Download or read book The Kedusha Talk written by Avi Landa, Rabbi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We would be negligent in the education of our children if we would permit them to grow into adolescents without preparing them first with adequate tools to help them live as Jews in the un-Jewish environment they will be living in. The only way is to teach them, before their adolescent drives set in, how a Jew is obligated to deal with his reproductory drive. It is vital that we get our message across to the child before the messages of the culture around him begin to inundate him." - Rav Aharon Feldman
Download or read book African Soul Talk written by Dumani Mandela and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These upbeat discussions between Dumani Mandela and Rabbi Warren Goldstein cover politics, culture, religion, and nation building in South Africa.
Download or read book Talelei Oros written by and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarifying the themes and concepts of Sukkos with the eternal wisdom of their words and thoughts. Among the topics discussed in this wonderful work are: Ushpizin, Trust in Hashem, Simchas Torah, Simchas Beis HaShoeva, Sukkos Torah Readings, and the Four Minim (Species).
Download or read book Journey of a Rabbi written by Jack Shechter and published by UPA. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator. What threads its way throughout these writings is a persistent search for ways and means to revitalize Jewish life in our time. Written in lucid and compelling fashion, the story portrays early family influences and mentoring of a searching youth, experiences of a rabbinical student, army chaplain, and pulpit rabbi that brought into focus the tasks ahead. The story proceeds to detail the work as a denominational executive, which broadened concern for the larger community and return to pulpit work devoted to fashioning a “Synagogue-Center.” It then segues into depiction of the comprehensive initiatives in education, the arts and community outreach as Dean at the University of Judaism. Interspersed throughout are “thought” essays about religious phenomena, faith, the personal life, the land of Israel, and “lessons learned” from a lifetime of experiences.
Download or read book Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship written by Albert Gerhards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship" presents the reworked results of the discussions at an interdisciplinary symposium held in Aachen, Germany, on recent trends in the study of Jewish and Christian liturgies. It introduces diverse subjects pertaining to its topic an shows their interrelationship.
Download or read book Synagogue Life written by Samuel C. Heilman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Via a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, and assembly. In each Heilman documents the rich detail of the synagogue experience while articulating the social and cultural drama inherent in them. He illustrates how people come to the synagogue not only for spiritual purposes but also to find out where and how they fit into life in the neighborhood in which they share.In his new introduction, Heilman discusses what led him to write this book and the process of personal transformation through which he, as an Orthodox Jew, had to go in order to turn a disciplined eye on the world from which he came. Rather than using the stranger-as-native approach of classic anthropology, he had instead to begin as a native who discoverd how to look at a once-taken-for-granted synagogue life like a stranger. In the afterword, arguing for the efficacy of this approach, Heilman offers guidance on how natives can use their special familiarity and still be trained to distance themselves from their own group, making use of the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. Synagogue Life offers a fascinating portrait that has something to say to social scientists as well as all those curious about what happens in the main arena of Orthodox Jewish community life.
Download or read book Learning Messiah written by Edjan Westerman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel’s election, calling, and history make up a big part of Scripture. It could be said that they belong to the “DNA of the Bible.” But why is it then that the Christian narrative about the Messiah, Israel, and the nations, often seemed to have and sometimes even still has a different “genetic structure”? Does Israel—together with its election and promises—leave God’s stage through a side door, when Jesus appears on stage? Does a changing of roles take place, within a different story? Does the Messiah function within it as some kind of “black hole” in which the eternal election and calling of Israel disappear? How do we read God’s way? The Holocaust made us realize that our de-Jew-ized reading and preaching of Scripture contributed in various ways to this catastrophe. And we find ourselves confronted by the question: How does the narrative of the Bible then look when the whole of Scripture plays a decisive role, and the faithfulness of God toward Israel stays in the center? This book presents an answer to these questions, calling us to learn to read God’s way anew, and to walk in it.
Download or read book Not One of Them in Place written by Norman Finkelstein and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not One of Them in Place is the first book to examine the ways in which Jewish belief, thought, and culture have been shaped and articulated in modern American poetry. Based on the idea that recent American poetry has gravitated between two traditions—romantic and symbolist on the one hand, modernist and objectivist on the other—Norman Finkelstein provides a theoretical framework for reading the Jewish-American canon, as well as close readings of well known and less established poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky, Harvey Shapiro, Armand Schwerner, Hugh Seidman, and Michael Heller. Not One of Them in Place presents this poetry in a clear and nuanced style, paying equal attention to its historical and its aesthetic dimensions.
Download or read book Having A Better Marriage A Women s Guide written by Rivkah Harper and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-25 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book touches on the way the Torah views marriage from a spiritual and physical perspective, as well as the differences between men and women. We look, think and act differently. By understanding our differences, we can learn the best way to interact with each other. With this understanding, the author uses a very positive approach to introduce a few select points that can be used to make you the right partner.
Download or read book A Voice Calls Out to G D written by Rabbi Eleazer Shlomo Shick Shlit"A and published by j rosenberg. This book was released on 1987-06-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Voice Calls Out to G'd. By Mohorosh. Based on the Works of Rabbi Nachman of Breslovand His Holy Disciples
Download or read book The Politicized Concert Mass 1967 2007 written by Stephanie Rocke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the transformative 1960s, concert masses have incorporated a range of political and religious views that mirror their socio-cultural context. Those of the long 1960s (c1958-1975) reflect non-conformism and social activism; those of the 1980s, environmentalism; those of the 1990s, universalism; and those of the 2000s, cultural pluralism. Despite utilizing a format with its roots in the Roman Catholic liturgy, many of these politicized concert masses also reflect the increasing religious diversification of Western societies. By introducing non-Catholic and often non-Christian beliefs into masses that also remain respectful of Christian tradition, composers in the later twentieth century have employed the genre to promote a conciliatory way of being that promotes the value of heterogeneity and reinforces the need to protect the diversity of musics, species and spiritualities that enrich life. In combining the political with the religious, the case studies presented pose challenges for both supporters and detractors of the secularization paradigm. Overarchingly, they demonstrate that any binary division that separates life into either the religious or the secular and promotes one over the other denies the complexity of lived experience and constitutes a diminution of what it is to be human.
Download or read book The Legend of the Baal Shem written by Martin Buber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twenty captivating stories about the founder of the Hasidic faith Israel ben Eliezer called the Baal-Shem or Master of God's Name, provide a profound and charming account of the genesis of Hasidism, still Judaism's most important religious movement. As a delicate and moving portrayal not only of the power of the Baal-Shem's mystical faith, but also of Eastern European Jewish daily life, The Legend of the Baal-Shem is an ideal introduction to Hasidic religious thought, and to Martin Buber's own influential philosophy of love and mutual human understanding.
Download or read book More Stories from My Father s Court written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2001-11-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful sequel to a cherished autobiographical collection by the Nobel Laureate In My Father's Court is one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most affecting autobiographical works. The stories in it, published serially in the Jewish Daily Forward, depict the beth din in his father's home on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. A unique institution, the beth din was a combined court of law, synagogue, scholarly institution, and psychologist's office where people sought out the advice and counsel of a neighborhood rabbi. The thirty-one stories gathered here, none previously published in English, show this world as it appeared to a young boy: In "A Guest in the Prayerhouse," a man who has converted to Judaism embarrasses the community with his extreme piety; in "She Will Surely Be Ashamed," a couple come for a divorce after forty years of marriage even though they are still in love; in the extraordinary "He Begs Forgiveness," a jeweler apologizes to his former fiancée for abandoning her twelve years before, igniting the imagination of the young Singer, who dreams of writing stories about dark, eternal love. From the earthy to the ethereal, these stories provide an intimate and powerful evocation of a world.
Download or read book Positive Living the Best of Breslov on Positive Living written by Mohorosh of Heichal Hakodesh Breslov and published by j rosenberg. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positive Living. The Best of Breslov on Positive LivingFrom Learning to Earning andYearning for G-d.By Mohorosh.Based on The Teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov And His Student Rabbi Nosson of Breslov.
Download or read book The Legacy of Maran Rav Aharon Kotler written by Yitzchok Dershowitz and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rav Aharon Kotler zt"l came to America from Europe in 1942, bringing with him an unprecedented level of Torah learning, a pure and uncompromising dedication to Torah, and a Torah that was truly lishmah. In just 20 years Rav Aharon transformed the face of Torah in America. A Living Mishnas Rav Ahron-The Legacy of Maran Rav Aharon Kotler offers readers an intimate glimpse into the strength and spirit of this great man, through a wealth of stories, vignettes, insights, encounters with other great Jewish leaders, and most importantly, through a vibrant sampling of his teachings - all translated, for the first time, from the classic Mishnas Rav Aharon. Included are insights into chessed, Torah study, emunah, bitachon, hashgocha protis, middos, and much more. There are also entire chapters on the Rebbetzin a"h, Rav Shneur zt"l, Rav Nosson Wachtfogel zt"l, and the Lakewood Kehilla, along with many precious photographs - over 550 pages overflowing with the integrity, character, sanctity, and spirit of this Gadol BaTorah. Meticulously researched, compiled with great care, and beautifully written by one of Rav Aharon's talmidim - an eminent Talmid Chacham - this volume reads like a fascinating book, yet it is a sefer from which you will come away awed, uplifted, and inspired.
Download or read book Choson and Kallah During Their Engagement written by E. Falk and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the whirlwind of dating, the excitement of engagement, and the anticipation of wedding preparations, unfortunately, halachah often falls by the wayside. However, never are the laws of tznius, yichud, negiah, and proper behavior between the genders, more crucial than during this time. For if the couple is careful in these matters, their entire marriage will be infused with holiness and purity. This comprehensive work discusses all the practical applications of the halachos, in a clear, sensitive way. From the distinguished author of 'Modesty: An Adornment for Life.'
Download or read book Halachically speaking written by Moishe Dovid Lebovits and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
