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The Life and Teachings of Hillel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

The Life and Teachings of Hillel

The Life and Teachings of Hillel provides the most comprehensive treatment ever published of one of the greatest figures in Jewish tradition. Yitzhak Buxbaum weaves together the various stories about Hillel along with his teachings and sayings to develop this ground-breaking portrait, shedding new light on Hillel's illustrious career, fascinating life, and profound teachings. Hillel is one of the most important and popular of the talmudic sages, yet he is mostly known only in the context of two or three popular stories told about him. Such stories as teaching the 'Golden Rule' of Torah 'while standing on one foot,' and his saying, 'If I am not for myself, who will be for me, and if I am for ...

Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy

Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy reveals the happiness that awaits us if we strive for real spirituality. The stories are about pious rabbis and humble tailors, about dancing, singing, laughing, and crying, but their common denominator is always joyous ecstasy. Drawing us into a world of devotion, the tales allow us to taste the bliss that comes from a life lived from the very center of one's self. Each story comes alive in joy and produces a "holy shiver" that speaks to the soul.

Storytelling and Spirituality in Judaism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Storytelling and Spirituality in Judaism

'The purpose of this book is to elevate stories and storytelling in people's esteem, so they will understand their holiness and appreciate them at their full worth. There are those who enjoy stories and storytelling but in the back of their minds think, 'After all, they're only stories.'

Jewish Spiritual Practices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 772

Jewish Spiritual Practices

The Jewish mystic path and its practices to attain God-consciousness.

Jewish Tales of Holy Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Jewish Tales of Holy Women

What is a "holy woman," or a holy man for that matter? According to the Jewish mystics, a holy person is someone who has not lost the holiness that every baby is born with. A holy person is someone who fulfills it. Stories about Jewish holy women have rarely been collected in such an engaging and entertaining form. The tales display a specifically female Jewish spirituality, giving us a peek into a world of devotional beauty that focuses on kindness. These stories of laughter and tears, humility and bravery, striving and trance, have an appeal spanning the denominational spectrum: they are spiritual nourishment for the soul. The rabbis say there are both male and female angels and angels are on earth as well as in heaven. These tales enhance our appreciation of the female angels on earth.

A Person is Like a Tree
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

A Person is Like a Tree

A Person Is Like a Tree: A Sourcebook for Tu BeShvat is the only sourcebook available for celebrating the Jewish holiday of Tu BeShvat, also traditionally known as the "New Year of the Trees." The Tu BeShvat seder, created by kabbalists in sixteenth century Safed in Israel, is similar to the Passover seder and involves drinking four cups of wine and eating a great variety of fruits. The kabbalists sought, by their eating of fruit at the seder, to make a mystical tikkun (fixing) to repair the sin of Adam and Eve in eating fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Yitzhak Buxbaum, the author of this sourcebook, notes that whereas most Jewish holidays are biblical in origin, and while Chanukah and Purim were instituted by the ancient rabbis. "Tu BeShvat is the only holiday ordained by the kabbalists."

Real Davvening
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 52

Real Davvening

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-27
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  • Publisher: CreateSpace

Real Davvening is about the spiritual side of Jewish prayer-- the traditional teachings about how to pray so that you have a spiritual experience; something happens. This book is for beginners as well as people who have been davvening their whole life. The key insight is to realize that davvening is a form of meditation that is not silent but verbal using textual and personal prayers to focus on the Eternal. Buxbaum explains how to enter a sacred private space and also how to connect deeply with fellow worshippers. Simple Jewish meditation techniques for davvening can lift your praying immeasurably higher until you experience the nearness of God. This book will open the gates before you to one of the most important Jewish spiritual practices: prayer.

The Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

The Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-01-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Features the life, in stories, of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), the founder of Hasidism. The Baal Shem Tov, or the Besht, as he is commonly called, led a revival in Judaism that put love and joy at the center of religious life and championed the

Serach at the Seder
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 12

Serach at the Seder

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Real Davvening
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 56

Real Davvening

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