| Author | : Noson Kamenetsky |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Hasidim |
| ISBN | : 9789659037926 |
Rationalism Vs. Mysticism
| Author | : Natan Slifkin |
| Publisher | : Gefen Books |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2021-02-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9789657023624 |
KNOWLEDGE: Do we obtain reliable knowledge about the world from ongoing supernatural revelation, or from scientific investigation? NATURE: Is it preferable to perceive God as working through nature, or through supernatural miracles? SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES: Are we surrounded by all kinds of supernatural forces and entities, such as endless conscious angels, demons and the Evil Eye? MITZVOT: Do the commandments function solely to change our thoughts and behavior, or primarily to manipulate mystical forces? TORAH: Is Torah a Divine guide for life, or is it also a metaphysical blueprint for existence with all kinds of supernatural qualities? Rationalism vs. Mysticism is a thorough study of how these questions were answered very differently by various rabbinic scholars over history, reflecting two fundamentally different views of the nature of Judaism. It will profoundly deepen your understanding of Judaism and many of the intellectual conflicts that have arisen in Jewish history.
They Called Him Rebbe
| Author | : Raphael Blumberg |
| Publisher | : Urim Publications |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
The present volume, which contains more than one hundred vivid stories about Rabbi Boruch Milikowskys relationship with his students, entertains as it inspires. With tears and laughter, you will accompany Rebbe through the tragedies and triumphs of his life as he reaches out to his students with humor, wisdom and compassion, helping each one to achieve his full potential as a Jew and a human being.
The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology
| Author | : Yakir Englander |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2021-10-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1725287293 |
How does Ultra-Orthodox Jewish literature describe the male body? What does the body represent? What is the ideal male body? This book is a philosophical-theological exploration of the different images of the male body in Ultra-Orthodox literature since the holocaust. The body is not incidental to this community but is the axis by which it tries to understand its meaning and its role in life. In the first part of the book, Yakir Englander explains the “problem of the body” and the different ways that Ultra-Orthodox theology deals with it. These different and even contradictory voices can teach the reader about the shifting of ideas inside Ultra-Orthodox thought in the last decades. The second part of the book focuses on the image of the ideal body and describes how the rabbis train their bodies to reach ultimate form.
The Hanukkah Magic of Nate Gadol
| Author | : Arthur A. Levine |
| Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1536220035 |
From an imaginative team comes a new holiday myth for all families to enjoy, especially those celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah. Nate Gadol is a great big spirit with eyes as shiny as golden coins and a smile that is lantern bright. He can make anything last as long as it is needed, like a tiny bit of oil that must stretch for eight nights, a flower that needs to stay fresh to cheer up someone ailing, or a small lump of chocolate that grows to allow the Glasers to treat their children over the holiday and, during a harsh winter when medicine is needed more than sweets, spurs them to share what little they have with the O’Malleys. In this charming holiday hybrid story, well-known children’s author and editor Arthur A. Levine pairs with award-winning illustrator Kevin Hawkes to offer a mythical, magical take on the way Jewish families came to give and receive gifts over Hanukkah, just as their Christian neighbors do at Christmas, thanks to a loving spirit named Nate Gadol working behind the scenes—together with a certain jolly old soul.
The Summer Before Boys
| Author | : Nora Raleigh Baskin |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2012-04-03 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 141698674X |
Twelve-year-old best friends and relatives, Julia and Eliza are happy to spend the summer together while Julia's mother is serving in the National Guard in Iraq but when they meet a neighborhood boy, their close relationship begins to change.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
| Author | : Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| Publisher | : Penguin Group(CA) |
| Total Pages | : 832 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Art and music |
| ISBN | : 9780140289206 |
'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.
Godel
| Author | : John L. Casti |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2009-04-21 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0786747609 |
Kurt Gödel was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Shattering hopes that logic would, in the end, allow us a complete understanding of the universe, Gödel's theorem also raised many provocative questions: What are the limits of rational thought? Can we ever fully understand the machines we build? Or the inner workings of our own minds? How should mathematicians proceed in the absence of complete certainty about their results? Equally legendary were Gödel's eccentricities, his close friendship with Albert Einstein, and his paranoid fear of germs that eventually led to his death from self-starvation. Now, in the first book for a general audience on this strange and brilliant thinker, John Casti and Werner DePauli bring the legend to life.
The Sword of Judith
| Author | : Kevin R. Brine |
| Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 511 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1906924155 |
The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.
