Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to the Talmud written by Aaron Parry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Talmud describes such topics as its contents, the relationship between science and medicine and Talmudic philosophy, the Talmudic lifestyle, and blessings found in the Talmud
Download or read book Sacrifices Left at the Altar written by Joshua A. Fogel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their extensive discussions constitute the bulk of what we now know as the Talmud. This collection is not only massive; it is forbiddingly difficult and has accumulated numerous commentaries over the centuries since it first appeared. Recent translations have made it somewhat more accessible to English-language readers, but textual difficulties remain. This volume looks at tractate Zevachim (Sacrifices), which is mostly concerned with meat offerings slaughtered and presented at the Temple (when it stood). Joshua A. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain and humanize the text for contemporary readers.
Download or read book Grains of Truth written by Joshua A. Fogel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at tractate Menachot, which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain the text for contemporary readers.
Download or read book Idolatry written by Alon Goshen-Gottstein and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idolatry, or its Hebrew equivalent Avodah Zarah ̧ is a fundamental feature of a Jewish view of other religions. All religions must pass the test of whether they are compliant with a Jewish view of religions as being free from the worship of another God. With the advance in interfaith relations, positions have been affirmed that clear most major contemporary religions from the charge of idolatry. What remains of “idolatry” once it no longer serves as a tool for evaluating other faiths? Does the category continue to have theological appeal? What are its internal uses? A cadre of Jewish scholars and thought leaders explore in this volume what the continuing relevance of “idolatry” is and how it might continue to inform our religious horizons, allowing us to distinguish between good and bad religion, both within Judaism and beyond.
Download or read book Rediscovering the Eucharist written by Roch A. Kereszty and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from an ecumenical conference that promote a further convergence in our understanding of the Eucharist.
Download or read book Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul written by Jonathan Boyarin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a narrative ethnography, in journal form, documenting the life of a small Orthodox Jewish congregation on the Lower East Side of New York in the summer of 2008. The text focuses on the arrival of a newer generation of congregants who are both younger and more transient than the previous immigrant generation. The synagogue and its social life are also portrayed as a microcosm of the gentrification of the neighborhood and resistance to that gentrification.
Download or read book Codex Judaica written by Máttis Kantor and published by Zichron Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Praises of Rabbi Nachman written by R Nachman of Breslov O B M and published by Simcha Nanach. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HH The Praises of Rabbi Nachman is a translation of the original Hebrew work: Shivchay HuRan, an all time Breslov classic and foundation of the Breslov tradition. This book has two parts. The first part primarily deals with Rabbi Nachman's early years, recounting his struggles, and his devotions, his piety, abstinence, holiness, challenges, and tests. It shows the reader how Rabbi Nachman began his service to Hashem which brought him to the highest levels possible. The second part of the book is a fascinating account of Rabbi Nachman's voyage to the Land of Israel, there and back, his great self sacrifice to surmount all the obstacles, and amazing adventures he had on the trip, more fantastic than any fiction. To help the reader, the book provides maps and a timeline of the major events of Rabbi Nachman's life, as well as a diagram of his family tree. This book also includes the booklet: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov: Who He Was and What He Said, to give the reader a brief synopsis of some of the things Rabbi Nachman is famous for. This booklet in turn contains the famous Tikun Haklali transliterated in a simple fashion easy to use. Enormous effort was expended to render the very most accurate translation of the material, even at the expense of style and grammar, because every nuance about Rabbi Nachman is critical. Also this book has extensive notes providing the reader with sources, background knowledge, and points to delve into and to study and ponder more in depth.Rabbi Nachman said there would in fact be such a book published about him, and I thank HY for giving me the merit to publish this book in English! Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman. HH after the first publication of this book, a second printing of a few thousand copies for free distribution was conducted in Israel. This had a more critical notes, and now this is the third edition with approximately 4 more pages of critical notes. Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman.
Download or read book The Taryag Companion written by Rabbi Jack Abramowitz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taryag Companion is Rabbi Jack Abramowitz’ most ambitious project to date. Not only does it include thorough and incisive explanations of all 613 mitzvos (according to the list of Maimonides) in a surprisingly readable fashion, the supplemental materials will enlighten readers on a broad array of related topics, from the 13 foundations of the Jewish faith to the 19 blessings of Shemoneh Esrei and from the 24 Books of the Jewish Bible to the 63 tractates of the Oral Law. Never before has so comprehensive an overview been so concise.
Download or read book The Book And The Sword written by David Weiss Halivni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Weiss Halivni emerges his original approach to critical study of the Talmudic text not only in its modern printed form but as it was in its original form, the Oral Torah from the mouths of countless sages.
Download or read book The Human Challenge written by Rabbi Avraham Edelstein and published by Mosaica Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every human being is presented with the ''human challenge'': How do I grow? How do I become wise? How do I sanctify the world around me and make it a better place? How do I work on my character? How do I integrate work and food and intimacy into my life's goals? This volume is an attempt to answer these questions for the intelligent and sensitive adult reader. It draws significantly on deeper Jewish thought, balancing brevity with profundity. The Human Challenge provides a rich and exciting entry point for those who are at the early stages of their relationship with Judaism as well as significant benefit to those with an extensive background, as it provides a methodical and sourced overview of topics that may otherwise remain as fragmented insights.
Download or read book Talelei Oros English Vayikra written by Rubin and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sefer Talelei Oros first appeared upon the horizon of Torah Jewry, it was met with instant appreciation and popularity. Now, for the first time, this masterwork has been adapted into the English language, making it even more accessible to the general public. A veritable galaxy of Torah giants appear on the pages of this extraordinary work. Among them are: Rabbi Yonasan Eibeschutz, the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, Rabbi Yeshoshua Leib Diskin, and the Chafetz Chaim, just to name a few. This is a work that expands the mind and uplifts the soul.
Download or read book Torah Encounters written by Rabbi Daniel Pressman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression. Torah study is how we mine not just meaning from the text, but our awareness of God’s will,” writes Rabbi Daniel Pressman in the introduction to Torah Encounters: Genesis. This book invites readers into the richness of the Torah, sharing context and information for each parasha, as well as commentary from generations of Biblical interpreters—historical and modern, and Rabbi Pressman’s own insights. The second in the five-volume Torah Encounters series, Torah Encounters: Exodus makes the weekly Torah portion approachable and applicable. It is a wonderful resource for clergy, adult or high school Hebrew education, or personal study.
Download or read book The Oral Law of Sinai written by Rabbi Berel Wein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the Orthodox historian Rabbi Berel Wein, The Oral Law of Sinai is an extraordinary and beautifully illustrated book that explores the Talmud—a law book that is a faithful transmission of the Oral Law of Sinai. As Rabbi Wein explains, the Talmud is two separate books comprising the Oral Law. This work offers an explanation of the first book of the Talmud, the Mishnah
Download or read book Founding God s Nation written by Leon R Kass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, humanist scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some the most important book in the Hebrew Bible, Exodus tells the story of the Jewish people from their enslavement in Egypt through their liberation under Moses’s leadership to their covenantal founding at Sinai and the building of the Tabernacle. In Kass’s analysis, these events begin the slow process of learning how to stop thinking like slaves and become an independent people. The Israelites ultimately found their nation on three elements: a shared narrative that instills empathy for the poor and the suffering, the uplifting rule of a moral law, and devotion to a higher common purpose. These elements, Kass argues, remain the essential principles for any freedom-loving nation today.
Download or read book Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice written by Jennifer Wright Knust and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.
Download or read book written by Gershon Robinson and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
