Judaism category: 3160 books
by David Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Drawing on more than three hundred Hebrew roots, the author shows that Jewish thought employs Hebrew concepts and categories that are altogether distinct from those that characterize the Western speculative tradition. Among the key categories that shape Jewish thought are holiness, divinity, humanity,...
by Rabbi Bachye, Edwin Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
The Duties Of The Heart
by Rabbi Bachye, Tr. by Edwin Collins
This slim volume translates from the Rabbi Bachye, who wrote one of the first systematic treatments of philosophical Ethics in 12th century Spain. This was during a period of Jewish intellectual cross-fertilization with Islamic culture....
The Case for Jewish Peoplehood
Can We Be One?
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Peoplehood—everyone’s talking about it. But what does it actually mean and why is it important to the future of Judaism?
“Why is this conversation important? Why does it merit your attention? If you care about Jewish identity and community, then you know that we have no trouble identifying...
Kabbalah
A Brief Introduction for Christians
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
An insightful exploration of Jewish mysticism—written especially for Christians.
Kabbalah is well known as the foundation of the Jewish mystical tradition, but few are aware that Kabbalah’s spiritual applications extend beyond Jewish life. In this accessible, intelligent guide, Tamar Frankiel,...
The Jew in the Lotus
A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues...
The Secret Life of God
Discovering the Divine within You
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
How much does our perception of God really matter? Many of us aren't conscious of our image of a "higher power." For some of us, that unspoken image is a Judgmental Parent or an exacting Old Man in the Sky. For others, God is an Imaginary Friend who is there to fix problems after we create...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 8
Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming Shabbat in the Synagogue)
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
"The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul."
This stunning...
The Receiving
Reclaiming Jewish Women's Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A highly respected rabbi, therapist, and teacher restores women's spiritual lineage to Judaism and empowers women to reclaim their rightful connection to Jewish teachings, Kabbalah, and to their own spiritual wisdom.
by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Netanel Miles-Yepez
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In this wide-ranging essay, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Netanel Miles-Yépez explore the profound implications of the kabbalistic idea of Tzimtzum, the 'contraction' of God that allows for Creation, through different paradigms of Jewish belief over the centuries, and look at its function in Judaism and Jewish practice today.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France had a significant post‑war Jewish community...
Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah
Five Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In this volume E. P. Sanders presents five studies that advance the re-examination of the nature of Jewish law that he began in Jesus and Judaism (Fortress Press, 1985). As usual, he is able to shed new light on old questions and demonstrate that many accepted interpretations are misguided.M
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Cantor William Sharlin
Musical Revolutionary of Reform Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
William Sharlin (1920–2012) was a cantor, synagogue composer, teacher and musicologist. Raised in an Orthodox household, he turned toward Universalism and the liberal Reform movement. A member of the first graduating class of the first cantorial school in America, he was a founding member of the...
by Arthur Kurzweil
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
An easy-to-understand introduction to Judaism's most sacred text
The foundation of Hebrew and Jewish religion, thought, law, and society is the Torah-the parchment scroll containing the text of the Five Books of Moses that is located in every synagogue. This accessible guide explains the Torah...
The Days Between
Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
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 Jews attend synagogue services in unparalleled...