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Satán: Una Autobiografía by Yehuda Berg Publisher Comments They say that the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing us that he doesn't exist. In this book, Yehuda Berg uses the device of an as told to autobiography to explain the concept of The Adversary which plays a major role in Kabbalistic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Ancient Judaism by Max Weber Publisher Comments Weber's classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Shtetl by Eva Hoffman Publisher Comments Looks at eastern Poland's formerly multicultural town of Bransk, exploring its culture, institutions, and the forms of Polish-Jewish coexistence that effected relations between Poles and Jews prior to World War II.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Window of the Soul: Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-1572) by Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital Publisher Comments Some 400 years before Albert Einstein proposed his Theory of Relativity of the outer universe to the scientific community, a Rabbi named Isaac Luria disclosed his theory of the inner universe and its evolution within the mind of the Ineffable. In 1492... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $20.37 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Meditation and Kabbalah by Aryeh Kaplan Publisher Comments A lucid presentation of the meditative methods, mantras, mandalas and other devices used, as well as a penetrating interpretation of their significance in the light of contemporary meditative research. Meditative methods ofthe East might have been... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Consciousness & Choice: Finding Your Soul Mate by Yitzchak Ginsburgh Publisher Comments Teaches how the mystical tradition in Judaism can help in making a decision on whom to marry.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Interrupting Auschwitz: Art, Religion, Philosophy by Josh Cohen Publisher Comments Hitler, wrote Theodor Adorno, imposed "a new categorical imperative on humankind...to arrange thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself." Interrupting Auschwitz argues that what gives this imperative its philosophical force and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $33.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy by Benjamin Pollock Publisher Comments Benjamin Pollock argues that Franz Rosenzweigs The Star of Redemption is devoted to a singularly ambitious philosophical task: grasping the All the whole of what is in the form of a system. In asserting Rosenzweigs abiding commitment to a systematic... (read more) List Price $77.00 Your price: $74.11 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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About the King's Choice to Build His Palace Right On Top of the Dunghill by John W. McGinley Publisher Comments ISRAEL; the people, the nation, the religion. While remaining acutely aware of the shortcomings of both Heidegger and Derrida, the writer nevertheless uses insights and terminology from their discourse in the service of exposing the historical and... (read more) Your price: $6.00 DRM-Free PDF - Electronic
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When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered by Ross Shepard Kraemer Publisher Comments This is a study of an anonymous ancient work (surviving in shorter and longer versions... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price: $124.88 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Of Methods, Monarchs, and Meanings: A Sociorhetorical Approach to Exegesis by Gina Hens-Piazza Publisher Comments Can rhetorical criticism and social-science criticism collaborate in the interpretation of Old Testament texts? Part one of this study surveys the two methods, defines the profitable points of contact in biblical exegesis, then proposes an integrated... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $21.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Everyday Torah : Weekly Reflections and Inspirations by Bradley Shavit Artson Publisher Comments An inspiring new collection from the author Rabbi Harold Kushner calls “one of the most insightful and articulate rabbis of his generation.” Following the success of his previous book, The BedsideTorah, Rabbi Artson once again casts a contemporary... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Transforming Darkness into Light: Kabbalah and Psychology by Yitzchak Ginsburgh Publisher Comments In Transforming Darkness into Light, Rabbi Ginsburgh describes for the lay reader the basic elements of a system of Kabbalistic psychotherapy, as it has developed in thought and practice over centuries. The rabbi highlights many ways in which the Jewish... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work by Hollace Ava Weiner Publisher Comments Only a fraction of Texans are Jewish, yet Texas rabbis are among the most influential, colorful, and celebrated figures in the state's history and culture. In Jewish Stars in Texas Hollace Ava Weiner examines eleven rabbis whose wisdom and leadership... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Hasidic Psychology: Making Space for Others by Mordechai Rotenberg Publisher Comments Interest in the impact of ethical systems and social or religious ideologies on socio-behavioral patterns is a longstanding theme in social science research. While interest may have begun with Max Weber and his thesis of the relationship between the... (read more) List Price $19.96 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris L. Bergen Publisher Comments In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, War and Genocide: A Concise History of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $24.01 Google eBooks - Electronic
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History, Religion, and Antisemitism by Gavin I. Langmuir Publisher Comments Gavin I. Langmuir's work on the formation and nature of antisemitism has earned him an international reputation. In History, Religion, and Antisemitism he bravely confronts the problems that arise when historians have to describe and explain religious... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Friends on the Way: Jesuits Encounter Contemporary Judaism by Thomas F. Michel Publisher Comments The largest order of religious in the Roman Catholic Church, the Society of Jesus has been at the forefront of the Church's efforts at dialogue across religions.Understanding and improving relations between the Church and the Jewish people has been a... (read more) List Price $36.80 Your price: $32.66 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Kabbalah: The Way of Light by Lawrence Kushner Publisher Comments A guide to Kabbalah, Judaism's mystical tradition. Title art is printed on a silver foil dust jacket.... (read more) Your price: $2.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation by Beate Meyer Publisher Comments Though many of the details of Jewish life under Hitler are familiar, historical accounts rarely afford us a real sense of what it was like for Jews and their families to live in the shadow of Nazi Germany’s oppressive racial laws and growing violence... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $22.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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