This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
10 best books like This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation (Alan Lew): Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After, Further Tales of the City, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism, My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir, God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, Antisemitism: Here and Now
| Author | Danya Ruttenberg |
| ISBN | 0807010685 |
At thirteen, Danya Ruttenberg decided that she was an atheist. Watching the sea of adults standing up and sitting down at Rosh Hashanah services, and apparently giving credence to the patently absurd truth-claims of the prayer book, she came to a conclusion: Marx was right.
As a young adult,...
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
| Author | Julie Yip-Williams |
| ISBN | 0525511350 |
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more--a powerful exhortation to the living.
That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle....
Further Tales of the City
| Author | Armistead Maupin |
| ISBN | 0552998788 |
It took me 21 months to read this third volume. When Maupin comes up with a totally unbelievable plot line involving a resurrected Jim Jones, his kidnapping of two four-year-old children from an Alaskan cruise and then perhaps through Little Diomedes (a US island) to Big Diomedes (a Russian island)...
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...
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
| Author | Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| ISBN | 0374513317 |
Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of the 20th century, and God in Search of Man and its companion volume, Man Is Not Alone, two of his most important books, are classics of modern Jewish theology. God in Search of Man combines scholarship with lucidity, reverence, and...
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
| Author | Abigail Pogrebin |
| ISBN | 1941493203 |
Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized how little she knew about their foundational purpose and contemporary relevance; she wanted to understand what had kept these holidays alive and vibrant, some for thousands of years. Her curiosity led her to embark on an entire...
| 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,...
| Author | Lawrence Kushner |
| ISBN | 1879045338 |
Wow, not at all what I expected.
This was yet another book I stumbled upon in grad school and told myself someday I'd need to get back to. I'm glad I did.
The story of Jacob's Ladder, reinterpreted and expounded upon by 7 Jewish teachers/scholars throughout history. Sounds riveting...
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
| Author | Yossi Klein Halevi |
| ISBN | 0062844938 |
New York Times bestseller
"A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly...
Antisemitism: Here and Now
| Author | Deborah E. Lipstadt |
| ISBN | 0805243372 |
The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville,...
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)
| Author | Sarah Hurwitz |
| ISBN | 0525510710 |
*Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)* by Sarah Hurwitz is a beautiful book about Judaism. If will stirr your soul and touch your heart. If you are Jewish it will remind you of the beauty of your religion....
| Author | Nathan Englander |
| ISBN | 1524732753 |
The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father
Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies,...
Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up
| Author | Heather Corinna |
| ISBN | 1620106590 |
From Heather Corinna, founder and director of Scarleteen.com, and Isabella Rotman, cartoonist and sex educator, comes a graphic novel guide that covers essential topics for preteens and young teens about their changing bodies and feelings.
Join friends Malia, Rico, Max, Sam and Alexis...
Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer
| Author | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi |
| ISBN | 1580236278 |
Experience the living taste of prayer in your heart, the deep and gentle glow of prayer in your soul.
"Many who live their lives as Jews, even many who pray every day, live on a wrapped and refrigerated version of prayer. We go to synagogue dutifully enough. We rise when we should rise, sit when...
Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow
| Author | Arthur Green |
| ISBN | 1580232132 |
What can Kabbalah teach us about our lives today? What can it teach us about our future?
According to the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, Ehyeh, or "I shall be," is the deepest, most hidden name of God. Arthur Green, one of the most respected teachers of Jewish mysticism of his generation,...
Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary
| Author | Lawrence Kushner |
| ISBN | 1879045982 |
Suppose there is something going on in the universe which is to ordinary, everyday reality as our unconcious is to our daily lives? Softly, but unmistakably guiding it. Most of the time, we are unaware of it. Yet, every now and then, on account of some fluke, we are startled by the results of its presence....
Let's Make Ramen!: A Comic Book Cookbook
| Author | Hugh Amano |
| ISBN | 0399581995 |
A comic book cookbook with accessible ramen recipes for the home cook, including simple weeknight bowls, weekend project stocks, homemade noodles, and an array of delicious accompaniments, with insights and tips from notable ramen luminaries.
Playful and instructive, this hybrid cookbook/graphic...
| Author | Shai Cherry |
| ISBN | 1565859243 |
What could be simpler than a single people worshiping a single God for more than 3,000 years? But Judaism is far from simple, and as a religion, culture, and civilization, it has evolved in surprising ways during its lengthy and remarkable history. Consider the following:
Although Judaism...
