Judaism

Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women explores the ways Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproductive lives. Although they must contend with interference from doctors, rabbis, and the Israeli government, Haredi women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416192625Author Aharon ShlezingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 132mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016156Author Rabbi Adin Even-Israel SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645077Author Aharon LichtensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from biblical times to the present. By treating the Hebrew Bible's accounts of Israel as one of many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973826883Author Rav Michael LaitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams)...

This long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William...

Friday Night and Beyond is a practical guide to Jewish Sabbath observance. Lori Palatnik walks us through the celebration with an easy-to-follow "how-to" approach, allowing us to experience a traditional Shabbat. Common questions and concerns are...

Was Jesus the founder of Christianity of a teacher of Judaism? When he argued the latter based on the New Testament, Abraham Geiger ignited an intense debate that began in 19th-century Germany but continues in the late-20th century. Geiger was a pioneer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231992Author Neil GillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

What ancient graffiti reveals about the everyday lives of Jews in the Greek and Roman worldFew direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548291457Author Samuel Liddell MacGregor MathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

For understanding biblical Greek in context, the importance of the discoveries of papyri was recognized early in the twentieth century, while inscriptions by comparison were left unexplored. Those scholars who had intended to turn their attention to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877286547Author Charles FieldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Night of Beginnings is a groundbreaking new haggadah for the Passover seder from acclaimed poet, translator, and liturgist Marcia Falk, beautifully designed and illustrated with original color drawings by the author. Unlike both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807404805Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

Music is an intrinsic part of Jewish expression, reaching back to the biblical "Song of the Sea," which appears in Exodus, and the Psalms composed by King David. Employing the tools of Jewish mysticism, Music and Kabbalah examines the spiritual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592642731Author Rabbi Shlomo RiskinFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

The Burden of Silence is the first monograph on Sabbateanism, an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, tracing it from its beginnings during the seventeenth century up to the present day. Initiated by the Jewish rabbi Sabbatai Sevi, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592643691Author Dov S ZakheimFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 145mm * 23mm

The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition...

This third volume of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition completes the Zohar's commentary on the book of Genesis. Here we find spiritual explorations of numerous biblical narratives, including Jacob's wrestling with the angel, Joseph's kidnapping by his...

This study reconstructs the history of a significant crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy all Jewish books in Renaissance Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was...

The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism-all of rabbinic law, from ancient to modern times, is based on the Talmud, and the Talmud, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. But the Mishnah is also an elusive document; its sources and setting...

Hasidism is one of the most important religious and social movements to have developed in Eastern Europe, and the most significant phenomenon in the religious, social and cultural life of the Jewish population in Eastern Europe from the eighteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733813082Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781795046329Author Tarl WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm)...

A magisterial, modern reading of the deepest mysteries in the Kabbalistic tradition. Seekers of the Face opens the profound treasure house at the heart of Judaism's most important mystical work: the Idra Rabba (Great Gathering) of the Zohar. This is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789562914550Author Aryeh KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Barbican Publishing LimitedPublisher Barbican Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951800232Author Rabbi Jeremy GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Masorti PublicationsPublisher Masorti PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570623516Author Perle BessermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016163Author Rabbi Adin Even-Israel SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

In HASIDIC TALES Rabbi Rami Shapiro breathes new life into these classic stories to life for modern readers by Martin Buber in the twentieth century of people who so marvellously combined the mystical and the ordinary. Each story demonstrates the...

Profound changes have occurred in the study of early Israel over the past four decades. In recent years, the pendulum of scholarship has swung toward literary and theological readings that are not significantly informed by the literature of the ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015937Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Unlock the wisdom wit and humanity of the Jewish literary treasury. Arranged topically for easy reference this is an ideal tool for sermons.Book InformationISBN 9780874413038Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S...

This Companion explores the history, doctrines, divisions, and contemporary condition of Judaism. Surveys those issues most relevant to Judaic life today: ethics, feminism, politics, and constructive theologyExplores the definition of Judaism and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881233209Author Eric WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

Concealed for two centuries and known only to a select individual in each generation, the "Scroll of Secrets" is the hidden Messianic vision of R. Nachman of Bratslav. Despite being written in an encoded language, with acronyms and abbreviations, after a...