Judaism category: 3160 books
Renewing the Covenant
A Kabbalistic Guide to Jewish Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
A guide to how meditations and principles from the Kabbalah can be used to profoundly renew spiritual practice.
- Reveals transformational meditations and visualization exercises based on the profoundest truths concealed in the Kabbalah.
The covenant that bound God to the Patriarchs in a special relationship...
Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift
Growing Beyond Our Wounded History
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
How did a Jewish teacher, healer, sage and mystic become the vehicle for so much hatred and harm directed against his own people?
“Dialogue is demanding and difficult. It is often painful. It entails deep listening, letting others define themselves and being willing to confront and transform...
by Becca Blackwelder
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Usually $7.99, this book has been discounted at request of the author to $2.99. Becca Blackwelder would like anyone interested in the Creation -Evolution debate to be able to afford the reading.
With Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ken Ham (Creationist) debating at the Kentucky Creation Museum...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Economic inequity is an issue of worldwide concern in the twenty-first century. Although these issues have not troubled all people at all times, they are nonetheless not new. Thus, it is not surprising that Judaism has developed many perspectives, theoretical and practical, to explain and ameliorate...
The Inside Story
Biblical Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Joseph Friedman, Biblical scholar and lawyer, gives a refreshingly different and exciting approach to the oldest story in the world, which has universal appeal*. The Inside Story:*Biblical Personalities contains themes of feminism, wholeness, wellness, and above all, how to connect with our Creator.
The...
Becoming Jewish
The Challenges, Rewards, and Paths to Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Becoming Jewish is the first all-inclusive, step-by-step guide to converting to Judaism. Steven Carr Reuben, a highly respected rabbi, and Jennifer S. Hanin, a convert to the faith, lead readers through the conversion process, providing the right mix of advice, resources and humor for the journey.
Jews-to-be...
The Written and Oral Torah
A Comprehensive Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1998
In The Written and Oral Torah: A Comprehensive Introduction, Rabbi Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo offers those interested in Jewish tradition an explanation of and basic insight into Judaism's classical sources. Containing a diverse selection of material culled from the Talmud and from the writings of many...
Why Should Jews Survive?
Looking Past the Holocaust toward a Jewish Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1996
In the fifty years since the Holocaust, the Jewish People have felt one overriding concern: survival. The ghosts of the murdered six million, along with the living generation of survivors, have called out the unifying chant, "never again." In 1948, this concern found a second focus in the state of...
An Early History of Compassion
Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of Late Antiquity. Pity and compassion, in this corpus, comprised a hybrid of Hebrew, Greek, and Roman constructions; depending on the texts, they were a spontaneous feeling,...
by Rivkah Teitz Blau, Shalom Carmy, Michelle Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Do human beings have free will? Are they genuinely responsible for their actions? These questions have persisted all through the history of philosophy, but in the 21st century they have become defined more sharply and clearly than ever. Indeed, a vivid and mighty tension underlies today's intellectual...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
This Oxford Handbook is a serious resource for the study of the literature of the Writings (Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, Daniel) of the Hebrew Bible, including its context and its scriptural/canonical shape and reception....
The Song of the Distant Dove
Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Judah Halevi (ca. 1075-1141) is the best known and most beloved of medieval Hebrew poets, partly because of his passionate poems of longing for the Land of Israel and partly because of the legend of his death as a martyr while reciting his Ode to Zion at the gates of Jerusalem. He was also one of...
Ambiguous Terrains
An Interspiritual Journey to Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A longed-for meeting between a woman and her birth family spurs fantasies of a "happily ever after" utopian togetherness....a secret longing that may exist within the hearts of many with an adoption, relinquishment, and reunion experience. Instead, and unknown to her at the time, that longed-for...
by Avraham Feder
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
This volume covers Bereshit (Genesis) and and Shemot (Exodus)and is the first of a two volume set. Setting himself the task of helping each individual penetrate the Torah to make the text his/her very own, Rabbi Feder has drawn upon sources from the Jewish past halakhic and aggadic midrashim, and...