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Teaching Mitzvot
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Teaching Mitzvot

This exceptional guide for learning and teaching about mitzvot offers overviews of 41 mitzvot in six areas: holidays rituals word and thought tzedakah gemilut chasadim and ahavah.

Teaching Jewish Life Cycle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Teaching Jewish Life Cycle

Background information on every stage of life; covers every Jewish life cycle event from birth to death; insights from Jewish tradition; hundreds of creative activities for all ages.

Teaching Tefilah
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Teaching Tefilah

Parts I through IV of Teaching Tefilah contain fifteen chapters, each dealing with a section of the worship service or a topic related to prayer. Part V, new in this expanded revised edition, contains six new essays reflecting on recent trends in Jewish worship.

Hot Topics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Hot Topics

Ideal as a complete course text or as an informative supplement to "one-shot" classroom discussions this complement to Teaching Hot Topics encourages students to engage with issues through its interactive design pertinent scenarios probing questions and charts that summarize points and counterpoints for each topic.

Teaching Torah
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 406

Teaching Torah

A teacher's bible for teaching the Five Books of Moses This invaluable guide for preparing to teach or study the weekly Torah portion provides a precise synopsis of each of the 54 parashiyot, as well as overviews of commentaries and sources, capsule biographies of Torah interpreters, and provocative questions. Over 1,000 unusual strategies help readers analyze, extend, and personalize the text. A bibliography and a thematic index make this an especially useful resource for Bar/Bat Mitzvah preparation, sermon/D'var Torah ideas, and Havurah discussions.

The Inner Pulse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 167

The Inner Pulse

Understanding the secret code of illness and health Many doctors overlook the seemingly inexplicable tragedies and recoveries that happen in hospitals every day, opting to view them simply as aberrations from the medical norm. In this book, Dr. Marc Siegel draws from his decades of experience treating patients and explores the sometimes miraculous effects that the spirit and emotion can have on disease and healing. The inner pulse is the essence that links the soul to the mind and body, the marker that predicts whether a person's life force is fading or strengthening. This book shows you how to tap into your inner pulse and even how to influence it. Explores how your inner pulse can alert you to what is going on in your body Offers a new perspective on the positive and negative effects of the mind on illness and healing Includes dramatic case stories of Dr. Siegel's work with his own patients?those who have healed and those who have not Exploring the uncanny world where expectation and outcome are driven by a patient's personal intuition, this book will give you a deeper understanding of how the mind relates to disease and how the mind and the body working in sync can help heal.

What's Jewish about Butterflies?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

What's Jewish about Butterflies?

The themes are broken up into five categories: food, animals, the world around, all about me, and popular children's book and authors. Highlights some of the most common, relevant values that could be associated with each theme. Also attempts to make Israel as real and relevant as possible, by highlighting aspects of Israeli life and culture that expand the theme at hand.

Teaching Jewish Virtues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Teaching Jewish Virtues

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-358).

Bar Mitzvah, a History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Bar Mitzvah, a History

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."

Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 149

Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music

Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music is a collection of over 700 quotations culled from an array of sources, including rabbinic and theological texts, sociological and anthropological studies, and historical and musicological examinations. The book isdivided into five chapters: What Is Jewish Music?; Spirituality and Prayer; Hazzan-Cantor; Cantillation-Biblical Chant; and Nusach ha-Tefillah-Liturgical Chant. Taken as a whole, these quotations demonstrate both the centrality of music in Jewish religious life and the diversity of thought on the subject. They can be used with profit in sermons, speeches, and papers, and may be read in order or selectively. This is a valuable and easy-to-use reference book for scholars, musicians, synagogue staff, and anyone else seeking concise thoughts on major aspects of Jewish sacred music.