Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Trumpeter On Sale: December 2, 2008 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-611-6 (1-59030-611-2)
Secular and religious Jews alike will find wisdom and inspiration in this new book in which Rabbi David Aaron reveals the joy that living a Jewish life can bring. With his characteristic humor, enthusiasm, and insight, Rabbi Aaron looks at key, and often misunderstood, aspects of Jewish practice—our relationship with God...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: August 22, 1995 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1048-4 (0-8052-1048-2)
Compiled by S.Y. Agnon, one of the greatest Hebrew writers of the twentieth century and winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature, Days of Aweis the long-acknowledged classic companion to the High Holy Days prayerbook. Here in one volume are readings from the meditations from the Bible, the Talmud...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: April 6, 2004 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-609-80731-6 (0-609-80731-5)
For thousands of years, no book has been more shrouded in mystery than the Zohar, yet no book offers us greater wisdom.
The central text of Kabbalah, the Zohar is a commentary on the Bible’s narratives, laws, and genealogies and a map of the spiritual landscape. In The Essential Zohar, the eminent...
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Format: Hardcover, 920 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: November 10, 1992 Price: $79.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-4113-6 (0-8052-4113-2)
Translated by William G. Braude
"Perhaps the greatest of all works of modern Judaic and Hebraic scholarship...Braude brings to completion his own extraordinary legacy of translating the great texts of rabbinic tradition into elegant, accessible English. His altogether remarkable achievement has been to provide new generations of readers an entree into our...
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Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli On Sale: February 12, 2013 Price: $29.95 ISBN: 978-0-8478-3968-1 (0-8478-3968-0)
An illustrated contemporary Haggadah for the Passover Seder, as interpreted by the world-renowned philanthropist and Jewish leader Edgar M. Bronfman. Edgar Bronfman’s text continues the traditional commandment to retell the Exodus story of slavery and freedom for future generations. The Haggadah teaches people about Judaism with a fresh perspective while helping...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: July 23, 1991 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-0995-2 (0-8052-0995-6)
This edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic work Tales of the Hasidim, with a new foreword by Chaim Potok. These marvelous tales--terse, vigorous, often cryptic--are the true texts of Hasidism. The Hasidic masters, of whom these tales are told, are full-bodied personalities, yet their lives seem almost...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: February 7, 1995 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1032-3 (0-8052-1032-6)
Long regarded as the classic introduction to the teachings of the Talmud, this comprehensive and masterly distillation summarizes the wisdom of the rabbinic sages on the dominant themes of Judaism.
"Everyman's Talmud is the right place to begin not only to learn about Judaism in general but to meet the substance of...
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Format: Hardcover, 692 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books On Sale: September 27, 2011 Price: $72.00 ISBN: 978-1-58394-249-9 (1-58394-249-1)
Inspired by intense studies, meditation, and a variety of teachings from the great Torah sages, best-selling author Gabriel Cousens, MD, presents the fifty-two parashas of the Torah as a practical path to liberation. His interpretation, which focuses on enlightenment, what he feels is the original intention of the Torah, provides a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: February 24, 1998 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1095-8 (0-8052-1095-4)
Married to a convert herself, Anita Diamant provides advice and information that can transform the act of conversion into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth.
Here you will learn how to choose a rabbi, a synagogue, a denomination, a Hebrew name; how to handle the difficulty of putting aside Christmas...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: August 26, 2008 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1221-1 (0-8052-1221-3)
This updated edition of the classic parenting book combines insights from Jewish tradition with contemporary thinking about how children learn and grow. And it describes the practices, customs, and values that go into creating a Jewish home and raising joyful children within the rich traditions of Judaism.
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: July 12, 1999 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1088-0 (0-8052-1088-1)
Anita Diamant's knowledge, sensitivity, and clarity have made her one of the most respected writers of guides to Jewish life. In Saying Kaddish, she shows how to make Judaism's time-honored rituals into personal, meaningful sources of comfort. Diamant guides the reader through Jewish practices that attend the end of life, from...
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Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: October 12, 2010 Price: $27.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-4265-2 (0-8052-4265-1)
Kosher? That means the rabbi blessed it, right? Not exactly. In this captivating account of a Bible-based practice that has grown into a multibillions-dollar industry, journalist Sue Fishkoff travels throughout America and to Shanghai, China, to find out who eats kosher food, who produces it, who is responsible for its certification...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: May 9, 2006 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1131-3 (0-8052-1131-4)
The best-selling author of The Search for God at Harvard continues his spiritual quest in this heartfelt and poignant account of the year he spent saying kaddish for his father.
The day after Ari Goldman celebrated his fiftieth birthday his father died of a heart attack, and Goldman began the ritual year...
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Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: August 11, 2009 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1159-7 (0-8052-1159-4)
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: October 28, 2003 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-4959-2 (1-4000-4959-8)
In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, during which time Daniel would be a Fellow at the Mandel Institute in Jerusalem. This was a euphoric time in Israel. The economy was booming, and peace...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 324 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: September 13, 1987 Price: $20.00 ISBN: 978-0-8052-0075-1 (0-8052-0075-4)
The Kuzari is one of the basic books of Jewish literature, a required text in the library of every educated Jew—and of every educated Christian who would understand the religion of Israel. The author, foremost poet and thinker of the Jewish Middle Ages, offers clear and usable delineations of the religion...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: January 3, 1995 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1022-4 (0-8052-1022-9)
This engaging and informative book provides an introduction to the liturgy of the Siddur--the Jewish prayerbook. More than a "how-to" guide, this resource deals with basic issues for the modern worshiper, the historial compilation of the Siddur, and much more.
"Anyone who wants to make use of the traditional prayerbook especially...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: August 26, 2003 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1140-5 (0-8052-1140-3)
After being introduced by a mutual friend in the winter of 2000, Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch and Orthodox Rabbi Yosef Reinman embarked on an unprecedented eighteen-month e-mail correspondence on the fundamental principles of Jewish faith and practice. What resulted is this book: an honest, intelligent, no-holds-barred discussion of virtually every “hot...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: March 10, 2009 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-38298-6 (0-307-38298-2)
Conflict is an opportunity to learn and grow–and often to grow closer to one another.
Brad Hirschfield knows what it means to be a fanatic; he was one. A former activist in the West Bank, he was committed to reconstructing the Jewish state within its biblical borders. Now he is devoted to...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: March 14, 1995 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1037-8 (0-8052-1037-7)
Kaplan shows that meditation is consistent with traditional Jewish thought and practice. The book presents a variety of meditative techniques to help make the reader a better person, and develop a closer relationship to God.
“[This is] the first book to read on the subject. It is a gentle, clear introduction and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: November 2, 1999 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-345-41270-6 (0-345-41270-2)
Drawing on the biblical text and a treasury of both scholarship and storytelling, Kirsch examines all that is known and all that has been imagined of Moses.
"A lively narrative...There is a figure here looming up through the mists of tradition and folk memory that is of compelling significance, complex and...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: January 13, 2009 Price: $22.00 ISBN: 978-0-8052-4236-2 (0-8052-4236-8)
A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.
Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book...
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Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: March 4, 2008 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8052-4252-2 (0-8052-4252-X)
This fascinating, informative, and beautifully illustrated books translates the Passover seder's Four Questions into twenty-three languages and provides capsule histories of the Jews in the countries where the languages are spoken.
The recitation of the Four Questions at the beginning of the Passover seder by the youngest participant is one of the...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: October 2, 2012 Price: $24.00 ISBN: 978-0-8052-4292-8 (0-8052-4292-9)
From one of our most trusted spiritual advisers, a thoughtful, illuminating guide to that most fascinating of biblical texts, the book of Job, and what it can teach us about living in a troubled world.
The story of Job is one of unjust things happening to a good man. Yet after losing...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: August 24, 2004 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3335-5 (1-4000-3335-7)
From the author of the best-selling When Bad Things Happen to Good People and Living a Life That Matters—a new book of practical spirituality, of inspiration and encouragement gleaned from what may be the best-known and best-loved chapter in the Bible: the Twenty-third Psalm.