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Shuva
Offers a roadmap for revitalizing the connection between the Jewish people and the Jewish past
Yochanan's Gamble
Yochanan’s Gamble investigates how the talmudic rabbis navigate their own ethical challenges—determining truth, upholding compromise, convincing others, keeping the peace, weighing sinning in hopes of promoting greater good—thereby forging a pragmatic Jewish path for resolving moral conundrums today.
Longing
Longing is a universal human experience, born of the inevitable gulf between dream and reality, what we need and what we have. While the experience of longing may arise from loss or the awareness of a void in one’s life, it may also become a powerful engine of spiritual growth, prompting one to draw closer to the hidden yet present “Other.” Across the range of Jewish teachings, longing takes center stage in one’s spiritual life. From the Bible through current frontiers in Jewish belief and practice, God is both known and unknown, immediate and remote, present and in constant eclipse. This book captures the sense of longing in Jewish tradition by creating a dialogue between the author...
Jewish Meditations on the Meaning of Death
Bibliography: p.205-208. Index.
About the King's Choice to Build His Palace Right on Top of the Dunghill, Or, how to Conceptualize Jewishly
ISRAEL; the people, the nation, the religion. While remaining acutely aware of the shortcomings of both Heidegger and Derrida, the writer nevertheless uses insights and terminology from their discourse in the service of exposing the historical and thought trends of hegemonic proportions which have had the effect of deracinating Judaism from ISRAEL. The writer makes the claim that a "critical/spelunkative" analysis of what went into that final and anonymous redaction of the Babylonian Talmud points the way towards a retrieval of Judaism's "burning living center." The writer further contends that such a retrieval can have the effect of "returning" [teshuba] Judaism back to ISRAEL.
Who's Who in the Talmud
This exceptional work, with entries from Rav Abba to Rav Zutra, is an unprecedented study of every rabbi in the Talmud. The reader will find concise entries on every rabbinic personality mentioned in the Talmud, major and minor alike, and will discover such facts as their dates of birth, education, and occupation. Most entries are accompanied by a brief story about the rabbinic personality, with sources cited for easy reference.
The Medusa Conspiracy
The terrifying threat of war in the Middle East and possible nuclear holocaust becomes a distinct possibility when MEDUSA, the elaborate computer program linking military and intelligence agencies. goes out of control.
Ein Yaakov
This is the only complete English translation of the classic Jewish text known as Ein Yaakov. Ein Yaakov is a collection of all the agaddah (the non-legal) material of the Talmud, compiled by Rabbi Yaakov ibn Chaviv, the fifteenth century talmudist. Scattered among the more than 2,700 pages of the Talmud, aggadah focuses on the ethical and inspirational aspects of the Torah way of life. Through a wealth of homilies, anecdotes, allegories, pithy sayings, and interpretations of biblical verses, it has been said that the aggadah brings you closer to God and his Torah.
