Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy
by Yoel Finkelman
The Scroll of Secrets (Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History)
by Zvi Mark
Concealed for two centuries and known only to a select individual in each generation, the "Scroll of Secrets" is the hidden Messianic vision of R. Nachman of Bratslav. Despite being written in an encoded language, with acronyms and abbreviations, after a clarification and cautious reconstruction of what can be decoded, the reader is presented with an exalted Messianic vision. The book marks a turning point in our knowledge of R Nachman's spiritual world, and initiates a renewed discussion of an...
Chassidic Dimension, the - Mystical Dimension #3 (Mystical Dimension, #3)
by Jacob Immanuel Schochet
Suburbia may not seem like much of a place to pioneer, but for young, religiously committed Jewish families, it's open territory."" This sentiment--expressed in the early 1970s by an Orthodox Jew in suburban Toronto--captures the essence of the suburban Orthodox Jewish experience of the late twentieth century. Although rarely associated with postwar suburbia, Orthodox Jews in metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada have successfully combined suburban lifestyles and the culture of...
Reaching New Heights Through Prayer and Meditation (Reaching New Heights, #1)
by Miriam Yerushalmi
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
by Louis Jacobs
More than forty years have passed since Louis Jacobs first put forward the argument that traditionally observant Jews have no reason to take issue with the results obtained by the historical critics in their investigation into the Bible and the other classical sources of Judaism. In his numerous works on Jewish theology and in lectures worldwide, Jacobs has argued that the traditional doctrine which claims that 'the Torah is from Heaven' can and should be maintained - provided that the word 'fro...
The House at the Center of the World (Jewish Poetry Project, #2)
by Abe Mezrich
From the Preface: "The principal thrust of this book is to challenge the compartmentalization to which we seem all too easily resigned, to discover whether, and to what extent, the methods of modern scholarship can become part and parcel of the study of Torah, conceived as a religious-intellectual way of life. Not 'Modern Scholarship and the Study of Torah,' but 'Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah."
Challenge and Conformity (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
by Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly seeking new ways to express themselves religiously, and important changes have occurred in consequence in their self-definition and the part they play in the religious life of their communities. Drawing on surveys and interviews across different Orthodox groups in London, as well as on the author's own experience of active participation over many years, this is a thoroughly researched study that analyses its findings in the context of related developments i...
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, born in 1903 and scion of a preeminent Lithuanian Orthodox family, was one of the most towering intellectual figures of American Orthodoxy in the twentieth century. After receiving rabbinic ordination and completing his studies toward a Ph.D., he immigrated to America where he served as the Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. As the leader of centrist Orthodoxy in America for more than fifty years, his many accomplish...
Beyond a Code of Jewish Law (Judaism and Jewish Life)
by Simcha Fishbane
Righteous Women Bring Moshiach
by E Y and I Benyaminson and Menachem M Schneerson Shlita
Introducing a weekly spiritual practice for developing a strong and open heart—drawn from Judaism's Mussar tradition Mussar is a practice that draws from the vast storehouse of Jewish wisdom, law, revelation, and text, bringing it right home in a way that is completely practical. Judaism teaches that Torah (the collective wisdom of the tradition) provides the blueprint for human experience—and so the more of it we acquire, the more we gain a clearer, truer perspective on life and learn how t...