Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide
10 best books like Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide (Aryeh Kaplan): The Birds and Other Stories, How to Fight Anti-Semitism, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, As a Driven Leaf, The Jew in the Lotus, Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History, The Lonely Man of Faith, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation, Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
The Birds and Other Stories
A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verità' promises immortality, but at...
How to Fight Anti-Semitism
| Author | Bari Weiss |
| ISBN | 9780593136 |
The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it.
“Stunning . . . Bari Weiss is heroic, fearless, brilliant and big-hearted. Most importantly, she...
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
| Author | Ari Shavit |
| ISBN | 0385521707 |
A groundbreaking, ambitious, and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today
My Promised Land tells the story of Israel as it has never been told before. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel...
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
| Author | Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| ISBN | 0374529752 |
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication-and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life.
In this brief yet profound meditation...
| Author | Milton Steinberg |
| ISBN | 0874411033 |
The age of the Talmud is brought to life in a breathtaking saga. This masterpiece of modern fiction tells the gripping tale of renegade talmudic sage Elisha ben Abuyah's struggle to reconcile his faith with the allure of Hellenistic culture.
Set in Roman Palestine, As a Driven Leaf draws readers...
| Author | Rodger Kamenetz |
| ISBN | 0060645741 |
While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues...
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History
| Author | Joseph Telushkin |
| ISBN | 0688085067 |
Rabbi Telushkin's Jewish Literacy is intended to serve as a general introduction to Judaism and Jewish culture and history. It performs more than admirably as such an introduction. Telushkin's prose is simple and elegant and capable of delivering large amounts of information with little wasted...
| Author | Joseph B. Soloveitchik |
| ISBN | 0385514085 |
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the rabbi known as “The Rav” by his followers worldwide, was a leading authority on the meaning of Jewish law and prominent force in building bridges between traditional Orthodox Judaism and the modern world. In The Lonely Man of Faith, a soaring, eloquent essay first published...
| Author | Alan Lew |
| ISBN | 0316739081 |
There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith.The Days of Awe...
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
| Author | Daniel Gordis |
| ISBN | 0062368761 |
Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award
The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem.
Israel is a tiny state,...
Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation: In Theory and Practice
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0877288550 |
To most people, the very word Kabbalah implies the mystical experience par excellence, but most modern books about this subject shed very little light into its ancient mystical and magical aspects. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has therefore translated the Sefer Yetzirah the oldest and most mysterious of all...
| Author | Ilana Kurshan |
| ISBN | 0646152602 |
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for daily page" of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years and the basis for all codes of Jewish law. A runner, a reader and a romantic,...
Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History
| Author | Joseph Telushkin |
| ISBN | 0062318985 |
“One of the greatest religious biographies ever written.” – Dennis Prager
In this enlightening biography, Joseph Telushkin offers a captivating portrait of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a towering figure who saw beyond conventional boundaries to turn his movement,...
A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
| Author | Jonathan Sacks |
| ISBN | 0743267427 |
For too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them. And it is true that, many times in the course of history, they have been nearly decimated: when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, when Hitler proposed his...
Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition
| Author | Alan Morinis |
| ISBN | 1590303660 |
Jewish by birth, though from a secular family, Alan Morinis explored Hinduism and Buddhism as a young man. But in 1997, in the face of personal crisis, he turned to his Jewish heritage for guidance. In his reading he happened upon a Jewish spiritual tradition called Mussar. Gradually he realized that...
Toward a Meaningful Life, New Edition: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson
| Author | Simon Jacobson |
| ISBN | 0060732784 |
Toward a Meaningful Life is a spiritual road map for living based on the teachings of one of the foremost religious leaders of our time: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Head of the Lubavitcher movement for forty-four years and recognized throughout the world simply as “the Rebbe,” Menachem...
Majesty and Humility: The Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
| Author | Reuven Ziegler |
| ISBN | 9655240762 |
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik was not only one of the outstanding Talmudists and religious leaders of the twentieth century, but also one of its most creative and seminal Jewish thinkers. This comprehensive study of Rabbi Soloveitchik's religious philosophy offers a broad perspective and balanced...
| Author | Faye Kellerman |
| ISBN | 0380817691 |
Faye Kellerman's new suspense thriller Stalker is as intelligent about police procedure as it is about family relationships. Cindy Decker is an ambitious young LA policewoman, mistrusted by her colleagues because her father is a senior lieutenant; when someone starts harassing her--following...
