This erudite and thought-provoking book is an excellent introduction to three major religious faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and their differing views of God, as well as the way these views have shaped the world. Karen Armstrong's personal history includes time spent as a nun in her homeland of England; this fact makes her comparative ...
The author, a Rabbi, contends that religious commitment can be accessible and attractive to everyone, regardless of how they live or what their religious convictions are. He does not attempt to "prove" God's existence, nor does he make a case for any particular religious group, instead he writes simply and gracefully about the need to make sense ...
This illuminating journey into the nature of God's "self" and one's self opens a window into Jewish spirituality for people of all faiths and backgrounds. God Was in This Place joins Kushner's great classics, The Book of Letters, Honey from the Rock, and The River of Light as the product of a new and dynamic spiritual and literary genius.
Rabbi David Aaron, writer, lecturer, and TV talk show guest, discusses perceptions of God, and the possibilities of freeing oneself from outdated, limiting notions of God. Based on teachings from the Kabbalah, the book covers common, human questions, such as why there is evil and suffering if there is a god, and whether or not the course of human ...
Traces the development of conceptions of nature, gender and sexuality from the goddesses of ancient Mesopotamian civilizations to the one God of biblical monotheism.
Who made God? Can God hear my prayers? Why does God let people die? The author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People helps parents understand their children's fears and fantasies, and offers advice on answering their questions about religion, the Bible, illness, and bereavement.
Kaplan, the founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, here takes the major formulation of his theological approach, "God as the power that makes for salvation", and demonstrates how it can be used to invigorate the Jewish religion in a changing world.
This is a book about God, specifically about the different ways Jews have spoken of God throughout history. In its examination of 4,000 years of Jewish thought, it presents the broad spectrum of theological opinions that have been explored and affirmed by great Jewish thinkers, ancient and modern. Many Jews today avoid speaking about God. Unable ...
The first English translation of one of the most important primary texts of Jewish mysticism. A fascinating introduction to the hidden world of the Kabbalah.
The state-of-the-art technology for achieving spiritual, physical, and emotional health is encoded in the biblical story of Moses. Kabbalistic scholar Rav Yehuda Berg decodes this technology to reveal the "72 Names of God": the keys to unlocking emotions that block the soul's well-being, such as depression, stress, creative stagnation, anger, and ...
In this work based on a Yiddish proverb, Hirsch addresses serious spiritual issues and teaches the importance of letting go and recognizing that even the most ordinary life is extraordinary in the eyes of God.
With simplicity, honesty and refreshing directness, the authors, Rabbi Gellman and Monsignor Hartman together recount profound spiritual truths about God that both Jewish and Christian children will appreciate.
Secular and religious Jews alike will find fresh wisdom and insight in Rabbi David Aaron's new book in which he reveals the joy that living a Jewish life can bring. With his characteristic humor and enthusiasm, Rabbi Aaron looks at some key, and often misunderstood, aspects of Jewish practice-our relationship with God, Torah study, prayer, ...
For modern Jewish parents, Rabbi David Wolpe offers an accessible, illuminating guide that shows them how to explain spirituality and the important themes of Judaism to their children. Through engaging and touching anecdotes, Wolpe provides parents invaluable insight into nourishing their own souls as they nuture their children's.
Idolatry is not just the worship of idols and clay figures. While the nature of the temptation has changed over the years, idolatry is as much a threat today as it was in our ancestors' time. Today, we face the lures of a material society. For many of us, our careers expand at the expense of our personal lives. Seeskin looks at turning points in ...
This book teaches the reader how to address God so that He will listen, and how to fine-tune your soul so that you will be able to recognise His answer.
This long-awaited, magisterial study - an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology - draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space continuum to establish what will surely become ...
Blumenthal maintains that while God is often loving and kind, fair and merciful, He is also capable of acts so unjust they can only be described as abusive. Basing his argument on the experiences of both Holocaust and child abuse survivors, Blumenthal grapples with how to face a God who works "wondrously through us" and who has worked "aw(e)fully ...
Rabbi Bookman seeks to bring religion back to the everyday lives of readers with his accessible and engaging look at some of the basic questions of religion: Is there a God? Why do bad things happen to good people?
While many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole - a category much more vast than ever imagined. Idel's aim is to point out the many instances where Jewish thinkers, especially the mystics among them, resorted to ...
Rabbi Haberman invited 14 leading figures in Jewish life, including novelists Cynthia Ozick and Chaim Potok, philosophers Emil Fackenheim and Yeshayhu Leibowitz, editor Norman Podhoreyz, scientists Arno Penzias and Philip Leder, rabbis Rachel Cowan and Louis Jacobs, and others equally well known, to engage in wide-ranging discussions about God.
This is an approach to midrashic literature that is responsive to the principles of contemporary literary theory. Midrash (the literature of classic Jewish Scriptural interpretation) has undergone a recent revival in the larger Jewsih community; David Stern examines this phenomenon from the perspective of the cultural relevance of midrash and its ...
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