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This is a highly comprehensive introduction to the Talmud, the age-old storehouse of Jewish wisdom. Bokser covers the long history of the Talmud, from its origin in the Babylonian exile, its growth through the five centuries after the Roman destruction of the Temple, and the later persecution of the Talmud. The book covers a number of high-level topics, including social ethics and personal morality, with numerous examples from the Talmud. Ben Zion Bokser was one of the major Conservative rabbis of America.

The compelling, beautiful narrative of Code Name God is one man's rags-to-riches story and, more profoundly, the vision of a world-class physicist seeking to integrate the findings of science, religion, and spiritual quest.

Ben Connelly guides us through the intricacies of Yogacara and the richness of the "Thirty Verses." His warm and wise voice contextualizes its wisdom, showing us how we can apply its ancient insights to our own modern lives, to create a life of engaged peace, harmony, compassion, and joy. Vasubandhu's "Thirty Verses" lay out a path of practice that integrates the most powerful of Buddhism's psychological and mystical possibilities. The "Thirty Verses" goes to the heart of the matter—how do we alleviate suffering through shedding our emotional knots and our sense of alienation?

New York Times Bestseller How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line? According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75...

Evangelicals are losing the culture war. What if it’s their fault? In 2016, writer and filmmaker Ben Howe found himself disillusioned with the religious movement he’d always called home. In the pursuit of electoral victory, many American evangelicals embraced moral relativism and toxic...

America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate. In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech...

Ben Katchor retells the history of where we choose to eat—a history that starts with the first man who was allowed to enter a walled garden and encouraged by the garden's owner to enjoy its fruits. He examines the biblical milk-and-meat taboo, the first vegetarian practices, and the invention...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it’s taken us 250 years to build—and they’ll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture. Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can’t agree on what makes America special. We...

“The Way to the Spring is a riveting and powerful work . . . . Readers near and far who seek greater understanding of how Palestinians live—and the violence they endure—are well served by Ehrenreich’s book.” —Haaretz “Ehrenreich's haunting, poignant and memorable stories add up...

Dan Brown's International best-seller The DaVinci Code has raised many questions in the minds of readers. The DaVinci Code, in blurring the lines between fact and fiction, popularizes the speculations and contentions of numerous more serious books that are also attracting wide attention. How should we respond to such claims that we now have documents that reveal secrets about Jesus, secrets long suppressed by the church and other religious institutions?

Ben Lindsay offers eye-opening insights into the black religious experience, challenging the status quo in white majority churches. Filled with examples from real-life stories, including his own, and insightful questions, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of race relations in the Church in the UK and shows us how we can work together to create a truly inclusive church community.

In this memoir of the craft, Ben Palpant unpacks a lifetime of wisdom gained through the long, hard work of learning to write and to live well. Delivered as a series of letters from father to daughter, he patiently and gracefully paints a vision of what it means to enter into one's creative work as an act of generative obedience - an act that blesses the writer, the work itself, and the world that receives it.

Adán y el Árbol de la Kabbalah es un estudio del ser humano desde la perspectiva de los kabbalistas del mundo actual. Con excepcional claridad y maestría, Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi explica en esta obra la herramienta mística de la Kabbalah conoci-da como "Árbol de la Vida", y describe con un lenguaje sencillo el modo en el que operan los principios eternos de los mundos presentes en un ser humano.

A solas, un individuo llegará hasta cierto punto en el trabajo espiritual; después, es necesaria una guía, que podrán proporcionar los compañeros, con su apoyo en el camino; aquí hallarás la manera de juntar un grupo o una “escuela” con personas que se ayuden en el estudio y el trabajo. Este libro es como tener una conversación con Halevi, la cual te impulsará a vivir la escuela del alma en tu propia vida.

Todos estamos en la búsqueda. Unos persiguen seguridad, placer o poder; otros buscan algo que no conocen. Y otros más saben lo que buscan pero no lo encuentran en el mundo natural. Para tales buscadores, quienes los precedieron dejaron señales. Al realizar un trabajo serio sobre el significado de tales señales, la Providencia abre una puerta desde el mundo natural hacia el sobrenatural para revelar una escalera que va de lo temporal a lo eterno. Quien se atreve a ascender, entra en el camino de la Kabbalah.

El trabajo del Kabbalista, Z'ev ben Shimón Halevi pone a nuestro alcance el conocimiento esotérico antiguo y lo explica con lujo de detalle. Alcanzar el conocimiento de los mundos superiores y desarrollar nuestra habilidad para atraer su sustancia y su poder es el arte práctico del método cabalístico. No basta con desear, concebir, dar forma y llevar a cabo un proyecto espiritual o transmitir una influencia cósmica además de comprender los prinicipios esotéricos, sino tener la capacidad para utiizarlos por el bien común, para la perfección de la humanidad.

Esta obra muestra cómo los relatos bíblicos, talmúdicos y kabbalísticos sobre el viaje de los israelitas revelan las etapas internas de iniciación, prueba y rebelión que condujeron a comprender el secreto de la existencia como espejo en que el individuo refleja la imagen de la divinidad. Desde esta perspectiva el Éxodo resulta una analogía individual del escape de la esclavitud del cuerpo, representada por Egipto, y la lucha del alma por alcanzar la tierra prometida del espíritu.

En su exploración de los diferentes niveles de realidad y usando el Árbol de la Vida como guía, Halevi entra en el misterio del universo macrocósmico y detalla sus niveles angélico y físico. Centra la atención en el propósito del universo, en su desdoblamiento hacia el gran Ciclo Cósmico y, en especial, en la función de la humanidad en los mundos como parte de la Creación existente.

In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the...

Never before released audio programs! Throughout the 1970's Dr. Samuel J. Citron took it upon himself to interview leading authorities on special topics in contemporary Jewish history, mostly relating to the State of Israel. Over the course of ten years of painstaking work, he completed the...