Rituals category: 373 books
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...
Textual Tapestries
Explorations of the Five Megillot
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
The Five Megillot – the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther – are among the most familiar of biblical texts. Yet in the hands of veteran educator and Bible scholar Gabriel H. Cohn, a leading disciple of Nehama Leibowitz, the megillot reveal untold depths. Utilizing classical...
The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World (Tikkun Olam)
A Brief Introduction for Christians
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
A window into the Jewish idea of responsibility to care for the world—
written especially for Christians.
The concept of repairing the world (tikkun olam) is an integral part of Jewish life. It helps shape Jewish social and family relationships, and even mandates how Jews should speak to...
by Michael Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Love, Marriage, and Family in the Jewish**Law and Tradition is everything you wanted to know about the Jewish view on marriage, sexuality, and child bearing in clear and concise language. This comprehensive book looks to inform the reader about all the Jewish laws concerning family, marriage, procreation, and child rearing.
Practical Kabbalah
A Guide to Jewish Wisdom for Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Kabbalah is an ancient Jewish wisdom that explains the laws of spiritual energy. Up until very recently the Kabbalah was reserved for the elite, those who only after years of scholarship and practice were allowed to enter this mystical realm. However, one doesn't need to devote one's life to intense...
by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld remembers the Yom Kippur of his childhood surrounded by the mournful cries of his fellow worshippers, so it is not surprising that he grew up with an image of Yom Kippur as a purely solemn day. Yet his book emphasizes a different aspect of Yom Kippur, the most important holiday...
Secrets of the 7th Day
How Everyone Can Find Renewal Through the Wisdom and Practices of the Sabbath
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Life is hectic. Moms, dads, kids - all of us - are running at breakneck speed. We need to find ways to be renewed-as individuals, as families and in our communities. Sara Schley, who runs at her own breakneck speed as wife and mother of twins while leading a successful company consulting to businesses...
Passover and Easter
Origin and History to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2000
"In these companion volumes of essays, Jewish and Christian liturgical scholars examine, from historical, theological, and aesthetic perspectives, the practices and intricate interrelationships of Passover and Easter. Several essays lament the antisemitism that has infected the Easter liturgy,...
Beyond Chrismukkah
The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation's religious life? Drawing...
Hours of Devotion
Fanny Neuda's Book of Prayers for Jewish Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Written in the nineteenth century, rediscovered in the twenty-first, timeless in its wisdom and beauty, Hours of Devotion by Fanny Neuda, (the daughter of a Moravian rabbi), was the first full-length book of Jewish prayers written by a woman for women. In her moving introduction to this volume--the...
Sometimes You Are What You Wear!
The Traditional Jewish View of Modesty
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Rabbi Safrans compelling book about the need to incorporate the traditional view of modesty if we are to save our children from the superficiality, the decadence and the damaging influences of our modern, progressive society, opens with a simple question, What can an Orthodox rabbi tell me about my...
The Emergence of God
A Rationalist Jewish Exploration of Divine Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In a culture firmly grounded in scientific thought, it has become common to think of “God” as the label we use for natural law, the creative, organizational forces in the universe, rather than as a great, omniscient Being. Is it possible to imagine such a God as being conscious? This is the question...
Necessary Mourning
Healing the Loss of a Parent through Jewish Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Necessary Mourning is written in an eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies providing a moving chronicle of the loss of Abraham-Klein's own father. This unique narrative crosses the boundary between psychology, spirituality and traditional Jewish...
Rabbi Isaac Luria: The Lion of the Kabbalah
Jewish Mystics, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
When one thinks of the Kabbalah, they often think of the 10 emanations of the tree of life. It is by far the most popular of the Kabbalistic symbols and rightfully so. It is also the one most, how shall I say, comprehensible of the Kabbalistic principles. Of course, within it contains deep mysteries...