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  • Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah

    by Yuval Harari ...
    Translated by Batya Stein ...
    Series series Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
    A comprehensive study of Jewish magic in the late antiquity and the early Islamic period—the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, and the history of scholarly investigation into its nature and origin."Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts?" Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

    A Conciliatory Perspective. Reflections on His Late Thought

    by Dov Schwartz ...
    Translated by Batya Stein ...
    Series series Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
    Dov Schwartz’s The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: A Conciliatory Perspective. Reflections on His Late Thought explores the later thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993), focusing on his writings from the 1960s onward. It shows how Rav Soloveitchik modulated his earlier themes of existential loneliness, shifting toward communal engagement and integrating diverse ... Read more

    $116.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Terror of Evil

    The Holocaust as a Challenge to Religious Thought

    by Avi Sagi, Dov Schwartz ...
    Translated by Batya Stein ...
    Series series Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
    This book explores how modern religious thought and religious Zionism have addressed the profound question of evil, with a particular focus on the Holocaust. It delves into the theological and philosophical challenges posed by absolute, undeniable, and inexplicable primal evil. The awareness of this primal evil serves as the foundation connecting the chapters, which trace the perspectives of ... Read more

    $116.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Light Through the Crack

    The Meaning of Life in the Face of Adversity

    by Avi Sagi ...
    Translated by Batya Stein ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    An epidemic such as COVID-19 challenges life’s very order and meaning, interferes in our relations with others, and breaks apart our routine. It raises many questions in the realms of ethics, politics, theology, psychology, and beyond. Perhaps more than anything else, it prompts us to ponder: what does this encounter with widespread anguish and distress imply about the human self-perception as ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Return of the Absent Father

    A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud

    by Haim Weiss, Shira Stav ...
    Translated by Batya Stein ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of seven stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud, in which sages abandon their homes, wives, and families and go away to the study house for long periods. Earlier interpretations have emphasized the tension between conjugal and scholarly desire as the key driving force in these stories. Haim Weiss and Shira Stav here ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Return of the Absent Father

    A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud

    by Haim Weiss, Shira Stav ...
    Translated by Batya Stein ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of seven stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud, in which sages abandon their homes, wives, and families and go away to the study house for long periods. Earlier interpretations have emphasized the tension between conjugal and scholarly desire as the key driving force in these stories. Haim Weiss and Shira Stav here ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Religious-Zionism: History and Ideology

    by Dov Schwartz, Batya Stein ...
    Religious Zionism is a major component of contemporary Israeli society and politics. The author reviews the history of religious Zionism from both a historical and ideological-theological perspective. His basic assumption is that religious Zionism cannot be fully understood solely through a historical description, or even from social, political, and philosophical vantage points. This book is the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Between Religion and Reason (Part II)

    The Position against Contradiction between Reason and Revelation in Contemporary Jewish Thought from Eliezer Goldman to Jonathan Sacks

    by Ephraim Chamiel ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in Orthodox Judaism
    This book is dedicated to an analysis of the writings of modern religious Jewish thinkers who adopted a neo-fundamentalist, illusionary, apologetic approach, opposing the notion that there may sometimes be a contradiction between reason and revelation. The book deals with the thought of Eliezer Goldman, Norman Lamm, David Hartman, Aharon Lichtenstein, Jonathan Sacks, and Michael Abraham. According ... Read more

    $98.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Judaism, Liberalism, & Political Theology

    by Jerome E. Copulsky, Dana Hollander, Eric Jacobson, Gregory Kaplan, Daniel Weidner, Daniel Brandes, Sarah Hammerschlag, Zachary Braiterman, Robert Erlewine, Oona Eisenstadt, Brian Britt, Bruce Rosenstock ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    These essays propose "a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political" ( Jewish Book World ).Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology, arguing in opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • (God) After Auschwitz

    Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought

    by Zachary Braiterman ...
    The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Judaism and the West

    From Hermann Cohen to Joseph Soloveitchik

    by Robert Erlewine ...
    Series series New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
    Grappling with the place of Jewish philosophy at the margin of religious studies, Robert Erlewine examines the work of five Jewish philosophers—Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Soloveitchik—to bring them into dialogue within the discipline. Emphasizing the tenuous place of Jews in European, and particularly German, culture, Erlewine unapologetically ... Read more

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  • Doing Jewish Theology: God, Torah & Israel in Modern Judaism

    by Rabbi Neil Gillman ...
    How we deal with revelation determines how we handle the issue of authority in belief and practice. How we understand authority determines how we deal with the claims of the tradition on us; how we deal with those claims determines how we shape our own Judaism. That conclusion opens the gate to a reconsideration of all of Judaisms theology, in particular how we understand God, for God is at the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD