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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $20.24
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Manufacturer: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Menachem M. Schneerson::Alter B. Metzger
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Publisher: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
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Publication Date: 2002-04
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Reading Level: 428
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Description: To hear or read a discourse from the Lubavitcher Rebbe is to undertake an adventure. Challenged and encouraged to move to a higher level, we are transported to new locations. Time and again a discourse will be set in motion by a seemingly simple tension, a practical provision to be developed and solved. Once in motion, however, the discussion leads us into fresh perspectives, carefully constructed answers and new questions, until we climb rung by rung to the most elevated of vantage points. From here, as we survey the ground beneath us in its widest of contexts, the initial question is not only resolved but also reveals the starting point of a major spiritual search. These talks are addressed with relentless clarity to the contemporary Jewish condition. Their implicit starting-point is the darkness of a world in which spiritually, moral conviction, and the divine purpose of creation seem almost beyond reach. Their tacit faith is that through a gradual and supportive process, we can be led from the present moment of confusion to the timeless lucidity of Torah.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $17.90
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Manufacturer: JTS Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles Davidson
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Publisher: JTS Press
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Publication Date: 2001-05
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: From Szatmar to the New World is the story of Max Wohlberg’s odyssey from a yeshiva in Hungary to the pinnacle of the American cantorate. Wohlberg’s influential career as a cantor and educator is depicted against a background of social and cultural ferment. Readers are given a behind-the-scenes tour of rarely explored areas of American Jewish musical life: cantorial organizations at war with one another, demeaning auditions, the adulation of cantorial “superstars,” and the controversy over the investiture of women as cantors. Wohlberg’s long career paralleled the development of cantorial life in America, including the creation of modern cantorial music and the initiation of formal cantorial education. In his personal life, which was marked by good humor and total dedication to his calling, he personified the ideal cantor--someone who, as he put it, was “able to use his abilities in the service of the Almighty.”
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Price: $44.95
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Sale: $23.41
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Manufacturer: Jason Aronson
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Shammai Englemayer
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Publisher: Jason Aronson
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Dewey Decimal Number: 222.107
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Publication Date: 1997-12-28
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Reading Level: 390
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Description: Journalist Steve Lipman brings together three rabbis who respond to questions concerning each of the weekly Torah portions.
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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $19.00
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Manufacturer: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jacob Immanuel Schochet
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Publisher: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296
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Publication Date: 1990-12-01
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Reading Level: 148
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Description: Jewish mysticism has long fascinated and intrigued scholars and truth-seekers of every kind. Kabbalah, the esoteric wisdom of Judaism, and chasidism, its more accessible modern counterpart, have been the sublect of endless study and research. An authentic and scholarly English text that draws upon the full spectrum of traditional Jewish sources is a most valuable addition to this study. In this three-volume series, Rabbi Schochet, presents a sweeping survey of the major themes and concepts found in kabbalah and chasidism, and show how the exoteric and esoteric aspects of Torah complement each other in a manner analogous to body and soul of one entity. Volume Two: Deep calling Unto Deep - Jewish mysticism, particularly chasidism, offers unique insights into the dynamics of both tefilah, prayer, and teshuvah, repentance. This volume helps to make the practice of the these two fundamental principles of Judaism a more consciously vital experience, exploring the spiritual dimensions of each of them.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $35.00
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Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296.83420973
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Publication Date: 2000-07
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Reading Level: 407
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Description: This study of Conservative American Jews examines the largest movement of synagogue-affiliated Jews in the US, a group that outnumbers the combined membership of Reform and Orthodox congregations and a population that adheres to a centrist version of Judaism.
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $15.95
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Manufacturer: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jacob Immanuel Schochet
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Publisher: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296
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Publication Date: 1990-12
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Reading Level: 237
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Description: Jewish mysticism has long fascinated and intrigued scholars and truth-seekers of every kind. Kabbalah, the esoteric wisdom of Judaism, and chasidism, its more accessible modern counterpart, have been the sublect of endless study and research. An authentic and scholarly English text that draws upon the full spectrum of traditional Jewish sources is a most valuable addition to this study. In this three-volume series, Rabbi Schochet, presents a sweeping survey of the major themes and concepts found in kabbalah and chasidism, and show how the exoteric and esoteric aspects of Torah complement each other in a manner analogous to body and soul of one entity.
Volume Three: Chassidic Dimensions - Certain ideas and concepts - like that of universal Ahavat Yisroel, brotherly love, the figure of the Rebbe-Tzaddik, and the idea of a "joyful disposition," are so strongly identified with chasidic thought that many do not realize that they derive wholly from Talmud, Midrash and other classic traditions.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $19.44
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Manufacturer: JTS Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Baila Round Shargel
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Publisher: JTS Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296.83420924
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Publication Date: 1985-01-01
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Reading Level: 260
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Description: This book, the first full-scale biography of Israel Friedlander, sheds new light on the life and times of this scholar-turned activist. It follows him through the six major turning points of his brief life: his choice of Semetics as the focus of his scholaraly study, his joining the newly reorganized Jewish Theological Seminary, and his triumphs and disappointments in the academic and public arenas. It attemps to unravel the mysteries surrounding his appointment during World War I to an abortive Red Cross Commission to Palestine, and the subsequent mission of mercy which ended with his murder.
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Price: $38.95
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Sale: $3.78
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jan Feldman
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.042088296
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Publication Date: 2003-01-31
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Reading Level: 212
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Description: Lubavitchers are active in the civic life of their communities and so should be considered good citizens by advocates of participatory democracy. However, their obviously nonliberal worldview tends to elicit rancor in precisely those quarters. The notion that democratic political institutions require the support of a democratic political culture is pervasive in political theory. Many scholars treat democratic virtues and liberal values as synonymous. As a result, nonliberal groups are viewed with suspicion: if they reject liberal values, they are also seen as rejecting democratic ones. Jan Feldman focuses on a subset of Chassidic Judaism known as Lubavitch, or ChaBad, to explore this assumption. Lubavitchers make an excellent test case, she explains, because they are informed, politically active, and democratic on the one hand, yet embrace nonliberal values on the other. Unlike the Amish or Hutterites, they do not rely on rural isolation for group survival but function remarkably well in secular, urban settings. They embrace rather than withdraw from political life. Although they do not use the state to promote their worldview to a wider audience, their entry into the public realm often generates hostility and fear. Feldman does not claim that liberal values are irrelevant to democracy nor does she argue that all nonliberal groups are equally benign. "What Lubavitchers allow us to investigate," she writes, "is the common assumption that liberal and democratic attitudes are inextricably linked." Through numerous interviews in the centers of Lubavitch life in Montreal, New York, and Washington, D.C., she not only illuminates a group fascinating in its own right but also provides insights into long-held assumptions about the relationship between liberal and democratic values.
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Price: $11.00
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Sale: $8.95
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Manufacturer: Kehot Publication Society
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Shalom DovBer Schneersohn::Yosef B. Marcus::Moshe Miller
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Publisher: Kehot Publication Society
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Publication Date: 2000-07
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Reading Level: 112
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Description: The Jewish mystics and philosophers call man "medaber," the speaker. The capacity of speech is uniquely human, and we make much use of it, for better or worse. Yet we rarely consider its workings, how without any conscious premeditation, words flow effortlessly out of our mouths. Delivered on the second night of Rosh Hashanah 1898, Rabbi Shalom DovBer Schneersohn, fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, this fundamental discourse is now presented as part of the Chasidic Heritage Series with extensive annotations and explanations.
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Price: $6.00
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Sale: $4.69
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Manufacturer: The Melton Research Center
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Cheri Ellowitz Silver
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Publisher: The Melton Research Center
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296
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Publication Date: 1982-01-01
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Reading Level: 48
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Description: Kashrut is a system of laws which tells what foods are 'fit' to eat. Kashrut divides food into three categories: Meat, dairy, and neutral (fruits and vegetables). Most of the laws of Kashrut are concerned with the animal foods and how they can be combined with other foods. This workboos, appropriate for students in grades 3-6, will help to teach which animals can be considered kosher, how animals are slaughtered and prepared so that they are kosher, which foods are mean, milk, and neutral, and the laws of separation of milk and meat foods.
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