Judaism

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 9781573226943Author David A CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 384g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978159092Author Rav Michael LaitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams)...

Jewish living begins at home.Have you ever wondered why Jewish homes have a mezuzah on the doorpost, why 13 is the age of the bar/bat mitzvah, and whether it really matters which Hanukkah candle you light first?Get answers to many of the whys of major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556437946Author Gershon WinklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The complex and dramatic story of Joseph is the most sustained narrative in Genesis. Many call it a literary masterpiece and a story of great depth that can be read on many levels. In a lucid and engaging style, Alan T. Levenson brings the voices of...

In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human...

Your Name Is Your Blessing: Hebrew Names and Their Mystical Meanings represents the first time that the secrets of the Kabbalah, the mystical teachings of Jewish spiritual leaders, were introduced to the general public for the purpose of explaining the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928822080Author Ozer BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Breslov Research InstitutePublisher Breslov Research InstituteWeight(grams)...

This provocative volume explores the origins of the Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. Jon D. Levenson argues that, contrary to a very widespread misconception, the ancient rabbis were keenly committed to the belief that at the end of time,...

In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II - yet an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626651Author Rabbi Rami ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597524131Author Professor of Religion Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926519Author Harold SchulweisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 200g

This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-holding. Based on a wide-range of sources in several languages, many previously unexplored and...

This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. Makers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060630379Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world’s major religions. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure; accessible...

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 9781580231305Author Arthur GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578441160Author Matthew SchaikewitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Ammud PressPublisher Ammud PressWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Conceptions of "the self" have received significant recent attention in philosophy, anthropology, and cultural history. Scholars argue that the introspective self of the modern West is a distinctive phenomenon that cannot be projected back onto...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101875186Author Graciela MochkofskyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015791Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

The factionalism and denominationalism of modern Jewry makes it supremely difficult to create a definition of the Jewish people. Instead of serving as a uniting force around which community is formed, Judaism has itself become a source of divisions...

In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays-two for each weekly portion-open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held probes the portions in bold, original, and provocative ways. He mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world...

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 9780874416855Author Elie GindiFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Behrman House PublishingPublisher Behrman House PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests examines the impact of the Persian Sasanian context on the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon. What impact did the Persian Zoroastrian Empire, as both a real historical...

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

In A Reader of Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Sources for the Study of the Old Testament, leading biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan presents a collection of texts that introduce students to the larger world surrounding the Old Testament. Dating from the...

In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah-from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism-one of the world's foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. Moshe Idel...

How can you tell if a dog is happy? What breed of puppy should you get? Which is the biggest dog? Meet dozens of dogs, from designer pooches and working hounds to wily wolves and playful puppies. Lift the flaps to answer loads of fun questions. Find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088050705Author Michael E HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873340618Author Saul LiebermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint JTS PressPublisher JTS PressWeight(grams) 649g

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)...

Dr. Edward Hoffman, a world-renowned thinker and writer in humanistic psychology, reveals how the Kabbalah exerted a profound influence on the establishment and growth of Western psychological thought through such towering thinkers as Carl Jung, Sigmund...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015722Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have...