Judaism category: 3160 books
by Rabbi David W. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Hear the Voices of Ancient Wisdom in the Modern Language of ScienceAncient traditions, whose only claim to authenticity is that they are old, run the risk of becoming old-fashioned. But if an ancient tradition can claim to be not only ancient but also timeless and contemporary, it has a far greater chance...
Postmissionary Messianic Judaism
Redefining Christian Engagement with the Jewish People
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In recent years, a new form of Messianic Judaism has emerged that has the potential to serve as a bridge between Jews and Christians. Giving voice to this movement, Mark Kinzer makes a case for nonsupersessionist Christianity. He argues that the election of Israel is irrevocable, that Messianic Jews...
The Women's Torah Commentary
New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Women rabbis are changing the face of Judaism. Discover how their interpretations of the Torah can enrich your perspective. "Rich and engaging…makes available to a wide readership the collective wisdom of women who have changed the face of Judaism." —Judith Plaskow, author, Standing...
Healing and the Jewish Imagination
Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin.
Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the...
by Dan Juster
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Messianic Judaism is a grass roots movement--a movement among Jewish and non-Jewish followers of Jesus of Nazareth who recognize and identify with their Jewishness. As a pulsating grass roots movement, Messianic Judaism exhibits the power and excitement of significant new discoveries.Topical...
by Arthur Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The basic vocabulary of Jewish spiritual life, explained with humor, insight and relevance to guide you on a historical and spiritual journey through Judaism.Judaism itself is a language, a groups way of expressing beliefs, longings, aspirations and dreams. The vocabulary of Jewish life is the framework...
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Jewish esotericism is the oldest and most influential continuous occult tradition in the West. Presenting lore that can spiritually enrich your life, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia is devoted to the esoteric in Judaism—the miraculous and the mysterious. In this second edition, Rabbi Geoffrey W....
Jewish Faqs
An Internet Rabbi's Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Many people turn to the Internet when they have questions about anythingincluding Judaism. Spiritual searchers today are no different. The profusion of Web sites, online forums, and e-mail discussion groups devoted to Judaism provides ample testimony to the need and desire for nearly instantaneous...
Akiva
Life, Legend, Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The legendary Akiva ben Yosef has fascinated Jews for centuries. Arguably the most important of the Tannaim, or early Jewish sages, Akiva lived during a crucial era in the development of Judaism as we know it today, and his theology played a major part in the development of Rabbinic Judaism. Reuven...
by Martin Buber
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Edited by Nahum N. Glatzer
With a new Foreword by Rodger Kamenetz
“The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews. Why do we call ourselves Jews? I want to speak to you not of an abstraction but of your own life . . . its authenticity...
We Have Sinned
Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (Prayers of Awe)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism.
Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...
Gonzo Judaism
A Bold Path for Renewing an Ancient Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Here is a book that is both clarion call for a new Jewish agenda and a blueprint for an adventurous but genuine path toward spiritual growth and religious wisdom. Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein, founder and Rabbi Emeritus of The New Shul in New York City, says that most conventional Jewish institutions...
Judaism and Modernity
Philosophical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida
Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime ‘other’ of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction...
Shared Identities
Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Received opinion imagines Judaism and Islam as two distinct religions interacting in the centuries following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes the relations between the two groups using such tropes as "symbiosis." In this revisionist work, Aaron W. Hughes instead...