Rabbi Shlomo: 11 books
Torah and Western Thought
Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Even as the twentieth century will be remembered for the West’s loss of faith, Jewish Orthodoxy itself experienced in that very time a golden age of leaders and teachers who sought to bridge the world of Torah and that of the West. Some of these Torah figures were deeply impacted by an academic...
by Goren, Rabbi Shlomo
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Even during his lifetime, Rabbi Shlomo Goren (1917–1994) stood as an exemplar of rabbinic leadership, a gadol renowned for his wisdom and courage, responsibility and dedication. The young boy from Poland who grew up tilling the land of newfound Israeli villages, enlisted in the Jewish underground,...
Listening to God
Inspirational Stories for my Grandchildren
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
See the divine in every human encounter. Be receptive to God’s voice. Act out of faith. These are just a few of the life lessons Rabbi Shlomo Riskin imparts in this collection of personal stories. Rabbi Riskin takes us from his grandmother’s Brooklyn Shabbat table to the vibrant community of Efrat,...
Torah Lights: BeMidbar
Trials & Tribulations in Times of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most contemporary document directing human lives. In this highly acclaimed, five-volume parashat hashavua series, Rabbi Riskin helps each reader extract deeply personal, contemporary lessons from the traditional biblical accounts. As Rabbi...
Torah Lights: Vayikra
Sacrifice, Sanctity & Silence
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most contemporary document directing human lives. In this highly acclaimed, five-volume parashat hashavua series, Rabbi Riskin helps each reader extract deeply personal, contemporary lessons from the traditional biblical accounts. As Rabbi...
Torah Lights: Bereshit
Confronting Life, Love & Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most contemporary document directing human lives. In this highly acclaimed, five-volume parashat hashavua series, Rabbi Riskin helps each reader extract deeply personal, contemporary lessons from the traditional biblical accounts. As Rabbi...
Torah Lights: Shemot
Defining A Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most contemporary document directing human lives. In this highly acclaimed, five-volume parashat hashavua series, Rabbi Riskin helps each reader extract deeply personal, contemporary lessons from the traditional biblical accounts. As Rabbi...
Torah Lights: Devarim
Moses Bequeaths Legacy, History & Covenant
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the Torah is the essential guidebook to human life. In this highly acclaimed fivevolume collection of essays, Rabbi Riskin explores the weekly Torah readings, mining the text for lessons both timeless and contemporary, fundamentally Jewish and deeply personal.
The Living Tree
Studies in Modern Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The Living Tree comprises a collection of thought-provoking articles that fearlessly confront the most pressing issues facing Orthodox Judaism today. Rabbi Riskin does not flinch from such controversial questions as the possibility of trading land for peace, dialogue with Christians, and finding new...
Living Yoga
The Value of Yoga in Today's Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The talks presented in this volume, first published in 1977, were originally delivered during a retreat in New York, in which speakers from a variety of spiritual traditions were represented. It aims to show the value of yoga in everyday life, and its relation to many other religions and philosophies.
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...