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Heschel's focus on God's "Anthropopathism" is rich.
"There is a sorrow in God's anger. It is an instrument of purification, and its exercise will not last forever... Anger is not His distortion, but a state He waits to overcome."

Jewish commentary on the prophets has opened my heart in new ways. I love God and I love how God loves His people-- with passion and the idea of disengagement as inconceivable.

"... but the prophet deals with relations between God and man, where contradiction is inevitable... in judging human affairs, it unfolds a divine situation... God's role is not spectatorship but involvement. He and man meet mysteriously in the human deed... The God of Israel is never impersonal."

Enjoying this. Feels like an accessible refresher and expansion of two semesters of Old Testament lol