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Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
by Alan Morinis  Publisher Comments Here is an accessible and inspiring introduction to the Jewish spiritual tradition known as Mussar. Well known in the Orthodox Jewish world, Mussar is an illuminating, approachable, and highly practical set of teachings for cultivating personal growth...
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Man's Search for Meaning, Revised and Updated (84 Edition)
by Victor E. Frankl 
Publisher Comments When Beacon Press first published Man's Search for Meaning in 1959, Carl Rogers called it "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." In the thirty-three years since then, this book — at once a memoir, a...
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The Family Seder: A Traditional Passover Haggadah for the Modern Home
by Alfred J Kolatch Synopsis A popular, low-priced Haggadah for the modern Jewish home, this edition contains the full traditional Passover service in both Hebrew and English text, plus many meaningful quotations culled from the literature of the ages designed to reinforce the...
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Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice
by Wayne Dosick Publisher Comments IN THE BEGINNING An old Jewish legend: In the beginning-before the beginning-God's light filled the entire universe. When God decided to create the world, He had to withdraw some of His light from the universe, so that there would be space for the land...
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A Family of Strangers
by Deborah Tall Publisher Comments "Without self-absorption, Tall traces the self's emergence in a place which she recognized from the start as her testing place."-Seamus Heaney "In the literature of place, Deborah Tall's book stands out for its delicacy, range of learning, and refreshing...
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The Wisdom of Maimonides: The Life and Writings of the Jewish Sage
by Edward Hoffman Synopsis Moses Maimonides is a towering figure in Judaism. Best known as the author of The Guide for the Perplexed, he was a rabbi, philosopher, and physician in Spain and Egypt in the twelfth century. His commentaries and writings on ethics and law profoundly...
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Ethical Writings of Maimonides
by Moses Maimonides Publisher Comments Here are the most significant ethical writings of the 12th-century philosopher, physician, and master of rabbinical literature — translated from the original sources by noted Maimonides scholars. Includes the first English versions of "Eight...
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The Jew in the Lotus: Poet's Re-Discovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India, a
by Rodger Kamenetz Publisher Comments "A highly entertaining personal account of one man's surprising journey into the mystical heart of Judaism."--Kirkus...
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The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices: Clal's Guide to Everyday & Holiday Rituals & Blessings
by Irwin (edt) Kula Synopsis Drawing from decades of experience in connecting spirituality with daily life, offers traditional and contemporary ways to mark all sorts of important events in people's lives. For each of more than 100 everyday events and holidays, it offers a...
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
by Lucette Lagnado
Publisher Comments In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant...
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Spiritual Activism: A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World
by Avraham Weiss Synopsis Perhaps the most fundamental principle in Judaism is that every person is created in the image of God. Just as God gives and cares, so too do we have the natural capacity to be giving and caring. When we work to ignite this divine spark in those around...
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Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History
by Joseph Telushkin Publisher Comments How much do you know about Judaism?How did the Ten Lost Tribes become lost ? Are circumcisions performed on the Sabbath ? Which country first granted Jews equal rights ?When was polygamy outlawed for Jews ? Why does Jewish law compare gossiping to murder...
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A Mystical Haggadah: Passover Meditations, Teachings, and Tales
by Eliahu J. Klein Publisher Comments In a generation that has seen an explosion in popularity of books about mystical and meditative traditions, very little has been published about the rich and fascinating mystical traditions of the Jewish holy days. Passover, the first religious holiday...
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The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews
by Neal Karlen Publisher Comments Yiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an incredible journey, especially considering how often Jews have tried to kill it themselves. Underlying...
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Putting God on the Guest List 3RD Edition How To
by Jeffrey K Salkin Synopsis More than 100,000 families have used this remarkable coming-of-age resource. In this new edition, Rabbi Salkin asks and answers questions that make parents and children more comfortable with the event and able to experience it more joyfully. How did bar...
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To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking
by Harold S Kushner Publisher Comments With his special brand of warmth and wisdom, Rabbi Harold S. Kushner awakens readers -- non-Jews as well as Jews curious about the religion they already cherish -- to the exuberance, enjoyment, and relevance of Judaism today. This exhilarating guide...
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God is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism
by David A Cooper Synopsis Explains the ancient Jewish mystical tradition of the Kabbalah to modern readers and applies it to the stresses and challenges of everyday life, with the help of evocative stories, point-by-point teachings, and exercises for beginners. Reprint....
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The Prophets (Perennial Classics)
by Abraham J Heschel Publisher Comments Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first published in 1962, it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship.The Prophets...
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Outwitting History
by Aaron Lansky Publisher Comments In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature--the physical remnant of Yiddish culture--was on the verge of extinction. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their non...
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
by Aaron Lansky
Publisher Comments The great Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich was delivering a lecture in Finland when the Nazis invaded his native Poland. The lecture saved his life. He made his way to New York, where he opened his doors to new students. Many thought his work was...
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