Attuned Learning (Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society) (Jewish Identity in Post-Modern Society)
by Elie Holzer
Groundbreaking interpretations of classical rabbinic texts lead the reader through an exploration of ""attuned learning"" an emerging paradigm of mindfulness that emphasizes alertness to ones own mental, emotional, and physical workings as well as awareness of others within the complexities of learning interactions. The pedagogical is integrated with the ethical in transformative teaching and learning; repair of educational disruptions; the role of the human visage; and the dynamics of argumenta...
The Legend of the Jews (Volume, #1)
by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg and Henrietta Szold
How can I lead others with authority and kindness? How can I strengthen my self-control? How can I balance work and family? How can I get along with difficult coworkers? How can I best relate to people in need? Enter the Talmudic study house with innovative teacher Rabbi Amy Scheinerman and continue the Jewish values-based conversations that began two thousand years ago. The Talmud of Relationships, Volume 2 shows how the ancient Jewish texts of Talmud can facilitate modern relationship buildi...
[Masekhet Pesahim] = (Schottenstein Edition Talmud Bavli - English Edition)
by Abba Zvi Naiman, Yisroel Simcha Schorr, Avraham Neuberger, and Chaim Malinowitz
Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests examines the impact of the Persian Sasanian context on the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon. What impact did the Persian Zoroastrian Empire, as both a real historical force and an imaginary interlocutor, have on rabbinic identity and authority as expressed in the Talmud? Drawing from the field of comparative religion, Jason Sion Mokhtarian addresses this question by bringing into mutual fruition Talmudic studies...
The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah
by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Y.H. Rawnitzky
The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right, and reprinted numerous times in Israel. The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, the architects of this masterful compendium, selected hundreds of texts...
Gemora Pesachim Daf 2-8 - The Complete Linear Translation
by Naftoli Eisemann
Rabbinic Traditions Between Palestine and Babylonia (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, #89)
In this book various authors explore how rabbinic traditions that were formulated in the Land of Israel migrated to Jewish study houses in Babylonia. The authors demonstrate how the new location and the unique literary character of the Babylonian Talmud combine to create new and surprising texts out of the old ones. Some authors concentrate on inner rabbinic social structures that influence the changes the traditions underwent. Others show the influence of the host culture on the metamorphosis o...
Contours of Coherence in Rabbinic Judaism (2 Vols) (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, #97)
by Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner
Gemora Sukka Perek #3 - The Complete Linear Translation
by Naftoli Eisemann