Judaism category: 3160 books
A Year with Mordecai Kaplan
Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
You are invited to spend a year with the inspirational words, ideas, and counsel of the great twentieth-century thinker Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, through his meditations on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and eleven Jewish holidays.
A pioneer of ideas and action—teaching that “Judaism...
Evangelizing the Chosen People
Missions to the Jews in America, 1880 - 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day. Based on unprecedented research in missionary archives as well as Jewish writings, the book analyzes the theology and activities of both the missions and the converts...
4 Ezra and 2 Baruch
Translations, Introductions, and Notes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Fresh translations of early Jewish texts 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch, written in the decades after the Judean War, which saw Jerusalem conquered, the temple destroyed, and Judaism changed forever.
This handy volume makes these two important texts accessible to students, provides expert introductions, and illuminates the interrelationship of the texts through parallel columns.
The God Who Hates Lies (Study Guide)
Confronting & Rethinking Jewish Tradition Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Insights, Ideas and Thoughtful Questions for Discussing with Students the Challenging—Often Startling—Insights of Renowned Jewish Philosopher David Hartman and His Covenantal Theology for the Modern Engaged Jew
This is a helpful guide to creative use of The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting...
Domestic Abuse and the Jewish Community
Perspectives from the First International Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Learn ways to address domestic and sexual abuse in your community
Breaking the cycle of domestic violence and abuse poses unique problems for the Jewish community, owing to the internal divisions of politics, religious practice, and culture. However, creating strategies to work together based...
The Closing of the Gates
N'ilah
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
N’ilah, “the closing of the gates” is, in many ways, the most anticipated worship service in the entire Jewish calendar. Coming at the end of the 24-hour fast that characterizes Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement), it symbolizes the days of old when the gates of the ancient Temple closed at last,...
Encountering God
God Merciful and Gracious—El Rachum V'chanun
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
It is time to recover rabbinic lessons of late antiquity: God is a God of grace and love; human beings can aspire to goodness and promise; on Yom Kippur the two of them meet—God's love energizes human potential and the world is reborn with hope restored.
The God of Jewish tradition is far...
A Year with the Sages
Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
A Year with the Sages uniquely relates the Sages’ understanding of each Torah portion to everyday life. The importance of these teachings cannot be overstated. The Sages, who lived during the period from the fifth century BCE to the fifth century CE, considered themselves to have inherited the oral...
by Joseph Augustus Seiss
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
"The Gospel in Leviticus; Or, An Exposition of The Hebrew Ritual" is an 1860 treatise by Joseph A. Seiss. Joseph Augustus Seiss (March 18, 1823 - June 20, 1904) was an American theologian and Lutheran minister most famous for his contributions to pyramidology and dispensationalism. His best-known...
by Eyal Rivlin, Netanel Miles-Yepez
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
RABBI ZALMAN SCHACHTER-SHALOMI (usually called, "Reb Zalman") is widely known as the founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, whose accessible teachings on Kabbalah and Hasidism have helped to change the face of modern Judaism. But what is less well known is that he comes from a family of Belzer Hasidim...
Frumspeak
The First Dictionary of Yeshivish
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
Frumspeak examines the unique linguistic habits of Orthodox, native-born Americans. This book seeks to draw comparisons with parallel phenomena of Jewish linguistic creation including Yiddish and Ladino and reaches into the linguistic consciousness of the American Orthodox community to reveal how...
by Levi Ben-Shmuel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Living Wisely draws on Levi Ben-Shmuel's intimate knowledge of Taoist-inspired Tai Chi Chuan and Judaism's mystical Kabbalah to create a universal, inspirational guide to help you live with more wisdom. No prior knowledge of these two great traditions is necessary to benefit deeply from this book....
Mystical Resistance
Uncovering the Zohar's Conversations with Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The thirteenth-century Jewish mystical classic Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor), commonly known as the Zohar, took shape against a backdrop of rising anti-Judaism in Spain. Mystical Resistance reveals that in addition to the Zohar's role as a theological masterpiece, its kabbalistic teachings...
Judaic Religion in the Second Temple Period
Belief and Practice from the Exile to Yavneh
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The developments in Judaism which occurred during the Second Temple period (c. 550 BC to 100 AD) were of great importance for the nature of Jewish religion in later centuries, yet few studies have examined the era in full. Now Lester L. Grabbe's lucid and accessible volume provides a much-needed encyclopedic...