Judaism

Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing the tales in their original contexts, exploring their...

In this book, Lynn Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today. Providing close readings of legal and narrative texts in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789463384179Author Henri StellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 276g

Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and...

Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World, Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Independent Publisher Book Awards (Self-Help) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781590302040Author Estelle FrankelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Shambhala...

From the ninth to the fifteenth centuries Jewish thinkers living in Islamic and Christian lands philosophized about Judaism. Influenced first by Islamic theological speculation and the great philosophers of classical antiquity, and then in the late...

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...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743234733Author Harold KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645176Author Yisrael ArielFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 1610gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 218mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016514Author Rabbi Adin Even-Israel SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

"Musing through a space that's somewhere between an illuminated, psalmic narrative poem and a graphic novel attuned to the soul, Malkah's Notebook is an intimate trip through Jewish mysticism and feminist theology." -Foreword Reviews Malkah is a child...

Few events in the history of Spain have provoked as much controversy as the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. Conflicts within the Catholic Church, suspicions within the newly unified Spain, and the claims of Spanish merchants combined to make the Spain of...

An introduction to the grammar of the principal language of the Babylonian Talmud. Utilizes the inductive method, whereby grammar is learned directly as it is encountered in the text. The texts on which the manual is based are mainly non-legal, although...

For millennia, two biblical verses have been understood to condemn sex between men as an act so abhorrent that it is punishable by death. Traditionally Orthodox Jews, believing the scripture to be the word of God, have rejected homosexuality in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387691692Author Rabbi Chaim VitalFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

Open Judaism offers a big-tent welcome to all Jews and Judaism. It is at once an invitation to the spiritually seeking Jew, a clarion call for a deeply pluralistic and inclusive Judaism, and a dynamic exploration of the remarkable array of thought within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016477Author Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 1565gDimensions(mm) 259mm * 198mm * 48mm

Central to both biblical narrative and rabbinic commentary, circumcision has remained a defining rite of Jewish identity, a symbol so powerful that challenges to it have always been considered taboo. Lawrence Hoffman seeks to find out why circumcision...

This book examines the use of older biblical texts in Isaiah 40-66, notably the writings attributed to Deutero-Isaiah. Its discussion of allusions, influence, and intertextuality generates significant questions for both biblicists and literary critics:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645350Author Yitzchok AdlersteinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics Honorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize presented by AAJR A monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapes In the 1910s and 1920s, a "golem...

In the sixteenth century, the famous kabbalist Isaac Luria transmitted a secret trove of highly complex mystical practices to a select groups of students. These meditations were designed to capitalize on sleep and death states in order to effectively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Children/Young Adult) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781580234221Author Steve SheinkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016200Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Saadya ben Joseph al-Fayyumi (882-942), gaon (head) of the rabbinic academy at Sura and one of the preeminent Jewish thinkers of the medieval period, attempted to create a complete statement of Jewish religious philosophy in which all strands of...

More than forty years have passed since Louis Jacobs first put forward the argument that traditionally observant Jews have no reason to take issue with the results obtained by the historical critics in their investigation into the Bible and the other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683363088Author Dr. Erica BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940516790Author Simcha H BenyosefFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Menorah Books USA, IncorporatedPublisher Menorah Books USA,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802832238Author John J. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512065930Author E ColleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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 9780802877529Author Florentino Garcia MartinezFormat PaperbackPage Count 651Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

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 *...

Israeli Jews' response to and appropriation of Greek culture is the subject of the essays in this rich volume. Contributors provide evidence of Greek cultural influence in Judea and Galilee, from before the Maccabean revolt into the rabbinic period. They...

Can we understand G-D and his creation? What is man's role in creation? How does G-D oversee his creations and to what final purpose? Spiritual Illumination in the Modern World was conceived as a work of Jewish outreach and targeted to help connect...

Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegomenon...