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Around the Shabbat Table

A Guide to Fulfilling and Meaningful Shabbat Table Conversations

By: Aryeh Ben David

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Around the Shabbat Table

A Guide to Fulfilling and Meaningful Shabbat Table Conversations

By: Aryeh Ben David

The three Shabbat meals offer an opportunity to think about life and connect with others. However, despite our best intentions, the lack of time and sufficient resources may preclude in-depth grappling with more significant and meaningful issues. Around the Shabbat Table addresses this problem. Its goal is to serve as a springboard for more personally stimulating and meaningful Shabbat conversations. Each unit can be read directly at the Shabbat table and no prior knowledge or preparation is necessary. The ideas presented are designed for Jewish adults of all backgrounds and religious denominations. They reflect a philosophy that the Torah belongs to and should be accessible to all Jews, whatever they think or believe, wherever they may be.

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Jason Aronson

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0765761246

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9780765761248

Becoming a Soulful Educator

How to Bring Jewish Learning from Our Minds, to Our Hearts, to Our Souls—and Into Our Lives

By: Rabbi Aryeh Ben David

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Becoming a Soulful Educator

How to Bring Jewish Learning from Our Minds, to Our Hearts, to Our Souls—and Into Our Lives

By: Rabbi Aryeh Ben David

Wake up, educators! Move beyond conveying information, beyond the classroom, to transforming the soul. Long description: The time has come for a new GPS in education. The goal is no longer to teach a good class, to convey information or even to have the students enjoy the learning. Soulful education is about enabling another—child, adolescent, adult—to discover how to become his or her best self through learning. In this bold revisioning of effective education, renowned educator Rabbi Aryeh Ben David recalibrates the focus of teaching from the acquisition of knowledge to the transformation of the soul. He presents six steps to help educators of all kinds teach to the heart, engage students in knowledge gathering without preaching or controlling, and enable students to authentically and personally integrate Jewish wisdom into their lives. He offers guidance for how teachers can share their own vulnerabilities and yearnings to become a better force of harmony to help students gain new clarity on their own infinite potential for positive change. This is the essential guidebook for everyone from educators and rabbis to parents and grandparents—anyone working in formal or informal education, whether for children, teens, emerging adults, adults or seniors.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1580238785

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9781580238786

Around the Shabbat Table

A Guide to Fulfilling and Meaningful Shabbat Table Conversations

By: Aryeh Ben David

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A Guide to Fulfilling and Meaningful Shabbat Table Conversations

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Sefer Yetzirah

The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice

By: Aryeh Kaplan

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Sefer Yetzirah

The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice

By: Aryeh Kaplan

The Sefer Yetzirah is perhaps the oldest and most mysterious of all kabbalistic texts. In this landmark work of mystical studies, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan brings the text’s theoretical, meditative, and magical implications to light. The book explores the dynamics of the spiritual domain, the worlds of the sefirot, souls and angels. Rabbi Kaplan explains that when properly understood the Sefer Yetzirah becomes an instruction manual for a very special type of meditation meant to strengthen concentration and to aid in the development of telekinetic and telepathic powers. Through the use of various signs, incantations, and divine names, initiates could also influence or alter natural events. This translation includes the meditation in five dimensions, the transition from binah to chakhmah consciousness, the point of infinity, kabbalistic astrology, Ezekiel’s vision according to the Sefer Yetzirah, and the mystery of the 231 gates. Also included is a digest of all major commentaries on the text of the Sefer Yetzirah and a bibliography of many of the major kabbalistic works that discus it, as well as extensive notes regarding the various aspects of the translation. Rabbi Kaplan’s translation is based on the Gra version of the text, which is thought to eb the most authentic. Also included is the short version, the long version, and the Saadia version, making this volume the most complete work on the Sefer Yetzirah available in English.

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Weiser Books

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1609254481

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9781609254483

The Bahir

Illumination

By: Aryeh Kaplan

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The Bahir

Illumination

By: Aryeh Kaplan

The Bahir is one of the oldest and most influential of all classical Kabbalah texts. Until the publication of the Zohar, the Bahir was the most widely quoted primary source of Kabbalistic teachings. The Bahir is quoted in every major book on Kabbalah, the earliest being the Raavad's commentary on Sefer Yetzirah, and it is cited numerous times by Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban) in his commentary on the Torah. It is also quoted many times in the Zohar. It was first published around 1176 by the Provence school of Kabbalists; the first printed edition appeared in Amsterdam in 1651. The name Bahir is derived from the first verse quoted in the text (Job 37:21), "And now they do not see light, it is brilliant (Bahir) in the skies." It is also called the "Midrash of Rabbi Nehuniah ben HaKana," particularly by the Ramban. The reason might be that Rabbi Nehuniah's name is at the very beginning of the book, but most Kabbalists actually attribute the Bahir to him and his school. Some consider it the oldest kabbalistic text ever written. Although the Bahir is a fairly small book, some 12,000 words in all, it was very highly esteemed among those who probed its mysteries. Rabbi Judah Chayit, a prominent fifteenth-century Kabbalist, writes, "Make this book a crown for your head." Much of the text is very difficult to understand, and Rabbi Moshe Cordevero (1522-1570), head of the Safed school of Kabbalah, says, "The words of this text are bright (Bahir) and sparkling, but their brilliance can blind the eye." One of the most important concepts revealed in the Bahir is that of the Ten Sefirot, and careful analysis of these discussions yields much of what will be found in later kabbalistic works, as well as their relation to anthropomorphism and the reason for the commandments. Also included is a discussion of reincarnation, or Gilgul, an interpretation of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, the Thirty-two Paths of Wisdom, and the concept of Tzimtzum.

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Weiser Books

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1609254937

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9781609254933

Meditation and Kabbalah

By: Aryeh Kaplan

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Meditation and Kabbalah

By: Aryeh Kaplan

Meditative methods of Kabbalah. A lucid presentation of the meditative methods, mantras, mandalas and other devices used, as well as a penetrating interpretation of their significance in the light of contemporary meditative research.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1568213816

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9781568213811

The Aryeh Kaplan Anthology

Illuminating Expositions on Jewish Thought and Practice by a Revered Teacher

By: Aryeh Kaplan

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The Aryeh Kaplan Anthology

Illuminating Expositions on Jewish Thought and Practice by a Revered Teacher

By: Aryeh Kaplan

In this volume published by the OU and NCSY, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan asks hard questions about Judaism and its commandments, and he gives compelling answers that have broadened the horizons of countles

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Mesorah Publications

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0899068669

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9780899068664

Book's by Aryeh Ben David

Around the Shabbat Table

Around the Shabbat Table

Becoming a Soulful Educator

Becoming a Soulful Educator

Around the Shabbat Table

Around the Shabbat Table

Sefer Yetzirah

Sefer Yetzirah

The Bahir

The Bahir

Meditation and Kabbalah

Meditation and Kabbalah

The Aryeh Kaplan Anthology

The Aryeh Kaplan Anthology

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