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Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective
Covenant marriages requiring premarital counseling and tighter strictures on divorce have recently emerged in some American states. At the same time, the doctrine of covenant has reemerged in religious circles as a common way to map the spiritual dimensions of marriage. Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective brings together eminent scholars from Jewish, Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, and Islamic religious traditions as well as experts on American covenant marriage. The introduction carries out an unprecedented comparison of contract and covenant in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim understandings of marriage. The rest of the book elucidates various facets of marriage from the perspectives of both jurisprudence and religion, producing an enlightening integrated picture of the legal and spiritual dimensions of marriage.
Reader's Guide to Judaism
The Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judaism, rather than on Jewish studies more broadly.
Biomedical Ethics and Jewish Law
"In addition, a number of the earlier chapters have been thoroughly revised in light of current developments. The book is an addition to the library of anyone who is concerned about the interaction between modern medicine and Jewish law in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
Judaism's Encounter with American Sports
Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports threatened religious identification and observance. What do Jews do when a society -- in this case, a team -- "chooses them in," but demands commitments that clash with ancestral ties and practices? Jeffrey S. Gurock uses the experience of sports to illuminate an important mode of modern Jewish religious conflict and accommodation to America. He considers the defensive strategies American Jewish leaders have employed in response to sports' challenges to identity, such as using temple and synagogue centers, complete with gymnasiums and swimming p...
The Fires of Israel
HH This is a book of the memoirs of Rabbi Yisroel Dov Odesser o.b.m, known affectionately as Saba Yisroel, who passed away not so long ago, almost hundred years old. In his lifetime the world went through a tremendous metamorphosis, famine and war plagued the world from the outside, and from the inside reigned all types of servitude and social injustice. Even any personal recounting of these huge upheavals would be fascinating, but Saba Yisroel takes things to an altogether different paradigm, sharing with the reader his passionate heart which didn't take the affairs lying down, but confronted his fate head on, with unfathomable courage. Saba recounts what he suffered and endured, and what h...
Pray With Your Limbs & Other Devotions of a Nanach
HH this book is not for everyone, it is only for someone who really wants to go all the way, to absolutely know and abnegate himself to his Creator. Such a person will find great help and hope with this short treatise. The book contains: Prayers addressing each of the main limbs and body parts, addressing their particular attributes and functions, often kabalisticy, and primarily based on the holy teachings revealed by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov - Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman. The book also contains A Short List of Holy Tzaddikim spanning the entire creation, so that one can easily merit to mention their names daily. The book also contains a few Prayers Before Prayers which are summaries of entire Torahs of Likutay Moharan. The book also has the english translation of the transcript of the Story of Rabbi Yisroel Dov Odessers becoming a Breslov hassid, and the story of the Miracle of the Petek, as he himself told it over. Finally this book includes the entire book: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov; Who He Was and What He Said (which includes the transliteration of the Tikun Haklalee). Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
Hisbodidus - Alone Time
This book is primarily a translation of Likutay Aitzoas - A Collection of Advice/remedies pertaining hisbodidus - seclusion, and alone time with the Almighty (Likutay Aitzoas is a concise summary of the lengthy teachings of Rabbi Nachman, to facilitate actualizing and fulfilling them. Rabbi Nachman himself told Rabbi Nussun to compose it), and a translation of the prayers in Likutay Tefilos - A Collection of Prayers (authored by Rabbi Nussun of Breslov, prayers to merit to fulfill and realize all the various aspects and concepts revealed by Rabbi Nachman) pertaining hisbodidus. There is an introduction which highlights the importance and fundamental value of hisbodidus, and some other extras...
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov; Who He Was, and What He Said
HH: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov lived over 200 years ago. His great grandfather, the Baal Shem Tov had already brought radical reform and revitalization to the world and Judaism, but Rabbi Nachman did not suffice with this spiritual inheritance, rather he sought out anew the very core fundamental essence and source of existence with the Holy Merciful One G-d. Countless times, every single day, he would start completely new, throwing his complete devotion in seeking true life and bonding with the Creator. Although he was blessed with extraordinary brilliance and genius, he shunned sophistication and even put erudition second to prayer. He championed simple devotions, he prized heartfelt prayer a...
