"The Talmud" is filled with knowledge, inspiration, and insights that enrich various facets of Jewish life. This work takes readers along with the author on a journey through one volume of the Talmud, offering reassuring guidance and making it meaningful and accessible. It also serves as an introduction to talmudic thought.
Rabbi Abrams walks us through tractate Megillah in a warm, unintimidating, and highly informed way.
Presents psychotherapists and counselors who treat alcoholism and other addictive states with an understanding of the inner world of their patients, and the dynamics of these disorders.
Offers an indepth and thoughtful exploration of the relevance of psychoanalysis to family therapy.
Blessed Are You: A Comprehensive Guide to Jewish Prayer offers the layperson, in a nonacademic, simple (but not simplistic) style, a one-volume, encyclopedic presentation of virtually every aspect of prayer in Judaism.
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Beginning with the creation of the universe in the Jewish year (3760 BCE) and ending with the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 5745 (1985), this volume employs chronologies and time lines to convey Jewish history's people and events. It covers events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of Babel.
The authors of this volume apply the methods and insights of cybernetics to the analysis and treatment of behavioural disorders. Verbatim transcripts are presented together with step-by-step explanations of the therapeutic team's actions.
The second volume of a two-volume set discussing the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This volume considers the responses to intervention, the patient-therapist relationship and the phases of psychotherapy.
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Consisting of conversations between renowned Jewish thinker and teacher Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg and Shalom Freedman, this book presents the major themes of Rabbi Greenberg's work and thought and addresses the most challenging questions facing Jewish people today.
Offers insights into Jewish law from Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik, the preeminent figure of twentieth-century modern Orthodoxy.
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In the Image of God: A Feminist Commentary on the Torah is a unique blend of traditional Judaism and radical feminism and is a groundbreaking commentary on the Bible, the central document of Jewish life.
'Kosher food is more than chopped liver and gefilte fish,' says Helen Nash, and her cookbook covers a complete range of innovative meals, from a simple lunch to a dinner-party menu.
Readers of this book will emerge with a new awareness of what we as Jews are doing when we pray, why we are doing it, how we are supposed to be affected by prayer, how the prayers came to be as they are today, and how they differ among the major movements of American Judaism.
Consists of commentaries on each weekly "Torah" portion. This work also includes a number of lengthy sermons delivered on the major Jewish Festivals.
Examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities.
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Includes stories from varied oral and written sources, mainly Czech, Slovak, German, some Yiddish, as well as Polish and Hungarian. Storytelling, says the author, is perhaps the only tool that creates a path leading through the many layers of the past, shedding light on it without destroying the mystery and magic.
Scattered throughout many "kabbalistic" and "Hasidic" texts are numerous teaching stories with reincarnation as their central theme. In order to make the stories understandable to the modern reader, this work includes explanations of cultural and religious details in each tale. It contains both classical and contemporary tales.
The author writes: 'Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook (5635-5695/1865-1935) was one of the greatest Jewish leaders of recent history. He was steeped in Jewish knowledge of all kinds, a master of halacha, Talmud, and Jewish philosophy, and he also had a good knowledge of the general philosophy and science of his day.'
Hasidism focuses upon fundamental Judaism, on simple principles that stressed the joy of life, love of man, and sincerity in word and deed, qualities that the common people potentially possessed in full measure. This work studies the history and development of the hasidic community in Israel, from its foundation in the eighteenth century onwards.
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