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Although in this third edition the broad outlines remain the same, changes have been made throughout and the bibliographies have been brought completely up to date. Its strengths lie in a concern for all aspects of the history of Israel and Judah.'Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681629650Author Rabbi Yisrael N. LevitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Originally published in 1921, this book presents the text of the Talmud, Tractate Berakhot in an English translation, with a detailed introduction, commentary, glossary and indices. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Judaism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991472093Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639709581Author Jacobus G SwartFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Sangreal Sodality PressPublisher Sangreal Sodality PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800638214Author Marilyn J. SalmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892542154Author Honorius of ThebesFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ibis PressPublisher Ibis PressWeight(grams) 1g

The definitive biography of Israel's founder by one of Israel's most celebrated historians. As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the twentieth century. Determined from an early age to create...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593803899Author Peter BeinartFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

This acclaimed, influential work applies the concepts of systemic family therapy to the emotional life of congregations. Edwin H. Friedman shows how the same understanding of family process that can aid clergy in their pastoral role also has important...

Written in a warm, accessible, and intimate style, Be Still and Get Going will touch those who are searching for an authentic spiritual practice that speaks to them in their own cultural language. Lew is one of the most sought-after rabbis on the lecture...

Writing with his usual grace and fluency, Jonathan Sacks moves beyond the tired arguments of militant atheists such as Dawkins' The God Delusion and Hitchens' God is Not Great, to explore how religion has always played a valuable part in human culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231527Author Irwin KulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-holding. Based on a wide-range of sources in several languages, many previously unexplored and...

Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this short and remarkable book he presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth...

The Jewish religion is one of the major faiths of the world yet one of the least understood. In a wide-ranging and accessible guide for the general reader Rabbi Naftali Brawer outlines the major themes and history of over 5,000 years of Jewish faith from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735338842Author Yonatan NerilFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Interfaith Center for Sustainable DevelopmentPublisher Interfaith Center for...

Written over 40 years, this text seeks to: clarify the relation of certain aspects of Jewish thinking and Jewish living to contemporary intellectual movements; and to analyze those trends within Jewish life, which, surrendering to many ideologies, tend...

There is a story about a Jew who travels from Israel to the United States. When he returns, he tells his friend some of the amazing things he has seen. 'I met a Jew who had grown up in a yeshiva and knew large sections of the Talmud by heart. I met a Jew...

This book is designed to cover one year's work in Hebrew leading up to a full understanding of the language. It has been used by the author with his students for many years and the published text is the result of testing and refining over these years. ...

The Virgin Mary - a Jewish mother - is central to Christianity, a revered woman in Islam, and a person of persistent fascination for centuries. Marian worship and theology has inspired countless appearances in art, as well as religious philosophy and...

The apostle Paul wrote that all believers--Jewish and Gentile--are to serve the Lord together as "one new man." But a growing movement today seeks to keep that from happening. As Stan Telchin explains, proponents of Messianic Judaism are...

Outcast is an exploration - and explanation - of how the very possibility of recognising anti-Jewish racism has been displaced by the commonplace leftist belief that when Jewish people cry 'antisemitism!' their true intent is to cover up the real racism...

'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.' - The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks 'Among the finest volumes on Cohen's life and...

This first book in our new basic Judaism series introduces the key concept of the Jewish community. Through stories, interviews, and activities, students will discover how our community brings us together, providing a lifelong connection to our heritage,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653018181Author Rabbi Jonathan SacksFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 142mm * 213mm * 30mm

For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London-the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism-Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this...

'The Torah is both hidden and revealed ... there is a secret meaning to the holy Torah that is not written down explicitly or explained in it' This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the 'Kabbalah', the body of writings in the Jewish mystical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210606Author Simon WiesenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877286745Author Liz GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772280470Author Michael LaitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645558Author Yael ZieglerFormat HardbackPage Count 556Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 135mm *...

A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are:...

The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential-and controversial-rabbis in modern Judaism "Accessible, informed, and balanced. . . . The author manages to tread on fragile ground with aplomb. . . . An exceptional tool...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996143042Author Kevin J BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint Sifting and Winnowing BooksPublisher Sifting and Winnowing BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644698Author Reuven ZieglerFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 142mm * 30mm

The original edition of this book describes it as an attempt to 'develop a comprehensive understanding of traditional Judaism in conversation with contemporary philosophical and Christian thought.' This book has been praised by many as one of the most...

The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil...

In this book, which is a successor to Hear Our Voice: Women Rabbis Tell their Stories, published by SCM Press in 1994, women rabbis give new understanding to old liturgy by using prayer and biblical verse in new contexts, and create new rituals to cover...

In this fascinating piece of scholarly detective work, biblical scholar Savina J. Teubal peels away millenia of patriarchal distortion to reveal the lost tradition of biblical matriarchs. In Ancient Sisterhood: The Lost Traditions of Hagar and Sarah...