Judaism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016118Author Rabbi Adin Even-Israel SteinsaltzFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

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...

Today, many people from all faiths are exploring the Kabbalah. What were once controversial and esoteric teachings from medieval Jewish mystics now is becoming one of the latest spiritual trends sweeping across America. In the wake of this renewed...

When We Collide is a landmark reassessment of the significance of sex in contemporary Jewish ethics. Rebecca Epstein-Levi offers a fresh and vital exploration of sexual ethics and virtue ethics in conversation with rabbinic texts and feminist and queer...

An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly...

In this encyclopedic text, completely revised and updated in this second edition, Joshua R. Jacobson presents the history of the ancient Jewish tradition of chanting the Bible and a comprehensive explanation of cantillation practice with its grammatical...

These essays offer a glimpse into the cultural and social dimensions of Franz Rosenzweig's thought - an aspect of his philosophy that has too often been ignored by an over-emphasis on his status as a religious thinker.Book InformationISBN...

Distilling the teachings and thought of Rabbi Simha Bunim, one of the foremost figures in the Przysucha school of Hasidism, this study sheds light both on what students of the Pryzsucha tradition believed as well as on its influence on Polish Hasidism at...

The Orthodox Jewish tradition affirms that Jewish exile will end with the coming of the Messiah. How, then, does Orthodoxy respond to the political realization of a Jewish homeland that is the state of Israel? In this study, the author probes Orthodoxy's...

An in-depth analysis of an anti-semitic conspiracy theory, from its origins in the 20th century to its resurgence today The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592643929Author Gersion AppelFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 145mm * 48mm

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Above the Zodiac: Astrology in Jewish Thought uncovers the profound connection between Jewish mysticism and classic astrology by citing the many references scattered throughout Jewish literature to the influence of the stars on human destiny. Rabbi...

In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "A river flows from Eden to water the garden" (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows from the depths of divinity into the garden of reality...

An essential biography of one of the Bible's most influential booksDuring its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to important claims about God and humanity in Judaism and Christianity, and it plays a central role in contemporary...

Originally published in 1951, this book explores the development in England of the Sephardi branch of the Jewish community, the co-heirs, with their kinsmen in Holland, in Italy, in North America and in the Middle East, of the Golden Age of Jewish...

"Adventures in Yiddishland" examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding...

For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as it was experienced by Sephardic Jews across the Ottoman Empire. The wars of the twentieth...

In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592642861Author Berel WeinFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

Isaac's Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, in Italy; this is the first encyclopedia of Judaism, with entries on thought and praxis. The book's eight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645039Author Yonatan GrossmanFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 137mm...

Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358108528Author Ariel BurgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everythingTypically translated as "Jewish law," halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law. This is because the rabbinic legal system...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578832821Author Rabbi Sam ReinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Samuel ReinsteinPublisher Samuel ReinsteinWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653012776Author Yehuda SarnaFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 130mm...

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Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi-a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for 2,711 days, or about seven and a half years-Adam Kirsch approached Tablet magazine to write a weekly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015883Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

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The JPS Torah Commentary series guides readers through the words and ideas of the Torah. Each volume is the work of a scholar who stands at the pinnacle of his field. Every page contains the complete traditional Hebrew text, with cantillation notes, the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505985795Author Professor Israel AbrahamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657765227Author Adin SteinsaltzFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 264mm *...

Winner of the R.B.Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Even in antiquity, writers were intrigued by the origins of the people called Samaritans, living in the region of ancient Samaria (near modern Nablus). The Samaritans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385514088Author Joseph B. SoloveitchikFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653012073Author Eli CashdanFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 163mm * 112mm * 28mm