The Toby Press Llc: 145 books
The Concise Code of Jewish Law
A Guide to the Observance of Shabbat
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Responding to a need for our generation, The Concise Code of Jewish Law is a modern and up-to-date work of halachah lema’aseh, presented in a concise and user-friendly format. The main text is an adaptation of classic sources of halachah, loosely following the order of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch,...
Living the Halachic Process (Volume II)
Questions & Answers for the Modern Jew
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Should one pray from a siddur or by heart? Does a place of business require a mezuza? Should a child fast on Yom Kippur? These are just a few of the questions asked and answered in this informative, accessible series developed by the Eretz Hemdah Institute. Living the Halachic Process provides...
Holistic Prayer
A Guide to Jewish Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Few commandments are as challenging as prayer. The tensions between human limitations and God's infinity, self-assertion and self-submission, structure and spontaneity, hope and surrender, individual expression and collective experience make tefilla one of the most difficult aspects of Jewish life....
Halakhic Morality
Essays on Ethics and Masorah
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
In this volume’s opening essay, Rabbi Soloveitchik writes:
Nowadays a basic investigation of morality and ethos would be of great importance. There is a crying need for clarification of many practical problems, both in the individual-private and in the social-ethical realms....
by Willig, Mordechai
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The Laws of Cooking and Warming Food on Shabbat is a comprehensive presentation of hilkhot bishul and the reasoning behind the laws. In this wideranging volume, Rabbi Mordechai Willig presents and analyzes the opinions of the most respected voices in halakhic discourse. He traces the law from...
In His Image
The Image of God in Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
At a time when religion is distorted to crush, belittle, and negate Man, when personal responsibility is replaced by passive faith, and human endeavor is deemed unworthy, In His Image seeks to reinstate one of the fundamental truths of Judaism: the creation of Man in the image of God. Rabbi...
In His Mercy
Understanding the Thirteen Midot
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Each year on Yom Kippur, fast days, and the days leading up to the High Holidays, Jews around the world recite the Thirteen Midot: "HaShem, HaShem, El Rahum veHanun, Erekh Apayim, veRav Hesed veEmet, Notzer Hesed laAlafim, Noseh Avon vaFesha veHata'a veNakeh." In His Mercy examines the Thirteen Midot...
Meant To Be
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
He is a spectacular American success story: an Orthodox rabbi who founded an international human rights organization, earned two Academy Awards, and is the driving force behind a state-of-the-art Jerusalem museum. Here rabbi Marvin Heir recounts the birth of the Simon Wiesenthal center, Moriah Films,...
Relics for the Present II
Contemporary Reflections on the Talmud: Berakhot II
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Relics for the Present is a collection of thought-provoking mini-essays that explore the parameters and depths of prayer. Using Tractate Berakhot as the foundational text, Rabbi Cooper utilizes a unique combination of Talmudic wisdom, rabbinical commentary and Hassidic lore, transforming ancient...
by Koren Publishers Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
What is kehuna? The term is often translated as “priesthood,” and the Jewish kohanim are indeed charged with ministering God’s Temple, yet kehuna signifies much more than that. A kohen is a representative of God on earth, and this designation thus carries moral and educational dimensions in...
Shemita
From the Sources to Practical Halakha
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Shemita examines the underlying principles and practical observance of the Jewish agricultural sabbatical year, leading readers from the sources in the Torah, Mishna and Gemara to the rulings of leading halakhic authorities, including Rav Kook and the Chazon Ish. The most comprehensive and systematic...
by Tabory, Binyamin
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Rabbi Binyamin Tabory’s many students know him as a master educator who makes the highest level of classical yeshiva learning accessible with his pedagogic skill and warm personality. In The Weekly Mitzva, Rabbi Tabory discusses a mitzva – sometimes familiar, sometimes obscure – connected to...
Haggai, Zecharia & Malachi
Prophecy in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Babylonia fell and the Temple was rebuilt, miracles were at once present and hidden − but Judea remained subject to the Persian Empire. The prophets Haggai and Zechariah spoke of imminent redemption − yet most Jews remained in exile. Prophecy ceased with Malachi, and a chapter in Jewish history...
The Sages Vol. IV
From the Mishna to the Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
The Sages brings the world of the Talmud to life, revealing the stories of the men behind its pages. This fascinating multi-volume series explores the lives and times of great Jewish sages (Hazal)—their teachers and disciples, their families and professions, the values they cherished and ideologies...