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Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life

By: Kula, Rabbi Irwin

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Mar-14

Seller ID: 453526

ISBN: 1401309135

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the Books for a Better Life Award

Chosen as one of "The 10 Best Spiritual Books of 2006" by Spirituality and Health magazine

Rabbi Irwin Kula explores desire in spiritual life. Rather than leading us astray, our longings are gateways to self discovery. Our yearnings, once understood, can lead us to discover an expansive vision of God or a wider reality. And when we embrace even our most painful or taboo desires, we can love more deeply and live more fully.

The Biblical authors wrote about characters who, rather than leading perfect l...
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The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century

By: Laskin, David

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Viking: October 2013

Seller ID: 325586

ISBN: 067002547X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The author of the"The Children s Blizzard"delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish family
In tracing the roots of this family his own family Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, scholars and farmers, tycoons and truck drivers."The Family"is a deeply personal, dramatic, and emotional account of people caught in a cataclysmic time in world history.
A century and a half ago, a...
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Extraordinary Nature of Ordinary Things

By: Leder, Steven Z.

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 352385

ISBN: 0874416477

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Finding meaning in the mundane is just a matter of knowing where to look. Herewith, the miraculous nature of everyday life is explored. Through vignettes at turns funny and poignant, Rabbi Leder points out those easily overlooked connections between everyday experiences and the teachings of Judaism. God and spirituality can be found in every aspect of our daily routines. Ordinary things--a pet frog, a weekend fishing trip, a roller coaster ride--become extraordinary when reexamined through Jewish eyes. Woven throughout Rabbi Leder's essays are midrashic texts, talmudic excerpts, and passages f...
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Anti-Semitism in America

By: Leonard Dinnerstein

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press: May-94

Seller ID: 417352

ISBN: 195037804

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Mirror Maker

By: Levi, Primo

Price: $5.00

Publisher: December 2010

Seller ID: 119890

ISBN: 0805209891

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With the publication of The Periodic Tableon 1984, Primo Levi became one of America's most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are science fiction and fantasy, combining Levi's love for science with his keen perception of human nature. The essays, originally written for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, cover a broad range of his interests, from art and literature to politics and current affairs. Levi's quick wit and humanity shine through in these gemlike pieces.
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Reawakening

By: Levi, Primo

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 362180

ISBN: 90621667

Binding: Unknown

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Periodic Table

By: Levi, Primo

Price: $5.00

Publisher: October 2010

Seller ID: 386175

ISBN: 0805210415

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.

It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance t...
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Periodic Table

By: Levi, Primo

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oct-10

Seller ID: 455165

ISBN: 805210415

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living

By: Levy, Naomi

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 406089

ISBN: 0385531702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"How can I get my life off hold? When will my life really begin?
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We all ask ourselves the same questions when we are struggling to move forward. As a rabbi, Naomi Levy frequently offered spiritual guidance to people seeking the answers. But when a doctor told her that her young daughter, Noa, had a fatal degenerative disease, Rabbi Levy s own insights could not preventher whole life from unraveling.
In "Hope Will Find You, "NaomiLevy shares her journey and the wisdom she gained. She describes with humor and honesty how she came through a time of uncertainty and fear and learned how...
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Long Journey Home: A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust

By: Lipiner, Lucy

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 409296

ISBN: 1936840707

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The summer of 1939 turned out to be the last summer of author Lucy Lipiner's childhood. On September 1, when she was six years old, her parents roused Lucy and her older sister from their beds, and with other relatives in tow fled their town of Sucha and the invasion by Nazi Germany . Their journey of survival was not easy, and in Long Journey Home: A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust, from the perspective of that young girl, Lucy (Lusia) narrates her family's story. From her sheltered life in a small town at the foothills of Tatra Mountains to her time as a barefoot and hungry li...
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Guide of the Perplexed

By: Maimonides, Moses

Price: $12.50

Publisher: November 2009

Seller ID: 55834

ISBN: 0226502309

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This edition contains extensive introductions by Shlomo Pines and Leo Strauss, a leading authority on Maimonides.

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Guide of the Perplexed

By: Maimonides, Moses

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Nov-09

Seller ID: 417632

ISBN: 226502317

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Passover

By: Mamet, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: August 2010

Seller ID: 106042

ISBN: 0312131410

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, And The Jews

By: Mamet, David

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 200901

ISBN: 0805242074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, filmmaker, novelist, and essayist offers a provocative look at the role of anti-Semitism in modern life, examining the potentially destructive ways in which Jews themselves look for meaning and truth anywhere--in politics, other religions, and in mindless entertainment--but in Judaism itself. 20,000 first prin
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How to Read the Jewish Bible

By: Marc Zvi Brettler

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: May-07

Seller ID: 429738

ISBN: 195325222

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Daniel: Dialogues on Realization

By: Martin Buber

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Jan-64

Seller ID: 454161

ISBN: B0006BLYSK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology

By: Michael Fishbane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: Oct-10

Seller ID: 453169

ISBN: 226251721

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Happiness Prayer: Ancient Jewish Wisdom for the Best Way to Live Today

By: Moffic, Evan

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 404007

ISBN: 1478918063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

At age 30 Evan Moffic became the leader of a large congregation. He had great success. But he couldn't find happiness. Then he found a 2000-year-old prayer. In it were hidden elements of Jewish wisdom. They became a part of his life and those of his congregation and transformed them and him.

What if we had a clear path to follow when life disappointed us? What if we had a time-tested guide for a life of deeper meaning and happiness? That is what Rabbi Moffic discovered in an ancient Jewish prayer.
Based on ten practices any person can follow, the prayer has helped thousands o...
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With Heart in Mind: Mussar Teachings to Transform Your Life

By: Morinis, Alan

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 393599

ISBN: 1611801524

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A weekly spiritual practice for developing a strong and open heart--drawn from Judaism's Mussar tradition

Mussar draws from the vast storehouse of Jewish wisdom, law, revelation, and text and brings it right home in a way that is completely practical. Judaism teaches that Torah (the collective wisdom of the tradition) provides the blueprint for human experience--and so the more of it we acquire, the more we gain a clearer, truer perspective on life and learn how to navigate its pathways. The phrase "acquiring Torah" is code for the process of internalizing this wisdom to bring about...
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Prophets

By: Nev'i'im

Price: $7.50

Publisher: June 2011

Seller ID: 143167

ISBN: 0827600968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This is a translation based on the Hebrew Masoretic text, as well as insights drawn from ancient and modern translations and commentaries, including the Septuagint, Targum, and medieval and modern sources. It offers extensive scholarly footnotes, a glossary, and a table of scriptural readings. Includes Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings; the three major prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel; and the twelve minor prophets. An English-only edition.
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