Judaism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312420178Author Jonathan RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Hasidism, a controversial, mystical-religious movement of Eastern European origin, has posed a serious challenge to mainstream Judaism from its earliest beginnings in the middle of the eighteenth century. Decimated by the Holocaust, it has risen like a...

The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is through the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed-this is where religious scholar Michael Fishbane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881231960Author Eric WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

In this prizewinning new interpretation of Jewish mysticism, Moshe Idel emphasizes the need for a comparative and phenomenological approach to Kabbalah and its position in the history of religion. Idel provides fresh insights into the origins of Jewish...

Everyone has a place at the Passover table. Let's celebrate together!The Gateways Haggadah supports full participation in Passover Seder rituals and celebration by neuro diverse children and other family members who may find reading difficult, and...

Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of 'Judaism' is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of "Judaism"-an essential...

Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic monotheism. As a deity, the name appears only in connection with the peoples of the Hebrew Bible, but long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983028505Author Arnie SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Citron PublishingPublisher Citron PublishingWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

It has been noted for centuries that the healing potential of Kabbalistic principles faces disease and establishes the interconnection between body organs, emotions, and spiritual well-being. Now you can use that knowledge to improve your own psychic,...

"William McCagg has done a great service for scholarship-and for Habsburg scholarship in particular-through his book. Scholars are in his debt." -History of European Ideas" . . . strongly recommended to those interested in either Jewish or Habsburg...

This insightful book offers business advice that has endured for thousands of years. While business fads come and go, the ancient lessons of the Talmud are timeless, profound, ethical, and practical-and they're for everyone. Values, Prosperity, and the...

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us `Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789562913959Author Abraham CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...

A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and of how Germans understood their genocidal project Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by...

This is the only English translation of the esteemed Rav Kook's book on repentance and self-improvement Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook's seminal work on repentance, Oros HaTeshuvah, is recognized as a classic of Jewish thought but has, because of its...

The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering women. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a critical, thematic study of the movement from its...

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...

Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic monotheism. As a deity, the name appears only in connection with the peoples of the Hebrew Bible, but long...

This illuminating study is about the absence of a concept of time in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Sacha Stern draws his evidence from the complete range of Jewish sources from this period:...

Relations between Christians and Jews over the past two thousand years have been characterised to a great extent by mutual distrust and by Christian discrimination and violence against Jews. In recent decades, however, a new spirit of dialogue has been...

Hailed by philosopher Martin Buber as "the true teacher", pioneer, philosopher and dreamer, Aharon David Gordon (1856--1922) is increasingly being recognized as the first Jewish environmentalist. Long before global warming became a major threat, Gordon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231480Author Marcia PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955268007Author Patrick M. L. ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Cardon BooksPublisher Cardon BooksWeight(grams) 615g

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One of America's foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian traditionIn The Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between...

Thisvolume in the Studying World Religionsseries is an essential guide to the study of Judaism. Clearly structured tocover all the major areas of study, including historical foundations,scripture, worship, society, material culture, thought and ethics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170335Author Leon RosselsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879007345Author Lucien RegnaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint St Bede's Publications,U.S.Publisher St Bede's Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498200769Author Maurice D HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 281g

This is the only complete English translation of the classic Jewish text known as Ein Yaakov. Ein Yaakov is a collection of all the agaddah (the non-legal) material of the Talmud, compiled by Rabbi Yaakov ibn Chaviv, the fifteenth century talmudist...

Song of Songs is a wondrous collection of love lyrics nestled in the heart of the Hebrew Bible-songs of passion and praise between a young maiden and her beloved. It is religious lyric par excellence. But what is its true meaning? Is it an expression of...

A joint publication of The Jewish Publication Society and the Jewish Theological Seminary The definitive work on the subject of Jewish liturgy, Ismar Elbogen's analysis covers the entire range of Jewish liturgical development-beginning with the early...

This is a concise introduction to the contemporary challenges and key issues facing Judaism. For nearly four millennia, Judaism was essentially a unified religious system based on shared traditions. Despite the emergence of various sub-groups through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580232296Author Howard A. AddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425166291Author David AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on traditions about the fallen angels. In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the 'sons of God' of Gen 6:1-4 are accused of corrupting...

The kids' companion to the award-winning Putting God on the Guest List, 3rd Ed.: How to Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah Used as an inspiring part of bar/bat mitzvah preparation for parents in hundreds of...

Jewish law has a history stretching from the early period to the modern State of Israel, encompassing the Talmud, Geonic and later codifications, the Spanish Golden Age, medieval and modern response, the Holocaust and modern reforms. Fifteen distinct...