A Visually Delightful And Original Examination Of Jewish Holidays
The first unique aspect of Sacred Time is its cover image. While the popular adage tells us not to judge a book by it cover, thought certainly goes into what will grace a book’s cover. After all, this is the first thing a potential reader will see.
Reinterpreting Misunderstood Aggadic Women
Cursory glances at Talmudic texts are prone to misunderstanding and misreading, which is why many view the Talmudic rabbis as misogynists. Fine is a close and astute reader of these Talmudic texts and shows how many initial Aggadic impressions of these women can often be misread.
Women Inspiring Women
Toras Imecha makes a wonderful coffee table book or gift that demonstrates to all women what they can aspire to.
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Peshat…
He takes the reader on a dazzling historical tour of all those before and after Maharal who objected to the second class status of the study of Tanach and the monopoly that Gemara held over the hours of instruction.
A Non-Cynical View Of Halachic ‘Loopholes’
Cynicism is corrosive. It affects your faith in leaders, in friends, in family and even in G-d. A more sober look at the so-called halachic loopholes shows that rabbis are deeply concerned with following the divine will.
A New Way To Look At Vidui
Rav Weinberg does not leave us feeling lacking. With each entry, he helps to instruct us how we can go about repairing our mistakes, be they between each of us and our fellow, between us and G-d, or between us and ourselves.
Detection At Its Finest
A book is successful if you care about the characters and you’re caught up in the plot. This book meets those and many other qualifications for a gripping mystery and a wonderful read!
Shofar Stories
While these stores often have hundreds of shofars for sale, the book has stories about towns that lacked even a single shofar. And it was not that long ago that such things happened.
A Formula For Life
We need to understand that all the pain and anguish we experience is for the good. We then need to pave a path forward with this knowledge in our hearts.
Examining The Oral Torah
Despite its somewhat technical subject matter, Divrei Soferim was a fairly easy book to get through. I found many of the questions raised and topics discussed fascinating even if I could not recall all of them several weeks after completing the book.
Where Does the Oral Torah Come From? And Can It Change?
The reason the book carries this range of approbations is because it cuts across typical boundaries, blending traditional approaches to the development of the Oral Torah or Torah she-baal peh with up-to-date historical and legal scholarship from the academy.
Book Review: Jan Grabowski, On Duty: The Polish Blue & Criminal Police in the...
The book is a quest to explain how these Polish policemen transformed into lethally proficient cold-blooded murderers of their own countrymen,
Book Review: The Issue of Return
Why are there still Arab “refugees” from a war that ended 70 years ago?
Rabbi Berkovits On Megillat Ruth
The challenge in modifying halachic practices is that it can often be akin to modifying DNA. While the outcome can have horrifying consequences, Judaism has only survived by adapting to new circumstances while keeping its core the same.
Genuinely Funny Jewish Jokes
This book is good for kids, and seems to be less good for adults. It has a lot of puns, and when I told some of them to my parents they didn't think that they were funny. (But maybe my parents just don’t have a sense of humor.)
Championing Israel To Our Children
This book deals with the great challenge we all face in grasping what is currently happening to the Jewish people. The author demonstrates the rare talent and sensitivity needed to lift the veils of confusion and elucidate both our spiritual and historical connection with the land of Israel from ancient times through the present.
An Indispensable Guide To Hashkafa
Within Judaism, there are necessary disciplines, ideas, and requirements. Yet, it's not uncommon for people to live their entire lives without genuinely understanding these fundamentals.
There’s Nothing Like A Good Story
Bullying has become a scourge and is a topic that is not given enough attention, and I was happy to see that it was included here.
How Do We Enjoy Hashem’s World? A Conversation with Rabbi Yehuda Schonfeld
I did not recognize the rav’s greatness at the time, but the board was set for writing the book. I guess you could say that my mother introduced me to the rav. Regretfully, I never met him in real life.
The Worldview Of R’ Yehuda HaChasid
Weissman's book analyzes the dead and the afterlife as manifested in R’ Yehuda HaChasid’s thoughts and how he came to them. In a somewhat radical approach, the book shows the significant Christian influence on R’ Yehuda HaChasid.
Getting To The Soul Of Parenting: A Conversation With Slovie Jungreis-Wolff
A house filled with chutzpah is an unsafe home. The world is an especially frightening place these days; when you parent in unity, the whole environment feels good. The child will not have to look to the wrong outlets for love.
Another Haggadah Gem From Martin Bodek – Plus A Tribute Memoir To His Zaidy
That feeling of freedom after years of emotional and physical torture can be felt even more fully when reading Bodek’s Zaidy’s War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man’s Impossible Story of Endurance. He tells the shocking true story of his grandfather’s fight for survival during World War II.
Making Vaykikra Accessible And Meaningful
The author’s treatment of Yom Kippur is surprising. Rather than define the day in its more familiar sense, as a day of atonement, Rabbi Fohrman focuses on the language around the fact that Aharon’s sons die as a result of their sin at the beginning of the parsha.
Fooling G-d?
I greatly enjoyed studying all of these works, and I especially enjoyed reading them together. Each offers something important that the others do not, and each is an outstanding example of a different subgenre within contemporary halachic/Talmudic literature.
Rambam Has The Answers
The source of each quote, paraphrase or inspiration in each chapter is cited in a lengthy appendix at the end of the book. And the sources extend beyond the usual ones, even to Rambam's extensive medical writings and letters.
The Importance Of Physical Health
Kaufman, a nonagenarian, still exercises every day and limits the time he spends sitting. He devotes a great amount of time to staying healthy, so that he lives a long life in which he can dedicate himself – body and soul – to serving G-d.
Go And Learn
The first thing to say about this book is that it is a fantastic, fun, interesting read. I cannot wait to share this with my preteen son.
A Nugget Of Jewish History For Every Day
History is both broad and deep at the same time. One with a broad knowledge of the subject probably prefers more depth on a topic, while one with less background probably prefers something broader in its scope.
A Book For Children Going Through Challenges
A rollicking story with a happy ending, children aged 6-12 will understand that they have a choice when faced with any difficult situation.
The Personal Experience Of Prayer
Her book, or rather her slim booklet of around 20 pages, does not come to teach, prescribe or preach how Jewish prayer should look. Plenty of other books have been written for that purpose.
Headlines
Latest News Stories
Recommended Today
Sponsored Posts
