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25 autobiographical sketches of Baale Teshuvah from various backgrounds and places all over the world.

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; Aesthetics / Steven S. Schwarzschild; Aggadah / David Stern; Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism / Hyam Maccoby; Apocalypse / Nahum N. Glatzer; Atheism / Gershon Weiler; Authority / Stephen Wald; Bible Criticism / Moshe Weinfeld; Catastrophe / Alan Mintz; Charity / David Hartman and Tzvi Marx; Chosen People / Henri Atlan; Christianity / David Flusser; Commandments / Yeshayahu Leibowitz; Community / Everett E. Gendler; Conscience / Steven S. Schwarzschild; Conservative Judaism / Gerson D. Cohen.

• Convert and Conversion / Jochanan H.A. WijnhovenCovenant / Arnold Eisen; Creation / Alon Goshen-Gottstein; Culture / Paul Mendes-Flohr; Death / Henry Abramovitch; Destiny and Fate / Albert H. Friedlander; Dogma / Menachem Kellner; Ecumenism / Geoffrey Wigoder; Education / Janet Aviad; Emancipation / Paula E. Hyman; Enlightenment / Robert M. Seltzer; Eros: Sex and Body / David Biale; Eschatology / Arthur A. Cohen; Eternity and Time / David Ellenson; Ethics / Shalom Rosenberg; Evil / Richard L. Rubenstein; Exegesis / Moshe Greenberg; Exile / Arnold Eisen; Existence / Richard L. Rubenstein.

• Faith / Louis JacobsFamily / David Biale; Fear of God / Byron L. Sherwin; Feminism / Susannah Heschel; Freedom / Eugene B. Borowitz; Free Will / David Winston; Gesture and Symbol / Josef Stern; Gnosis / Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa; God / Louis Jacobs; Grace or Loving-Kindness / Warren Zev Harvey; Guilt / Jacob A. Arlow; Halakhah / David B. Hartman; Hasidism / Arthur Green; Hebrew / Lewis Glinert; Hellenism / David Satran; Heresy / Ze'ev Gries; Hermeneutics / Michael Fishbane; Heroism / Yeshayahu Leibowitz; History / Paul Mendes-Flohr; Holiness / Allen Grossman; Holocaust / Emil L. Fackenheim.

• Holy Spirit / Aaron SingerHope / Charles Elliott Vernoff; Humanism / Ernst Akiva Simon; Humility / Bernard Steinberg; I and Thou / Maurice Friedman; Idolatry / Yeshayahu Leibowitz; Imagination / Geoffrey H. Hartman; Imago Dei / Joseph Dan; Immortality / Allan Arkush; Individuality / Peter Ochs; Islam / Nissim Rejwan; Jerusalem / Shemaryahu Talmon; Judaism / Gershom Scholem; Jurisprudence / Ze'ev W. Falk; Justice / Haim H. Cohn; Kingdom of God / Warren Zev Harvey; Kingdom of Priests / Daniel R. Schwartz; Land of Israel / Eliezer Schweid; Language / Josef Stern; Liturgy / Eric L. Friedland.

• Love / Steven HarveyMeaning / Jack D. Spiro; Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Jacob B. Agus; Memory / David G. Roskies; Mentsh / Moshe Waldoks; Mercy / David R. Blumenthal; Messianism / R.J. Zwi Werblowsky; Metaphysics / Alan Udoff; Midrash / David Stern; Miracle / Allan Arkush; Mizveh / Moshe Waldoks; Modern Jewish Philosophy / Steven S. Schwarzschild; Music / Moshe Idel; Mysticism / Moshe Idel; Myth / Galit Hasan-Rokem; Natural Law / Jeffrey Macy; Oral Law / Jacob Neusner; Orthodox Judaism / Emmanuel Rackman; Peace / Aviezer Ravitzky; People of Israel / Alon Goshen-Gottstein.

JPS is proud to reissue Cohen and Mendes-Flohr's classic work, perhaps the most important, comprehensive anthology available on 20th century Jewish thought. This outstanding volume presents 140 concise yet authoritative essays by renowned Jewish figures Eugene Borowitz, Emil Fackenheim, Blu Greenberg, Susannah Heschel, Jacob Neusner, Gershom Scholem, Adin Steinsaltz, and many others. They define and reflect upon such central ideas as charity, chosen people, death, family, love, myth, suffering, Torah, tradition and more. With entries from Aesthetics to Zionism, this book provides striking insights into both the Jewish experience and the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; Aesthetics / Steven S. Schwarzschild; Aggadah / David Stern; Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism / Hyam Maccoby; Apocalypse / Nahum N. Glatzer; Atheism / Gershon Weiler; Authority / Stephen Wald; Bible Criticism / Moshe Weinfeld; Catastrophe / Alan Mintz; Charity / David Hartman and Tzvi Marx; Chosen People / Henri Atlan; Christianity / David Flusser; Commandments / Yeshayahu Leibowitz; Community / Everett E. Gendler; Conscience / Steven S. Schwarzschild; Conservative Judaism / Gerson D. Cohen.

• Convert and Conversion / Jochanan H.A. WijnhovenCovenant / Arnold Eisen; Creation / Alon Goshen-Gottstein; Culture / Paul Mendes-Flohr; Death / Henry Abramovitch; Destiny and Fate / Albert H. Friedlander; Dogma / Menachem Kellner; Ecumenism / Geoffrey Wigoder; Education / Janet Aviad; Emancipation / Paula E. Hyman; Enlightenment / Robert M. Seltzer; Eros: Sex and Body / David Biale; Eschatology / Arthur A. Cohen; Eternity and Time / David Ellenson; Ethics / Shalom Rosenberg; Evil / Richard L. Rubenstein; Exegesis / Moshe Greenberg; Exile / Arnold Eisen; Existence / Richard L. Rubenstein.

• Faith / Louis JacobsFamily / David Biale; Fear of God / Byron L. Sherwin; Feminism / Susannah Heschel; Freedom / Eugene B. Borowitz; Free Will / David Winston; Gesture and Symbol / Josef Stern; Gnosis / Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa; God / Louis Jacobs; Grace or Loving-Kindness / Warren Zev Harvey; Guilt / Jacob A. Arlow; Halakhah / David B. Hartman; Hasidism / Arthur Green; Hebrew / Lewis Glinert; Hellenism / David Satran; Heresy / Ze'ev Gries; Hermeneutics / Michael Fishbane; Heroism / Yeshayahu Leibowitz; History / Paul Mendes-Flohr; Holiness / Allen Grossman; Holocaust / Emil L. Fackenheim.

• Holy Spirit / Aaron SingerHope / Charles Elliott Vernoff; Humanism / Ernst Akiva Simon; Humility / Bernard Steinberg; I and Thou / Maurice Friedman; Idolatry / Yeshayahu Leibowitz; Imagination / Geoffrey H. Hartman; Imago Dei / Joseph Dan; Immortality / Allan Arkush; Individuality / Peter Ochs; Islam / Nissim Rejwan; Jerusalem / Shemaryahu Talmon; Judaism / Gershom Scholem; Jurisprudence / Ze'ev W. Falk; Justice / Haim H. Cohn; Kingdom of God / Warren Zev Harvey; Kingdom of Priests / Daniel R. Schwartz; Land of Israel / Eliezer Schweid; Language / Josef Stern; Liturgy / Eric L. Friedland.

• Love / Steven HarveyMeaning / Jack D. Spiro; Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Jacob B. Agus; Memory / David G. Roskies; Mentsh / Moshe Waldoks; Mercy / David R. Blumenthal; Messianism / R.J. Zwi Werblowsky; Metaphysics / Alan Udoff; Midrash / David Stern; Miracle / Allan Arkush; Mizveh / Moshe Waldoks; Modern Jewish Philosophy / Steven S. Schwarzschild; Music / Moshe Idel; Mysticism / Moshe Idel; Myth / Galit Hasan-Rokem; Natural Law / Jeffrey Macy; Oral Law / Jacob Neusner; Orthodox Judaism / Emmanuel Rackman; Peace / Aviezer Ravitzky; People of Israel / Alon Goshen-Gottstein.

JPS is proud to reissue Cohen and Mendes-Flohr's classic work, perhaps the most important, comprehensive anthology available on 20th century Jewish thought. This outstanding volume presents 140 concise yet authoritative essays by renowned Jewish figures Eugene Borowitz, Emil Fackenheim, Blu Greenberg, Susannah Heschel, Jacob Neusner, Gershom Scholem, Adin Steinsaltz, and many others. They define and reflect upon such central ideas as charity, chosen people, death, family, love, myth, suffering, Torah, tradition and more. With entries from Aesthetics to Zionism, this book provides striking insights into both the Jewish experience and the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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Some really practical ideas for parents who want to raise "good enough" Jewish kids to insure that the Jewish people will last at least another generation An insightful book on Jewish parenting by a middle-aged divorced man without children, 40 Things is based on the many failures and few successes of the author's friends' attempts to be perfect Jewish parents. It is a practical book about improving the odds which asks: "How much can we get away with and still raise fully Jewish children who will in turn raise other Jewish children?".
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4Q Pesher Nahum, long considered one of the most important Qumran texts for understanding the historical context of the Dead Sea Scrolls, is the focus of this critical study. The author presents new readings and undertakes extensive analysis and reconstruction of broken text. Areas of focus include text-critical implications for the biblical text of Nahum, scribal practices, and formal and composition patterns common throughout the Qumran Pmesharim. One of the contraversial aspects of the study is a challenge to accepted thought; that the mysterious "Lion of Wrath" figure of the text has nothing to do with the Hasmonaean king Alexander Jannaeus. Rather, this study argues that Pesher Nahum portrays a coming conquest from the "Kittim", and the "Lion of Wrath" is to be understood within well-known biblical motifs of a Nebuchadnezzar-like foreign invader coming to deliver the wrath of God upon a sinful Israel.
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• Machine generated contents note: 1. Manuscripts and Discovery
• 2. Structure of 4Q Instruction
• 3. Language and Style
• 4. Genre: 4QInstruction as a Wisdom Text
• 5. Revelation, Eschatology and Determinism in a Qumran Wisdom Text
• 6. Elect Status of the Mebin, the Lot of the Angels and the Prospect of Eternal Life
• 7. Elect Status of the Mebin and Genesis 1-3
• 8. 4QInstruction: A Wisdom Text with an Apocalyptic Worldview
• 9. Poverty and Social Location of the Mebin
• 10. Composition's Date and Relation to the Dead Sea Sect
• Text, Translation, and Commentary
• 1. 4Q415 2 ii
• 2. 4Q416 1
• 3. 4Q416 2 i-ii
• 4. 4Q416 2 iii
• 5. 4Q416 2 iv
• 6. 4Q417 1 i
• 7. 4Q417 1 ii
• 8. 4Q417 2 i + 26
• 9. 4Q418 55
• 10. 4Q418 69 ii + 60
• 11. 4Q418 81 + 81a
• 12. 4Q418 103 ii
• 13. 4Q418 126 ii + 122 ii
• 14. 4Q423 1
• 15. 4Q423 5.

• Acknowledgments Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Maskil and Mevin
• 1 First Person Speech
• 2 Occurrences of
• in 4QInstruction
• 3 Maskil in Qumran Discoveries
• 4 Addressee as Maskil in 4Q418 81 + 81a Lines 1-14
• 5 Conclusions
• 2 Spirit and Flesh
• 1 "Spirit" and "Flesh"
• 2 "Spirit" in 4QInstruction
• 3 Conclusions
• 3 Torah and Mysteries
• 1 Evoking Torah? "By the Hand of Moses" in 4Q418 184 and 4Q423 11
• 2 Allusions to "Torah"
• 3 Mosaic Torah in Early Jewish Literature
• 4 Re-written Torah
• 5 Conclusions
• Concluding Remarks
• Bibliography Plate Section Index.
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In 4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies, Benjamin Wold challenges the interpretation of 4QInstruction as a deterministic and dualistic composition. In a re-examination of key fragments he offers new reconstructions and translations that indicate 4QInstruction envisaged wisdom available to all humanity, divisions among humankind and communities as the result of individual adherence to wisdom, and a hierarchy of authority as a result of individual merit.
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• Acknowledgments Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Maskil and Mevin
• 1 First Person Speech
• 2 Occurrences of
• in 4QInstruction
• 3 Maskil in Qumran Discoveries
• 4 Addressee as Maskil in 4Q418 81 + 81a Lines 1-14
• 5 Conclusions
• 2 Spirit and Flesh
• 1 "Spirit" and "Flesh"
• 2 "Spirit" in 4QInstruction
• 3 Conclusions
• 3 Torah and Mysteries
• 1 Evoking Torah? "By the Hand of Moses" in 4Q418 184 and 4Q423 11
• 2 Allusions to "Torah"
• 3 Mosaic Torah in Early Jewish Literature
• 4 Re-written Torah
• 5 Conclusions
• Concluding Remarks
• Bibliography Plate Section Index.
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In 4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies, Benjamin Wold challenges the interpretation of 4QInstruction as a deterministic and dualistic composition. In a re-examination of key fragments he offers new reconstructions and translations that indicate 4QInstruction envisaged wisdom available to all humanity, divisions among humankind and communities as the result of individual adherence to wisdom, and a hierarchy of authority as a result of individual merit.
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This book focuses on the third section of one of the most important documents from the Qumran library, the epilogue of 4QMMT. It re-evaluates the textual basis for this section, and analyses how the epilogue functions as a part of the larger document. In addition to addressing the structure and genre of 4QMMT, this volume analyzes the use of Scripture in the epilogue in order to illuminate the theological agenda of the document's author/redactor. Although this book's primary focus is on the epilogue, the results of this investigation shed light on 4QMMT as a whole.
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• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Sigla; Chapter One INTRODUCTION; Chapter Two THE MANUSCRIPTS AND THE COMPOSITE TEXT OF 4QMMT; 2.1 The Calendar Fragments: 4Q394 1-2 Calendrical Document D; Chapter Three THE STRUCTURE OF 4QMMT; Chapter Four THE GENRE OF 4QMMT; 4.1 Defining the Epistolary Genre: Letters and Literary Epistles; 4.2 Defining the Genre: A Treatise; Chapter Five THE USE OF SCRIPTURE IN THE EPILOGUE; Chapter Six SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Indices.

This book focuses on the third section of one of the most important documents from the Qumran library, the epilogue of 4QMMT. It re-evaluates the textual basis for this section, and analyses how the epilogue functions as a part of the larger document. In addition to addressing the structure and genre of 4QMMT, this volume analyzes the use of Scripture in the epilogue in order to illuminate the theological agenda of the document's author/redactor. Although this book's primary focus is on the epilogue, the results of this investigation shed light on 4QMMT as a whole.
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• R' Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
• R' Meir Shapiro
• R' Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
• R' Elchonon Wasserman
• The Chazon Ish.

• Introduction
• 1. The Four Authors
• 2. Comments on the Lists of the Seventy-Two Names Reuchlin and the Seventy-Two Names Luther and the Seventy-Two Names Thenaud and the Seventy-Two Names Thenaud's Acquaintance with the Kabbalah Thenaud 72 and 37 Thenaud and Toledot Jeshu (The Generation of Jesus) Wolff and the Seventy-Two Names
• 3. Conclusions Reuchlin and the Jews Luther and the Jews Thenaud and the Jews Wolff and the Jews
• 4. Overview The Four Authors and the Seventy-Two Names-1522 Perspective Bibliography Index.
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Leading figures at the dawn of the sixteenth-century Reformation commonly faced the charge of "judaizing": 72 In His Name concerns the changing views of four such men starting with their kabbalistic treatment of the 72 divine names of angels. Johann Reuchlin, the first of the four men featured in this book, survived the charge; Martin Luther's increasingly anti-semitic stance is contrasted with the opposite movement of the French Franciscan Jean Thenaud whose kabbalistic manuscripts were devoted to Francis I; Philipp Wolff, the fourth, had been born into a Jewish family but his recorded views were decidedly anti-semitic. 72 In His Name also includes evidence that kabbalistic beliefs and practices, such as the service for exorcism recorded by Thenaud, were unwittingly recorded by Christians. Although the book concerns early modern Europe, the religious interactions, the shifting spiritual attitudes, and the shadows cast linger on.
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• Editor's foreword / Jon Woronoff
• List of tables
• How to find things in the dictionary chronology of the Jewish religion introduction
• The dictionary --Supplementary tables
• Appendix A: The Mitzvot
• Appendix B: Standard prayer texts
• Appendix C: Reform "platforms"
• Appendix D: An orthodox convention
• Appendix E: Christians and Christianity
• Bibliography
• About the author.

Judaism, the religion of the Jewish people, is one of the first recorded monotheistic religions, and as such is one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. While its influences can be seen in the religions of both Christianity and Islam, many of its beliefs, traditions, and practices are unknown. The second edition of The A to Z of Judaism doesn't just present "religious" beliefs in a traditional sense but investigates the complex intermingling of religion, devotion, lifestyle, and culture as it is found in diverse Jewish populations around the world and as it has evolved over the course of recent human history. Judaism, like many other cultural institutions, has rarely remained static-instead, continually investigating and questioning itself, metamorphosing in relation to the world. By means of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and numerous cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, writings, institutions, concepts, Hebrew words, philosophy, theology, and religious law, author Norman Solomon provides an important reference source for the study of Judaism.
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• The George Hitching Terriberry memorial lecture: Jewish territorial doctrine and the Christian response / W.D. Davis
• The Nina Booth Bricker memorial lecture: The idea of a people of God / John Macquarrie
• The Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman memorial lecture: Toward a Jewish theology of Christianity / Jakob J. Petuchowski
• The Hugh McCloskey Evans, Jr., memorial lectures: The Greek Bible ; Jewish tradition and New Testament interpretation / Roger Ledéaut
• The Nathaniel P. Philips, Sr., memorial lectures: Sons of God and ecclesia ; The hermeneutic circle--uses and abuses in translating the Bible / Harald Reisenfeld
• The Nina Booth Bricker memorial lectures: Jesus the Jew ; Jesus and Christianity / Geza Vermes.

• Zionism and Judaism - the path of Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler-- Abba Hillel as Zionist within the Camp of Reform Judaism, Michael A. Meyer-- a comparative study of Zionist leadership - Abba Hillel Silver and David Ben-Gurion, Anita Shapira-- Zion and America - the formative visions of Abba Hillel Silver, Hasia R. Diner-- between ideal and reality - Abba Hillel Silver's Zionist vision, Arthur A. Goren-- where American Zionism differed - Abba Hillel Silver reconsidered, Mark A. Raider.
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Bringing together, for the first time, several distinguished historians of Zionism and the American Jewish experience, Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism offers a comprehensive treatment of one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent Jewish political figures. Silver was a champion of American Zionism whose singular role in modern Jewish history and the establishment of the State of Israel has been hitherto neglected. The contributions to this volume are diverse in scope; they are based on previously inaccessible and unexplored archival material. The essays investigate Silver's Zionist political leadership, impact on American Judaism, ideological orientation and relations with the leaders of the Palestine Jewish community, World Zionist Organization and the Jewish state.
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