Judaism

Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has been poorly understood. Delving deep into Sasanian material culture and literary remains, Shai...

Dennis Prager, author of the bestselling Rational Bible commentaries, turns to the Haggadah, the book used for the most widely celebrated Jewish ritual, the Passover Seder. (Like most Haggadahs, the Rational Passover Haggadah is printed in the Hebrew...

In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881233704Author Barbara Ab SymonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210323Author Abraham CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717840929Author Marvin S AntelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916306806Author Paul KolbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Marmalade PublishingPublisher Marmalade PublishingDimensions(mm) 195mm * 127mm * 22mm

Winner of the 2016 Goldstein-Goren Award for the best book in Jewish Thought At once a study of biblical theology and modern Jewish thought, this volume describes a "participatory theory of revelation" as it addresses the ways biblical authors and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674035Author Hayim H DoninFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 36mm

Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy reveals the happiness that awaits us if we strive for real spirituality. The stories are about pious rabbis and humble tailors, about dancing, singing, laughing, and crying, but their common denominator is always joyous ecstasy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978159009Author Rav Michael LaitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016262Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733813013Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653010512Author Koren PublishersFormat HardbackPage Count 1387Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stageEarly Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellence-a movement built around the study of the Bible and...

100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World features stories of Jewish brides from six continents, highlighting diverse customs and rituals related to weddings now and in the past. The stories, written by brides, their relatives, clergy, and other...

The story of Judaism, its religion, culture and civilization, is shown in more than 240 illustrations. It is a history of the Jewish faith from the time of Abraham and the 12 tribes through the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem to the Diaspora and...

Rashi, the medieval French rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (1040-1105), authored monumental commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Babylonian Talmud. With The JPS Rashi Discussion Torah Commentary, his commentary on the Torah-regarded as the most authoritative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807407486Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807010518Author Danya RuttenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret. Ancient Israel was rich in such literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688129583Author Rabbi Joseph TelushkinFormat HardbackPage Count 663Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897448106Author Rav Yehuda AshlagFormat PaperbackPage Count 405Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802880161Author James C VanderKamFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Until now, few primary texts on the Kabbalah have been available in English. Under the auspices of the Bronfman Library of Jewish Classics, this historic publicatin of Gates of Light allows readers to enter the hidden world of the Kabbalah and its...

Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism's adherents only in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592643660Author Michael J HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint MaggidPublisher Koren Publishers Jerusalem

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580232012Author Lawrence A. HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592641949Author Binyamin La'uFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

Students will experience the text just as Jews have studied it for nearly 2,000 years. Features twelve key passages from the Mishnah that carry special significance for today's students. Each excerpt is given in both Hebrew and English.Book...

The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990515555Author Jessica Tamar DeutschFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Print-O-Craft PressPublisher Print-O-Craft PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881233223Author Shmuly YanklowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

Reuchlin's keen interest in Jewish mysticism resulted in the original publication of this work in 1517. The first part of this dialogue reflects on messianism, the second part on the relation of the Pythagorean system to the Kabbalah, and the third on...

Decodes the long history of Hebrew and its influential place as the ancestor of many modern written languages Hebrew as a language is just over 3,000 years old, and the story of its alphabet is unique among the languages of the world. Hebrew set the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592642748Author Rabbi Shlomo RiskinFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human...

A finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for scholarship--a broad, systematic account of one of the most original and creative kabbalists, biblical interpreters, and Talmudic scholars the Jewish tradition has ever produced"Beautifully written,...

What does lived religion look like in the 21st century? Against the polarizations of old and new, religion and secularism, theory and practice, a cadre of internationally renowned scholars interrogate the ways spiritual ideas and practices remain...