Judaism category: 3160 books
Rabbinic Judaism
Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, Jews were faced with a world in existential chaos—both they and their God were rendered homeless. In a religious tradition that had equated Divine approval with peaceful dwelling...
Everything Is God
The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This exploration of the radical, yet ancient, idea that everything and everyone is God will transform how you understand your life and the nature of religion itself. While God is conventionally viewed as an entity separate from us, there are some Jews—Kabbalists, Hasidim, and their modern-day heirs—who...
by Lev Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book is a beautiful and concise discussion of Judaisms place in humankind, and the role of the individual Jew in contributing to the tapestry of Judaism. In every generation, Jews covenant with God as partners to be a shining example of righteousness, based upon the lessons of the Torah. The...
The Rhythms of Jewish Living
A Sephardic Exploration of Judaism's Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Reconnect with the ancient soul of Jewish spiritual life and practice. "Jewish spirituality is organically linked to the natural rhythms of the universe. To a great extent, Jewish religious traditions serve to bring Jews into a sensitive relationship with the natural world. Many commandments...
by Brenda Shoshanna
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
or Jews, Zen students, "JuBus," and other open-minded seekers--a guide to authentic Jewish and Zen practice and how they illuminate, challenge, and enrich each other.
Books like the Jew in the Lotus have helped to define the intersection of Jewish and Zen experience and custom. Now,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
This brief introduction to Judaism is designed to help readers understand this important religious tradition. With both nuance and balance, this text provides broad coverage of various forms of Judaism with an arresting layout with rich colors. It offers both historical overviews and modern perspectives...
A Brief Guide to Judaism
Theology, History and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
The Jewish religion is one of the major faiths of the world yet one of the least understood. In a wide-ranging and accessible guide for the general reader Rabbi Naftali Brawer outlines the major themes and history of over 5,000 years of Jewish faith from its Abrahamic origins and the foundations of...
Empowered Judaism
What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
The inside story and practical lessons from one of the most exciting developments in contemporary Judaism.
Part description and part prescription, Empowered Judaism is a manifesto for transforming the way Jews pray andmore broadlyfor building vibrant Jewish communities. [It] represents the...
by Carlos Ripoll
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Areligion or a culture like Judaism, at least three thousand years old, cannot be expected to be all of one piece, homogeneous, self-contained, consistent, a neatly constructed system of ideas. If Judaism were that, it would have died centuries ago and would be a subject of interest only to the historian...
King David’S Naked Dance
The Dreams, Doctrines, and Dilemmas of the Hebrews
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Primitive Judaism is the earliest system of thought that sought to explain the concepts of divinity, humanity, and life on the planet. Whats more, it is Moses who deserves the credit for the systematization of basic, primitive Tanakian Judaism. In King Davids Naked Dance, author Allan Russell Juriansz...
Meditation and Judaism
Exploring the Jewish Meditative Paths
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2004
Meditation and Judaism is a comprehensive work on Jewish meditation, encompassing the entire spectrum of Jewish thought_from the early Kabbalists to the modern Chassidic and Mussar masters, the sages of the Talmud, to the modern philosophers. Both a scholarly, in-depth study of meditative practices,...
Is Judaism Democratic?
Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
As government by the people, democracy has always had its proponents as well as opponents. What forms of government have Jewish leaders, both with and without actual political power, favored? Not surprisingly, many options have been offered theoretically and in practice. Perhaps more surprisingly,...
Judaism and Collective Life
Self and Community in the Religious Kibbutz
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Examining the relationship between Judaism as a religious culture and kibbutz life, this is a ground-breaking work in the research of Judaism.
The book takes as its point of departure the historical fact that it was Orthodox pioneers of German origin, in contrast to their Eastern European counterparts,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
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 from the fields of religious studies, American history and literature, philosophy, art history, sociology,...