Leaving Egypt With A Family Of Goats, Lots Of History, And A Graphic Novel
Pesach reminds us of the liberation from Egypt, but also commands us to live through its events as if we were there. Every generation and every Jew, no matter which community they belong to, can, in their own way, relate to the story of Pesach.
A New Approach To The Shalosh Regalim
Having exhausted the possible correlations between the three holidays, Rabbi Lauer suggests that it is not the similarities among these three holidays that define them as a unit. Rather, it is the fact that these holidays are all components of a greater whole.
Making Asher Yatzar Meaningful
The Asher Yatzar book discussed the kavanos we should have while eating: food should serve as a function with which we should have the energy to serve Hashem.
A Thrilling Jewish Mission During The Cold War
Haunting dream-like illustrations, dialogue that crackles with tension, spare writing, all conspire to make you feel not ‘as if’ you’re there, but that you really are there...
A Yiddish Gem
While Grade never mentions who Rasseyner is, later research showed that the character is based on Rabbi Gershon Liebman, who headed up the group of Novardok-based yeshivas in France after World War II.
Bringing The Sages To Life
Coming a number of years after the previous volume, Lau’s series humanizes the Sages, giving information about the time period and place they lived in, character attributes gleaned from Mishna and both the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds.
Fostering Shalom Bayis
The stance on confidentiality – not sharing personal issues with others for advice – is a great example of how he can be absolutely right and this can damage the relationship OR speaking up is actually really important and a great way to get the name of a great therapist or access to help.
A Book To Guide Tough Conversations With Your Sons
Phraseology aside, Part Two of From Boys to Men is full of useful information mainly geared toward adults with several sections of important information for teens clearly labeled within.
A Gadol Hador Of This Generation
When reading Reb Dovid, you would think this biography is about a gadol hador from hundreds of years ago. Yet, this was our dor’s gadol.
Simplifying And Exemplifying The Maharal
The Maharal is classically celebrated for taking deep Kabbalistic and mystical ideas and bringing them down to Earth, composing them in a deep and beautiful style. He masks the traditional Kabbalistic terms in more the conventional Rabbinic Hebrew.
Fiction, But With An Important Message
The author’s skill at portraying multiple layers of trauma gives this book great depth. We see the long-lasting effects of the shame imposed on family members for something they didn’t do.
A Beautiful Read
If all one does is pick up the book and flip through it to look at the photos and captions and charts such as these, they will gain a wide window into Jewish history, scholarship and life.
Helping Children Process Their Feelings
Children’s books are becoming more and more important. Children are left too much on their own with their multitude of screens. Children need parents who believe in them and encourage them, says Rubin.
A Kabbalistic Guide To Writing
For someone who has accomplished and written so much, what's left? I opened another book of Sherri's to see what I might find.
Stories For The Soul
The stories are written in Rabbi Krohn’s inimitable style and their subjects range from Gedolei HaDor to “ordinary” men, women and children; from the shores of America to the epicenter of the Holy Land.
A Helpful Guide For Women And Couples
If you don’t want to read it cover to cover, you can flip through it. Find the question you are looking for as it becomes relevant to your situation or if a case is of interest to you.
Good Things Come In Threes
Rabbi Klapper grounds our Orthodoxy in a commitment to a halachic process in which poskim and a community of faithfully observant Jews exercise joint responsibility over the shape of halacha.
Foundation Of Judaism
While books like this are great introductory texts, the cursory overview of the topics, many of them which warrant numerous volumes on their own, can give the reader too far a superficial view of the topic.
Best of Kosher Shines with Jewish Cooking’s Greatest Hits
For people like me, who already have quite the cookbook collection, Best of Kosher is a great resource, saving me endless minutes of thumbing through book after book in search of a favorite recipe.
Heartbreak, Heartache, And Healing
The book does not hold back. The honesty of its prose is as refreshing as it is validating.
Finding Spiritual Lessons In Mundanity
Unfortunately, it’s easy to walk around with autocorrect syndrome, thinking that in life, it’s okay to mess up because no one will ever realize we made a mistake if we just move on; autocorrect will just take care of it.
A Deeper Look At Gematria
As I matured, the counterexamples to the authority of gematria grew more numerous, more amusing, and naughtier.
Book Review: Distrust, Animosity, and Solidarity: Jews and Non-Jews during the Holocaust in the...
For another scholarly compendium related to Jews and Non-Jews during the Holocaust in the USSR
A Deeper Shabbos Experience
By teaching us mindfulness exercises for the beginner, and the expert, Polen helps us to build perspective, setting the stage for a mindful observance of Shabbos.
Growth Through The Parsha
Like the lecturer who begins with a joke as a way to warm up his audience, Rabbi Kurland intends for the humorous anecdotes to make the reader more receptive to the words of mussar that follow.
Jewish Solidarity, the Ideal and the Reality in the Turmoil of the Shoah
An essential scholarly volume on the Shoah
Bringing Meaning To The Daf
As a pulpit rabbi, Friedman said that he found that the biggest obstacle for most people is that they struggle to find meaning in their Torah learning.
Create Your Own Story!
Targeting late elementary school, this book is a great way to learn about history in such a way that can’t be learned from a textbook.
A Deeper Dive Into The Daf
That experience of the daf yomi framing individual interpretations and personal epiphanies is captured beautifully by Hillel Broder’s ambitious new collection of poems Daily Blessings.
Another Side Of The Expulsion From Spain
While Basseva is aware of an inquisition of Conversos under suspicion that they are secretly reverting to Jewish practices, she has no reason to believe that she, the daughter of a well-respected wealthy Jewish man, is in danger.
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