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Rav Kook (1865-1935), the first chief rabbi of pre-state Israel, was a revered thinker whose ideas were in the vanguard of religious Zionist ideology. His theological positions have continued to mould the attitudes and beliefs of successive generations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062988768Author Simon JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 227g

The Essential Talmud is a masterful introduction to the beliefs, attitudes, and methods of the sacred text by which the Jewish people have lived and survived through the ages-by the renowned Israeli rabbi, scholar, and teacher. Rabbi Steinsaltz is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Books for a Better Life Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9781573228565Author Rachel Naomi RemenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306093Author Alan MorinisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Trumpeter BooksPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Those who exit a religion-particularly one they were born and raised in-often find themselves at sea in their efforts to transition to life beyond their community. In Degrees of Separation, Schneur Zalman Newfield, who went through this process himself,...

Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skveres, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US the US, he knows little of the outside world. After turning on the radio, his curiosity leads him to a feverish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805209952Author Martin BuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087983776Author Eitz EchadFormat HardbackPage Count 644Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 35mm

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The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential-and controversial-rabbis of the twentieth century. A visionary writer and outstanding rabbinic leader,...

For Louis Jacobs, the quest-the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith-was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by general religious crisis, of an observant, committed, but intellectually curious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934730041Author Rivka CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

It be the Passover Haggadah, as Shakespeare would hast writ it, hadst the idea occurred to him.Art thee a teenager? Most wondrous. How about a tweenager? Coequal better. Perhaps thou art a drossy adolescent or gamesome adult? Readeth this while the...

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733813082Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674028Author Hayim H DoninFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 33mm

Modern Orthodox Judaism offers an extensive selection of primary texts documenting the Orthodox encounter with American Judaism that led to the emergence of the Modern Orthodox movement. Many texts in this volume are drawn from episodes of conflict that...

The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering women. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a critical, thematic study of the movement from its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657801550Author Tuvia TenenbomFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Gefen BooksPublisher Gefen BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 150mm * 28mm

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This is a book about embracing change for one of the most sacred ceremonies in Jewish tradition: the Bar Mitzvah. The current model of Bar Mitzvah training doesn't seem to resonate with teenagers today. Cantor Matt Axelrod explains why the ceremony...

Patriots without a Homeland dissects an important underexplored theme in Hungarian Jewry: Modern Orthodoxy. This study clearly demonstrates that beginning from the late nineteenth century, a strong modernizing trend developed within Orthodoxy based on...

This edited volume offers profiles of contemporary Israeli Haredi (i.e., Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) society from several disciplinary points of view, resisting a generalized approach and examining the different, sometimes competing currents, that define it...

Beginning with the informal establishment of Jewish Orthodoxy by a Hungarian rabbi in the early nineteenth century, this book traces the history and legacy of Jewish Hungarian Orthodoxy over the course of the last 200 years. To date, no single book has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692563236Author Yaakov ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Jonathan ShapiroPublisher Jonathan ShapiroWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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 *...

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127413Author Leah VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 205gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 136mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211382Author Sue FishkoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 361gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *...

Five Biblical Portraits is a sequel to Elie Weisel's Messengers of God; in this work Wiesel enhances his well-known skill in bringing ancient religious figures to literary life with his stories of: Joshua, Elijah, Saul, Jeremiah, and Jonah. Wiesel...

Forthright and frank, yet respectful and sensitive, I Am for My Beloved: A Guide to Enhanced Intimacy for Married Couples will help couples enrich their marital and sexual lives, and maintain passion and intimacy within the framework of Jewish tradition...

The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering women. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a critical, thematic study of the movement from its...

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Nahum N. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship, 2018.Hasidism, a movement of religious awakening and social reform, originated in the mid-eighteenth century. After two and a half centuries of crisis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383049Author Michael J. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976986232Author Abraham, Isaac KookFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm) 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947857575Author Bezalel NaorFormat PaperbackPage Count 682Imprint Kodesh PressPublisher Kodesh PressWeight(grams) 984gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm

Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits. Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these...