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Get the Ring

How to Find and Keep the Right One for Life

By: Rosie Einhorn,Shimon Green,Dov Heller,Tziporah Heller,Lawrence Kelemen,Mordecai Rottman,Sherry Zimmerman

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Get the Ring

How to Find and Keep the Right One for Life

By: Rosie Einhorn,Shimon Green,Dov Heller,Tziporah Heller,Lawrence Kelemen,Mordecai Rottman,Sherry Zimmerman

Your search is ending! Now theres no more excuse to put off meeting -- and winning -- your own soul mate. No more miserable dates. No more broken promises and broken dreams. Get The Ring brings together the best advice from seven of today's top counselors and speakers on dating and marriage. It is practical, clear information that can transform your life and help you not only find the Right One, but also build a lasting and loving relationship.

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Warm Wisdom Press

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0972621555

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Folktales of the Jews, Volume 1

Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion

By: Dov Noy,Dan Ben-Amos,Ellen Frankel

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Folktales of the Jews, Volume 1

Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion

By: Dov Noy,Dan Ben-Amos,Ellen Frankel

Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion begins the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the first volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The 71 tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives, Named in Honor of Dov Noy, The University of Haifa (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Sephardic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.

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Jewish Publication Society

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0827608292

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9780827608290

The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and Saba Yisroel

By: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov o.b.m.,Rabbi Israel Dov Odesser o.b.m.

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The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and Saba Yisroel

By: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov o.b.m.,Rabbi Israel Dov Odesser o.b.m.

HH Rabbi Nachman's birth already set the stage for the modern era, e.g. a mere few years after he was born in 1772, America declared independence. Many of his teachings speak more directly to the man of our present time and society than to the shtetel (small town) Jews who were his followers. E.g. Rabbi Nachman revealed that everyone has an aspect of monarchy even if it is only over his family, or on a subliminal paradigm, this teaching was readily understood by his followers, but it was somewhat theoretical being that they were so destitute they could barely have seen real manifestation of this principle. Today, even the less well off, can clearly see how they wield various privileges and amenities that would have been special even for a monarch of those times. With the changing times, also came changing attitudes, social climate, and personal truths, convictions, ideas, and prerogatives. Rabbi Nachman had to prepare the world for this transition, and he did so by revealing the highest and deepest teachings which are the root of everything that plays out in the world. Anyone that looks at a lesson from Rabbi Nachman will see reflections of what is going on that very moment in his own life. Yet, even still, Rabbi Nachman saw that his followers were not adjusting properly and sufficiently. He saw their struggles and how they grappled with forces far superior than them. Even his awesome teachings were not providing his followers with the necessary perspective and life knowledge that they needed so desperately in order to transcend the narrow confines of ideology that were trapping them and leaving them helpless to the wanton desires of the helpless. As a final last resort Rabbi Nachman found the solution, he would reveal timeless stories, stories that would recreate the perception of the workings of the world, the listener would be reborn into new consciousness and awareness, and would be impassioned to forever seek renewal and true vitality. These stories are called Stories of Ancient Years, corresponding to the Divine Countenance of Attik Yoamin (see book of Daniel), the countenance of the Ancient of Years, which subliminally transcends all of the ordinary chain of events manifested in the Divine Providence, a bridge to cognizance of what is utterly beyond. On the one hand, these legendary tales are completely unfathomable in their scope and import, they are allusions to the most deep and esoteric Divine secrets, and yet on the other hand, they are filled with practical morals and life lessons which any reader can easily glean and gain. To this day no one has merited to completely understand the root and intrinsic meaning of the stories in their rightful context, yet multitudes of people have gained phenomenal new insights through these stories, the stories literally open up gates to greater perspicacity and cognizance. The stories have captured the attention and fascination of even the most secular scholars, they have been translated into different languages, and they are studied in universities throughout the world. Rabbi Nachman said that even the minutest detail of the stories is extremely critical, and unfortunately most of the translations are fraught with the literary license an author has to set down his own perspective, which in this case is undoubtedly very damaging. This translation was done painstakingly to capture as best as possible the exact translation and nuance, even following the order of the original verbiage, and often favoring the original Yiddish in which Rabbi Nachman delivered the stories. In more recent times, one of Rabbi Nachman's followers, Rabbi Yisroel Dov Odesser, underwent a phenomenal course of events which themselves proved to be the mechanism of transition and development of Breslov, and are understood to be a clear aspect of Stories of Ancient Times, and thus some of his stories are fittingly included in this volume as well as are many other stories from Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman.

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Simcha Nanach

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1533583617

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Central Problems of Medieval Jewish Philosophy

By: Dov Schwartz

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Central Problems of Medieval Jewish Philosophy

By: Dov Schwartz

This volume deals with central issues of medieval Jewish philosophy. Among the subjects treated are divine immanence, the intellect, miracles, and esoteric writing and its limits. This work provides a new perspective on the history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages.

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BRILL

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9047416848

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Bibliographia Karaitica

An Annotated Bibliography of Karaites and Karaism. Karaite Texts and Studies, Volume 2

By: Barry Dov Walfish,Mikhail Kizilov

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Bibliographia Karaitica

An Annotated Bibliography of Karaites and Karaism. Karaite Texts and Studies, Volume 2

By: Barry Dov Walfish,Mikhail Kizilov

Winner of the Association for Jewish Libraries 2012 Judaica Bibliography Award! This is the first comprehensive bibliography on the Karaites and Karaism. Including over 8,000 items in twenty languages, this bibliography, with its extensive annotations, thoroughly documents the present state of Karaite Studies and provides a solid foundation for future research. Special attention has been given to the organizational structure of the bibliography. A detailed table of contents and a complete set of indices enable the reader to easily navigate through the material. Translations of items from non-Western languages increase the bibliography’s utility for the English-speaking reader. Especially noteworthy are the listings of obscure eastern European publications and the analysis of many periodical publications which enable unprecedented access to this material. It is an essential reference tool for Karaite and Jewish Studies. ̋This is an essential guide to any serious study of Karaism or of medieval (and to a large extent, also modern) Jewry. ̋ Shaul Stampfer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Bibliographia Karaitica is a major reference work that will remain of great use for Jewish studies scholars working in many areas of specialization long into the future." Fred Astren, San Francisco State University

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BRILL

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9004214720

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9789004214729

The Lesser of Two Evils

Eastern European Jewry Under Soviet Rule, 1939-1941

By: Dov Levin

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The Lesser of Two Evils

Eastern European Jewry Under Soviet Rule, 1939-1941

By: Dov Levin

The book's title, The Lesser of Two Evils, describes the dilemma and ultimate fate of the two million Eastern European Jews following the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov pact of August, 1939, which divided the regions of eastern Poland, the Baltics, and, eastern Romania between Nazi Germany and the U.S.S.R. Because of the imminent geographical and political changes, the Jews in these areas had to calculate who was the "lesser of two evils" - the Soviets or the Nazis. The book, originally published in Hebrew, is the culmination of 30 years of research by noted historian Dov Levin. It is the only study that deals comprehensively with the economic, social, religious, cultural, and political consequences of this overlooked episode in modern history. In order to obtain an authentic account, the author interviewed hundreds of witnesses and consulted thousands of original documents in 13 languages. The book also portrays the everyday life of the Jewish communities at that time. The events that occurred during this significant period in Jewish history led directly to the destruction of the Jewish populations of these regions in the Holocaust.

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Jewish Publication Society

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0827605188

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9780827605183

From Phenomenology to Existentialism

The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Volume 2

By: Dov Schwartz

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From Phenomenology to Existentialism

The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Volume 2

By: Dov Schwartz

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s philosophy plays a significant role in twentieth century Jewish thought. This book focuses on the first and the second stages of Soloveitchik’s philosophy (1945-1965), through a systematic and detailed discussion of some of his essays, including "From There You Shall Seek" and "The Lonely Man of Faith". Schwartz analyzes these essays according to this thesis: in the mid 40s Soloveitchik used the phenomenology of religion to express his views, while in the 50s he added the existential theory.

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9004243348

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9789004243347

The Jews of Poland

A Social and Economic History of the Jewish Community in Poland from 1100 to 1800

By: Bernard Dov Weinryb

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The Jews of Poland

A Social and Economic History of the Jewish Community in Poland from 1100 to 1800

By: Bernard Dov Weinryb

The Jews of Poland tells the story of the development and growth of Polish Jewry from its beginnings, around the year 1200, when it numbered a few score people, to about six hundred years later, when it totaled a million or more people. This books records the development of this Jewish community. It attempts to capture the uniqueness of each period in the history of this community. In recounting the saga of Polish Jewry, the book endeavors to see Polish Jews as human beings acting and reacting humanly to the exigencies of life with courage and weakness, high ideals, beliefs, and sacrifices, on one hand, and human frailty, passions, and ambitions, on the other.

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Jewish Publication Society

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082760016X

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The Shochet

A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea

By: Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn

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The Shochet

A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea

By: Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn

Set in Ukraine and Crimea, this unique autobiography offers a fascinating, detailed picture of life in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a traditional Jew who was orphaned as a young boy, is a master storyteller. Folksy, funny, streetwise, and self-confident, he is a keen observer of nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, both Jewish and non-Jewish. His accounts are vivid and readable, sometimes stunning in their intensity. The memoir is brimming with information; his adventures shed light on communal life, persecution, family relationships, religious practices and beliefs, social classes, local politics, interactions between Jews and other religious communities (including Muslims, who formed the majority of Crimea’s populace), epidemics, poverty, competition for resources, migration, war, modernity and secularization, holy men and charlatans, acts of kindness and acts of treachery. In chronicling his own life, Goldenshteyn inadvertently tells a bigger story—the story of how a small, oppressed people, among other minority groups, struggled for survival in the massive Russian Empire. Until now, only a small circle of Yiddish-speaking scholars had access to this extremely significant primary source. This translation is a game-changer, making this treasure trove of information accessible to academics and ordinary readers alike. Informed by research in Ukrainian, Israeli, and American archives and personal interviews with the few surviving individuals who knew Goldenshteyn personally, The Shochet is a magnificent new contribution to Jewish and Eastern European history.

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Academic Studies PRess

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9798887193021

Esther in Medieval Garb

Jewish Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the Middle Ages

By: Barry Dov Walfish

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Esther in Medieval Garb

Jewish Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the Middle Ages

By: Barry Dov Walfish

This comprehensive history, the first to appear in English, gives a vivid portrayal of the Book of Esther's role in the intellectual and cultural life of Jews in the Middle Ages. Much of the study is based on material that exists only in manuscripts, and it introduces many exegetes hitherto unknown or unstudied.

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State University of New York Press

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1438423071

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9781438423074

Community, Covenant, and Commitment

Selected Letters and Communications of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

By: Joseph Dov Soloveitchik,Netanʼel Helfgoṭ

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Community, Covenant, and Commitment

Selected Letters and Communications of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

By: Joseph Dov Soloveitchik,Netanʼel Helfgoṭ

Community, Covenant and Commitment, edited by Nathaniel Helfgot, brings to light unpublished manuscripts and material of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the foremost Orthodox Jewish thinker of the 20th century. It includes close to eighty letters and communications, most never published before, on a wide range of communal, political and theological issues that confronted American Jewry in the twentieth century, including Communal and Public Policy Issues; Academic and Educational Issues; Orthodoxy, the Synagogue and the American Jewish Community; Religious Zionism and the State of Israel; Interreligious Affairs; and Torah, Philosophical and Personal Insights.

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KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

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0881258725

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9780881258721

Insights of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Discourses on Fundamental Theological Issues in Judaism

By: Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

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Insights of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Discourses on Fundamental Theological Issues in Judaism

By: Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

Comprised of extracts from Soloveitchik's own writings, and from tapes which Weiss translated from the Yiddish and incorporated into the book. Weiss has also extracted from articles and essays from various rabbis and scholars to reconstruct numerous insights of Soloveitchik.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742544699

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9780742544697

The Emergence of Ethical Man

By: Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

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The Emergence of Ethical Man

By: Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

For thousands of years, philosophers have pondered the question what it means to be human. Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, known universally as the Rav--the rabbi par excellence--answers the question in The Emergence of Ethical Man, edited by Michael Berger. Relying on both scientific research and classical Jewish sources, Soloveitchik explains how a thoroughly naturalistic setting could give birth to human personality--and to Judaism's expectation of moral character and self-transcendence. The resulting religious anthropology is a startlingly fresh reading of the early chapters of Genesis, and highlights Judaism's distinctive view among those of other religious traditions.

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KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

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0881258733

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9780881258738

The Truth about Harvard

A Behind-the-scenes Look at Admissions and Life on Campus

By: Dov Fox

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The Truth about Harvard

A Behind-the-scenes Look at Admissions and Life on Campus

By: Dov Fox

Written by a current student, this guide gives all the dirt on the Harvard experience, including the lowdown on admissions, financial aid, student life, extracurriculars, academic life, and graduation.

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The Princeton Review

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0375764356

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9780375764356

On Repentance

The Thought and Oral Discourses of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

By: Pinchas H. Peli,Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

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On Repentance

The Thought and Oral Discourses of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

By: Pinchas H. Peli,Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik was the leader of enlightened Orthodoxy in America. His annual lecture on teshuvah (repentance) was the hallmark event for Modern Orthodox Jews in America. This book collects the greatest of Rabbi Soloveitchik's teachings in one volume. His speeches focus on the ethical and moral decisions that shape our lives.

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Jason Aronson

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1568219857

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9781568219851

For Those Left Behind: A Jewish Anthology of Comfort and Healing

By: Dov Peretz Elkins,Anne E. Pettit

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For Those Left Behind: A Jewish Anthology of Comfort and Healing

By: Dov Peretz Elkins,Anne E. Pettit

It is the lot of everyone who walks the earth, at one time or another, to meet the dark angel face to face, and to suffer when sorrow and grief knock at the door. When that happens - when the dark shadow falls on our home, or on our community, we grasp for support from many places. One of the time-tested methods of mending hearts is through words. Finding the right words can act like a magic potion, speeding the long, slow process of restoration ever so slightly for those left behind. In this anthology of comfort and healing, Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins and Anne E. Pettit present this collection, chiseled out of the crucible of the pain of many hands - some from years past, others more recent, some from cavernous voids, others from lesser degrees of sorrow. It is their hope that the soothing words they have included in this book can be a contributing source of healing that will uplift a sorrowing heart, dry a tearing eye, and send a mourner on the necessary path to normal living.

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Mazo Publishers

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1936778378

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9781936778379

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Get the Ring

Get the Ring

Folktales of the Jews, Volume 1

Folktales of the Jews, Volume 1

The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and Saba Yisroel

The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and Saba Yisroel

Central Problems of Medieval Jewish Philosophy

Central Problems of Medieval Jewish Philosophy

Bibliographia Karaitica

Bibliographia Karaitica

The Lesser of Two Evils

The Lesser of Two Evils

From Phenomenology to Existentialism

From Phenomenology to Existentialism

The Jews of Poland

The Jews of Poland

The Shochet

The Shochet

Esther in Medieval Garb

Esther in Medieval Garb

Community, Covenant, and Commitment

Community, Covenant, and Commitment

Insights of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Insights of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

The Emergence of Ethical Man

The Emergence of Ethical Man

The Truth about Harvard

The Truth about Harvard

On Repentance

On Repentance

For Those Left Behind: A Jewish Anthology of Comfort and Healing

For Those Left Behind: A Jewish Anthology of Comfort and Healing

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