Does God real­ly exist? Can mod­ern Jews believe in a per­son­al, car­ing God? What is divine rev­e­la­tion? Why is there human suf­fer­ing? Is there life after death? What is the role of rit­u­al and prayer in mod­ern Judaism? These are some of the burn­ing issues that not­ed Con­ser­v­a­tive rab­bi Neil Gill­man address­es in this insight­ful work. In a sense, the book rep­re­sents his spir­i­tu­al odyssey of four decades study­ing the writ­ings of Buber, Kaplan, Hes­chel, and oth­er impor­tant mod­ern Jew­ish thinkers. Its main thrust is Gillman’s dec­la­ra­tion that God can be known and expe­ri­enced only through metaphor and myth, ideas that he has also explored in two pre­vi­ous books: Sacred Frag­ments (1990) and The Death of Death (1997). Although it can be chal­leng­ing at times to the lay read­er, Gillman’s new book is essen­tial read­ing for any­one inter­est­ed in mod­ern Jew­ish the­o­log­i­cal thought. Bib­li­og­ra­phy, glos­sary, index, notes.