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A Person is Like a Tree

A Sourcebook for Tu BeShvat

By: Yitzhak Buxbaum

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A Person is Like a Tree

A Sourcebook for Tu BeShvat

By: Yitzhak Buxbaum

A Person Is Like a Tree: A Sourcebook for Tu BeShvat is the only sourcebook available for celebrating the Jewish holiday of Tu BeShvat, also traditionally known as the New Year of the Trees. The Tu BeShvat seder, created by kabbalists in sixteenth century Safed in Israel, is similar to the Passover seder and involves drinking four cups of wine and eating a great variety of fruits. The kabbalists sought, by their eating of fruit at the seder, to make a mystical tikkun (fixing) to repair the sin of Adam and Eve in eating fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Yitzhak Buxbaum, the author of this sourcebook, notes that whereas most Jewish holidays are biblical in origin, and while Chanukah and Purim were instituted by the ancient rabbis. Tu BeShvat is the only holiday ordained by the kabbalists..

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312

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0765761289

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9780765761286

Non-Perturbative Field Theory

From Two Dimensional Conformal Field Theory to QCD in Four Dimensions

By: Yitzhak Frishman,Jacob Sonnenschein

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Non-Perturbative Field Theory

From Two Dimensional Conformal Field Theory to QCD in Four Dimensions

By: Yitzhak Frishman,Jacob Sonnenschein

Providing a new perspective on quantum field theory, this book is useful for graduate students and researchers within and outside the field. It describes non-perturbative methods, and explores two-dimensional and four-dimensional gauge dynamics using those methods. Applications are thoroughly described.

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455

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Cambridge University Press

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1139486489

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9781139486484

Reaching for Power

The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World

By: Yitzhak Nakash

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Reaching for Power

The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World

By: Yitzhak Nakash

As the world focuses on the conflict in Iraq, the most important political players in that country today are not the Sunni insurgents. Instead, they are Iraq's Shi'I majority--part of the Middle East's ninety million Shi'I Muslims who hold the key to the future of the region and the relations between Muslim and Western societies. So contends Yitzhak Nakash, one of the world's foremost experts on Shi'ism. With his characteristic verve and style, Nakash traces the role of the Shi'is in the struggle that is raging today among Muslims for the soul of Islam. He shows that in contrast to the growing militancy among Sunni groups since the 1990s, Shi'is have shifted their focus from confrontation to accommodation with the West. Constituting sixty percent of the population of Iraq, they stand squarely at the center of the U.S government's attempt to remake the Middle East and bring democracy to the region. This groundbreaking book addresses the crucial importance of Shi'is to the U.S. endeavor. Yet it also alerts readers to the strong nationalist sentiments of Shi'is, underscoring the difficult challenge that the United States faces in attempting to impose a new order in the Middle East. The book provides a comprehensive historical perspective on Shi'ism, beginning with the emergence of the movement during the seventh century, continuing through its rise as a political force since the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, and leading up to the Iraqi elections of January 2005. Drawing extensively on Arabic sources, this comparative study highlights the reciprocal influences shaping the political development of Shi'is in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Lebanon, as well as the impact of the revival of Shi'ism on the larger Arab world. The narrative concludes with an assessment of the risks and possibilities arising from the assertion of Shi'I power in Iraq and from America's attempt to play an increasingly forceful role in the Middle East. A landmark book and a work of remarkable scholarship, Reaching for Power illuminates the Shi'a resurgence amid the shifting geopolitics of the Middle East.

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247

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Princeton University Press

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1400841461

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9781400841462

Solvent Mixtures

Properties and Selective Solvation

By: Yitzhak Marcus

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Solvent Mixtures

Properties and Selective Solvation

By: Yitzhak Marcus

Compiling, comparing, and analyzing research from a wide range of abstracts, journal articles, and Web sites, this reference examines the properties, function, and behavior of binary, ternary, and multicomponent mixtures in the presence and absence of solutes. The author uniformly presents extensive data on the properties of solvent mixtures and describes their structures and interactions. He details the impact of preferential solvation on the environment, action, and components of chemical systems. The book highlights experimental approaches to determine when, and to what extent, preferential solvation has taken place and models for organic, ionic, macromolecular, and biochemical solutes.

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282

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CRC Press

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0824708377

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9780824708375

Jacob Kaplan's Excavations of Protohistoric Sites, 1950s-1980s

By: Avi Gopher,Ruth Eyal,Yitzhak Paz,Jacob Kaplan

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Jacob Kaplan's Excavations of Protohistoric Sites, 1950s-1980s

By: Avi Gopher,Ruth Eyal,Yitzhak Paz,Jacob Kaplan

A collection of archaeologist Jacob Kaplan's unpublished field work, focusing on the Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods of Israel within the late prehistory of the Levant.

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744

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1575069989

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9781575069982

Jewish Spiritual Practices

By: Yitzhak Buxbaum

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Jewish Spiritual Practices

By: Yitzhak Buxbaum

The Jewish mystic path and its practices to attain God-consciousness.

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Jason Aronson

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1568212062

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9781568212067

Book's by Yitzhak Paz

A Person is Like a Tree

A Person is Like a Tree

Non-Perturbative Field Theory

Non-Perturbative Field Theory

Reaching for Power

Reaching for Power

Solvent Mixtures

Solvent Mixtures

Jacob Kaplan's Excavations of Protohistoric Sites, 1950s-1980s

Jacob Kaplan's Excavations of Protohistoric Sites, 1950s-1980s

Jewish Spiritual Practices

Jewish Spiritual Practices

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