Sefer Ha Berakhot

Author : Marcia Falk
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ספר הברכות written by Marcia Falk and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1996 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Blessings is an extraordinary and deeply poetic re-creation of Jewish prayer that offers new blessings, poems, and meditations for Sabbath, holiday, and everyday observance. Steeped in dialogue with rabbinic tradition, it is for those who seek a more contemporary, egalitarian approach to traditional liturgy. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Avraham Weiss
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881257199
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women at Prayer written by Avraham Weiss and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's prayer groups have recently become a subject of controversy. These services, organized and attended by women who wish to become more actively involved in communal prayer while remaining faithful to Halakhah, are increasing in number and have come under attack from several points of view. In a source-filled and closely reasoned discussion of the obligations of women in regard to private and public prayer. Torah study, and aliyot, Rabbi Weiss analyzes the relevant passages in the Talmud and Rishonim. He concludes that there are no halakhic impediments to the functioning of such prayer groups. The expanded edition includes a section on the reading of the Megillah for women.

Author : Yoel Kahn
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195373294
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Three Blessings written by Yoel Kahn and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the traditional Jewish liturgy, a man praises God daily for not having been made a gentile, a woman, or a slave. Manuscript editions of the Babylonian Talmud teach that recitation of this prayer is obligatory for all Jewish men. Despite the fact that these blessings have been officially part of the daily morning liturgy for more than a thousand years, the propriety of whether and how to recite them is an ongoing subject of debate. Yoel Kahn offers the first longitudinal study of the evolving language, usage, and interpretation of a Jewish liturgical text over its entire 2000 year life-span.

Author : David Malkiel
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644697378
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaac’s Fear written by David Malkiel and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac’s Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, in Italy; this is the first encyclopedia of Judaism, with entries on thought and praxis. The book’s eight chapters are previously published studies. Isaac’s Fear represents the attempt to synthesize modern science and religious tradition, a fundamental issue then and in our own day. Encyclopedia entries illuminate the society and culture of early modern Italy, its Jewish community and the intellectual life of the author and his contemporaries.

Author : Yaakov Elman
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881255997
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book חזון נחום written by Yaakov Elman and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James T. Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004174508
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultures of Maimonideanism written by James T. Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of Jewish thought, no individual scholar has exercised more influence than Maimonides (1138-1204) philosopher and physician, legal scholar and communal leader. This collection of papers, originating at the 2007 EAJS colloquium, places primary emphasis on this influence not on Maimonides himself but the many movements he inspired. Using Maimonideanism as an interpretive lens, the authors of this volume representing a variety of fields and disciplines develop new approaches to and fresh perspectives on the peculiar dynamic of Judaism and philosophy. Focusing on social and cultural processes as well as philosophical ideas and arguments, they point toward an original reconceptualization of Jewish thought.

Author : Joel Hecker
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814331811
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals written by Joel Hecker and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent mystical attainment in their homilies about eating. What emerges is not only consideration of eating practices but, more broadly, the effects such practices and experiences have on the bodies of its practitioners. Using anthropology, sociology, ritual studies, and gender theory, Hecker accounts for the internal topography of the body as imaginatively conceived by kabbalists. For these mystics, the physical body interacts with the material world to effect transformations within themselves and within the Divinity. The kabbalists experience the ideal body as one of fullness, one whose boundaries allow for the intake of divine light and power, and for the outward overflow of fruitfulness and generosity; at the same time, the body retains sufficient integrity to confer a sense of completeness, as the perfect symbol for the Divinity itself. Nourishment imagery is used throughout the kabbalah as a metaphor signifying the flow of divine blessing from the upper worlds to the lower, from masculine to feminine, and from Israel to the Godhead. The body's spiritual continuity allows for unions between the kabbalistic devotee and his food, table, chair, and wine and is exemplified in the practices and experiences surrounding the consumption of food; this continuity is also applicable to other aspects of embodiment, such as the kabbalist's union with his fellow man. Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals underscores the homosocial quality of the kabbalistic fraternity, in which gendered hierarchies of master and disciple are linked to the imagery and dynamics of nourishment and sexuality. Bringing this entire spectrum into focus, Hecker ultimately considers how the oral cavity and stomach, even the emotions associated with festive meals, are mobilized to produce the soul of the mystical saint in medieval kabbalah.

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Publisher : כנרת
ISBN 13 : 9789650102494
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sefer Ha-aggadah written by and published by כנרת. This book was released on 1988 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judah (ha-Levi)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sefer Ha-Kuzari written by Judah (ha-Levi) and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Dov Soloveitchik
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881257717
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worship of the Heart written by Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rav here explores the crucial interface between living religious experience and halakhic norms. He analyzes the Amidah, the Shema and other liturgical texts, and considers the tension between human dependence and exaltation.