God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know

A brilliant book that offers new ways to think about just one line in the Bible. Rabbinic interpretations are painted broadly but brought close to home by the yarn of the premise: that, when he wakes from the dream of the ladder, Jacob speaks to each rabbi as they try to teach him what it (and what Jacob's response to the dream) means.

Kushner sometimes gives some cheesy domestic examples to underscore his points, but these are unfrequent and pardoned by the wealth of the way he unpacks the movements and thoughts of Judaic philosophy and interpretation.

Highly recommend!