My previous attempt to answer your question wasn't very useful. As luck would have it, today someone posted elsewhere a beautiful example of commentary on some verses in Genesis. One may see from this example that Jewish approaches to Biblical interpretation are discursive and not reductive, that mysticism is an option, and that anyone who reads Hebrew can join in. Bringing in a comparison from Zen is not typical, but it's not out of line.
As a bonus, at the end there is a clip of a cantor singing a common prayer, so you can hear what the Hebrew sounds like.
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Jewish Biblical commentary
Date: 2023-07-02 03:49 pm (UTC)As a bonus, at the end there is a clip of a cantor singing a common prayer, so you can hear what the Hebrew sounds like.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/2/2177485/-A-Jewish-Koan