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When God Becomes History: Historical Essays of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen KookAbraham Isaac Hakohen Kook (1865-1935) served as the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Erets Israel during the period of the British mandate. Rav Kook was a polymath, equally talented as a Talmudic legalist and rationalist philosopher, on the one hand, and as a mystic and...
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Peshat Isn't So Simple: Essays on Developing a Religious Methodology to Bible StudyAlthough peshat often is translated as the plain or simple sense of the text, there is nothing plain or simple about it when we take it seriously. Sifting through many centuries of scholarship and methodology coupled with pursuing contemporary approaches and research is a...
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Blessings In The Jewish Home: Shabbat, Festivals, WeekdayBlessings In The Jewish Home follows nusach Ashkenaz. This volume is produced in LARGE PRINT FOR EASIER READING, both in English and Hebrew. Includes Shabbat blessings, the before and after blessings for all foods, and the additional blessings for Sheva Brachot and Brit Mila....
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The Messiah Factor"Who Do You say that I am?"was the question Jesus asked the disciples.This book looks at some contemporary Jewish answers to that question (and answers to those answers.)Issues raised include: Why has the professing Church often persecuted Jewish People?Where was God where the six...
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Elie Wiesel, an Extraordinary Life and Legacy: Writings, Photographs and ReflectionsElie Wiesel (1928-2016) is best known as the author of Night, survivor of Auschwitz and a powerful, enduring voice of the Holocaust. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he was a hero of human rights, professor and...
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100 Questions and Answers About American Jews with a Guide to Jewish HolidaysThis simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions non-Jews ask in everyday conversation. It has answers about Judaism and Jewish culture, customs, identity, language, stereotypes, politics, education, work, families and food. This guide is meant as a quick, introduction for non-Jews in...
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Pesakh, PassoverPassover is one of the most important Appointed Times of the Bible. Rabbi Jim explains that the Passover Seder is a Covenant Renewal Meal, designed and commanded by God for renewing His Covenant each year with the Israelites.Rabbi Jim teaches what Passover is all...
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Without Red Strings or Holy Water: Maimonides' Mishne TorahMaimonides was one of the greatest Jewish personalities of the Middle Ages: a halakhist par excellence, a great philosopher, a political leader of his community, and a guardian of Jewish rights. In 1180 CE, Maimonides composed his Halakhic magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah, which...
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Time and Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological PerspectivesFocusing on the concepts of time and the life cycle, this collection of articles examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period through the lens of Jewish law and custom of the time. The essays are the work of Nissan Rubin (one of them written...
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All Breathing LifeAll Breathing Life Adores Your Name is a book of prayers composed as poetry by the founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. This English language book of prayers introduces the reader to Jewish mysticism in contemporary life. Rabbi Lawrence Kushner has said...
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Star Above Star BelowExplore the magic of late antiquity in the ceremonial rite of the Winter Solstice found within Star Above Star Below. Here you will find a powerful new ritual based upon the spiritual traditions of the Greco-Egyptian era. You will explore ancient Alexandria, the epicenter...
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Are We There Yet: Travel as a Spiritual PathIt's the perpetual question: Are we there yet? We've probably asked and answered it countless times. But impatience can cloud the real question: Where are we right now? Are We There Yet? shows a way to turn travel into a spiritual practice.From the Gully...
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The Sabbath Bee: Love Songs to Shabbat"Shabbat arrives as usual, dressed in silk with her hair and make-up beautifully arranged." So begins The Sabbath Bee by Wilhelmina Gottschalk, which updates the millenia-old genre of Jewish Sabbath poetry for today's world. "Torah, say our sages, has seventy faces. As these prose...
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I Loved My Mother on Saturdays and Other Tales from the Shtetl and BeyondStories of a Jewish life from a Galitzianer shtetl to a Florida condiminium, told by an award-winning storyteller. "Her writing has a lively, spoken word rhythm, as if she is the raconteur in your living room telling tales out of school. This is the...
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Counting the Days: Growing your Family's Spirit by Counting the OmerWhat values are most important to us? What is true strength? What constitutes real kindness? How and when can the average 21st century family discuss these questions? There are few opportunities for parents and children to think together about values and spirituality in our...
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In the Fever of Love: An Illumination of the Song of SongsYou don't have to be a mystic to enjoy Rabbi Shefa Gold's new commentary on the Song of Songs, but it may make you into one. Rather than address herself to the reader, she speaks directly, and passionately, to God, The Beloved. She invites...
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Chanah's Voice: A Rabbi Wrestles with Gender, Commandment, and the Women's Rituals of Baking, Bathing, and BrighteningIn her first book, Life on the Fringes, Haviva Ner-David described her quest to become an Orthodox rabbi, to serve God the same way men traditionally did. Now, Rabbi Ner-David tunes in to an aspect of God she hadn't heard before, the voice of...
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Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity, and Freudian Slips in GenesisThe book Wrestling Jacob presents close readings of the biblical stories of Jacob from both literary and psychological perspectives. The readings explore the relationship between text and subtext as reflecting the relationship between the conscious and subconscious. On one level, this book is about...
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Parshat HaShavuah: Exodus (Teacher's Guide Shemot)This lesson is based upon the concepts gleaned from the illuminating writing of the Chancellor og the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Rabbi Ismar Schorsch. It is appropriate for students in grades 6-8.Author: Joel LevensonPublisher: Melton Research CenterPublished: 01/01/1999Pages: 136Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 11.00h...
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El Portal de la Plegaria: Likutey Tefilot - Las plegarias del Rabí Natán de BreslovEL PORTAL DE LA PLEGARIA (Likutey Tefilot) Las Plegarias del Rab Nat n de Breslov Volumen I, plegarias 1-20 El Rebe Najm n de Breslov enfatiz el hecho de que la plegaria es el camino principal para conectarse con Dios, ense ando que debemos...
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