Judaism

The Bible is an enduring source of inspiration for the human heart and mind, and readers of Thinking about the Torah will be rewarded with an enhanced understanding of this great work's deeper meanings. Drawing on Western philosophy and particularly...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210224Author Reuven HammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736288016Author Jack HeartFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Jack HeartPublisher Jack HeartWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

In a society with so many distractions, how can American Jewish parents teach their children to know and appreciate what it means to be a Jew? Updated with current resource material, this wise and practical book provides help in finding and evaluating a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657222089Author Rabbi Rabbi Yehudah Lev AshlagFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Nehora PressPublisher Nehora PressWeight(grams) 439gDimensions(mm)...

The ancient world, much like our own, thrived on cultural diversity and exchange. The riches of this social reality are evident in the writings of Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman eras. Jewish authors drew on the wide range of Greek literary conventions...

Because Cabalah contains the Universal Laws of God, it teaches us how to connect to a direct experience of the upper worlds, giving us a more complete sense of wholeness and balance. CABALAH PRIMER, with its aspects of English, Hebrew, Tarot, and Sacred...

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...

In this book, Harris Lenowitz explores the fascinating history of Jewish messianic movements. Looking in detail at all of the Jewish messiahs about whom anything is known, he introduces each of these figures in turn, and offers extensive excerpts of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626316Author Rabbi Hanoch HechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images of the ascent, like the resort to...

Winner of the 2021 Gierowski-Shmeruk PrizeShortlisted for the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award 2021Jews have been active participants in shaping the healing practices of the communities of eastern Europe. Their approach largely combined the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999378915Author Devorah FastagFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461616739Author Exhibitions InternationalFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Snoeck PublishersPublisher Snoeck PublishersWeight(grams) 1002g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580232531Author Ron WolfsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

While many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole - a category much more vast than ever imagined. Idel's aim is to...

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the...

The teachings of Judaism's greatest medieval philosopher can be a companion on your own spiritual journey. No Jewish thinker has had a more significant impact on Jewish religious thought than Moses Maimonides (1138-1204). A medieval philosopher whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802843616Author Gabriele BoccacciniFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services offers introductions and...

This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and...

In this commentary, Joshua Berman considers Lamentations as a literary work that creates meaning for a community in the wake of tragedy through its repudiation of Zion theology. Drawing from studies in collective trauma, his volume is the first study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873340359Author Joel RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint JTS PressPublisher JTS PressWeight(grams) 549g

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

In this provocative book, Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer analyze the lies, misperceptions, and myths about Jews and Judaism that anti-semites have propagated throughout the centuries. Beginning with antiquity, and continuing into the present...

Fantastic myths about the angels who were lured to sin and the proud angel who rebelled against God and was cast down as Satan. The problem of evil has challenged mankind ever since the dawn of intelligence. Why is there evil in the world and why do pain...

For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In New Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews who don't...

This exceptional work, with entries from Rav Abba to Rav Zutra, is an unprecedented study of every rabbi in the Talmud. The reader will find concise entries on every rabbinic personality mentioned in the Talmud, major and minor alike, and will discover...

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...

From one of the leading historians of the Jewish past comes a stunning look into a previously unexamined dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the late sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII instituted a momentous reform of Western...

Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802864505Author Joseph BlenkinsoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that...

Taking a fresh look at what the Greeks and Romans thought about Jews and Judaism, Peter Schafer locates the origin of anti-Semitism in the ancient world. Judeophobia firmly establishes Hellenistic Egypt as the generating source of anti-Semitism, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231572Author Daniel PolishFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm...

Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, The New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish...

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement. The great-grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov, founder of the movement, Rabbi Nachman came to be regarded as a great figure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807402641Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

Throughout the history of research on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the investigation of religious sacrifice has often been neglected. This book examines the views of sacrifice in the non-biblical sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls, through exploration of the historical...