Beliefs category: 373 books
Me, Myself and God
A Theology of Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Heal from the sense of separation that pervades human consciousness and awaken to the true oneness of all things.
Many of our human existential struggles stem from the sense of disconnection, alienation and loneliness that comes from a fragmented view of reality. The typical concept of “self”...
The Jewish Book of Grief and Healing
A Spiritual Companion for Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This companion in sorrow offers compassionate guidance for putting the insights of Judaism into practice and finding new strength in ancient traditions. Beloved and respected spiritual leaders from across the Jewish denominational spectrum share insights from their experience, Jewish tradition and their personal encounters with grief and healing.
Rabbinic Authority, Volume 3
The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English - Halakhic Divorce and the Agunah
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
In the third volume of his groundbreaking series on rabbinic authority in English, Rabbi Warburg discusses the ramifications of a Jewish divorce. In this well-composed monograph, Rabbi Warburg primarily focuses on the case of the modern day agunah, a wife who is unable to get divorced due to her husband's...
Rabbinic Authority, Volume 1
The Vision and the Reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Introducing English-speaking readers to the parameters and scope of rabbinic authority in general, and the workings of the institution of the beit din—the Jewish court of law—in particular, this book presents 10 rulings in cases of Jewish civil law that the author handed down as a member of a...
The New American Judaism
How Jews Practice Their Religion Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A leading expert provides an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism today
American Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years,...
Magique Judaïque
Source Salomon
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Magie spirituelle, Salomon, y compris la concentration de l'énergie et de la conceptualisation de la magie fondée sur l'essence de Dieu.
by Willig, Mordechai
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The Laws of Cooking and Warming Food on Shabbat is a comprehensive presentation of hilkhot bishul and the reasoning behind the laws. In this wideranging volume, Rabbi Mordechai Willig presents and analyzes the opinions of the most respected voices in halakhic discourse. He traces the law from...
In His Image
The Image of God in Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
At a time when religion is distorted to crush, belittle, and negate Man, when personal responsibility is replaced by passive faith, and human endeavor is deemed unworthy, In His Image seeks to reinstate one of the fundamental truths of Judaism: the creation of Man in the image of God. Rabbi...
Finding Recovery and Yourself in Torah
A Daily Spiritual Path to Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Helps you reconnect daily with Torah study as a spiritual discipline to support recovery from alcoholism, drugs and other addictions and compulsive behaviors. Each daily entry offers insights and probing questions to help you find meaning in the recovery process and restore your soul. An ideal companion to 12-Step programs.
Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews
Volume XXII
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Volume XXII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the major and rapid changes experienced by a population known variously as "Sephardim," "Oriental" Jews and "Mizrahim" over the last fifty years. Although Sephardim are popularly believed to have originated in Spain or...
Rabbinic Authority, Volume 2
The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Volume 2 of the only English books on rabbinic authority In this second volume of Rabbinic Authority, Rabbi Warburg presents new rabbinical court arbitration decisions in English. He is the first rabbinic arbitrator to publish piskei din (decisions) on cases in Jewish civil law. It is important that...
Framing Sukkot
Tradition and Transformation in Jewish Vernacular Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The sukkah, the symbolic ritual home built during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, commemorates the temporary structures that sheltered the Israelites as they journeyed across the desert after the exodus from Egypt. Despite the simple Biblical prescription for its design, the remarkable variety...
by Rabbi Michael Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony of bar mitzvah was first recorded in thirteenth-century France, where it took the form of a simple statement by the father that he was no longer responsible for his thirteen-year-old son. Today, bar mitzvah for boys and bat mitzvah for girls are more popular than...
Blood for Thought
The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. Mira Balberg traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted and conceived of biblical sacrifices, reinventing...