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This book shows how Christian thought developed from Judaism, and its attempts to develop an More... |
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This book shows how Christian thought developed from Judaism, and its attempts to develop an independent line of thought of its own. |
| Publisher: | MOD Books, Tel Aviv,1993 |
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The early christian writings reflect ideas, beliefs, views and trends in Second Temple Judaism. They reflect the world of the Sages, including the Sages` Biblical exegesis, their parables, and even their own uncertainties. One also finds expressions of the hope for redemption and of the Messianic beliefs current in Judaism during that period. One can also discern echoes of most streams in Judaism of the time, including those of groups which the Sages regarded as heretical, such as Hellenistic Judaism and the Essenes, or the Dead Sea Sect.
Jewish sources alone cannot teach us enough about Second Temple Judaism. Our information on Rabbinic Judaism from these sources, for example, dates from a few generations after the rise of Christianity. The Sages began to chronicle their own history only after the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), and most of those who recorded the earlier oral tradition in the Midrashim (books of Biblical exegesis) and in the rabbinic legends lived at least a generation after the destruction of the Temple or later.
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A collection of articles that show how the Jewish heritage underlies the political behavior of More... |
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A collection of articles that show how the Jewish heritage underlies the political behavior of Jews and their institutions in all places and at all times. Contents: On the Reconstruction of Jewish Political Theory. The Kehilah: From Its Beginnings to the End of the Modern Epoch. Communal Change and Institutional Resilience: Anglo Jewry 1900-1920. Changing Conceptions of Political Life and their Implications for American Judaism. What a Jewish State Means to Israeli Jews. The Politics of the Religious Parties in Israel. The Israeli Religious Parties in Opposition, 1965-1977. The National Religious Party: Towards a New Role in Israel's Political System?. Public Protest and Systemic Stability in Israel: 1960-1979.
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| Publisher: | Bar Ilan University,1981 |
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211 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: some remarks and underlines.
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To speak of Jewish political theory as one might speak of western or Christian political theory, is to sharply dramatize how forlorn and unattended it is. The western tradition has its chroniclers, its devoted students, even its tenured professors; the Jewish tradition by contrast is treated to an occasional foray here, a desultory start there and to assorted pious (and ineffectual) exhortations that "something really should be done" to enrich this vein of unseemly poverty in an otherwise proud intellectual tradition.
(On the Reconstruction of Jewish Political Theory) |
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The book describes a series of encounters wherein individuals and groups who claim intimate acquaintance with the Kabbala are More... |
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The book describes a series of encounters wherein individuals and groups who claim intimate acquaintance with the Kabbala are challenged to relate their hidden wisdom to problems of our own day. It also contains some historic and technical information about Jewish mysticism. |
| Publisher: | Collier Books, New York,1969 |
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342 pages, paperback, good condition: hinges are starting but still tight. possibly inscribed by the author.
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Even now, the motivation for the search recorded in these pages appears so pragmatic, almost crass. I seem to have been looking for a kind of supertreasure whose value would not be affected by economic, social, political, nor, indeed, by any external circumstances. Once I came across a few lines written by a poet named Eli Siegel:
substance is what remains when everything you can think of has gone That seemed to explain what I was after. But then I found a Hebrew word that expressed it better. The word is yesh whuch means, literally, there is. |
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The book describes a series of encounters wherein individuals and groups who claim intimate More... |
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The book describes a series of encounters wherein individuals and groups who claim intimate acquaintance with the Kabbala are challenged to relate their hidden wisdom to problems of our own day. It also contains some historic and technical information about Jewish mysticism. |
| Publisher: | Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1969 |
| Additional Details: | 310 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition. Inscribed by author. |
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Even now, the motivation for the search recorded in these pages appears so pragmatic, almost crass. I seem to have been looking for a kind of supertreasure whose value would not be affected by economic, social, political, nor, indeed, by any external circumstances. Once I came across a few lines written by a poet named Eli Siegel:
substance is what remains when everything you can think of has gone That seemed to explain what I was after. But then I found a Hebrew word that expressed it better. The word is yesh whuch means, literally, there is. The old rabbis used it as a synonym for the treasure which awaits saints in the future life. |
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A selection of Jewish thoughts by figures such as Moses Maimonides, S.M. Dubnow, Henrietta More... |
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A selection of Jewish thoughts by figures such as Moses Maimonides, S.M. Dubnow, Henrietta Szold, Yehudah Halevi, Heinrich Heine, Israel Zangwill, Leopold Zunz, Mary Antin, Achad Ha'am, Leo Tolstoy, George Eliot, William Blake, T.H. Huxley, and many more. The book is divided into the following sections: I Am an Hebrew; The People of the Book; The Testimony of the Nations; The Voice of Prayer; The Voice of Wisdom. The book was originally produced for the use of British and American Jewish sailors and soldiers.
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| Publisher: | Eyre and Spottiswoode, London,1937 |
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320 pages, small-sized hardcover 9cmX13cm, good condition: pages are tight and clean, binding is strong with minor rubbing.
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The book A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta allows the reader to obtain a deeper More... |
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The book A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta allows the reader to obtain a deeper insight into rabbinic literature. It shows, for example, how rabbinic concepts differ from the ideas of the Bible, and yet that tabbinic concepts always possess biblical antecedents. The conceptual approach also solves a major problem of rabbinic literature - How are the midrashic statements related to each other?
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| Publisher: | Jonathan David, New York,1969 |
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215 pages, paperback, 12.5cmX18.5cm, good condition: pages are unmarked and tight, some rubbing to covers.
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The Mekilta is a tannaitic Midrash, and it consists of interpretations of extensive portions of the book of Exodus. Lauterbach has pointed out that the Mekilta, unlike other tannaitic Midrashim, contains more haggadic, non-juristic, than halakic, juristic interpretations. This preponderance of Haggadah is to be accounted for, as he says, by the fact that the Book of Exodus ``contains by far more narrative than law.``
(Max Kadushin: A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta, page 1) |
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A collection of talks and articles by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. The main focus of the collection is More... |
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A collection of talks and articles by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. The main focus of the collection is the Jewish people : The Jewish People in general, the Jews in the State of Israel, Diaspora Jews, and the Jewish individual. From the table of contents: On whom can we rely?; Nationalist fanaticism; Autoantisemitism, Is Ephraim a dear son to me?; Israel at 50; What will become of the Jewish people?; Where do Torah and science clash?; Gemilut Hasadim; On character education; The tree of knowledge and the tree of life; and more.
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| Publisher: | The Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications,2002 |
| Additional Details: | 227 pages, hardcover, very good condition. Inscribed by Adin Steinsaltz. |
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Some events are seen as historic turning points when they occur, but in retrospect are revealed to be much less significant. Other events may not seem so conspicuous, but create profound changes. I wish to focus on events of the latter kind. (On whom can we rely?) |
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On the left side of the book the author presents the history of the Passover festival, giving More... |
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On the left side of the book the author presents the history of the Passover festival, giving fresh significance to the changes wrought by the passing centuries and by the many countries of the Diaspora.. On the right side there is the text of the Passover Haggadah with a new translation. The texts are accompannied by 90 black and white illustrations and 64 colour photographs.
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| Publisher: | Weidenfeld and Nicolson,1972 |
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Contents: The Passover in Biblical Times; In Rabbinic and Medieval Times; Laws and Customs; More... |
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Contents: The Passover in Biblical Times; In Rabbinic and Medieval Times; Laws and Customs; Seder Customs and Practices; The Services of the Synagogue; The Exodus and its Religious Implications; Freedom.
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| Publisher: | Jewish Chronicle Publications, London,1958 |
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111 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, 11.5cmX17cm, good condition: pages are clean, binding is tight.
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According to Rabbinic calculation the duration of the Israelites` stay in Egypt was 210 years. The fateful events which took place during the last days of this long and harassing period of slavery are vividly described in the early chapters of the Book of Exodus. It was shortly before the day on which the last of the ten plagues was to befall the Egyptians that instructions were issued to prepare for the Passover.
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A guide to Yom Kippur: Why one day a year?; Why fast?; laws and customs; the history and More... |
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A guide to Yom Kippur: Why one day a year?; Why fast?; laws and customs; the history and structure of the services; the prayers; the confession of sin; repentance.
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| Publisher: | Jewish Chronicle Publications, London,1957 |
| Additional Details: | 83 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, 17cm tall, good condition. |
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On this awesome and joyful day of repentance, Jews gather in their Synagogues, their lives intermingled with the past of their people, re-living the tragedies of antiquity, re-encanting the ancient glories. During the long day the saints and martyrs, the poets and prophets of Israel come to life to sing again their song of triunph. Israel`s sweet serenade to its God is heard above the strident noise of wordly pomp. Israel`s spirit is vindicated before the world.
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Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions shaped and altered the More... |
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Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions shaped and altered the conception of God? How have these religions influenced each other? Karen Armstrong traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present.
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| Publisher: | Ballantine Books, New York,1994 |
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In the beginning, human beings created a God who was the First Cause of all things and Ruler of heaven and earth. He was not represented by omages and had no temple or priests in his service. He was too exalted for an inadequate human cult. Gradually he faded from the consciousness of his people. He had become so remote that they decided that they did not want him anymore. Eventually he was said to have disappeared.
That, at least, is one theory, popularized by Father Wilhekm Schmidt in The Origin of the Idea of God, first published in 1912. |
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The book covers 4,000 years of Jewish History - from the time of Abraham up to the present. It More... |
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The book covers 4,000 years of Jewish History - from the time of Abraham up to the present. It is divided into seven parts: Israelites, Judaism, Cathedocracy, Ghetto, Emancipation, Holocaust, Zion.
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| Publisher: | Harper & Row, New York,1988 |
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The Jews are the most tenacious people in history. Hebron is there to prove it. It lies 20 miles south of Jerusalem, 3,000 feet up in the Judaean hills. There, in the Cave of Machpelah, are the Tombs of the Patriarchs. According to ancient tradition, one sepulchre, itself of great antiquity, contains the mortal remains of Abraham, founder of the Jewish religion and ancestor of the Jewish race. Paired with his tomb is that of his wife Sarah. Within the building are the twin tombs of his son Isaac and his wife Rebecca. Across the inner courtyard is another pair of tombs, of Abraham's grandson Jacob and his wife Leah. Just outside the building is the tomb of their son Joseph.' This is where the 4,000-year history of the Jews, in so far as it can be anchored in time and place, began.
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This book is a general account of the origin and cosmic scheme of Creation and its inhabitants. More... |
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This book is a general account of the origin and cosmic scheme of Creation and its inhabitants. The aim of this work is to set out the macrocosmic order with its different levels of reality, the hierarchy of beings and their function, especially that of mankind which can exist throughout the Worlds. Perhaps the most important theme touched upon is the purpose of the Universe as it unfolds in a great Cosmic Cycle through the separated Image of, then reunion with, its Maker at the End of Time.
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| Publisher: | Rider & Company, London,1977 |
| Additional Details: | 206 pages, paperback, good condition. ISBN 0091285712. |
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How is the indescribable described? It is impossible, and yet mystics of all traditions have attempted it despite the fact they will fail and create only a faint after-image of something direct experience alone can give. Why then do they try? It is because natural man would have no conscious idea of the supernatural Worlds if he were not shown that there is an order and purpose even within the invisible realms.
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A reference book of Jewish festivals, traditions and customs with menus and recipes. The book is More... |
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A reference book of Jewish festivals, traditions and customs with menus and recipes. The book is written in the form of conversation between a mother and her daughter, Hadassah, who is about to be married.
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| Publisher: | The Ethel Epstein Ein Chapter of Hadassah, Canada,1961 |
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"Hadassah, I am delighted that you and David have decided on a formal betrothal, before your marriage. Most couples today become engaged without any ceremony."
"We thought it would please you and father and David's folks... Mother, what are the traditional customs in these things?"
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The Ritual Practices of Syrian, Moroccan, Judeo-Spanish and Spanish and Portuguese Jres of North America. This volume provides a More... |
| Content: | The Ritual Practices of Syrian, Moroccan, Judeo-Spanish and Spanish and Portuguese Jres of North America. This volume provides a comprehensive compendium of the laws and customs of these four main communities of Sephardic Jewry in such areas as holiday observances, worship services, birth, Bar Mizvah, marriage and divorce, death and mourning, dietary laws, family relations and many other areas. |
| Publisher: | Ktav & Yeshiva University, USA,1988 |
| Opening: | A girl is named in the synagogue. The father is called for an aliyah. The mesader announces Abi habat ("Father of te daughter") and immediately the congregation chants the Pizmonim Lezebed Habat. |
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Called "the tzaddik of Jerusalem," Rabbi Aryeh Levin became a legend in his lifetime. More... |
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Called "the tzaddik of Jerusalem," Rabbi Aryeh Levin became a legend in his lifetime. When he discovered Jewish patients in the leper hospital, he took to visiting them every week. Every Sabbath he went to visit the Jewish inmates in the prison. Then, under the British mandate, as the prisons filled with political opponets of the regime, Reb Aryeh's work expanded into a "major operation." He became the prisoners' link with the outside world, carrying (by his phenomenal memory) thousands of messages every week between the men and their families. From his own reminiscences and the recollections of devoted friends and admirers, this book presents a panoramic range of anecdotes and impressions, incidents and episodes in the rich eventful life of Reb Aryeh Levin.Introduction by Chaim Herzog. translated from the Hebrew.
(A page from this book can be read on our Page 80 section) |
| Publisher: | Feldheim, Jerusalem,1978 |
| Additional Details: | 438 pages, paperback, good condition: minor age marks, some wear to cover. |
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On the ninth of Nissan (March 28) 1969, Rabbi Aryeh Levin (of blessed memory) passed on from this world, in holiness and purity. So ended a life that was extraordinary, a matter of wonder in many ways. The inner focal-point in the activities of this "tzaddik of Jerusalem" was his utter dedication, his readiness to give of himself and sacrifice himself, in his love of Jews and Jewry.
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Called "the tzaddik of Jerusalem," Rabbi Aryeh Levin became a legend in his lifetime. More... |
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Called "the tzaddik of Jerusalem," Rabbi Aryeh Levin became a legend in his lifetime. When he discovered Jewish patients in the leper hospital, he took to visiting them every week. Every Sabbath he went to visit the Jewish inmates in the prison. Then, under the British mandate, as the prisons filled with political opponets of the regime, Reb Aryeh's work expanded into a "major operation." He became the prisoners' link with the outside world, carrying (by his phenomenal memory) thousands of messages every week between the men and their families. From his own reminiscences and the recollections of devoted friends and admirers, this book presents a panoramic range of anecdotes and impressions, incidents and episodes in the rich eventful life of Reb Aryeh Levin.Introduction by Chaim Herzog. translated from the Hebrew. Translated from the Hebrew, revised and expanded by Charles Wengrov.
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| Publisher: | Feldheim, Jerusalem,1978 |
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469 pages, paperback, good condition. ISBN 0873069862.
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On the ninth of Nissan (March 28) 1969, Rabbi Aryeh Levin (of blessed memory) passed on from this world, in holiness and purity. So ended a life that was extraordinary, a matter of wonder in many ways. The inner focal-point in the activities of this "tzaddik of Jerusalem" was his utter dedication, his readiness to give of himself and sacrifice himself, in his love of Jews and Jewry.
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Va'ani Tefillati is a siddur of the Israeli Conservative Movement. this Siddur includes modern More... |
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Va'ani Tefillati is a siddur of the Israeli Conservative Movement. this Siddur includes modern Israeli poetry alongside traditional prayer and offers a plethora of interpretations and direction.
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| Publisher: | The Masorti Movement, Jerusalem,2009 |
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This book seeks to present the ideas behind the Jewish faith in today's context. It promotes the More... |
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This book seeks to present the ideas behind the Jewish faith in today's context. It promotes the idea the Jewish religion is a holistic set of inextricably linked values which together comprise a state of the art system for human potential. It also attempts to demonstrate the relevance of the Jewish faith to men and women of all colours and persuasions.
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| Publisher: | Duckworth, London,1999 |
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176 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, very good condition. Inscribed by the author to Shimon Peres.
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There is something that the Jews and the British have in common. They are both phenomenal inventors but lousy entrpreneurs. Since moving to Britain eleven years ago, I have read countless articles lamenting the fact that British inventors repeatedly come up with remarkable innovations, only to see their ideas developed and marketed in the United States, where venture capital is more readily available. Take that problem, multiply it a thousand-fold, and you have the history of the Jews.
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This book presents a wide range of images, showing the principal aspects of Jewish artistic More... |
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This book presents a wide range of images, showing the principal aspects of Jewish artistic traditions across two millenia. Introduction by Bezalel Narkiss.
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| Publisher: | Chartwell Books, |
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From the Hashmonean period marking the awakening of the national consciousness until the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E., Jewish official art remained non-figurative. The priestly class ruled the nation and were primarily concerned with the purity of the religion and the cult as a whole.
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