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The Battle of Our Generation by The Battle Of Our Generation 9780692607466
RRP: $16.71$13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692607466Author The Battle Of Our GenerationFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Battle of Our GenerationPublisher Battle of Our GenerationWeight(grams)... -
Understanding Halakhic Man: A Commentary and Companion Guide to the Essay by Richard Borah 9780692188408
RRP: $16.71$14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692188408Author Richard BorahFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Observant Artist Community CirclePublisher Observant Artist Community... -
Sex in the Texts by Behrman House 9780807407639
RRP: $12.89$10.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807407639Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press -
Introduction to Zionism and Israel: From Ideology to History by Dan Cohn-Sherbok 9781441127570
RRP: $122.55$107.22This is an exploration of the origins and development of Zionism, illustrating the theory and history of the Zionist movement and the creation of the state of Israel. In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in Middle Eastern affairs. The... -
Educational Theory and Jewish Studies in Conversation: From Volozhin to Buczacz by Harvey Shapiro 9780739175316
RRP: $118.68$103.88Educational Theory and Jewish Studies in Conversation: From Volozhin to Buczacz, by Harvey Shapiro, PhD, brings together two different fields of study-modern Jewish studies and contemporary educational theory-to provide new theoretical frameworks for... -
A Torah Giant: The Intellectual Legacy of Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg by Shmuly Yanklowitz 9789655242713
RRP: $38.69$36.06Discover the breadth of wisdom provided by this generation's giant of Torah: Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg. Rabbi Yitz is one of the most renowned leaders in contemporary Jewish communal life. His dedication to foster a more interconnected and vibrant... -
Scholarly Man of Faith: Studies in the Thought and Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik by Ephraim Kanarfogel 9789655242812
$34.29This book sets forward a series of interesting and less-explored aspects of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik's teachings. These essays delve into the Rav's approach toward understanding biblical figures, his views on emotions and intellect, his appreciation of... -
Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism by Aryeh Cohen 9781936235643
RRP: $100.61$96.23Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That... -
Cultures in Collision and Conversation: Essays in the Intellectual History of the Jews by David Berger 9781936235247
RRP: $118.67$113.69In Cultures in Collision and Conversation, David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval and modern times; the impact... -
Democratizing Judaism by Jack J. Cohen 9781936235162
RRP: $118.67$113.69This is a two-part examination of the Reconstructionist philosophy of Mordecai M. Kaplan. Part I is largely devoted to a defence of Kaplan against several serious critics. It also provides new insight into Kaplan's theology through reference to as yet... -
The Scroll of Secrets: The Hidden Messianic Vision of R. Nachman of Breslav by Zvi Mark 9781934843932
RRP: $100.61$96.75Concealed for two centuries and known only to a select individual in each generation, the "Scroll of Secrets" is the hidden Messianic vision of R. Nachman of Bratslav. Despite being written in an encoded language, with acronyms and... -
Theological and Philosophical Premises of Judaism by Jacob Neusner 9781934843543
RRP: $29.66$28.32Classical Judaism imagined the people Israel's situation in three aspects to be unique among the nations of the earth. The nations lived in unclean lands contaminated by corpses and redolent of death. They themselves are destined to die without hope of... -
New Rituals -- Old Societies: Invented Rituals in Contemporary Israel by Nissan Rubin 9781934843352
RRP: $109.64$104.70Focusing on the secular society of contemporary Israel, this collection of essays examines the way civil religion invents collective rites for turning points in community life, and personal definitional rites for ratification of identity change in the... -
Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken by Adam Ferziger 9781618117496
RRP: $127.70$122.16Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire countryside in June 2014, for the first (now annual) Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary... -
We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other by Menachem Kellner 9781644696132
RRP: $100.61$96.23Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed addressed Jews of his day who felt challenged by apparent contradictions between Torah and science. We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other uses Maimonides' writings to address Jews of today who are... -
New Perspectives in Theology of Judaism by Shubert Spero 9781644696729
RRP: $28.37$27.14If it can be said that theology is the philosophical examination of a religion by an insider, then the present collection of essays by Shubert Spero offers us the proper formula for a truly authentic work. The author sets out to rigorously yet... -
Be-Ron Yahad: Studies in Jewish Thought and Theology in Honor of Nehemia Polen by Ariel Evan Mayse 9781644690192
RRP: $118.67$113.69The present volume honours Rabbi Professor Nehemia Polen, one of those rare scholars whose religious teachings, spiritual writings, and academic scholarship have come together into a sustained project of interpretive imagination and engagement. Without... -
Sin*a*gogue: Sin & Failure in Jewish Thought by David Bashevkin 9781618117960
RRP: $100.61$96.75By its very nature, the ideals of religion entail sin and failure. Judaism has its own language and framework for sin that expresses themselves both legally and philosophically. Both legal questions - circumstances where sin is permissible or mandated,... -
We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other by Menachem Kellner 9781644697023
RRP: $30.95$29.48Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed addressed Jews of his day who felt challenged by apparent contradictions between Torah and science. We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other uses Maimonides' writings to address Jews of today who are... -
Judaism and Global Survival by Richard H. Schwartz 9781590567067
RRP: $24.50$17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590567067Author Richard H. SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews: A Contemporary Jewish Theology by Jerome Yehuda Gellman 9781618118387
RRP: $118.67$113.17The notion that the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, "the God of the Jews," is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts-by contemporary standards-of that God, as well as by the classic problem of evil.In this... -
Readings on Maramarosh by Elieser Slomovic 9781618112422
RRP: $109.64$104.70Since World War II, the sub-Carpathian Mountain region once known as Maramarosh has remained "Judenrein" (free of Jews). Jewish Maramarosh lives on, however, through the contributions to scholarship and humanity of Maramarosh Holocaust... -
Faith: Jewish Perspectives by Dov Schwartz 9781618113047
RRP: $45.14$44.03Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can... -
Faith: Jewish Perspectives by Dov Schwartz 9781618112828
RRP: $154.79$149.51Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can... -
New Perspectives in Theology of Judaism by Shubert Spero 9781618112675
RRP: $127.70$122.16If it can be said that theology is the philosophical examination of a religion by an insider, then the present collection of essays by Shubert Spero offers us the proper formula for a truly authentic work. The author sets out to rigorously yet... -
Interiority and Law: Bahya ibn Paquda and the Concept of Inner Commandments by Omer Michaelis 9781503636613
RRP: $74.82$64.72Interiority and Law presents a groundbreaking reassessment of a medieval Jewish classic, Baḥya ibn Paquda's Guide to the Duties of the Hearts. Michaelis reads this work anew as a revolutionary intervention in Jewish law, or halakha. Overturning... -
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Body by Elliot N. Dorff 9780827608603
RRP: $20.63$18.37This JPS ethics series deals with some of the most critical moral issues of our time. What are our obligations and rights to our own bodies? What does Judaism say about tattoos? Piercings? About our obligations to exercise and eat properly? What about... -
Guides For an Age of Confusion: Studies in the Thinking of Avraham Y. Kook and Mordecai M. Kaplan by Jack J. Cohen 9780823220038
RRP: $36.11$31.14Guides for an Age of Confusion compares and contrasts the views of the two great Jewish philosophers Avraham Y. Kook and Mordecai M. Kaplan. Although these two thinkers stand at opposite ends of the spectrum of Jewish thought, they are united in their... -
Dynamic Judaism: The Essential Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan by Emanuel S. Goldsmith 9780823213108
RRP: $30.95$26.88Kaplan's concept of Judaism as an evolving religious civilization was widely influential in 20th-century American Jewish life, and his founding of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College created a new denomination. This book contains a biographical... -
Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings by Katharina von Kellenbach 9780788500442
$42.63This work is the first comprehensive study of anti-Judaism in feminist religious writings. Katharina von Kellenbach provides a critical evaluation of how Judaism has been depicted in major American and West German feminist theologies, including the... -
Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism by Professor Sarit Kattan Gribetz 9780691242095
RRP: $36.12$28.64How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identityThe rabbinic corpus begins with a question-"when?"-and is brimming with discussions about time and the relationship between people, God, and the hour. Time and... -
Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology by Randi Rashkover 9780253010278
RRP: $90.30$78.32Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology. In opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot... -
Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism – From the Temple to the Mishnah by Yair Furstenberg 9780253067715
RRP: $79.98$69.61The concern for purity was the cornerstone of the religious culture of ancient Judaism. Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism explores how this concern shaped the worldview of Jews during the Second Temple period as well as their daily practices and... -
Judaism & Ecology - Created World & Revealed Word by Hava Tirosh-Samuelso 9780945454366
RRP: $36.06$29.09Jewish ecological discourse has shown that Judaism harbors deep concern for the well-being of the natural world. However, the movement has not articulated a Jewish theology of nature, nor has it submitted the sources of Judaism to a systematic,... -
The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs by Saadya Gaon 9780872206403
RRP: $56.75$46.21Saadya ben Joseph al-Fayyumi (882-942), gaon (head) of the rabbinic academy at Sura and one of the preeminent Jewish thinkers of the medieval period, attempted to create a complete statement of Jewish religious philosophy in which all strands of... -
Studies in the Meaning of Judaism by Eugene B. Borowitz 9780827607217
RRP: $30.95$27.40A JPS Scholar of Distinction title Noted educator, author, and speaker Eugene Borowitz delivers the fruits of his scholarship with grace in this new addition to the JPS Scholar of Distinction series. Gathered in this single volume are 33 essays... -
Major Philosophers of Jewish Prayer in the 20th Century by Jack J. Cohen 9780823219575
RRP: $36.11$31.14Major Philosophers of Jewish Prayer in the Twentieth Century addresses the troubling questions posed by the modern Jewish worshiper, including such obstacles to prayer as the inability to concentrate on the words and meanings of formal liturgy, the... -
The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology by Steven T. Katz 9780814748060
RRP: $32.24$27.95The theological problems facing those trying to respond to the Holocaust remain monumental. Both Jewish and Christian post-Auschwitz religious thought must grapple with profound questions, from how God allowed it to happen to the nature of evil. The... -
Roads to Utopia: The Walking Stories of the Zohar by David Greenstein 9780804788335
RRP: $64.50$56.00As the greatest book of Jewish mysticism, the Zohar is a revered and much-studied work. Yet, surprisingly, scholarship on the Zohar has yet to pay attention to its most unique literary device-the presentation of its insights while its teachers walk on... -
Pioneers of Religious Zionism: Rabbis Alkalai, Kalischer, Mohliver, Reines, Kook and Maimon by Raymond Goldwater 9789655240238
RRP: $27.08$23.76Pioneers of Religious Zionism describes the lives and philosophies of the most important rabbinical Zionists of the 19th and early-20th centuries: Yehuda ben Shlomo Alkalai, Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, Samuel Mohliver, Jacob Reines, Abraham Isaac Kook, and...