Known as baalei teshuvah "those who return," formerly secular and marginally religious Jews are returning to embrace traditional Judaism and reclaiming it as an enriching and... Læs mere
For five decades prior to his death in 1993, Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik was the leader of modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States.
Readers of this book will emerge with a new awareness of what we as Jews are doing when we pray, why we are doing it, how we are supposed to be affected by prayer, how the prayers came to be as they are today, and how they differ among the major movements of American Judaism.
There is a huge body of literature addressing women and Jewish tradition, much of which seeks to supplement Jewish texts such as the Talmud and midrash where female voices are generally absent.
This inspiring volume documents the spiritual life of Jews during the Holocaust. Spiritual resistance was expressed on... Læs mere
Presents a study of Hebrew letters and words. This work uses gematria (interpretive Jewish numerology) to reveal the... Læs mere
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In Al Chet: Sins in the Marketplace, Meir Tamari, a renowned authority in the field of Jewish business ethics, explores the viduy specifically as it relates to the business world.
A beautiful memorial to the brave women who defied Hitler by preserving a part of their hertiage and a part of themselves in this handwritten collection of recipes, proving that the Nazis could not break the spirit of the Jewish people.
Is there a genetic predisposition to crime? Should mental illness be taken into account? Do family and social environments... Læs mere
Teaching the therapeutic principles of narrative reconstruction, this book shows how to do better what most therapists do in any case: characterize, construct plot,... Læs mere
Describes Aaron Beck's seminal model of depression, anxiety, anger, and relationship conflict and shows how each of these problems is handled by the... Læs mere