In a work that casts philosophical and theological reflections against a backdrop of personal experience, Leon Wiener Dow offers a learned discourse that elucidates the telos of Jewish law and the philosophical-theological commitments that animate it. To the reader gazing upon the
halakha
from the outside, this book offers a glimpse of its central, orienting concepts. To the reader who lives amidst the rigor of
, this book bestows an insightful glance at the law’s orienting ethos and higher aspirations that often remain opaque.