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Category : Talmud
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Talmud: Tractate Taanit, pt. 2
Author: The Talmud: Tractate Ta'anit pt. 1-2
Author: The Talmud: Tractate Ta'anit
Author: Adin SteinsaltzPublisher:
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Category : Talmud
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book (2 Vols)
Author: Marvin J. HellerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004186387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1605
Book Description
The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book covers the gamut of Hebrew literature in that century. Each entry has a descriptive text page and an accompaning reproduction. There is an extensive introduction with an overview of Hebrew printing in the seventeenth century.
Three Questions of Formative Judaism
Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004494197
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The academic study of Judaism requires a systematic inquiry into the history, literature, and religion—and eventually the theology—as revealed in the historical documents themselves. Under this premise, Three Questions of Formative Judaism encounters the canonical writings of Judaism in the context of their creation at a certain time and place. How something is said thus becomes as important as what is said. Bringing nearly fifty years of research to bear on these fundamental questions, Jacob Neusner challenges his readers to face the difficult, often unasked or neglected questions about the nature, background, and purposes of Rabbinic Judaism and rewards them with an enriched understanding and a stronger foundation for tackling the even more elusive questions concerning the theology of formative Judaism. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
The Talmud
Author: Ben Zion BokserPublisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809131143
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This volume sheds light on the early rabbis as the shapers of religion and uncovers for the modern reader the early Sages' fundamental beliefs concerning God, the world and the human condition.
The Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin, pt. 2
Author: Adin SteinsaltzPublisher:
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Category : Talmud
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The Talmud: Tractate Bava Metzia, pt. 2
Author: Adin SteinsaltzPublisher:
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Category : Talmud
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Losing It
Author: William Ian MillerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178379
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old: too old to matter, of either rightly losing your confidence or wrongly maintaining it, culpably refusing to face the fact that you are losing it. The “it” in Miller’s “losing it” refers mainly to mental faculties—memory, processing speed, sensory acuity, the capacity to focus. But it includes other evidence as well—sags and flaccidities, aches and pains, failing joints and organs. What are we to make of these tell-tale signs? Does growing old gracefully mean more than simply refusing unseemly cosmetic surgeries? How do we face decline and the final drawing of the blinds? Will we know if and when we have lingered too long?Drawing on a lifetime of deep study and anxious observation, Miller enlists the wisdom of the ancients to confront these vexed questions head on. Debunking the glossy new image of old age that has accompanied the graying of the Baby Boomers, he conjures a lost world of aging rituals—complaints, taking to bed, resentments of one’s heirs, schemes for taking it with you or settling up accounts and scores—to remind us of the ongoing dilemmas of old age. Darkly intelligent and sublimely written, this exhilarating and eccentric book will raise the spirits of readers, young and old.
A Time to Every Purpose
Author: Jonathan D SarnaPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786731664
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the central question confronting Jewish leaders in America is simple: Why be Jewish? Jonathan D. Sarna, acclaimed scholar of American Judaism, believes that "Why be Jewish?" is the wrong question. Judaism, he believes, is not so much a "why" as a way -- a way of life, a way of marking time, a way of relating to the environment, to human beings, to family, and to God. Judaism is experienced through doing -- doing things Jewish, doing things for fellow Jews in need, doing things as a Jew to improve the state of the world. The more Judaism one does, the more one comes to appreciate what Judaism is. Using the Jewish calendar as his starting point, Sarna reflects on the major themes of Jewish life as expressed in a full year of holidays -- from Passover in the spring to Purim eleven months later. Passover, for instance, yields a discussion of freedom; Shavuot, a discussion of Torah; Yom Kippur, the role of the individual within the Jewish community; Chanukah, issues of assimilation and anti-assimilation. An essential brief introduction -- or reintroduction -- to the major practices of Jewish life as well as the many complexities of the American Jewish experience, this book will be essential reading for American Jews and the perfect gift for the holiday season.