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Author: Hugh Nemets Publisher: ISBN: 9780996898706 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Who am I? Why am I here? Does God exist, and if He does, why does He allow such great injustice and evil to flourish? Are heaven (and hell) real? Is it possible that I will ever find unconditional and lasting love? At the height of a midlife crisis, these are the questions Hugh Nemets--secular Jew and avowed atheist--is asking as he cradles a 9mm pistol, a Heckler Koch P2000SK. A hollow-point bullet waits in the chamber, ready to fire... . Although he has acquired the gun purely for self-defense, he is now eying it as an instrument of death--his death. Mentally, he replays the dark secrets that have brought him to this moment. Strung out on drugs and alcohol, broken by a dysfunctional home life, twisted by sex and pornography, obsessed with the acquisition of money and possessions, Hugh is searching for meaning, acceptance, and unconditional love. But he hasn't found it. He might as well be dead. Death has stalked Hugh all his life. From the age of nine, he has stared down the Grim Reaper on many occasions and managed to stall his ultimate enemy. Few men could have survived this long. And he's tired of trying... . Dead Jew Walking: A Jewish Man's Journey from Death to Life traces one man's search for answers to the existential questions of humanity. From the ashes of his own spiritual holocaust, this "dead" Jew comes face to face with the Truth in a heavenly encounter that will change everything. Does this devout atheist surrender to the Truth? Will he accept the unconditional love offered to him? Join Hugh Nemets as he recounts his journey from death to an abundant life.
Author: Hugh Nemets Publisher: ISBN: 9780996898706 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Who am I? Why am I here? Does God exist, and if He does, why does He allow such great injustice and evil to flourish? Are heaven (and hell) real? Is it possible that I will ever find unconditional and lasting love? At the height of a midlife crisis, these are the questions Hugh Nemets--secular Jew and avowed atheist--is asking as he cradles a 9mm pistol, a Heckler Koch P2000SK. A hollow-point bullet waits in the chamber, ready to fire... . Although he has acquired the gun purely for self-defense, he is now eying it as an instrument of death--his death. Mentally, he replays the dark secrets that have brought him to this moment. Strung out on drugs and alcohol, broken by a dysfunctional home life, twisted by sex and pornography, obsessed with the acquisition of money and possessions, Hugh is searching for meaning, acceptance, and unconditional love. But he hasn't found it. He might as well be dead. Death has stalked Hugh all his life. From the age of nine, he has stared down the Grim Reaper on many occasions and managed to stall his ultimate enemy. Few men could have survived this long. And he's tired of trying... . Dead Jew Walking: A Jewish Man's Journey from Death to Life traces one man's search for answers to the existential questions of humanity. From the ashes of his own spiritual holocaust, this "dead" Jew comes face to face with the Truth in a heavenly encounter that will change everything. Does this devout atheist surrender to the Truth? Will he accept the unconditional love offered to him? Join Hugh Nemets as he recounts his journey from death to an abundant life.
Author: Dara Horn Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393531570 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.
Author: Simcha Paull Raphael Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 153810346X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 529
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Originally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish tradition and mysticism. As both a scholar and pastoral counselor, Raphael guides the reader through 4,000 years of Jewish thought on the afterlife by investigating pertinent sacred texts produced in each era. Through a compilation of ideas found in the Bible, Apocrypha, rabbinic literature, medieval philosophy, medieval Midrash, Kabbalah, Hasidism and Yiddish literature, the reader learns how Judaism conceived of the fate of the individual after death throughout Jewish history. In addition, this book explores the implications of Jewish afterlife beliefs for a renewed understanding of traditional rituals of funeral, burial, shiva, kaddish and more. This newly released twenty-fifth anniversary edition presents new material on little-known Jewish mystical teachings on reincarnation, a chapter on “Spirits, Ghosts and Dybbuks in Yiddish Literature”, and a foreword by the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, Rabbi Arthur Green. Both historical and contemporary, this book provides a rich resource for scholars and laypeople and for teachers and students and makes an important Jewish contribution to the growing contemporary psychology of death and dying.
Author: Lois Tverberg Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 031041220X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 202
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In this ebook download of Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus, Lois Tverberg challenges readers to follow their Rabbi more closely by reexamining his words in the light of their Jewish context. Doing so will provide a richer, deeper understanding of his ministry, compelling us to live differently, to become more Christ-like. We'll begin to understand why his first Jewish disciples abandoned everything to follow him, to live out his commands. Our modern society, with its individualism and materialism, is very different than the tight-knit, family-oriented setting Jesus lived and taught in. What wisdom can we glean from his Eastern, biblical attitude toward life? How can knowing Jesus within this context shed light on his teachings for us today? In Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus we'll journey back in time to eavesdrop on the conversations that arose among the rabbis of Jesus' day, and consider how hearing Rabbi Jesus with the ears of a first-century disciple can bring new meaning to our faith. And we'll listen to Jewish thinkers through the ages, discovering how ideas that germinated in Jesus' time have borne fruit. Doing so will yield fresh, practical insights for following our Rabbi's teachings from a Jewish point of view.
Author: Samuel C. Heilman Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520219656 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 288
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This account of the traditional customs that are practiced when a Jewish person dies provides an anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning, and explains the cultural meaning behind Jewish practices and traditions.
Author: Martin Fletcher Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429946067 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 240
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From the much lauded author of Breaking News comes a version of Walking the Bible just for Israel. With its dense history of endless conflict and biblical events, Israel's coastline is by far the most interesting hundred miles in the world. As longtime chief of NBC's Tel Aviv news bureau, Martin Fletcher is in a unique position to interpret Israel, and he brings it off in a spectacular and novel manner. Last year he strolled along the entire coast, from Lebanon to Gaza, observing facets of the country that are ignored in news reports, yet tell a different and truer story. Walking Israel is packed with hilarious moments, historical insights, emotional, true-life tales, and, above all, great storytelling.
Author: Anita Diamant Publisher: Schocken ISBN: 0805212183 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 290
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From beloved New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist—the definitive guide to Judaism’s end-of-life rituals, revised and updated for Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs. From caring for the dying to honoring the dead, Anita Diamant explains the Jewish practices that make mourning a loved one an opportunity to experience the full range of emotions—grief, anger, fear, guilt, relief—and take comfort in the idea that the memory of the deceased is bound up in our lives and actions. In Saying Kaddish you will find suggestions for conducting a funeral and for observing the shiva week, the shloshim month, the year of Kaddish, the annual yahrzeit, and the Yizkor service. There are also chapters on coping with particular losses—such as the death of a child and suicide—and on children as mourners, mourning non-Jewish loved ones, and the bereavement that accompanies miscarriage. Diamant also offers advice on how to apply traditional views of the sacredness of life to hospice and palliative care. Reflecting the ways that ancient rituals and customs have been adapted in light of contemporary wisdom and needs, she includes updated sections on taharah (preparation of the body for burial) and on using ritual immersion in a mikveh to mark the stages of bereavement. And, celebrating a Judaism that has become inclusive and welcoming. Diamant highlights rituals, prayers, and customs that will be meaningful to Jews-by-choice, Jews of color, and LGBTQ Jews. Concluding chapters discuss Jewish perspectives on writing a will, creating healthcare directives, making final arrangements, and composing an ethical will.
Author: David Baddiel Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0008490767 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 144
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North American Edition of the UK Bestseller How identity politics failed one particular identity. ‘a must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do.’ SARAH SILVERMAN ‘This is a brave and necessary book.’ JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER ‘a masterpiece.’ STEPHEN FRY
Author: Eli Valley Publisher: Jason Aronson ISBN: 9780765760005 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 568
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The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest is the most comprehensive guidebook covering all aspects of Jewish history and contemporary life in Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest. This remarkable book includes detailed histories of the Jews in these cities, walking tours of Jewish districts past and present, intensive descriptions of Jewish sites, fascinating accounts of local Jewish legend and lore, and practical information for Jewish travelers to the region.
Author: Hugh Nemets
Author: Hugh Nemets
Author: Dara Horn
Author: Simcha Paull Raphael
Author: Lois Tverberg
Author: Samuel C. Heilman
Author: Martin Fletcher
Author: Anita Diamant
Author: Gustave Doré
Author: David Baddiel
Author: Eli Valley