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Welcome to Bina: A Better Together Podcast, created by the students and staff of Contra Costa Midrasha. This series is all about bringing Jewish teens and elders together to share stories, ask honest questions, and learn from one another across generations and life experiences. Each episode features a meaningful conversation about Jewish identity, heritage, belonging, purpose, resilience, and community. Through personal stories and shared reflection, Bina empowers our community’s youth in exploring the wisdom that comes with lived experience and the fresh perspective that comes through the ...

A defining major work from today’s leading Bible scholar: N. T. Wright traces the biblical promise of God’s care for the future, offering authentic hope in a chaotic age. Many devout believers have been lured into the classic misunderstanding that Christianity teaches how we must leave earth...

It's a great irony that Israel was more secure as an idea than its ever been as a nation with an army. In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it - by taking what had been a national religion, identified with a particular place, and turning it into an idea. Jews no longer needed Jerusalem to be Jews.

Serious students of the Bible quickly discover the diversity that stems from the human origins of Scripture, such as different authors writing in different times, places, genres, and languages. Written by an expert in biblical theology, this short, accessible book helps listeners understand the unity that springs from the divine authorship of Scripture and how the whole Bible fits together.

The JPS TANAKH: The Jewish Bible, audio version, is a recorded version of the JPS TANAKH, the most widely read English translation of the Hebrew, or Jewish, Bible. Produced and recorded for The Jewish Publication Society (JPS) by The Jewish Braille Institute (JBI), this complete, unabridged audio version of the Torah features over 14 hours of readings by seven narrators. The Torah is the essence of Jewish tradition; it inspires each successive generation.

Theological addresses our biggest questions about faith, life, and morality from a Jewish and Christian perspective, hosted by Shabbos Kestenbaum.

De la Libertad a la Revelación — 49 Niveles del Omer ElevAlma por Saleh Penhos ¿Qué ocurre en los 49 días entre Pesaj y Shavuot? No es un simple conteo. Es una escalera. Cada día del Omer corresponde a una combinación única de las Sefirot —los ámbitos espirituales de la Kabbalá— y a uno de los 48 Kinyanim: las adquisiciones del alma descritas en Pirké Avot. Juntos, forman un mapa completo de transformación interior: de la libertad física a la revelación espiritual.

One daf of Tractate Sotah Including explanations from Chassidus

Vòng đấu thứ hai của giải đấu hứa hẹn sẽ mang đến nhiều màn so tài hấp dẫn khi các đội bóng đang nỗ lực cải thiện phong độ sau những trận mở màn không ổn định. Những đội bóng có lực lượng mạnh và chiến thuật linh hoạt sẽ tận dụng tối đa cơ hội để tích lũy điểm số, trong khi các đội yếu hơn cần chiến đấu quyết liệt để tránh rơi vào nhóm cuối bảng. Trong bối cảnh cạnh tranh ngày càng gay gắt, việc theo dõi diễn biến trận đấu qua các nền ...

Relevant, timely Torah from Beit Midrash Har'el, the only Orthodox institution granting rabbinic ordination to both men and women studying together.

The success of books such as Elaine Pagels’s Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity--truths that may have been lost, buried, or even forbidden by institutional religion over...

The Laws of War and Peace with Rav Shlomo Katz is a series based on Hilchos Milchamah VeShalom by Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, opening up the Torah of מלחמה ושלום for the times we are living in right now. In these episodes, Rav Shlomo explores the halachic, biblical, and inner spiritual foundations of war, courage, national responsibility, emunah, and redemption. Through the lens of Tanach, Chazal, and the living reality of Am Yisrael, this series asks: How is a Jew meant to think, feel, pray, and act in a time of מלחמה? What does true gevurah look like? How do we fight evil without ...

In God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World, New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and religion scholar Stephen Prothero argues that persistent attempts to portray all religions as different paths to the same God overlook the distinct problem that each...

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed retired FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who...

Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem - the 20th-century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah - Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel.

Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. The JPS TANAKH is an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text. It is the culmination of three decades of collaboration by academic scholars and rabbis, representing the three largest branches of organized Judaism in the US.

This early 20th-century translation of the Hebrew Bible by the Jewish Publication Society brings to life the history of the Jewish people in a classical way. It includes the Hebrew texts as they actually appear in the Torah scroll and bears all the hallmarks of a classic work.

The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex - and so ambivalent.

The companion to the Oscar-nominated documentary, an unparalleled look inside Israel's security establishment. Imagine the following situation: You have just received a tip that six suicide bombers are making their way into the heart of Israel's major cities, each one to a different city, to set off explosions in the most crowded centers of population. How far would you go to stop the attacks?

A deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel -- its history, present, and future -- without first understanding the life and worldview of the man who leads it Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all of his...