Jewish Lights Publishing: 165 books

Create a meaningful and happy Hanukkah in your home with story, celebration, food and song. This newly designed, easy-to-use edition of a classic spiritual sourcebook offers updated information, more family ideas, and new resources for every aspect of your holiday celebration.Every aspect of Hanukkah...

An in-depth exploration of the complexities—and perhaps audacity—of naming the unnameable. Almost forty contributors from all Jewish denominations and from around the world wrestle with Avinu Malkeinu and the linguistic and spiritual conundrum it presents, asking, “How do we name God altogether, without recourse to imagery that defies belief?”

This is an invitation to wade into a deeper spiritual consciousness. Taking us step by step, Kushner helps us to allow “the river of light”—the deepest currents of consciousness—to rise to the surface and animate our lives. Imaginative, philosophical and intellectual, this book explores the meeting...

Deepen connections with the people you love. Build relationships with the people you meet.We can go through each dayor a lifetimeas sleepwalkers while awake, tossing and turning on pillows that are as hard as appointment books, wandering a paved spiritual wilderness from bank window to house of worship...

Offers a comforting link between study and the tradition of saying Kaddish, helping those who are mourning to heal at their own pace and to cherish the memory of their loved ones each and every day. Each section is devoted to a stage of mourning, providing daily readings from sacred Jewish texts and words of inspiration, comfort, and understanding.

As we come to recognize the need to nurture our spiritual lives as adults, The Year Mom Got Religion offers sensitive and intelligent wisdom from a woman who learned how awakening to religion can transformand disrupta life. A poignant personal testimony of the discoveries, achievements, and disappointments...

Water and oil, light and dark, summer rain and desert wind: In this fable of opposites, award-winning author Sandy Eisenberg Sasso shows children and adults of all faiths and backgrounds how self-centered actions affect the people around us, and how by working together we can work with God—to create a better world.

This fun, practical book will inspire kids ages eight to twelve to be a Superhero and do good work in the World, encouraging them to be like God. With humor and clear examples, noted educator Dr. Ron Wolfson shows kids how they can tap into their God-like talents to continue the work of creation and repair the world.

This clarion call to rethink our moral and political behavior examines the idea of conscience and the role conscience plays in our relationships to government, law, ethics, religion, human nature and Godand to each other. From Abraham to Abu Ghraib, from the dissenting prophets to Darfur, Rabbi Harold...

Hear O Israel, the Eternal is Our God, the Eternal is One! There is arguably no more important statement in Judaism than the Shma. Its wordscalling us to hear, to listen, to pay attentiondefy direct translation and have meant different things throughout history. In a deeply personal exploration of this...

“If there were an Eleventh Commandment, what would it be?” Children of many religious denominations across America answer this question—in their own drawings and words—in The 11th Commandment. This full-color collection of “Eleventh Commandments” reveals kids' ideas about how people should respond to God.

According to the Hebrew Bible, God made the world with words. God just spoke and the world became reality. (The Aramaic for I create as I speak is avara kdavara, or in magicians language, abracadabra.) . . . This does not protect words from the numbing effects of overuse in any religious tradition. ....

There is something unusual about the psalms'and that special power is the reason people have turned to them for thousands of years. Whats more, the power of the psalms hasnt diminished over time. It remains for us todaya resource we can use if only we can learn how to open it. In this practical, spiritual...

The wisdom of one of the greatest scholars of Islam can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.Considered by many to be the all-time greatest scholar of Islam, Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (10581111) was also one of the foremost sages of theology, philosophy and Sufism. His writings on the interrelation...