Judaism

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...

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...

A collection of caregiving tools combining the values of Jewish tradition and self-relationsuseful for practitioners of ANY faith!Self-relations, a powerful framework for doing respectful and humane caregiving for oneself and for others is here brought...

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in a lyrical Aramaic, the Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah, features mystical interpretation of the Torah, from Genesis to...

In Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate, Professor William Nicholls, a former minister in the Anglican Church and the founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, presents his stunning research, stating that...

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 9780684835563Author Shoni LabowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Fireside BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 428gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Shema is the central prayer of the Jewish faith. Jews utter this single sentence, affirming God's unity as their final words before dying, as well as at the beginning and ending of each day. Using the Shema as his focus, Lamm, prominent Orthodox...

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...

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...

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...

This is the first major work on the interrelationship between Liberal Judaism and Rabbinic Law (Halachah) ever to have been produced in Britain, and in Europe since the nineteenth century. It represents a plea for a positive yet forthrightly critical...

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...

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 9788497779111Author Carles GiolFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 130mm * 23mm

Europe's formative encounter with its 'others' is still widely assumed to have come with its discovery of the people of the New World. But, as Jonathan Boyarin argues, long before 1492, Christian Europe imagined itself in distinction to the Jewish...

The famed Maharal of Prague, a 16th-century mystic, is known for the legend of the Golem, but his Torah scholarship has remained a closed book to English speakers for far too long. While several attempts have been made to translate or abridge the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231640Author Ron WolfsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law and, one could say, of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters of practice, custom, and law. The Oxford Annotated Mishnah is the first annotated translation...

How can I lead others with authority and kindness? How can I strengthen my self-control? How can I balance work and family? How can I get along with difficult coworkers? How can I best relate to people in need? Enter the Talmudic study house with...

Hasidism is a Kabbalah-inspired Jewish spiritual revival that centers on charismatic leaders and miracle workers known as "Zaddikim." By the beginning of the 19th century, Zaddikim and their devotees had forged Hasidism into a movement of such power and...

In this collection of essays, Dr. Moshe Greenberg, one of world's foremost Bible experts, stays true to the task of the classical Jewish scholar: to enhance the Bible in the eyes of the faith/cultural community by seeking to set forth existential values...

A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, multi-authored guide to contemporary Jewish life and thought, focusing on social, cultural and historical aspects of Judaism alongside theological issues. This volume includes 38 newly-commissioned essays, including...

How did the Jerusalem high priests go from being cultic servants in the sixth century BCE to assuming political supremacy at some point during the third or second century? The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231411Author Tamar FrankielFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

In this ground-breaking study of the Jewish reception of the Copernican revolution, Jeremy Brown examines four hundred years of Jewish writings on the Copernican model. Brown shows the ways in which Jews ignored, rejected, or accepted the Copernican...

This is the first major commentary in English on Pesher Habakkuk for forty years. It elucidates the nature of 1QpHab as the earliest commentary on the prophecy of Habakkuk by a detailed study of the biblical quotation and sectarian interpretation. This...

II Kings (Volume 11 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible) is the chronicle of the raging conflicts that tore the United Kingdom of Israel apart, creating the rival nations of Israel to the north and Judah to the south. It tells of the time of the great...

This volume presents a wide-ranging selection of Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust. It will be the most complete anthology of its sort, bringing together for the first time: (1) a large sample of ultra-orthodox writings, translated from the...

The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture is a comprehensive and engaging overview of Jewish life, from its origins in the ancient Near East to its impact on contemporary popular culture. The twenty-one essays, arranged historically...

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)...

For the first time, exquisite and rarely seen ancient Hebrew manuscripts are presented in this stunning volume as "encounters", highlighting their similarities and differences in a striking, visual conversation between manuscripts from two outstanding...

According to the Dinka people of the Southern Sudan, man and his creator were originally close together. They became separated, like the earth and sky, when the first man and woman acted with human independence. Dinka religious practice follows from that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881231847Author Rabbi Nancy H WienerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609800553Author Rabbi Rami ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 241g

In Midrash for Beginners, Rabbi Edwin Goldberg presents English readers with an easily accessible entrance into the fascinating and insightful world of Midrash. Instead of trying to explain or define the Midrash and the midrashic process, Rabbi Goldberg...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615464572Author Ze'ev OrzechFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Beit Am PublicationsPublisher Beit Am PublicationsWeight(grams) 522g

What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic...