books about: hayyim     books:       Bialik (Evergreen Book)1 review David Aberbach Grove Press, 1988 A good introductory work This is a good short introductory work. Its subject is the first great poet in modern Hebrew, and one of greatest Jewish cultural figures of modernity. His poetic oeuvre is not huge but forms an essential part of the modern Hebrew canon. Bialik was also a central figure in the early years of cultural life in Eretz Yisrael. His great anthology of Biblical legends Sefer- ha Agadot done with his ...             Lights Along the Way - Mesillas Yesharim: Timeless Lessons for Today1 review Moshe Chayim Luzzatto Artscroll, 1995 Great Commentary to the Path of the Just Rabbi Twerski's supurb writing style and his wonderful antedotes make this a classic commentary to the Mesillas Yesharim. His examples are geared towards the modern day reader, but their lessons are for all time. This book does not contain the complete text to the Ramchal's sefer so I strongly suggest you read the original work first and use Rabbi Twerski's book as a commentary. However the ...             The Jewish Concept of Reincarnation and Creation: Based on the Writings of Rabbi Chaim Vital1 review David M. Wexelman Jason Aronson, 1999 An important source, but not for beginners Rabbi Chaim Vital was the closest disciple of the great 16th-century kabbalist, Rabbi Isaac Luria, also known as the "Holy Ari (lion) of Safed" or simply as "The Arizal." The Arizal's teachings were all given orally, and he himself wrote very little in print. His faithful disciple, Rabbi Chaim Vital, recorded his master's teachings in several books which have come down to us. One of these ...             Complete Mesillat Yesharim (English Bound)1 review Rabbi Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto Ofeq Institute, 2007 Excellent Resource I am very pleased with this purchase. This translation is very good and well annotated. I study with someone who uses a different translation and there is no comparison.             C.N. Bialik: Selected Poems (Jewish Classics)1 review C.N. Bialik Overlook TP, 2005 An outstanding edition Sheila Jelen writing in JBooks points out some of the special qualities of this translation. " David Aberbach presents several of Bialik's classic epic and lyrical poems, as well as a surprising amount of his lesser-known folk poems in a beautiful bilingual edition. The strength of the collection resides in Aberbach's introduction and his commentary on the poems-both of which give a wonderful ...             The Path of the Just5 reviews Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto Jason Aronson, 1996 An ethical must read The Ramchal establishes the definative "Mussar" (ethical exhortation) baseline for all time in this phenomenal piece. By establishing a ladder of ethical and behavioral levels on which we climb closer to the divine presence, Ramchal presents righteousness in a fashion which makes it both accessible and challenging to all people, regardless of their current environment. A must read for all ...             Family (JPS popular Judaica library)1 review Hayyim Schneid Jewish Publication Society of America, 1973 The family is the center of this life This volume like the others in the JPS Popular Judaica Library Series covers a basic area of Jewish life and experience. It provides a great deal of information on Genealogy, Proselytes, Birth, Abortion, Circumcision,Firstborn, Adoption, Women, The Intermediate Years, Bar - Mitzvah and Bat- Mitvah. It has illustrations and photos of Judaica and of Jewish life which give a special attractiveness ...             Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash13 reviews Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Y.H. Rawnitzky Schocken, 1992 The story- thought of the Gemara Bialik and Ravnitsky monumental editing work selected the aggadic or story portion of the Gemara, and organized them in accordance with themes. They succeed in making the Gemara come alive for many who would otherwise not know it. Their work came at a transition time when many Jews were leaving Traditional learning. Essentially Bialik had a program for educating Jews in the sources, in the ...             Creating a Judaism without Religion: A Postmodern Jewish Possibility (Studies in Judaism)1 review S. Daniel Breslauer University Press of America, 2001 Jewish identity that is divorced from traditional concepts In Creating A Judaism Without Religion: A Postmodern Jewish Possibility, Daniel Breslauer explores the contemporary phenomena of a Jewish identity that is divorced from traditional concepts of "religion" as the sole source of Jewishness. Challenging, articulate, and occasionally iconoclastic chapters include Creative Betrayal: Hasidism, Israeli Writers, and Martin Buber; Jewish Studies, Disciples ...             The Path of the Upright: Mesillat Yesharim1 review Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, Mordecai M. Kaplan (translator) Jason Aronson, 1995 Ian Myles Slater on: Ascent to Holiness Moses Hayyim Luzzatto of Padua (1707-1746/47) was a rather controversial eighteenth-century Jewish mystic. He managed to be accused of heresy for his privately circulated Kabbalistic tracts, and also accepted as a thoroughly Orthodox expounder of the holy life for his popular writings, particularly this book ("Mesillat Yesharim," or "Path of the Upright Ones"), written in exile in Amsterdam! ...             Sunshine, Blossoms and Blood: H.N. Bialik In His Time: A Literary Biography1 review Sara Feinstein University Press of America, 2005 Bialik, the Hebrew National poet In her book, Sunshine, Blossoms and Blood, H. N. Bialik in His Time, local author Sara Feinstein writes of Bialik's connection to Jews in the Pale, "Having experienced life among them as a child, a teenage student, a young adult, and a professional writer and editor, he fully identified with their poverty, misery, humiliation, oppression, and pain. His provocative verses in Hebrew, Yiddish, and ...             The Analytic Movement1 review Norman Solomon University of South Florida, 1993 the modern ortodox jewish comentry to the talmud The only book which has been published about the most interesting commentery on the talmud. Solomon's book explore the text that constitute the intelctual life of the last century jewish rabais. This sorts of texts changed the way of interprataion, and has provided new methods to the ultra-ortodox rabais when the deal with those text. Solomon's book discuss those technics and gives the reader ...             The Tree of Life: The Palace of Adam Kadmon - Chayyim Vital's Introduction to the Kabbalah of Isaac Luria1 review Hayyim Vital Arizal Publications Inc., 2008 The Tree of Life I love this book! I've been waiting fifteen years for The Tree of Life (Etz Chayyim) to be translated from Hebrew into English. I finally get a chance to sit at the feet of the master. If you are looking for primary sources of Kabbalah, this is one of them. The introduction is brilliant, concise, and easy to understand. More importantly, the translation was accomplished with a balance of ...             The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament5 reviews Ludwig Koehler, Walter Baumgartner, ... Brill Academic Publishers, 1999 The best resource The best English lexicon of biblical Hebrew & Aramaic, KBL is also easier to use than the classic BDB. Words are listed alphabetically, rather than grouped by root, with cross-references to other words from the same root (no more trying to figure out a noun's putative "verbal root"). Akkadian tends to dominate the etymological information, rather than Arabic), along with Ugaritic. Glosses tend to ...             Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)4 reviews Hayyim Nahman Bialik Syracuse University Press, 2000 An old master for modern times Don't let the obscure name and the academic packaging put you off, Bialik is a marvelous and accessible poet. Atar Hadari has rendered these poems in a terse, beautiful language that will appeal to the modern ear. Take a look at the excerpt offered on this web site to see just how powerful a poet Bialik was. His "City of the Killings" contains images that might have influenced our current poet of ...             And It Came To Pass: Legends And Stories About King David And King Solomon1 review Hayyim Nahman Bialik Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007 David and Solomon I actually bought this book for my grandchildren. I started reading it to make sure it was appropriate. Now I'm hooked. They won't get it until I finish it.             Selected Poems of Hayyim Nahman Bialik1 review Hayyim Nahman Bialik Bloch Pub Co, 1999 The greatness of Bialik The greatness of Bialik is the greatness of a pioneer. He invigorates and revives Hebrew language poetry. He writes with a special kind of intensity of longing for Zion, and longing for love. He identifies with and writes powerfully of Jewish suffering. And he makes the painful cry for its redress. He speaks for the Jewish people in its historical desire to return to the land of Israel. He too ...             Rabbi Haim David Halevy: Gentle Scholar and Courageous Thinker1 review Marc D. Angel, Hayyim Angel Beit-Or-Vilnay, 2006 The story of a great teacher of Judaism Rabbi Haim David Halevy was chief Sephardic rabbi of Tel Aviv. He was also a major Halachic scholar, and a Kabbalist of distinction. Like his mentor the former Rishon L'Tzion, ( Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel) Benzion Uziel he had both great Torah knowledge and a strong concern for the unity of 'Am Yisrael'. In this work which focuses primarily on his Halachic teachings, we have an opportunity ...             Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Tanakh Companion to The Book of Samuel: Bible Study in the Spirit of Open and Modern ...1 review Ben Yehuda Press, 2006 Out-of-the-box Orthodox Bible study The Two Wives Club; Job Requirements for Israelite Kings; David's Delivery Service; Dressed to Kill; Private Affair; Nepotism and Regret; Up on the Roof; Woolly Parable -- are these the titles of this year's fiction best-sellers or Oscar-nominated films? No, they are a sample of the section titles that the reader will find in a locally published, exciting new volume of studies on the biblical ...             Torah Dialogues1 review Hayyim Halpern Jewish Bible Association, 2000 A FAQ on the Torah Portion of the Week Torah Dialogues discusses the key issues and passages of the weekly Torah portion read in synagogues throughout the world. The Torah is read sequentially throughout the year, in prescribed units called Torah Portions. These are read together with additional portions from the Prophets, called the Haftara. This book is a tool for teaching and leading discussions on both the Torah portion and the ...              search for books analytic, biography, blossoms, chovevei, classics, companion, complete, courageous, creating, dialogues, evergreen, ha-aggadah, introduction, kabbalah, literary, literature, mesillas, mesillat, movement, orthodoxy, possibility, postmodern, reincarnation, religion, selected, sunshine, testament, timeless, traditions, yeshivat books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen apparel: Hot Chillys Pepperskins Zip T Women's we recommend The story- thought of the Gemara leave a comment home  impressum - about us