Author: Central Conference of American Rabbis/CCAR PressPublisher: CCAR Press
ISBN: 9780881231069
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Mishkan T'filah
Author: Central Conference of American Rabbis/CCAR PressPublisher: CCAR Press
ISBN: 9780881231069
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Days of Deliverance
Author: Joseph Dov SoloveitchikPublisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881259445
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Art of Blessing the Day
Author: Marge PiercyPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307760189
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A prize-winning collection of old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, about which the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "An exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and daughter poems, fierce and emotional, with their intense ambivalence, pain and joy, themes of separation and reconnecting, are among the very strongest about that difficult relationship." Lifshin continues, "These striking, original, beautifully sensuous poems do just that. Ordinary moments--a sunset, a walk, a private religious ritual--are so alive in poems like 'Shabbat moment' and 'Rosh Hodesh.' In the same way that she celebrates ordinary moments, small things become charged with memories and feelings: paper snowflakes, buttons, one bird, a bottle-cap flower made from a ginger ale top and crystal beads. "She celebrates the body in rollicking, gusto-filled poems like 'Belly good' and 'The chuppah,' where 'our bodies open their portals wide.' So much that is richly sensuous: 'hands that caressed you, . . . untied the knot of pleasure and loosened your flesh till it fluttered,' and lush praise for 'life in our spines, our throats, our knees, our genitals, our brains, our tongues.' "I love the humor in poems like 'Eat fruit,' the nostalgia and joy in 'The rabbi's granddaughter and the Christmas tree,' the fresh, beautiful images of nature--'In winter . . .the sun hangs its wizened rosehip in the oaks.' "I admire Piercy's sense of the past alive in the present, in personal and social history. The poems are memorials, like the yahrtzeit candle in a glass. 'We lose and we go on losing,' but the poems are never far from harsh joy, the joy that is 'the wine of life.' "Growing up haunted by Holocaust ghosts is an echo throughout the book, and some of the strongest poems are about the Holocaust, poems that become the voices of those who had no voice: 'What you carry in your blood is us, the books we did not write, music we could not make, a world gone from gristle to smoke, only as real now as words can make it.' "Marge Piercy's words make such a moving variety of experiences beautifully and forcefully real."
Mishkan T'filah For Gatherings
Author: Elyse D. FrishmanPublisher: CCAR Press
ISBN: 0881232742
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A lightweight edition of Mishkan T'filah, combining weekday and Shabbat services. Perfect for meetings, conferences, kallot, and retreats. Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment
Author: Daniel Chanan MattPublisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809123872
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.
Honoring Tradition, Embracing Modernity
Author: Beth LiebermanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780881233032
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Gift of Rest
Author: Joseph I. LiebermanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451627319
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Discusses the importance of observing the Jewish Sabbath as both a practical and spiritual exercise, and provides guidelines for properly incoporating the Sabbath into everyday life.
The Journey from Texts to Translations
Author: Paul D. WegnerPublisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 0801027993
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Traces the history of the Bible from the earliest manuscripts to contemporary translations.
The Shabbat Morning Service: Book 1: The Shema and Its Blessings
Author: Behrman HousePublisher: Behrman House, Inc
ISBN: 9780874414172
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This three-volume prayer series based on the Conservative Shabbat Morning Service transforms Hebrew study into a practical prayer learning experience. The only entry requirement is the ability to read Hebrew phonetically.¬+
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