Rituals & Practice

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653012745Author Jonathan SacksFormat PaperbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016644Author Rabbi Jonathan SacksFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 160mm * 109mm * 43mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653017481Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 168mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657760079Author Jordan B GorfinkelFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 300mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645015Author Joseph I LiebermanFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645282Author Yemima MizrachiFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 130mm...

The Time of Our LivesOo is an unforgettable journey along the path of the Jewish life cycle as your students have never traveled it beforeBook InformationISBN 9780874417180Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212297Author Jonathan SacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm...

Fundamentally different from other, more prominent Jewish traditions and experiences, the Sephardic tradition has long served to bind together the various Jewish communities of the Mediterranean basin. In "The Sephardic Legacy", Henry Toledano immerses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589660663Author Arnine WeissFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Scranton PressPublisher University of Scranton PressDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women comments on hair covering based on an ethnographic study of the lives of Orthodox Jewish women in a small non-metropolitan synagogue. It brings the often overlooked stories of these women to the forefront and...

Both Jews and non-Jews alike have many misconceptions of Jewish teachings and practices. Some seemingly unusual statements about Jewish teachings and practices are actually true, whereas some apparently reasonable and popularly believed statements are...

Offered here for the first time in English translation, Hasidism as Mysticism is a classic in its field. Using the tools of phenomenology, Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer places Hasidism squarely in the context of religious studies. Hasidism's theoretical texts...

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...

Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or "reading" Torah among contemporary American Jews. This experience has been transformed dramatically in recent years by the impact of digital technology,...

According to historical teaching, a Jewish man should give thanks each day for ''not having been made a gentile, a woman, nor a slave.'' Yoel Kahn's innovative study of a controversial Jewish liturgical passage traces the history of this prayer from its...

Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women comments on hair covering based on an ethnographic study of the lives of Orthodox Jewish women in a small non-metropolitan synagogue. It brings the often overlooked stories of these women to the forefront and...

Marriage today might be a highly contested topic, but certainly no more than it was in antiquity. Ancient Jews, like their non-Jewish neighbors, grappled with what have become perennial issues of marriage, from its idealistic definitions to its many...

Ruth Langer offers an in-depth study of the birkat haminim, a Jewish prayer for the removal of those categories of human being who prevent the messianic redemption and the society envisioned for it. In its earliest form, the prayer cursed Christians,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295385Author Isaac RosenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

Changes in childhood and children's roles in society, and in how children participate in determining their own lives, have long been of interest to historians. Recent years have seen the emergence of new perspectives on the study of childhood, both in...

Siddur Katan is a cheerful non-denominational 18-page Shabbat morning prayer book for families with young children.Book InformationISBN 9780874419092Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S.Publisher Behrman House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800696634Author Steven Leonard JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

As the big day draws near, expectant parents will treasure this priceless guide. This guide Answers expectant parents' Jewish questions, such as: What is the brit milah? What kind of ceremony welcomes a Jewish daughter? What is a wimple? What are...

At a glance, the Hebrew Bible presents the Levites as a group of ritual assistants and subordinates in Israel's cult. A closer look, however, reveals a far more complicated history behind the emergence of this group in Ancient Israel. A careful...

Scholars tend to call them 'rites of passage'. Most people prefer to speak of them as life cycle events or milestones. Jews like to speak of simchas, when there's something (a birth, bar or bat mitzvah, or wedding, for example) to celebrate. Whatever we...

Bring Jewish values to life with an engaging blend of mitzvot, middot, and timeless Jewish wisdom. At an age when students are thinking critically about right and wrong, the importance of the choices they make, and the role that Judaism will play in...

All the steps to an easy-to-lead, 30 -min, participatory Seder. Includes seder Planning Guide with shopping list, recipes, activities for kids. Complete your seder in 30 minutes or an hour - it's up to you!Create your own meaningful seder with Simply...

This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire known as the Maftirim,...

Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related--and competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement...

Responsa are replies given by prominent rabbinic authorities to questions put to them by other scholars, asking for rulings on specific issues, generally of a practical nature. The responsa literature is thus a repository of the learning and sound...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683361886Author Rabbi Lawrence A. HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743234733Author Harold KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Jewish Book Award (Jewish Thought) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9789653012493Author Simon PosnerFormat HardbackPage Count 750Imprint Koren...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212211Author Anita DiamantFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 134g

Jewish living begins at home.Have you ever wondered why Jewish homes have a mezuzah on the doorpost, why 13 is the age of the bar/bat mitzvah, and whether it really matters which Hanukkah candle you light first?Get answers to many of the whys of major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683366737Author Rabbi Anne BrenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Dennis Prager, author of the bestselling Rational Bible commentaries, turns to the Haggadah, the book used for the most widely celebrated Jewish ritual, the Passover Seder. (Like most Haggadahs, the Rational Passover Haggadah is printed in the Hebrew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879045415Author Abraham Joshua HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Jewish High Holidays-the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement-constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaffiliated...