Author: Braiterman, Zachary Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author sho...
Author: Bank, Richard D. Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What's the difference between Reform and Orthodox Judaism? What does it mean to keep kosher? And what are mizvot? Compact and comprehensive, 101 Things Everyone Should Know about Judaism touches on al...
Author: Laitman, Michael Publisher: Laitman Kabbalah Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An important goal in the study of Kabbalah is for a person to use his or her knowledge to influence destiny. One has to realize what life is, what its meaning is, why it is given to us, where it begi...
Author: Schiff, Daniel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Abortion in Judaism presents a complete Jewish legal history of abortion from the earliest relevant biblical references through the end of the twentieth century. For the first time, almost every Jewis...
Author: Shandler, Jeffrey Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms...
Author: Wolfson, Elliot R. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This highly original, provocative, and poetic work explores the nexus of time, truth, and death in the symbolic world of medieval kabbalah. Demonstrating that the historical and theoretical relationsh...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish i...
Author: Lange, Nicholas de Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beginning with the question 'who is a Jew?', this book offers a lucid account of Judaism and the Jewish people. Written for Jews and non-Jews alike, be they students, teachers, or general interested r...
Author: Davies, Graham Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the sequel to the first volume of Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus and Concordance, published in 1991. It contains some 750 inscriptions from the Old Testament period which were mainly publ...
Author: Levine, Lee I. Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The synagogue was one of the most central and revolutionary institutions of ancient Judaism leaving an indelible mark on Christianity and Islam as well. This commanding book provides an in-depth and c...
Author: Collins, John J. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls 50 years ago revealed Jewish apocalypticism that was before unknown. The scrolls chronicled life in an apocalyptic community, whose members believed that the end ...
Author: Laitman, Michael Publisher: Laitman Kabbalah Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This magnificent introduction to the wisdom of Kabbalah provides a new kind of awareness that enlightens the mind, invigorates the heart, and moves the reader to the depths of their soul. Attaining T...
Description: By reading in this book, one develops internal observations and approaches that did not previously exist within. This book is intended for contemplation of spiritual terms. To the extent that we are i...
Author: Laitman, Michael Publisher: Laitman Kabbalah Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Basic Concepts in Kabbalah is a gentle and wise introduction to the concepts and significance of Kabbalah. The book presents ideas and principles in a comfortable manner, allowing the reader to feel a...
Author: Berg, Michael Publisher: Kabbalah Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In his continuing work to demystify and teach the ancient, esoteric texts of Kabbalah, Michael Berg suggests that the time is right for people to break free of "ego nature" and achieve total joy and i...
Author: Falzon, Edward Publisher: Daijin Ltd Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Laugh-out-loud funny" -- Out in Perth "Hilarious and eye-opening" -- Gay Chicago "A funnier, less hectoring counterpart to The God Delusion" -- Star Observer What do you think of the Bible? Liter...
Author: Wolf, Diane L. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The image of the Jewish child hiding from the Nazis was shaped by Anne Frank, whose house-the most visited site in the Netherlands- has become a shrine to the Holocaust. Yet while Anne Frank's story c...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of sophisticated, innovative essays looks at how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinkers within the Islamic world drew ideas and inspiration from outside the bounds of their own religio...
Author: Savage, Carl E. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In his illuminating, well-researched book examining the site of Et-Tell, also known as Bethsaida, Carl E. Savage explores archaeological evidence to offer readers a portrait of the religious beliefs a...
Author: VanderKam, James C. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls" explores the evidence about the different uses of time-measurement in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts. James C. VanderKam exam...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the ninth to the fifteenth centuries Jewish thinkers living in Islamic and Christian lands philosophized about Judaism. Influenced first by Islamic theological speculation and the great philosoph...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets of Judaism in America. Written by twenty-four leading scholars f...
Author: Rosenbaum, Fred Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Levi Strauss, A.L. Gump, Yehudi Menuhin, Gertrude Stein, Adolph Sutro, Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn--Jewish people have been so enmeshed in life in and around San Francisco that their story is a c...
Author: Shapiro, Lamed Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lamed Shapiro (1878-1948) was the author of groundbreaking and controversial short stories, novellas, and essays. Himself a tragic figure, Shapiro led a life marked by frequent ocean crossings, alcoho...
Author: Campbell, Jonathan G. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The second edition of this fascinating book is the ideal introduction to the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran and their impact on our understanding of the rise of Christianity.Introduces...
Author: Rosen-Zvi, Ishay Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This study examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination. Analyzing the some one hundred and fifty appearances of the yetzer in rabbinic literature, Rosen-Zvi contends that the term should ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Diaspora, considered as a context for insights into Jewish identity, brings together a lively, interdisciplinary group of scholars in this innovative volume. Readers needn't expect, however, to find e...
Author: Silver, Mitchell Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: We hope--even as we doubt--that the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species' self-destructiveness as material beings in a material world is growing--but so is the destr...
Author: Cooper, David A. Publisher: Sounds True Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Note: This book includes a spoken-word audio CD, which is not available with the digital ebook edition.Kabbalah—the secret is out! From Madonna's controversial conversion to the Dalai Lama's ackno...
Author: Van Auken, John Publisher: A.R.E. Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is very difficult to comprehend that our destiny lies in nonphysical dimensions, but Van Auken teaches this well while explaining that our present life is the perfect prerequisite for the next one....
Author: Van Auken, John Publisher: A.R.E. Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: It is very difficult to comprehend that our destiny lies in nonphysical dimensions, but Van Auken teaches this well while explaining that our present life is the perfect prerequisite for the next one....
Author: N/A Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Eight Decades is a selection of previously published articles and essays by one of reform Judaism's most acclaimed twentieth-century rabbis and scholars, W. Gunther Plaut.
Author: Goldstein, Bluma Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This illuminating study explores a central but neglected aspect of modern Jewish history: the problem of abandoned Jewish wives, or agunes ("chained wives")-women who under Jewish law could not obtain...
Author: Cohen, Hermann Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Hermann Cohens essay on Maimonides ethics is one of the most fundamental texts of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, correlating Platonic, prophetic, Maimonidean, and Kantian traditions. Almut S...
Author: Chazan, Robert Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the course of the twelfth century, increasing numbers of Jews migrated into western Christendom from Islamic lands. But western Christendom was both appealing and threatening to the Jewish immi...
Author: Cohn-Sherbok, Dan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This panoramic survey provides a first point of entry into the fascinating richness and complexity of the Jewish philosophical, theological and Kabbalistic tradition. Beginning in the first century wi...
Author: Cohn-Sherbok, Dan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new...
Author: Rosenblum, Jordan D. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Food often defines societies and even civilizations. Through particular commensality restrictions, groups form distinct identities: those with whom ëweí eat (íusí) and those with whom ëweí canno...
Author: Pollock,Benjamin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Benjamin Pollock argues that Franz RosenzweigÇÙs The Star of Redemption is devoted to a singularly ambitious philosophical task: grasping ÇÚthe AllÇÙ ÇÏ the whole of what is ÇÏ in ...
Author: Laitman, Michael Publisher: Laitman Kabbalah Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From Chaos to Harmony: The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah reveals the factors contributing to the perilous state in which we find our world today. Many researchers a...
Author: Hirsch, Marianne / Spitzer, Leo Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern Europea...
Author: Chazan, Robert Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although closely focused on the remarkable Hebrew First-Crusade narratives, Robert Chazan's new interpretation of these texts is anything but narrow, as his title, God, Humanity, and History, strongly...
Author: Shemesh, Aharon Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Halakhah in the Making offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon S...
Author: Magid, Shaul Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of Izbica and Radzin that Rabbi Gershon Henokh originated in nineteenth-century Poland...
