Maimonides' Hidden Torah Commentary -- Exodus 22-40
by Michael Leo Samuel
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...
A Philosophy of Havruta (Jewish Identity in Post-Modern Society) (Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society)
by Elie Holzer and Orit Kent
No longer confined to traditional institutions devoted to Talmudic studies, havruta work, or the practice of students studying materials in pairs, has become a relatively widespread phenomenon across denominational and educational settings of Jewish learning. However, until now there has been little discussion of what havruta text study entails and how it might be conceptualized and taught. This book breaks new ground from two perspectives: by offering a model of havruta text study situated in b...
Shittah Mekubbezet on Bab. Talmud Hulin of R. Bezalel Ashkenazi (2 Volumes)
by Bezalel Ben Abraham Ashkenazi
One of the most basic questions for any legal system is that of methodology: how one interprets, analyzes, weighs, and applies a mass of often competing legal rules, precedents, practices, customs, and traditions to reach final determinations and practical guidance about the correct legal-prescribed course of action in any given situation. Questions of legal methodology raise not only practical concerns, but theoretical and philosophical ones as well. We expect law to be more than the arbitrary...
"Paulist Press deserves credit for adding this new dimension to interfaith dialogue." The Jewish Spectator The Talmud: Selected Writings translated by Ben Zion Bokser introduced by Ben Zion Bokser and Baruch M. Bokser preface by Robert Goldenberg "Study with all your heart and soul that you may know God's ways and be attentive to His Torah. Guard His Torah in your heart and keep the fear of Him before your eyes. Guard your lips from every sin, and purify and sanctify yourself from fault and wr...
The Wisdom of the Talmud
Biurim L'Pirkei Avot 2-Vol. Set
by Menahem Mendel Schneersohn and Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The Talmud of the Land of Israel (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism, #22)
Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume English translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi has been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism.
The Life and Teachings of Hillel provides the most comprehensive treatment ever published of one of the greatest figures in Jewish tradition. Yitzhak Buxbaum weaves together the various stories about Hillel along with his teachings and sayings to develop this ground-breaking portrait, shedding new light on Hillel's illustrious career, fascinating life, and profound teachings. Hillel is one of the most important and popular of the talmudic sages, yet he is mostly known only in the context of two...