Product Description: Nefesh HaTzimtzum provides the single most comprehensive and accessible presentation of the teachings and worldview of the Vilna Gaon’s primary student, Rabbi Chaim Volozhin. It is focused on Rabbi Chaim’s magnum opus, Nefesh HaChaim, a work that has lain in almost total obscurity for nearly two centuries due to its deep Kabbalistic subject matter...read more

Product Description: Rabbi Leo Dee answers the fundamental question: why bother being Jewish in a modern world? Using history and logic, Rabbi Dee explains how Judaism enhances daily life to make it more meaningful. Transforming the World: The Jewish Impact on Modernity focuses on the tolerance and equality of all mankind that is fundamental in Judaism...read more

Product Description: Reconnect with the ancient soul of Jewish spiritual life and practice."Jewish spirituality is organically linked to the natural rhythms of the universe. To a great extent, Jewish religious traditions serve to bring Jews into a sensitive relationship with the natural world...read more

Product Description: Judaism’s Promise, Meeting The Challenge Of Modernity follows Seymour W. Itzkoff’s well-received three-book series, Who Are the Jews? Judaism’s Promise, confronts the many revolutions that have reshaped Judaism over the centuries allowing it and its people a path of leadership into the modern world...read more

Product Description: “Jewish thinkers don’t talk all that much about love. All too often we leave that to Christian theologians. But in this excellent volume, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin puts the commandment to love at the center of Jewish theology and experience...read more

Presents the first major code of Jewish ethics to be written in English, offering examples from the Torah, the Talmud, rabbinic commentaries, and modern stories to show how ethical teachings can influence daily behavior.

Book by Moran, Gabriel

Product Description: Classical Judaism imagined the situation of the people of Israel to be unique among the nations of the earth in three aspects. The nations lived in unclean lands, contaminated by corpses and redolent of death. They themselves were destined to die without hope of renewed life after the grave...read more

A fascinating introduction to the theologies of four modern religious thinkers helps believers break through the superficial generalities to unite people on the most profound levels and deepen their understanding of each other.

Product Description: Rabbi Isaacs answers well over 200 questions Christians ask him on his popular website, taking a concise but accessible, family-friendly approach on such topics as Jesus, the synagogue, Jewish beliefs, the Bible, holidays (including the Sabbath, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, Simchai Torah, Hanakkuh, Purin, Passover and Shavuot), life cycle events (circumcision, Pidyon HaBen, or the redemption of the firstborn, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, becoming Jewish, marriage, divorce, death and dying), dietary laws, Jews and the community, medical ethics, Jews and Christians, Jewish denominations and Israel...read more

Many books on Maimonides have been written and still more will appear. Few present Maimonides, as Menachem Kellner does, against the actual religious background that informed his many innovative and influential choices. Kellner not only analyzes the thought of the great religious thinker but contextualizes it in terms of what he calls the 'proto-kabbalistic' Judaism that preceded him. Kellner shows how the Judaism that Maimonides knew had come to conceptualize the world as an enchanted universe, governed by occult affinities. He shows why Maimonides rejected this and how he went about doing it. Kellner argues that Maimonides' attempted reformation failed, the clearest proof of that being the success of the kabbalistic counter-reformation which his writings provoked. Kellner shows how Maimonides rethought Judaism in different ways. It is in highlighting this process and identifying Maimonides as a religious reformer that this book makes its key contribution. Maimonides created a new Judaism, 'disenchanted,' depersonalized, and challenging; a religion that is at the same time elitistic and universalistic.

Product Description:  This fresh and contemporary introduction to the Jewish faith, its philosophies and worldviews, explores debates which have preoccupied Jewish thinkers over the centuries and examines their continuing influence in contemporary Judaism...read more

Product Description: The Structure of Religion: Judaism and Christianity presents a unique approach to understand each religion within its own context by addressing the differences in the ways in which each manifests itself in the world. Because it is frequently the differences in attitudes and behaviors, and not just beliefs, that constitute the major stumbling blocks to improved Jewish-Christian relations today, this book seeks to enhance respect for and appreciation of the other by utilizing a structural approach to both religions...read more

An introduction to the mystical tradition and practice of Kabbalah presents a series of practical exercises to enhance listeners' experience of union with the Divine by promoting awareness and understanding of the four worlds of mystical Judaism--physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Read by the author.

Product Description: From the Penteteuch and Nevi'im to the Ketuvim and the oral Torah, this straightforward reference walks you through God's instructions to His people and explains how these teachings are incorporated into Jewish life. The Everything Torah Book presents the tenets of the Jewish faith in an easy-to-understand reference...read more

The Way of the Boundary Crosser, by highly regarded rabbi and author Gershon Winkler, offers us an in-depth understanding of the teachings of Jewish tradition that challenges the notion that there is only one way to be Jewish, and that allows ample room for alternatives in Jewish theology, observance, and law.

Product Description: This book contains a wealth of information for the Jewish Woman. Anyone searching for the greater understanding of the role of the Jewish woman will find almost all answers that may come up as well as many others that you have never even thought of.

Describes the future of Jewish culture and identity.

A rabbi addresses how the nature of Judaism has survived and flourished through such obstacles as the Diaspora and Hitler's attempt to eliminate the Jews, and demonstrates how the religion remains relevant in modern society.

Product Description: A sequential approach to Teshuvah from the authors perspective and topics important to Teshuvah in the modern age

Product Description: Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous successor-system. He reviews the initial statements made in The Transformation of Judaism: From Philosophy to Religion...read more

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