Author: Mordecai M. Kaplan
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814339921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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In this book, Kaplan enlarges on his notion of functional reinterpretation and then actually applies it to the entire ritual cycle of the Jewish year-a rarity in modern Jewish thought. This work continues to function as a central text for the Reconstructionist movement, whose influence continues to grow in American Jewry.
Author: Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
Publisher:
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Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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Author: Arthur Green
Publisher: Jason Aronson
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Contemporary Jews. The book is at once a beginner's invitation to the profundity of Jewish spirituality and a rich rethinking of texts and positions for those who have already walked some distance along the Jewish path.
Author: Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199978573
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Byron Sherwin demonstrates that Jewish theological thinking can be understood as a response to visceral existential issues and argues that human meaning and fulfillment can be discovered in the application of an authentic Jewish way of thinking and living.
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Author: Will Herberg
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN: 9781879045873
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Originally published in 1951, it explores the ways in which the Jewish religion relates to our society and to us as individuals, and how we can draw this knowledge into our everyday lives.
Author: Ira Eisenstein
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 173
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Author: David J. Wolpe
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060976470
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Many parents find it easier to talk to their children about sex and other intimate matters than to answer questions about God, prayer, good, and evil. In fact, parents may feel they don't know the answers to such questions for themselves, much less for their young children. In Teaching Your Children About God, Rabbi David Wolpe shows Jewish parents how to openly explore the idea of God with their children. Through poignant anecdotes and practical exercises, Wolpe teaches how parents can guide children in the practice of prayer and create an atmosphere in which children feel comfortable questioning and wondering about God, life, and death. Wolpe also offers invaluable insights into children's spiritual needs, reveals the powerful effect faith can have on a child's self-esteem, and enables parents to understand their children's fears, dreams, and hopes. Perhaps most important, this wise and potentially life-changing book shows parents who may feel something missing In their own spiritual lives that it is possible to nourish their own souls even as they nurture their children's.
Author: Peter Schäfer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691181322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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"In this book Peter Schäfer casts light on the common assumption that Judaism from its earliest formulations was strictly monotheistic. Over and over again in the Hebrew Bible the biblical writers insist upon the idea that there is one and only one God. But the biblical text is multifarious and contains many sources that subvert from within the strong monotheistic thesis. Old Canaanite deities such as Baal and El, although pushed to the edges, prove stubbornly persistent. They come to the forefront in, for example, the famous "Son of Man" of chapter 7 of the Book of Daniel. In sum, Schäfer argues that monotheism was an ideal in ancient Judaism that was consistently aspired to, but never fully achieved. Through close textual analysis of the Bible and certain key post-biblical sources, Schäfer tracks the long history of a second, younger, subordinate God next to the senior Jewish God YHWH. One might expect that with early Christianity's embrace of this idea (in the form of Jesus Christ), Judaism would have abandoned it utterly. But the opposite was the case. Even after Christianity usurps the original Jewish notion of a second, younger God, certain post-biblical Jewish circles-in particular early Jewish mystical circles-maintained and revived it with the archangel "Metatron," a controversial figure whose very existence is questioned and fiercely debated by the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud. This book was originally published in Germany by C.H. Beck Verlag in 2016"--
Author: Neil Gillman
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN: 1580234399
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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With clarity and passion, noted theologian Neil Gillman explores the importance of community, symbol and myth in evolution of Jewish thought and reveals extraordinary insights into the purpose of religion, our relationship with God and Jewish identity.
