The Divine Feminine in Biblical Wisdom Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

The Divine Feminine in Biblical Wisdom Literature

The pure and penetrating message of the Divine Feminine Wisdom can become a companion for your own spiritual journey The first of God's creations and God's endless delight, Wisdom (also known as Chochma and Sophia) is the Mother of all life, the guide to right living. She is God manifest in the world you encounter moment to moment. Her teachings, embedded in the Holy Scriptures of Jews and Christians, are passionate, powerful calls to live in harmony, love with integrity and act joyously. Through the Hebrew books of Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes and Job, and the Wisdom literature books of Sirach and the Wisdom of Solomon, the Divine Feminine speaks to you directly, and Her on...

A Year with Mordecai Kaplan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

A Year with Mordecai Kaplan

"Quoting from the week's Torah portion, Rabbi Steven Reuben, who studied closely with Kaplan, presents Torah commentary, a related Kaplan quotation, a reflective commentary integrating Kaplan's understanding of the Torah text, and an intimate story about his family or his community's struggles and triumphs--guiding twenty-first century spiritual seekers of all backgrounds on how to live reflectively and purposefully every day"--

Introducing My Faith and My Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Introducing My Faith and My Community

"This guide will introduce you to Judaism in easy-to-understand terms and language. Whether you are married to or dating a Jewish man or woman, or are the parent, sibling, or friend of someone in an interfaith relationship, you will find this book to be a thorough and accessible entry to the Jewish faith and the cultural and social institutions of the Jewish world in America. Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky speaks directly to you, a person who stands on the periphery of Jewish culture and is only now beginning to move into the circle of Jewish faith and life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Way of Man
  • Language: en

The Way of Man

This short and remarkable book presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and their relevance to our lives. Told through legendary tales of the Hasidic masters, together with Buber's own unique insights, The Way of Man offers us a way of understanding ourselves and our place in a spiritual world.

The Jgirl's Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

The Jgirl's Guide

The JGirls Guide is an inspirational, interactive book designed to help pre-teen Jewish girls address the spiritual, educational, and psychological issues surrounding coming of age in today's society. Topics include: - Ideals of beauty- Friendship- Sexuality- Dealing with parents- Attitudes toward eating- Coping with stress and indentity

The Genesis of Leadership
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The Genesis of Leadership

The rich lessons of the Bible can be your leadership guidebook. Successful leaders don't rely solely on natural charisma and organizational authority as their tickets to success. Successful leadership is a learned art form and a developed discipline. You can master the art of leadership by examining the pitfalls and achievements of past leaders and penetrating the stories of our cultural and religious heritage. The Bible is the ultimate resource for learning by example: its stories of family relationships, political beginnings and even divine encounters provide valuable lessons about leading effectively. In this empowering guidebook, Nathan Laufer walks you through the stories at the very be...

Healing from Despair
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Healing from Despair

Through healing, brokenness can become a source of hope and blessing. This wise and helpful guide traces the path of suffering from despair to depression to desperation to the turning point where suffering can be transformed into blessing.

In Search of American Jewish Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

In Search of American Jewish Culture

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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: UPNE

A leading cultural historian explores the complex interactions of Jewish and American cultures.

Book of David
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Book of David

From award-winning comedian, director, writer, and producer David Steinberg comes the totally original, utterly blasphemous, and hysterically funny memoir of a young man who emerged from a traditional Jewish childhood to become an international star—all because, it seems, he kept God in stitches. David Steinberg was raised in Winnipeg, Canada, by parents who expected little from him. And no wonder. Instead of studying Talmud in order to become a rabbi, he chose to major in Martin and Lewis with a minor in basketball. As David imagines the story of his life (since his success otherwise makes no sense), God one day spotted him on the playground and decided that this young man with no ambition could go far with His help. Sure enough, God soon had David on network TV and Broadway, and selling out nightclubs across the country—as well as being pursued by hot starlets. The Book of David is David Steinberg's hilarious trip down memory lane, assuming that the lane has a biblical address. This wild riff on the Old Testament is guaranteed laughter.

Becoming a Jewish Parent
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Becoming a Jewish Parent

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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Harmony

Raising Jewish children in today's secular culture poses unique and serious challenges. How do parents pass on a positive, vital sense of identity, religion, and heritage without turning their kids off or overwhelming them? How do you explain what it means to be Jewish if you are ambivalent about it yourself? And perhaps most important, how do parents who have had little or no formal religious training themselves pass on rich, multilayered traditions that may have been missing from their own childhood experiences? In Becoming a Jewish Parent: How to Explore Spirituality and Tradition with Your Children, Daniel Gordis has written an invaluable guide for parents who are interested in introduci...