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This book presents the Jewish prayers for the Festivals of Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot in English with accompanying essays about the main prayers of the service, the Hallel, the basis of prayer, prayer as visualization and the devotion of Jewish life. Jews who engage in prayer agree that they believe their acts of recitation of prayer texts are a dialogue with God. The former Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, Sir Jonathan Sacks, summed this up saying, “Prayer is the language of the soul in conversation with God. It is the most intimate gesture of the religious life, and the most ...

Berakhot is the first tractate of the Talmud of the Land of Israel (Yerushalmi, Palestinian Talmud), composed in the Land of Israel at the beginning of the fifth century C.E. This book is the author's original elegant English translation of the most pertinent texts about prayer from the first five chapters of that Hebrew and Aramaic compilation. The Talmud of Land of Israel in Yerushalmi Tractate Berakhot presents the ancient rabbis’ discussions about Jewish prayers with particular attention to how to perform the major Jewish prayers, the Shema and the Amidah for the weekdays, Sabbaths ...

The elegant book provides a short introduction to the basics of the Jewish prayers. People of all faiths will find value and insight in exploring with the author the essential modes of praying in Judaism. This book explains six ideal ways to pray in Judaism. This condensed version of the author's classic book, "God’s Favorite Prayers" (2011) vividly depicts six major archetypes of all human worship: The performer, the Mystic, the Scribe, the Priest, the Meditator and the Celebrity Triumphalist.

This short, informative and elegant introduction depicts for you the sweeping development of Judaism from Biblical times to the present day. This wonderful book helps seekers and students of all ages and all faiths to better understand all of the diverse components and contributions of Judaism throughout the ages.

This book summarizes the origins of Jewish prayer in the first five centuries of the Common Era, known also as the epoch of early rabbinic Judaism, the time of the Mishnah and the Talmud, the era of the Tannaim and Amoraim, and the time of Jesus and early Christianity. This book presents a detailed analysis of the textual evidence on the subject mainly from the books of the rabbis, the Mishnah, the Tosefta and the Talmud, that finds the seams of timelessness and recovers the outlines of the origins of the great prayers of the Jewish people.

Dreams are the interior sleeping experiences of individual people, sometimes remembered by a person when he awakens, often not, sometimes narrative, other times disjointed and symbolic in flashes or episodes. Whether stories or scenes, we sometimes want more from our dreams than just entertainment. Before Freud, many literate interpreters of dreams assumed that these internal episodes were portents of the future revealed to individuals by some external angel or God.

This book presents the Jewish prayers for the Day of Atonement in English with accompanying essays about the main prayers of the Yom Kippur service, the basis of prayer, prayer as visualization and the devotion of Jewish life. Jews who engage in prayer agree that they believe their acts of recitation of prayer texts are a dialogue with God. The former Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, Sir Jonathan Sacks, summed this up saying, “Prayer is the language of the soul in conversation with God. It is the most intimate gesture of the religious life, and the most transformative.” Sacks ...

For everyone concerned with the formative period of rabbinic Judaism, the study of Rabbi Eleazar b. Azariah and his traditions is naturally important. He was prominent as a rabbi, a priest and a politician. According to rabbinic texts, Eleazar was a major figure among the rabbis at Yavneh in Israel in the second century C.E. Rabbinic literature speaks of Eleazar in more than two hundred places. One narrative describes that he was an important political figure at Yavneh and reports that he played a role in the events surrounding the deposition of Gamaliel II from the patriarchate. Many other...

This fun phenomenal book provides the general reader with a lively philosophy of Judaism through a series of short and easy to understand essays. This outstanding book offers sharp, witty and balanced analysis, insight and advice on a variety of perplexing personal, religious and social issues that are faced by observant Jews in particular and by all peoples of all faiths in general. This is theology based on Jewish sources and traditions in a new key - accessible to the world - unencumbered by philosophical jargon and pretentious theological pomposity. The more than 150 mostly urgent and ...

This critically acclaimed book explains the contents and meanings of the core Jewish prayers.