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O Jerusalem! is the epic drama of 1948, when Arabs and Jews fought for control of the city of Jerusalem. This story traverses centuries and continents, covering the time between WWII and the creation of the independent state of Israel. Based on five years of intensive research and thousands of...

The ups and downs of the economy prove Rabbi Daniel Lapin's famous principle that the more things change, the more we need to depend upon the things that never change. There's no better source for both practical and spiritual financial wisdom than the time-tested knowledge found in the ancient Jewish faith and its culture. In the second edition of Thou Shall Prosper, Lapin offers a practical approach to creating wealth based on the established principles of ancient Jewish wisdom.

In 1982, a 20-something named Michael Ross left home to backpack across Europe. Little did he know that his vacation would set in motion a chain of events that would hurl him into a career where the bosses are seasoned spies, and the work is tracking the world’s most dangerous terrorists. The Volunteer is a fast-paced memoir that provides insight into our world, both pre- and post-9/11, told by a man on the front lines in the war against terror.

Eden is the garden of happiness that humankind lost when Adam and Eve the first human couple, disobeyed the one true god, i.e., God, and ate the fruit of the forbidden tree. To this garden all humanity shall return if we accept God's love and follow God's law. It represents paradise in Abrahamic...

Christians are meant to be kings and queens, growing and expanding Christ’s dominion over the world. This is a great challenge, and it requires wisdom. This is where Proverbs comes in. The book of Proverbs was written by a king for his son, but the principles found in this book are for...

Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.

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...

Whether complete or only fragmentary, the 930 extant Dead Sea Scrolls irrevocably altered how we look at and understand the foundations of faith and religious practice. Now you can get a comprehensive introduction to this unique series of archaeological documents, and to scholars' evolving understanding of their authorship and significance, with these 24 lectures. Learn what the scrolls are, what they contain, and how the insights they offered into religious and ancient history came into focus.

The Book of Enoch contains one of the oldest stories ever told by the human species on Planet Earth. It is an epic tale of lustful angels, man-eating giants, and portentous visions of the end times. It introduces us to the heavenly Watchers and their earthborn hybrid sons, the mighty Nephilim, unlocking the meaning behind some of the most perplexing passages in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.

Shiv Chalisa is a beautiful hymn dedicated to Lord Shiva, describing his divine qualities. Lord Shiva, also known as 'Mahadev' and 'Bholenath', is considered the destroyer among the three principal deities (Trimurti). Regular recitation of the Shiv Chalisa provides devotees with mental peace, patience and courage, and it also serves as an act of worship to Lord Shiva.

Master ethical leadership and corporate resilience using ancient wisdom to build a highly profitable enterprise. Perfect for your morning commute, this focused audio transforms centuries of Talmudic teachings into actionable strategy. Elevate your daily grind by aligning financial ambition with...

Hindus regard Goddess Durga as the foremost and most revered primeval divine power of the entire cosmos. Goddess Durga eliminates the demons of darkness and ignorance. The Durga Chalisa is an excellent ode in forty verses describing the greatness of the goddess. It describes all the forms of the goddess and also her glories. It also tells about her elimination of asuras like Mahishasura, Shumbh and Nishumbh, Madhu-Kaitabh, and others and restoring peace in the world.

The acclaimed best-selling classic of Holocaust literature, winner of the Booker Prize and the inspiration for the classic film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. A stunning novel based on the extraordinary true story of German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler, who came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II.

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has translated Sefer Yetzirah, the oldest and most mysterious of all kabbalistic texts, and now brings its theoretical, meditative, and magical implications to light. He expounds on the dynamics of the spiritual domain, the worlds of the Sefirot, souls, and angels. When properly understood, Sefer Yetzirah becomes the instruction manual for a very special type of meditation meant to strengthen concentration and to aid the development of telekinetic and telepathic powers. 

A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful prose, Alter renews the Old Testament as a source of literary power and spiritual inspiration. From the family frictions of Genesis and King David's flawed humanity to the serene wisdom of Psalms and Job's incendiary questioning of God's ways, these magnificent works of world literature resonate with a startling immediacy.

Every day, one root from Kitāb al-Uṣūl, the Book of Roots of Abū al-Walīd Marwān ibn Janāḥ (Córdoba and Zaragoza, eleventh century), in his own order, read by Fāṭima from the edition by Blaise Webster and Marc Philip Boulos, OCABS Press. Ibn Janāḥ wrote in Arabic about the Hebrew of Scripture, working from the consonantal text: each root, the verses it is heard in, and its Arabic kin. From OCABS on the Ephesus School Network. Follow each root through the Consolation of Consonants at ocabs.org.

חוקרת התלמוד חיה גלבוע והשחקנית והיוצרת יובל שרף פותחות בכל פרק סוגיה תלמודית מרכזית, ובוחנות אותה כהגות תרבותית, ספרותית ואנושית, מפריזמה נשית, ביקורתית ועכשווית. בכל פרק נארח מומחים ויוצרים מתחומי הפסיכולוגיה, הטכנולוגיה, המשפט והאמנות, ונעמיק בשאלות החיים שממשיכות להעסיק אותנו: אי ודאות, האפשרות להשתנות ולהיפרד מן העבר, שיבה...

Les chiourim du Rav Haïm Tsvi Rozenberg zatsal sur la Paracha de la semaine, en français. Plus de 770 cours sur les cinq livres de la Torah (Berechit, Chemot, Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim), une saison par livre. Parachat Hachavoua, Parasha, Parshat, commentaire de la Torah, Midrach et Moussar. Weekly Torah portion (parsha) shiurim in French by Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Rosenberg. פרשת השבוע – שיעורי הרב חיים צבי רוזנברג זצ״ל בצרפתית. Voir aussi : Rav Rozenberg – Shass (Daf Yomi) et Rav Rozenberg – Moadim (fêtes juives).

A weekly shiur on the Ein Yaakov, the classic collection of the aggados of the Talmud: the stories, parables and teachings woven through every masechta of the Gemara. Each week Rabbi Chaim Fogelman reads the Gemara inside with Rashi, the Maharsha and the commentaries printed alongside it, and draws out what Chazal are teaching about Hashem, the soul and how a person should live. The podcast follows the shiur masechta by masechta, starting with Kesuvos. Every past shiur, with a summary and chapters, is at einyaakovshiur.com.

In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman draw on recent archaeological research to present a dramatically revised portrait of ancient Israel and its neighbors. They argue that crucial evidence (or a telling lack of evidence) at digs in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon suggests that many of the most famous stories in the Bible - the wanderings of the patriarchs, the Exodus from Egypt, Joshua’s conquest of Canaan, and David and Solomon’s vast empire - reflect the world of the later authors.