Rituals & Practice

Joseph Dan is one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism. In this superb anthology, Dan not only presents illuminating excerpts from the most important mystical texts, but also delves into the very meaning of mysticism itself. Dan takes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556436499Author Eliahu KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint 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 9781728459370Author Shoshana SilbermanPage Count 14Imprint Kar-Ben Publishing (R)Publisher Kar-Ben Publishing (R)

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 9781683366515Author Rabbi Shefa GoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

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

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...

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.AwardsWinner of Jewish Book Award 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781611803358Author David JaffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala...

Due to the rapid advances in the medical field, existing books on Jewish medical ethics are quickly becoming outdated and irrelevant, Jewish Guide to Practical Medical Decision-Making seeks to remedy that by presenting the most contemporary medical...

Winner of:2013 National Jewish Book AwardFor centuries, Jews have turned to the Mourner's Kaddish prayer upon experiencing a loss. This groundbreaking book explores what the recitation of Kaddish has meant specifically to women. Did they find the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Independent Publisher Book Awards (Self-Help) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781590302040Author Estelle FrankelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Shambhala...

This volume is a collection of essays devoted to aspects of Jewish liturgy and devotion as represented by texts from three historical periods, namely, Second Temple times, the Rabbinic age, and the modern period. The first of these periods is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985201197Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This book begins by exploring the mysterious origins of an institution so familiar that most of us never wonder where it came from—the seven-day week. Jon D. Levenson then focuses on the historical development of the Jewish Sabbath and the rich range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743254137Author KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Fireside BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611801521Author Alan MorinisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

A 64-page workbook to help rabbis, cantors, education directors, and family programmers prepare b'nai mitzvah students and their families for that momentous life-cycle event--the bar or bat mitzvah. The manual is divided into six training sessions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907123644Author Ronne RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573220552Author David CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 333Imprint Riverhead BooksPublisher Riverhead BooksWeight(grams) 590g

"In these companion volumes of essays, Jewish and Christian liturgical scholars examine, from historical, theological, and aesthetic perspectives, the practices and intricate interrelationships of Passover and Easter. Several essays lament the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060613594Author Aviva CantorFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 925g

Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical...

The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship, volume 1 of Two Liturgical Traditions, surveyed the origins and growth of Christian and Jewish liturgy from the first century of the common era until our time. Volume 2, The Changing Face of Jewish and...

Passover and Easter constitute for Jews and Christians respectively the most important festivals of the year. Although sharing a common root, the feasts have developed in quite distinct ways in the two traditions, in part independently of one another and...

The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship, volume 1 of Two Liturgical Traditions, surveyed the origins and growth of Christian and Jewish liturgy from the first century of the common era until our time. Volume 2, The Changing Face of Jewish and...

A paperback reprint of a title originally published by OUP in 1992, this ethnography explores the religious beliefs and rituals of a group of elderly Jewish women, originally from Kurdistan and Yemen, who now live in Jerusalem. By analysing their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807036211Author Lawrence A. HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824603557Author Rabbi Alfred J KolatchFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams)...

Women as Ritual Experts reveals how in gender segregated religions like Orthodox Judaism women develop their own autonomous religious sphere and activities that sacralize female roles. Until recently, this female world of religion has been all but...

Riv-Ellen Prell spent eighteen months of participant observation field research studying a countercultural havurah to determine why these groups emerged in the United States during the 1970s. In her book, she explores the central questions posed by the...

In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site. Surrounded by members of the multi-denominational organization,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940646827Author Seymour RosselFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rossel BooksPublisher Rossel BooksWeight(grams) 209g

Rabbinic political thinking has a long and comparatively well documented history extending back to the biblical constitution in Deuteronomy. Though rabbinic political theory conventionally remains unrecognized by political scientists, the rise of...

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Demonstrating that many common assumptions about the traditional Jewish family are mistaken, this collection of essays - many previously unpublished - by thirteen leading scholars explores the subject both in its historical reality and as it has been...

For nearly four millennia Judaism was essentially a unified religious system based on shared traditions. Despite the emergence of various sub-groups through the centuries such as the Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Karaites, Shabbateans and Hasadim, Jewry...

Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived - and they have found that this consideration of human geography greatly enriches our understanding of cultural history. This 'spatial...