Astounding Torah Insights about the Human Body
Astounding Torah Insights about the Human Body
You live in this body every day and rarely ask what it is for. Why does a person stand upright when nothing else does? Why do we nod for yes and shake the head for no?
Sixty-five essays read the human body as the Torah reads it — posture and what standing vertical says about a person, the head that goes first, the eye and what it is guarded from, the eyebrow, and disability as a capacity rather than a lack.
Sanhedrin and Pesachim carry most of the weight here, taken with the Rambam, the Maharal and the Chofetz Chaim.
For a reader who wants machshava that stays close to something he can see.
Rabbi Yehoshua Alt has written thirteen seforim in the Insights series, and writes the weekly Fascinating Insights sheet carried on JewishPress.com.
240 pages · hardcover or paperback · 6 × 9 in · English
What is inside
65 essays. A few of them:
- Greek Geek
- Human Posture
- Vertical Creation
- Ahead with the Head
- The Yes and No Movement
- Ability of Disability
- Internal, External, Eternal
- Sides with Glides
- Stop the Schism
- Bow to the Eyebrow
- and 55 more
Masechtos cited
Pesachim · Sanhedrin · Shabbos · Yoma · Yevamos · Baba Metzia · Chullin · Eruvin · Megillah · Kesubos · Menachos · Taanis · Nedarim · Gittin · Kiddushin · Baba Kamma · Baba Basra · Bechoros · Tamid
Sources
Rashi · Midrash · Rambam · Chazon Ish · Maharal · Chofetz Chaim · Zohar · Yerushalmi · Shelah · Arizal · Steipler · Ramban · Maharsha · Nefesh Hachaim · Shulchan Aruch · Bnei Yissaschar · Tosafos · Vilna Gaon · Tur · Kli Yakar · Ohr Hachaim · Baal Shem Tov · Sefer Chassidim · Brisker Rav · Lubavitcher Rebbe
What reviewers said
“Rabbi Yehoshua Alt has written an indispensable guide on the Torah’s approach to the human body.”
Chaim Yehuda Meyer, The Jewish Link
240 pages · 6 x 9 in · English