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For the Love of Israel and the Jewish People: Essays and Studies on Israel, Jews and Judaism 2 reviews
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Urim Publications, 2008
For the love of Israel
On the one hand I am deeply appreciative of this book. It shows a great love of Israel and the Jewish people. It has a deep awareness of the historical connection between the people of Israel and the land of Israel. It argues for and understands the central role of Jerusalem in Jewish history. It has great sympathy for the victims of the one - hundred year war of Terror waged against the Jewish ...
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Gold from the Land of Israel: A New Light on the Weekly Torah Portion from the Writings of Rabbi Abraham ...2 reviews
Urim Publications, 2007
Rav Chanan Morrison explains Rav Kook's Torah like no one else
Rav Chanan Morrison has been writing Divrei Torah on the weekly Torah Portion inspired by Rav Kook's many Seforim (Religious Books) for years. You can sign up for his weekly newsletter on his website (RavKook-DOT-n3-DOT-net).
Every week he brings down a couple brilliant insights from Rav Kook's Torah, always sourcing it back to the original texts in case the reader would like to venture deeper ...
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Carlebach Haggadah: Seder Night with Reb Shlomo [In English and Hebrew languages]5 reviews
Chaim Stefansky
Urim Publications, 2001
a joyful Haggadah for the Reb's sweet holy beautiful friends
The Carlebach Haggadah is a Haggadah for the neshama. It is a traditional haggadah for his "sweet, heilige, holy, beautiful friends," in RIGHT to LEFT format, with Hebrew texts on the right pages and facing English translations on the left pages. There are no transliterations. Running along the bottom of each page is the reason to buy this book. They are the teachings and stories of the late ...
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The Animated Haggadah1 review
Urim Publications, 1998
Next year in Jerusalem
This 50-page book, published in London and Jerusalem, and reading from right to left in the Hebrew format, is one of the best books for children in our extensive collection of juvenile Passover titles. Why? (An appropriate question for Passover, or Pessah.) It opens with an order of the Seder meal, illustrated with colorful and somehow very realistic clay figures showing each part of the ...
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Around the Family Table: Songs and Prayers for the Jewish Home3 reviews
Shlomo Riskin
Urim Publications, 2005
Songs and prayers for the Family Table
This collection of songs and prayers for the Jewish home is collected and annotated by one of the great Jewish teachers of our day, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin the communal Rabbi of Efrat. Rabbi Riskin's teachings about the importance of the Jewish family table in Jewish life are also presented in his very moving and special 'Haggadah'.
This collection should add to the 'Oneg' around the Shabbat table.
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Expecting Miracles: Finding Meaning and Spirituality in Pregnancy Through Judaism11 reviews
Chana Weisberg
Urim Publications, 2005
I COULDN'T PUT THIS BOOK DOWN!
This book truly resonated somewhere deep within me. It connects the reader spiritually with her larger family, that of all Jewish women. The womens' stories are so honest and real; I felt like I was having a conversation over coffee with some of my oldest friends into the night as I read and read and read... Despite the fact that some of the women have different backgrounds than my own, there ...
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Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity, and Freudian Slips in Genesis2 reviews
Shmuel Klitsner
Urim Publications, 2007
Psychoanalytic close reading of Jacob story
I heard Klitzer give a 1-2 hour discussion of the main points of his work, which is the result of many years' teaching in an orthodox seminar for women 's religious studies in Jerusalem. (Orthodox women and men cannot study together: men study in "yeshivas"; women in their own institutes.) Klitzer has an original and deep understanding of the text, as well as a keen sense of the "intertextual" ...
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Dignity Beyond Death: The Jewish Preparation for Burial3 reviews
Rochel U. Berman
Urim Publications, 2005
memorable and informative for Jews and gentiles alike
Dignity Beyond Death is a passionate and deeply informed study of one of the most ancient and significant rituals of Jewish practice. Yet the purification (tahara) of the dead before burial by volunteer members of the community (the Hevra Kadisha), while perhaps known in principle, has hardly received the attention it deserves. Tahara performs a dual function. The ritual insists on the dignity ...
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Learning to Read Midrash4 reviews
Simi Peters
Urim Publications, 2005
For people who want to understand midrash
One who reads Learning to Read Midrash expecting to find interesting midrashim with insightful analyses will not be disappointed. This, however, is only an added bonus for readers of this book. The primary goal of the work is to provide a method for independent study of midrash. Simi Peters achieves this goal very well by detailing a systematic process for uncovering additional layers of meaning ...
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Acts of the Mind in Jewish Ritual Law: An Insight into Rabbinic Psychology1 review
Isaac Cohen
Urim Publications, 2008
A true treasure
In this work Rabbi Isaac Cohen of blessed memory, writes about the idea of Will and Intentionality in Judaism. He relates this to a very wide range of subjects including most of those covered in the traditional Halachic Literature. His writing is beautifully clear, and his exposition of each subject discussed throrough and readily understandable.
Years ago I studied a central theory attributed ...
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Jewish Identity in Modern Israel: Proceedings on Secular Judaism and Democracy1 review
Naftali Rothenberg
Urim Publications, 2002
Well-written and thought-provoking selections
Collaboratively compiled and edited by Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg (Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) and Eliezer Schweid (Professor of Jewish Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Jewish Identity In Modern Israel: Proceedings On Secular Judaism And Democracy is an impressive and informative collection of articles by a variety of different writers, each offering distinct ...
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Eyes to See: Recovering Ethical Torah Principles Lost in the Holocaust1 review
Yom Tov Schwarz
Urim Publications, 2005
An important work for the Torah- learning world
Rabbi Yom Tov Schwarz writes this book out of deep caring for the Jewish people and a deep love of the God of Israel. He tells of his own experience in the Shoah and of being saved through the generosity and caring of fellow Jews who helped a total stranger. He makes the case that this kind of caring for Clal Yisrael and for each and every member of Israel was characteristic of the generation ...
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Around the Family Table: Songs and Prayers for the Jewish Home, Pocket Edition1 review
Shlomo Riskin
Urim Publications, 2005
A truly enriching work
Rabbi Riskin is one of the most important and dynamic Jewish teachers and leaders of our generation. He is among other things one of the founders of the community of Efrat in Israel. I have for some years now used his outstanding Haggadah at our Pesach table. In this present work as with the Haggadah he provides explanations and commentary which deepen and enrich the experience of celebrating ...
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Jewish Woman Next Door: Repairing the World One Step at a Time1 review
Debby Flancbaum
Urim Publications, 2007
A Wonderful Book!
Debby Flancbaum has done a fantastic job of presenting the life stories of a wide array of Jewish women. Visionaries, heroines, and regular Jewish wives and mothers whose desire to help has made a large impact on the Jewish people and the world as a whole. I highly recommend this book.
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Festival of Lights: A Delightful Collection of Handmade Chanukiot1 review
Penny Harow
Urim Publications, 2008
A collection of images depicting dozens of creative methods for celebrating this tradition with unique lights
The Festival of Lights is an annual Jewish community celebrating Chanukah. "Festival of Lights: A Delightful Collection of Handmade Chanukiot" is a collection of images depicting dozens of creative methods for celebrating this tradition with unique lights, from action figures to pool balls fashioned into candles. A wonderful look at creative ways to cherish the holiday, "Festival of Lights" is a ...
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Dimensions of Love: The Jewish Foundations of Love and Marriage1 review
Bracha Slae, Shlomo Aviner
Urim Publications, 2000
Insights into Jewish marriage
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner is a dedicated and humble teacher of Torah. A pupil of Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook his teachings often center on 'Ahava v'Amunah' Love, and Faith. In this work he gives a traditional Jewish view of marriage with great depth and inspiration.
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Haketav Vehakabbalah: Torah Commentary by Rabbi Yaakov Tzevi Mecklenburg, Demonstrating the Indivisibility of ...1 review
Yaakov Tzevi Mecklenburg
Urim Publications, 2001
Insightful commentary
I came across this work when seeing a citation from it by Rabbi Natan Lopes Cardozo. I did not read through it completely but looking here and there found thoughts of great profundity and insight. I am sure that each and every lover of Torah can find in this sefer much to reflect upon.
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Eim Habanim Semeichah: On Eretz Yisrael, Redemption, and Unity1 review
Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal, Rabbi Shlomo Teichtal
Urim Publications, 2002
Inspiring and emotional
Rav Teichtal grew up an ultra-orthodox anti zionist in 1900's Hungary. He tragicly ended his life at the hands of the Nazi's horror.
Before his death, his opinions on settling the land of Israel under went a dramatic u-turn, and this book (written in hiding from the Nazi's) details his religious arguments for settling the land.
Imaculately argued and sourced from the breadth of traditional ...
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The Biblical View of Man1 review
Adler Leo
Urim Publications, 2007
The Biblical view of Man- as guide to a life of righteousness
In his introduction to this work Professor Shimon Gesundheit (Hebrew University,Jerusalem) considers the question of whether there is such a subject as Jewish Theology. He finds the originality of Rabbi Adler's approach in his providing an answer to this question through centering on Biblical Anthropology. The understanding of God given in the Bible as Adler sees it is given so that Mankind can ...
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Equality Lost : Essays in Torah Commentary, Halacha, and Jewish Thought1 review
Yehuda Henkin
Urim Publications, 1999
A great introduction to Modern Orthodox Jewish Thought
Most of the books that are available in English from an Orthodox Jewish perspective are simple apologetics from the extreme right wing of the haredi "ultra Orthodox" community. This book is a thought provoking exception to this rule.
Inspite of the title of the book it contains several fascinating essays that have nothing to do with issues of equality. Equality Lost is itself the title of ...
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