Beliefs category: 373 books
Secrets of a Jewish Mother
Real Advice, Real Family, Real Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A Real Housewife of New York City reveals the Jewish mother's secrets to life, love and happiness.
The Jewish Mother knows what she wants-and what you should want too. Here, readers will learn how to make her methods their own, and give and get love and happiness in great amounts. Jill Zarin,...
The God-Powered Life
Awakening to Your Divine Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
You are an individual expression of God; that’s the teaching of the ancient Jewish mystical tradition. Here Rabbi David Aaron shows that when we truly connect to our inner self, that fact becomes wonderfully obvious. Each of us has a divine mission in life, he says, and when we understand this,...
Jewish Mysticism and Magic
An Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Providing a unique anthropological perspective on Jewish mysticism and magic, this book is a study of Jewish rites and rituals and how the analysis of early literature provides the roots for understanding religious practices. It includes analysis on the importance of sacrifice, amulets, and names, and their underlying cultural constructs and the persistence of their symbolic significance.
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Indulge Yourself with the best Passover Haggadah on Your PDA. Study the history of the Passover, read how to set up the table, navigate easily to any step of the Seder, sing and pray in Hebrew with English transliteration. FEATURES:- Complete edition - Intuitive navigation. - Advanced search function....
From Baghdad to Boston and Beyond
Memoir of an Iraqi Jew
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Most people have heard of Kristallnacht, Night of the Broken Glass in Hitlers Germany. Very few have heard of the Farhud in Baghdad, Iraq. The authors memoir begins in a world that no longer exists
Jews and the Sporting Life
Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Volume XXIII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the role of sports in modern Jewish history. The centrality of sports in modern life--in popular and even in high culture, in economic life, in the media, in international and national politics, and in forging ethnic identities--can...
Jewish Rites of Death
Stories of Beauty and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Death is the ultimate transformative experience. For Jewish communities, the ways this is dealt with—shaped by millennia of custom and belief—do more than routinely follow a set of prescribed practices; they provide an opening to a series of traditions compelling in their profound beauty...
What Every Christian Needs to Know About Passover
What It Means and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The Passover was celebrated by Jesus and the disciples the last time they were together. Now popular speaker and writer Rabbi Evan Moffic brings an understanding to the Last Supper that will forever change how Christians celebrate Communion and prepare for Easter. Beginning with the Hebrew Bible and...
Everything Is God
The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This exploration of the radical, yet ancient, idea that everything and everyone is God will transform how you understand your life and the nature of religion itself. While God is conventionally viewed as an entity separate from us, there are some Jews—Kabbalists, Hasidim, and their modern-day heirs—who...
Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life
Awakening Your Heart, Connecting with God
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
When we awaken to our own light, it becomes possible to develop real wisdom about our life. As wisdom allows us to see clearly, our hearts break open with compassion for the struggles of our own lives and the lives of all beings. Awakened with wisdom and compassion, we are impelled to live our lives...
Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity
Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Although the ideas of “tradition” and “modernity” may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers...
by Ken Nunoo
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The third step of our journey brings us to Daleth, the path that links Chokmah, the sphere of wisdom to Bimah, the sphere of understanding, the supreme mother. Daleth completes the triangle of the upper three spheres; Kether, Chokmah and Binah. Gimel divides the triangle into two equal...
Textual Tapestries
Explorations of the Five Megillot
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
The Five Megillot – the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther – are among the most familiar of biblical texts. Yet in the hands of veteran educator and Bible scholar Gabriel H. Cohn, a leading disciple of Nehama Leibowitz, the megillot reveal untold depths. Utilizing classical...
The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World (Tikkun Olam)
A Brief Introduction for Christians
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
A window into the Jewish idea of responsibility to care for the world—
written especially for Christians.
The concept of repairing the world (tikkun olam) is an integral part of Jewish life. It helps shape Jewish social and family relationships, and even mandates how Jews should speak to...