Beliefs category: 373 books
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: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries: Vol. 4
Seder K'riat Hatorah (The Torah Service)
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of todays most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. Unique, fresh, honest translations, with notes comparing other translations. This volume of the My Peoples Prayer Book series...
My Peoples Prayer Book, Vol. 10
Shabbat Morning Shacharit and Musaf (Morning and Additional Services)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of todays most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. Unique, fresh, honest translations, with notes comparing other translations. This volume of the My Peoples Prayer Book series...
My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 9
Welcoming the Night—Minchah and Ma'ariv (Afternoon and Evening Prayer)
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2005
Provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of todays most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. Unique, fresh, honest translations, with notes comparing other translations. This volume of the My Peoples Prayer Book series...
The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars
Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that vast upheaval. Rosen inventories and organizes Jewish calendars...
Surviving Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah
The Ultimate Insider's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In Surviving Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Cantor Matt Axelrod provides a practical, humorous guide for Jewish students and their families as they prepare for their “big day.” Breezy and friendly yet reassuring and focused, Axelrod easily cuts through the fear and stress that teens often feel in the months...
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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Sacred Sound and Social Change
Liturgical Music in Jewish and Christian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1994
Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical views of the liturgical music of both the Jewish...
God’s Appointed Customs
A Messianic Jewish Guide to the Biblical Lifecycle and Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Explains Jewish customs from the bible through modern-day practice and meaning to Christians.
by Abraham Joshua Heschel, Abraham Joshua Heschel
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication--and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life. In this brief yet profound meditation...
by Martin Buber
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Famous Zionist philosopher Martin Buber introduces the Western audience in his modern masterpiece. This book is a result of forty years of study, and Buber interprets the ideas and motives that underlie the great Jewish religious movement of Hasidism and its creator, Baal-Shem. Buber’s interpretation...
by Tzvi C. Marx
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
In recent decades, record numbers of Jews are taking a newfound interest in their legal heritage - the Bible and the Talmud, the law codes and the rabbinical responsa literature. In the course of this encounter, they may be interested in how these sources relate to the issue of disability, and the...
Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith
Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A biography of Anthonius Margaritha, convert to Christianity and reporter on Jewish life and religious practices.
Coming of Age in Jewish America
Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Jewish practice of bar mitzvah dates back to the twelfth century, but this ancient cultural ritual has changed radically since then, evolving with the times and adapting to local conditions. For many Jewish-American families, a child’s bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah is both a major social event...