Sacred Writings

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897448106Author Rav Yehuda AshlagFormat PaperbackPage Count 405Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams) 680g

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Winner of the Jewish Book Council Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award in Scholarship This book explores the reception history of the most important Jewish Bible commentary ever composed, the Commentary on the Torah of Rashi (Shlomo Yitzhaki; 1040-1105)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807407486Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

Night of Beginnings is a groundbreaking new haggadah for the Passover seder from acclaimed poet, translator, and liturgist Marcia Falk, beautifully designed and illustrated with original color drawings by the author. Unlike both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387691692Author Rabbi Chaim VitalFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580235075Author Rabbi Jeffrey K. SalkinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Deutsch.The latest in the JPS Bible Commentary series, 2011 National Jewish Book Award Winner, Barbara Dobkin Award in Women's StudiesThe moving story...

Browse discussion questionsRuth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories...

From the Preface: "The principal thrust of this book is to challenge the compartmentalization to which we seem all too easily resigned, to discover whether, and to what extent, the methods of modern scholarship can become part and parcel of the study of...

Please visit our website to learn more about other Jason Aronson publications http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/AronsonP/Book InformationISBN 9780765759702Author Shlomo Pesach ToperoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Jason Aronson Inc...

This volume examines one of the most controversial stories in the Bible-the akedah, or sacrifice of Isaac recounted in the 22nd chapter of Genesis. Today, more than three thousand years later, the story continues to evoke controversy. It has had an...

This is a translation of the 1911 Biblisch-Talmudiesche Medizin , an extensively researched text that gathers the medical and hygienic references found in the Jewish sacred, historical, and legal literatures, written by German physician and scholar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793634856Author Angelina Muñiz-HubermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 281g

This is the first volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism,...

Seha, the traditional wise man-fool in Jewish Morocco is a popular fictional hero in simple yet rich tales, playful yet witty enough to provide life lessons with commitment to social fairness and mutual respect. In this collection of tales, the authors...

Of the score of documents in the Rabbinic canon that reached closure in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era, the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Text A (Abot de Rabbi Natan, henceforward: ARNA) proves the most difficult to...

The hostile regime that set out to annihilate the Jewish religion and culture forms the background of the Book of Daniel. Jin Hee Han's book, Daniel's Spiel: Apocalyptic Literacy in the Book of Daniel, identifies the main agenda behind the creation of...

This book is a reprint of the first publication of the complete manuscript of Pesiqta Rabbati, Volumes I-III (1997-2002), a major rabbinic work from the Land of Israel from the 5th-6th century. Based upon the annual cycle of Biblical passages for the...

Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761873648Author Joshua A FogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Hamilton BooksPublisher University Press of America

Why are we here? Who really wrote the Bible? Was Jesus actually a messenger of God? Can science and religion be reconciled? Do we have free will? Divine Wisdom and Warning: Decoded Messages from God introduces a new way of using the ancient system of...

In separate multi-volume works, the project has presented form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli, outlined the Yerushalmi and the Bavli and compared these outlines. In this volume, the main points of the...

This is the third volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism,...

This is the second volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878204113Author Hebrew Union College PressFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Publisher Hebrew Union College Press,U.S...

In Enchanted Dulcinea, this English translation of the novel by Mexican author Angelina Muniz-Huberman, Dulcinea travels in a car writing novels in her mind about several Dulcineas: a medieval princess on a quest, a nineteenth-century lady-in-waiting in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580238557Author Rabbi Marc D. AngelFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233002Author DANIEL POLISHFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

"Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression. Torah study is how we mine not just meaning from the text, but our awareness of God's will," writes Rabbi Daniel...

"Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression. Torah study is how we mine not just meaning from the text, but our awareness of God's will," writes Rabbi Daniel...

Although the theme of bloodied nuptial sheets seems pervasive in western culture, its association with female virginity is uniquely tied to a brief passage in the book of Deuteronomy detailing the procedure for verifying a young woman's purity and...

Leading scholars have combined forces to produce this volume on the philosophy and legal views of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) and the historical context in which he worked. The philosophical section examines Maimonides' ethical doctrine; his paradoxical...

This study explores the zoomorphic content of Zibburta (bee/wasp) and Karkušta (weasel)—demeaning names given by R. Naḥman of b. Meg 14b to Deborah and Huldah, two distinguished prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Looking closely at relevant texts, Blaženka...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652294128Author Rabbi Shmuel GoldenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 736g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295927Author Rabbi Ari KahnFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 634g

The famed Maharal of Prague, a 16th-century mystic, is known for the legend of the Golem, but his Torah scholarship has remained a closed book to English speakers for far too long. While several attempts have been made to translate or abridge the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295255Author Rabbi Shmuel GoldinFormat HardbackPage Count 233Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 898g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807409305Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

A sourcebook of post-biblical Jewish literature from the Second Commonwealth to modern times.Book InformationISBN 9780874413441Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S.Publisher Behrman House Inc.,U.S.