Judaism

Ancient Jewish sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Some find in sacrifice the key to the mysterious and violent origins of human culture. Others see these cultic rituals as merely the fossilized vestiges of primitive superstition. Some believe that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684842981Author Rabbi Morris N. KertzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879045415Author Abraham Joshua HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author's journey into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016552Author Rinat GilboaFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835606462Author Stephan A. HoellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

A reprint of the Schocken Books edition of 1961.About the AuthorThe late Nahum N. Glatzer was Lown Professor of Judaic Studies, Brandeis University and University Professor, Boston University.Paul Mendes-Flohr is Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743201339Author Martin BuberFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 146mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738723556Author Dr Stephen SkinnerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Publisher Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

By its very nature, the ideals of religion entail sin and failure. Judaism has its own language and framework for sin that expresses themselves both legally and philosophically. Both legal questions - circumstances where sin is permissible or mandated,...

With his characteristic skill and insight, Micah Goodman guides us through the beauty of Jewish philosophy, uplifting us from perplexity to enlightenment.-Shimon Peres, former president of the State of Israel A publishing sensation long at the top of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954848293Author Rabbi Elli Tikvah SarahFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint David PaulPublisher David Paul

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034520Author Rabbi Chaim RapoportFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211948Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

Leonard Cohen's troubled relationship with God is here mapped onto his troubled relationships with sex and politics. Analysing Covenantal theology and its place in Cohen's work, this book is the first to trace a consistent theology across sixty years of...

Inspired by stories he heard in the West Bank as a child, Hillel Cohen uncovers a hidden history in this extraordinary and beautifully written book - a history central to the narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict but for the most part willfully...

How to transform the model of twentieth-century Jewish institutions into twenty-first-century relational communities offering meaning and purpose, belonging and blessing."What really matters is that we care about the people we seek to engage. When we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824601270Author David Ben-GurionFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams) 649g

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 9780853037132Author Miri Freud-KandelFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams) 538g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657052457Author Gordon SchochetFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Shalem PressPublisher Shalem PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 158mm *...

Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship 2022. Karaite Judaism emerged in the ninth century in the Islamic Middle East as an alternative to the rabbinic Judaism of the Jewish majority. Karaites reject the underlying assumption of rabbinic...

In the study of Judaism, the Zohar has captivated the minds of interpreters for over seven centuries, and continues to entrance readers in contemporary times. Yet despite these centuries of study, very little attention has been devoted to the literary...

After the Bible, the Passover haggadah is the most widely read classic text in the Jewish tradition. More than four thousand editions have been published since the late fifteenth century, but few are as exquisite as the Washington Haggadah, which resides...

This is a unique, personal testimony and companion to the Jewish religion, in which the reader will find a wealth of information on just about every aspect of Jewish belief and practice, both ancient and modern - from personalities in the Bible to Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971736Author Judith ShulevitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

Few subjects invoke such passion as the history and current situation of Jews in Western societies. David Goldberg, a progressive Rabbi with many years' experience of dealing with other faiths and other Jews, takes the most difficult issues of this...

Ahoy there! The Nine Sails is casting off for Madagascar so all aboard for a treasure hunt you'll never forget! Kintana has grown up listening to stories of life at sea from her pa, an ex-pirate turned pet shop owner. So when a tall ship - The Nine Sails...

Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306710Author Jay MichaelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Many Christians and Jews believe that their faiths developed independently from each other, and that their religions are distinct, even antagonistic towards each other. A Portable God dramatically departs from the idea that the birth of Judaism and...

This intriguing volume takes readers on a fascinating journey through the Hebrew alphabet. Along the way, Rabbi Ginsburgh reveals each letter's secrets and demonstrates that they are a key to Jewish spirituality.About the AuthorRabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg is...

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...

A classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging.In 1977, after serving as a leading activist for the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration from there, Natan Sharansky was arrested...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374513313Author Abraham Joshua HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped the history of the Jewish people. Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580232593Author Judea PearlFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033653Author David SorkinFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Based on the same format and design as the Torah volumes, Jonah provides a critical line-by-line commentary of the biblical text, which is presented in its original Hebrew, complete with vocalization and cantillation marks, as well as the JPS English...