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“j david bleich”

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  • Jewish Law and Contemporary Issues

    by J. David Bleich, Arthur J. Jacobson ...
    Organized as a series of authoritative discussions, this book presents the application of Jewish law - or Halakhah - to contemporary social and political issues. Beginning with the principle of divine revelation, it describes the contents and canons of interpretation of Jewish law. Though divinely received, the law must still be interpreted and 'completed' by human minds, often leading to the ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • Judaism and Environmental Ethics

    A Reader

    by E L. Allen, Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Jeremy Benstein, Philip J. Bentley, J David Bleich, Gerald Blidstein, Jeremy Cohen, David Ehrenfeld, Joan G. Ehrenfeld, Hans Jonas, Leon R. Kass, Eric Katz, Jeanne Kay, Aldo Leopold, Ze'ev Levy, Eric Rosenblum, RobertD Sacks, Arthur Schaeffer, Eilon Schwartz, Steven S. Schwarzschild, Lawrence Troster, Michael Wyschogrod ...
    Martin D. Yaffe's Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader is a well-conceived exploration of three interrelated questions: Does the Hebrew Bible, or subsequent Jewish tradition, teach environmental responsibility or not? What Jewish teachings, if any, appropriately address today's environmental crisis? Do ecology, Judaism, and philosophy work together, or are they at odds with each other in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Legends of the Jews

    All four volumes in a single file

    by Louis Ginzberg ...
    Bible times and characters from creation to Esther. The introduction begins: "The term Rabbinic was applied to the Jewish Literature of post-Biblical times by those who conceived the Judaism of the later epoch to be something different from the Judaism of the Bible, something actually opposed to it. Such observers held that the Jewish nation ceased to exist with the moment when its political ... Read more

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  • God in Your Body

    Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice

    by Jay Michaelson ...
    Your body is the place where heaven and earth meet.The greatest spiritual achievement is not transcending the body but joining body and spirit together. But to do this, you must break through assumptions that draw boundaries around the Infinite and wake up to the body as the site of holiness itself.This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive treatment of the body in Jewish spiritual ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Road to Resilience

    From Chaos to Celebration

    by Mandell, Sherri ...
    How do you grow from grief? How do the Jewish people continue on with strength despite all of the hardships they have faced? Sherri Mandell explores the seven spiritual steps of resilience that teach us how to not only survive grief, but how to thrive in the face of loss and trauma.Resilience is often misunderstood. In Jewish thought, resilience is not bouncing back, but is a process of becoming ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Natural Law in Court

    A History of Legal Theory in Practice

    by R. H. Helmholz ...
    The theory of natural law grounds human laws in the universal truths of God’s creation. Until very recently, lawyers in the Western tradition studied natural law as part of their training, and the task of the judicial system was to put its tenets into concrete form, building an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. Although much has been written about natural law in theory, ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity

    by O. Ashkenazi ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Prince in Prison

    by Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn ...
    The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927.It was the author, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch, who spearheaded the underground Jewish resistance to Stalin's ideological Final Solution — and paid for it by brutal incarceration and a capital sentence from which he was miraculously liberated.In this unparalleled historic first-person ... Read more

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  • Boundaries of Loyalty

    Testimony against Fellow Jews in Non-Jewish Courts

    by Saul J. Berman ...
    Talmudic legislation prescribed penalty for a Jew to testify in a non-Jewish court, against a fellow Jew, to benefit a gentile - for breach of a duty of loyalty to a fellow Jew. Through close textual analysis, Saul Berman explores how Jewish jurists responded when this virtue of loyalty conflicted with values such as Justice, avoidance of desecration of God's Name, deterrence of crime, defence of ... Read more

    $76.29 USD

  • Grafted In

    A Jewish-Christian Perspective

    by Giulio Lorefice Gabeli ...
    “Grafted In is an insightful, fascinating read… Gabeli laudably contends with any notions of Replacement Theology and makes a compelling case for Christianity to embrace its Jewish origins.”Christine Williams, award-winning TV Host, Producer and JournalistPublic Affairs/MediaConsultant for International Christian Embassy Jerusalem CanadaThe landscape of the global church has changed significantly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law

    Edited by Christine Hayes ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law explores the Jewish conception of law as an essential component of the divine-human relationship from biblical to modern times, as well as resistance to this conceptualization. It also traces the political, social, intellectual, and cultural circumstances that spawned competing Jewish approaches to its own 'divine' law and the 'non-divine' law of others, ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • More Desired than Our Owne Salvation

    The Roots of Christian Zionism

    by Robert O. Smith ...
    Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. American sympathies for the State of Israel are consistently and often substantially higher than for Arab states or Palestinians. More Desired than Our Owne Salvation is a compelling historical look at how this consensus came to be. In 2006, John Hagee founded Christians United for Israel. ... Read more

    $46.79 USD