Beliefs category: 373 books
by Julius Wellhausen
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Prolegomena To The History Of Israel by the German biblical scholar and orientalist, Julius Wellhausen.In the course of his career, he moved from Old Testament research through Islamic studies to New Testament scholarship. Wellhausen contributed to the composition history of the Pentateuch/Torah and...
by Bernard Levine
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
How sad and what a terrible tragedy it is, that the Jewish nation, the 'People of the Book' does not believe in Jesus.
The Jews are obsessed with following, keeping and obeying all the many man-made laws and traditions which their Rabbis have compiled.
Because the blood sacrifices of the Old Testament...
by Leo Baeck, Irving Howe, Victor Grubenwieser
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
First published in German in 1905 as Das Wesen des Judentums, Leo Baeck’s The Essence of Judaism is perhaps the most widely read example of German Jewish scholarship in the 20th century. Written as a response to Adolf von Harnack’s lectures Das Wesen des Christentums (The Essence of Christianity),...
by Jack Riemer
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Forward by Sherwin B. Nuland
As Jack Riemer demonstrates in this collection of Jewish resources for mourning and healing, the Jewish tradition has much to offer those who seek its help in time of need. Here are personal as well as practical writings by contemporary authors about the Shivah...
Studying the Torah
A Guide to in-Depth Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
The traditional Jew has always accepted the study of Torah as central to his or her way of life. But without the ability to effectively analyze and interpret the text, one misses the opportunity to gain a deep and authentic appreciation of the Torah's beauty and profundity. In Studying the Torah:...
Celebrating Interfaith Marriages
Creating Your Jewish/Christian Ceremony
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The first comprehensive wedding guide specifically for the Jewish/Christian couple who wants to honor both religious traditions in their service, vows, and readings.
Saying "I do" is one of the happiest moments in a couple's life together--but planning that trip to the altar can be...
Mixing Musics
Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire known as the Maftirim, which developed in parallel with "secular"...
by Libi Astaire
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
"The world is built with kindness," King David wrote in Psalm 83. And he should know. He was the great-grandson of Ruth, the Jewish convert who became known as the embodiment of kindness—and whose story we read on the holiday of Shavuos.
Like Ruth before them, the Chassidic masters,...
Living with Loss, Healing with Hope
A Jewish Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Earl Grollman's Living When a Loved One Has Died has brought comfort to more than 250,000 readers. In Living with Loss, Healing with Hope, Grollman speaks directly to mourners of the Jewish faith. By weaving quotations from Jewish writers and philosophers into his comforting and expert prose, Grollman...
Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine
The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This fascinating case study describes the work of the people responsible for creating festive lore and its system of ceremonies and festivities—an inseparable part of every culture. In the case of the new modern Hebrew culture of Eretz Israel (modern Jewish Palestine)—a society of immigrants that...
Hope Will Find You
My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
How can I get my life off hold? When will my life really begin?
We all ask ourselves the same questions when we are struggling to move forward. As a rabbi, Naomi Levy frequently offered spiritual guidance to people seeking the answers. But when a doctor told her that her young daughter, Noa,...
by Ken Nunoo
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
The name of a thing is its outer body, whereas its number is its inner spirit. The outer body may change many times but the inner spirit remains the same. We are now on the path of Teth, whose numerical value is eight. Teth connects the 5th sphere of Geburah (justice/strength) to...
by Noam Pianko, Akiba Lerner, Gregory Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into...
The Jew in the Lotus
A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues...