In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us his fascinating insights into the lives of a wide range of biblical figures, Talmudic scholars, and Hasidic rabbis. The matriarch Sarah, fiercely guarding her son, Isaac, against the negative influence of his half-brother Ishmael; Samson, the solitary hero and protector of his people, whose singular weakness brought about his tragic end; Isaiah, caught in the middle of the struggle between God and man, his messages of anger and sorrow count...
Talmud for Everyday Living 2 (Talmud for Everyday Living, #1)
by Hillel Gamoran
Koren Talmud Bavli V14g: Yevamot, Daf 107a-122b, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
Judaism and Story (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism-Analyses) (Chicago Studies in History of Judaism CSHJ (CHUP))
by Jacob Neusner
In this close analysis of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, a sixth-century commentary on the Mishnah-tractate The Fathers (Avot), Jacob Neusner considers the way in which the story, as a distinctive type of narrative, entered the canonical writings of Judaism. The final installment in Neusner's cycle of analyses of the major texts of the Judaic canon, Judaism and Story shows that stories about sages exist in far greater proportion in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan than in any of the...
Becoming Jewish is the first all-inclusive, step-by-step guide to converting to Judaism. Steven Carr Reuben, a highly respected rabbi, and Jennifer S. Hanin, a convert to the faith, lead readers through the conversion process, providing the right mix of advice, resources and humor for the journey. Jews-to-be often find the steps to Judaism foreign, complex, and mysterious. From learning an ancient language, to entering the mikvah (ritual bath), to choosing a Hebrew name, to circumcision, to app...
The Bible has always been vital to Jewish religious life, and it has been expounded in diverse ways. Perhaps the most influential body of Jewish biblical interpretation is the Midrash that was produced by expositors during the first five centuries CE. Many such teachings are collected in the Babylonian Talmud, the monumental compendium of Jewish law and lore that was accepted as the definitive statement of Jewish oral tradition for subsequent generations. However, many of the Talmud's interpreta...
Schottenstein Daf Yomi Ed Talmud English [#05] Shabbos Vol 3 (76b-115a) (Artscroll)
This detailed, systematic classification of Rabbinic narrative supplies these facts concerning the classification of narratives and their regularities: [1] what are the types and forms of narrative in a given document? [2] how are these distinctive types and forms of narrative distributed across the canonical documents of the formative age, the first six centuries C.E.? The answers for the documentary preferences are in Volumes One through Three, for the Mishnah-Tosefta, the Tannaite Midrash-com...
Koren Talmud Bavli V11a: Megilla, Daf 2a-17a, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
Dispute for the Sake of Heaven (Brown Judaic Studies)
by Richard Hidary
Biurim L'Pirkei Avot 2-Vol. Set
by Menahem Mendel Schneersohn and Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism, Eighth Series (Studies in Judaism)
by Jacob Neusner
This collection of essays draws on work done in 2011-2012. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology. The reason for periodically collecting and publishing essays and reviews is to give them a second life, after they have served as lectures or as summaries of monographs or as free-standing articles or as expositions of Judaism in collections of comparative religions. This re-presentation serves a readership to whom the initial presen...
Hilchasa Berurah Ta'anis Megilah & Chanukah (Hilchasa Berurah, #8)
by Ahron Zelikovitz
Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective, The: Part 2 (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East)
