Dr. Meir Tamari is a well-known econ­o­mist who has taught cours­es, writ­ten books, and found­ed an insti­tute deal­ing with the inter­face of eco­nom­ics, busi­ness ethics, and Jew­ish law. While on the one hand, his new vol­ume does not focus upon his schol­ar­ly spe­cial­ty, nev­er­the­less the writ­ings of the Prophets, from which the Haf­tarah read­ings derive, cer­tain­ly address gen­er­al eth­i­cal and moral issues much more explic­it­ly and com­pre­hen­sive­ly than do the oth­er por­tions of the ​“writ­ten tra­di­tion,” i.e., the Torah and the writ­ings, pos­si­bly explain­ing the author’s par­tic­u­lar attrac­tion to these bib­li­cal pas­sages. How­ev­er, in the intro­duc­tion to the book, Dr. Tamari artic­u­lates an addi­tion­al pur­pose in com­pil­ing this vol­ume, i.e., he feels that the study of the Prophets has been neglect­ed, and he pro­pos­es that such study can be encour­aged and stim­u­lat­ed by engen­der­ing inter­est in the Haf­tarot that are read on Shab­bat, Rosh Chodesh, Yomim Tovim and fast days. To this end, in addi­tion to eru­dite­ly and broad­ly explor­ing the con­nec­tion between each Torah read­ing and the Haf­tarah asso­ci­at­ed with it, as well as the gen­er­al themes extent with­in that par­tic­u­lar Haf­tarah, each time a new book of the Prophets serves as the source of the Haf­tarah (some books in Tanach serve as the sources for mul­ti­ple Haf­tarot through­out the Jew­ish year), a gen­er­al intro­duc­tion to that book is also includ­ed. While Truths Desired by God can be used as a ref­er­ence vol­ume in the sense that one can open it to any Haf­tarah of per­son­al inter­est and gain a great deal of infor­ma­tion and food for thought by read­ing that essay with­out ref­er­enc­ing any of the oth­ers, Dr. Tamari obvi­ous­ly hopes that the read­er will also take the trou­ble to seek out the intro­duc­to­ry para­graphs appear­ing the first time a bib­li­cal book serves as a Haftarah’s source, to gain a broad­er con­text for the infor­ma­tion that he is gath­er­ing and studying.