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Changing the Immutable focuses on how segments of Orthodox society have taken upon themselves to rewrite the past, by covering up and literally cutting out that which does not fit in with their contemporary world-view. For reasons ranging from...

This work, by the author of "Who Wrote the Bible?" probes a chain of mysteries that concern the presence or absence of God. It begins with a reading of the Hebrew Bible, revealing the mystery and significance of the disappearance of God there. Why does...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933121409Author Yosef Ben-JochannanFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Black Classic Press,U.S.Publisher Black Classic Press,U.S.

Louis Jacobs was Britain's most gifted Jewish scholar. A Talmudic genius, outstanding teacher and accomplished author, cultured and easy-going, he was widely expected to become Britain's next Chief Rabbi. Then controversy struck. The Chief Rabbi...

The crucial question for today's Jewish world, Menachem Kellner argues, is not whether Jews will have Jewish grandchildren, but how many different sorts of mutually exclusive Judaisms those grandchildren will face. Kellner's short, brisk, and...

The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes, concealed meanings, obscure symbols, and ecstatic expression...

'...detailed and fair.' - The Spectator 'An exhaustive, impressive achievement.' - The Tablet As a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their institutions competent and mature. And yet within Jewish life in Britain there is a pervading sense of...

According to the Zohar, among Gods first creations were the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Kabbalah teaches that the alphabet, called ivrit in Hebrew, comes from the root word lavir, or to transfer. Far more than simple symbols of communication, the...

Postmodernity marks a time of creative conflict when the voices of the other, previously rendered silent by the majority, are prominently heard. What effect has postmodernism had on Judaism? The neat narratives and metanarratives of the Jewish past are...

The Living Faiths series encourages students to actively engage with religious education by looking into how faiths are practised and lived in people's daily lives. This Student Book covers Judaism through unique real-life case studies of young people...

A Rabbi Reads the Torah distils a lifetime of Bible study by a Jewish scholar devoted to popularising the study of the Hebrew Bible in its original language, helped by the wealth of centuries of Jewish interpretation and debate, as well as the best of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683362098Author Rabbi Lawrence A. HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

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...

More than ever, young people today are searching for a sense of purpose and direction. Advances in science and technology have given our generation opportunities our grandparents could only dream of, yet our need for meaning and values is more...

Brutally honest, beautifully written, THE RABBI'S DAUGHTER is the compulsive story of a woman trying to find love, and struggling to make peace with her faith, her parents, and ultimately herself.Reva Mann was a wild child. Granddaughter of the Chief...

Mysticism, which transcends the boundaries of time and space and refers to a reality not grasped by means of ordinary human cognition, is one of the central sources of inspiration of religious thought. It is an attempt to decode the mystery of divine...

A ground-breaking account of the potential and failures of Christianity since the colonialist period-winner of the 2015 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion and of an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence "Detailing the nooks and crannies...

Acclaimed as an instant classic on its original publication and eagerly sought by students of magic ever since, Paths of Wisdom is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of the magical Cabala, as practiced in the ...

Raised in a traditional Jewish family, international television host Jonathan Bernis was taught from a young age that "Jews don't--and can't!--believe in Jesus." Yet in his study of the Bible, including the Torah, he found overwhelming evidence...

Provide students with a strong understanding of religion with high quality, engaging and content-rich resources building a firm foundation for the new GCSE 9-1 Religious Studies. Deliver a rich, coherent RE course at KS3 and equip pupils with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416593065Author Wendy MogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062565259Author Richard Elliott FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210422Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam argues that ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state. He explores the...

This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world-renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts...

Historically, Jews have thought of themselves in terms of the biblical phrase, 'The people that dwells alone.' In the current global environment, this is dangerous. It leads to the isolation of Jews, Judaism and Israel. Too much contemporary Jewish...

'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...

As ardent debates over creationism fill the front pages of newspapers, Genesis has never been more timely. And as Leon R. Kass shows in "The Beginning of Wisdom", it's also timeless. Examining Genesis in a philosophical light, Kass presents it not as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609807316Author Rav P.S. BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, James Shapiro presents how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselves--in religion,...

The first two volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, translated with commentary by Daniel C. Matt, cover more than half of the Zohar's commentary on the Book of Genesis (through Genesis 32:3). This is the first translation ever made from a critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211597Author Rebecca GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Abby Chava Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556434440Author Gershon WinklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618219087Author James CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 636gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571895561Author Rabbi Philip S BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Research Centre of KabbalahPublisher Research Centre of KabbalahWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486203515Author Moses MaimonidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 473Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(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)...

The claim of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel is long established - and long challenged. Most Jews, and non-Jews, asked to explain their relationship with the actual physical territory of Israel, will offer some vague reference to God's promise,...

Considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century, Abraham Heschel finds just the right words to startle the mind and delight the heart. He addresses and challenges the whole person, portraying that rarest of...