6A Tale in Five Parts
91Where We Are Going
7The Heart of the Torah
92A Christian Note
8Who Wrote the Torah?
93Chapter 11: The Zohar and Its Secrets
9How Big Is the Torah?
94A Book That Appeared Suddenly
10What the Torah Is Not
95Walking with Rabbi Shimon
11One Last Picture
96What the Zohar Teaches
12Chapter 2: Moses and the Giving of the Torah
97Why It Caught Fire
13A Baby in a Basket
98The Language of the Zohar
14The Burning Bush
99The Zohar in Daily Jewish Life
15The Ten Plagues
100Controversy
16Crossing the Sea
101A Christian Note
17Mount Sinai and the Ten Commandments
102Chapter 12: Safed, Luria, and the Spread of Mysticism
18Did Moses Really Write the Torah?
103Refugees on a Hill
19The Last Song and the Last Climb
104The Ari
20A Personal Note
105A New Story of Creation
21Chapter 3: From the Wilderness to the Scribes
106Why This Changed Everything
22After Moses
107From Safed to Everywhere
23The Age of the Judges
108Hasidism
24The Kings and the Temple
109Modern Pop Kabbalah
25A Lost Book Is Found
110A Personal Note
26Babylon and Exile
111Part Four: Where the Three Meet and Part Ways
27The Return and the Scribes
112Chapter 13: Where the Three Books Meet
28The Dead Sea Scrolls
113They All Begin with the Torah
29A Greek Torah
114They All Assume One God
30A Personal Note
115They All Assume Israel Was Chosen
31Chapter 4: The Torah After the Exile
116They All Value Study
32A New Kind of Judaism
117They All Value the Commandments
33The Rise of the Synagogue
118They All Long for the Messiah
34The Sadducees
119They All Value the Land of Israel
35The Pharisees
120Shared Values in Daily Life
36The Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls
121A Personal Note
37Other Jewish Groups
122Chapter 14: Where the Three Books Part Ways
38Jesus and the Torah
123Different Sources of Authority
39The Early Christians and the Torah
124Different Styles
40The Destruction of the Temple
125Different Attitudes Toward the World Outside
41A Personal Note
126Different Pictures of Holiness
42Chapter 5: How Jews Read the Torah Today
127Different Views of Evil
43A Torah Scroll Up Close
128Different Pictures of the Afterlife
44The Weekly Cycle
129Different Voices on the Role of Women
45Orthodox, Conservative, Reform
130Different Views Among Jews Themselves
46Modern Biblical Scholarship
131A Christian Note
47Messianic Jews
132Part Five: The Three Books and the Outsider
48The Torah at Home
133Chapter 15: The Torah and the Nations Around Israel
49Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah
134Two Kinds of Outsiders
50Chapter 6: What Is the Talmud?
135The Hard Commandments
51A Library, Not a Book
136The Gentle Commandments
52A Conversation on a Page
137One Foundational Claim: Every Human Is in God’s Image
53The Two Parts
138How Jews Read the Hard Verses Today
54Two Talmuds
139A Case Study — Ruth the Moabitess
55Why the Talmud Matters
140A Christian Note
56A First Example
141Chapter 16: The Talmud and the Gentiles
57What the Talmud Is Not
142A Word About Sources
58A Word About Trust
143The Talmud Grew Up in a Very Specific World
59Chapter 7: The Oral Law and the Mishnah
144The Hard Passages — and How Traditional Jewish Law Reads Them
60Two Torahs, One Source
145The Noahide Laws
61What Christians Think of This
146The Meiri Reframing
62Why the Oral Torah Had to Be Written Down
147What About Muslims?
63Rabbi Judah the Prince
148Real Tension, Handled Honestly
64The Six Orders
149A Christian Note
65Famous Names
150Chapter 17: The Kabbalah and the Outsider
66Halakhah and Aggadah
151Two Kinds of Soul?
67What Happened Next
152The Shells and the Sparks
68Chapter 8: Two Talmuds, Two Academies
153Kabbalah’s Universal Thread
69Two Homes for Jewish Learning
154Kabbalah and Christians
70The Academies in Israel
155Kabbalah and Muslims
71Why the Jerusalem Talmud Is Shorter
156The Gentile Soul in Modern Kabbalah
72The Academies in Babylon
157The Truth About Hatred
73Why the Babylonian Talmud Won
158A Christian Note
74A Closer Look at the Gemara
159Part Six: The Three Books in the World Today
75Stories in the Middle of the Law
160Chapter 18: How Many People Follow Each Book Today
76The Talmud Under Islam
161Jews in the World
77Chapter 9: Opening the Talmud
162Jews and the Torah
78The Look of a Page
163Jews and the Talmud
79Meet the Commentators
164Jews and the Kabbalah
80Codes of Law
165All Three at Once
81Daf Yomi — A Page a Day
166Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Secular
82The Talmud and Jewish Life
167Jewish Communities in Unlikely Places
83The Talmud in Modern Life
168Non-Jewish Readers
84Part Three: The Kabbalah
169A Christian Note
85Chapter 10: What Is the Kabbalah?
170Afterword
