approach to God (1-58023-190-X).