Rituals category: 373 books
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...
The Secret Life of God
Discovering the Divine within You
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
How much does our perception of God really matter? Many of us aren't conscious of our image of a "higher power." For some of us, that unspoken image is a Judgmental Parent or an exacting Old Man in the Sky. For others, God is an Imaginary Friend who is there to fix problems after we create...
My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries: Vol. 4
Seder K'riat Hatorah (The Torah Service)
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of todays most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. Unique, fresh, honest translations, with notes comparing other translations. This volume of the My Peoples Prayer Book series...
My Peoples Prayer Book, Vol. 10
Shabbat Morning Shacharit and Musaf (Morning and Additional Services)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of todays most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. Unique, fresh, honest translations, with notes comparing other translations. This volume of the My Peoples Prayer Book series...
My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 9
Welcoming the Night—Minchah and Ma'ariv (Afternoon and Evening Prayer)
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2005
Provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of todays most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. Unique, fresh, honest translations, with notes comparing other translations. This volume of the My Peoples Prayer Book series...
The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars
Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that vast upheaval. Rosen inventories and organizes Jewish calendars...
Surviving Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah
The Ultimate Insider's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In Surviving Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Cantor Matt Axelrod provides a practical, humorous guide for Jewish students and their families as they prepare for their “big day.” Breezy and friendly yet reassuring and focused, Axelrod easily cuts through the fear and stress that teens often feel in the months...
Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah
Five Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In this volume E. P. Sanders presents five studies that advance the re-examination of the nature of Jewish law that he began in Jesus and Judaism (Fortress Press, 1985). As usual, he is able to shed new light on old questions and demonstrate that many accepted interpretations are misguided.M
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Sacred Sound and Social Change
Liturgical Music in Jewish and Christian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1994
Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical views of the liturgical music of both the Jewish...