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Reason to Believe: Rational Explanations of Orthodox Jewish Faith by Rabbi Chaim Jachter (BKE-RTB)

Reason to Believe: Rational Explanations of Orthodox Jewish Faith by Rabbi Chaim Jachter (BKE-RTB)
$33.00
Reason to Believe is veritable tour de force in defense of Orthodox Jewish faith. The author, a veteran teacher of Judaic Studies, an internationally known rabbi and dayan, faces the tough questions and perennial doubts head-on and offers compelling evidence in favor of Orthodoxy from science, philosophy, history, and Jewish tradition. A valuabl...

The Blessing of a Broken Heart (BKE-TBOABH)
$19.50
The Blessing of a Broken Heart A Journey of Pain, Beauty and Courage By: Sherri Mandell Sherri Mandell, an American immigrant to Israel, offers this hauntingly beautiful memoir of a year of grief following the horrific murder of her 13-year-old son, Koby, found stoned to death along with a friend by Palestinian terrorists near his Tekoa home i...

Selected Sayings from the Talmud (BKE-SST)
$13.00
Selected Sayings from the Talmud Hebrew/English/German/French “A good name is better than fine perfume.” “Who is honored? He who honors others.” Jewish tradition is rich in verses of ethics and wisdom. These volumes offer stylized, graphic presentations of Hebrew verses from the Proverbs of Solomon, Kohelet, Pirkei Avot, and the Talmud, accompan...

Selected Sayings from Proverbs Hebrew/Italian/Spanish/Portuguese (BKE-SSPV)
$13.00
Selected Sayings from Proverbs Hebrew/Italian/Spanish/Portuguese “A good name is better than fine perfume.” “Who is honored? He who honors others.” Jewish tradition is rich in verses of ethics and wisdom. These volumes offer stylized, graphic presentations of Hebrew verses from the Proverbs of Solomon, Kohelet, Pirkei Avot, and the Talmud, accom...

Selected Sayings Pirkei Avot (BKE-SSPA)
$13.00
Selected Sayings from Ethics of the Fathers Hebrew/English/German/French “A good name is better than fine perfume.” “Who is honored? He who honors others.” Jewish tradition is rich in verses of ethics and wisdom. These volumes offer stylized, graphic presentations of Hebrew verses from the Proverbs of Solomon, Kohelet, Pirkei Avot, and the Talmu...

Selected Sayings from Proverbs Hebrew/English/German/French (BKE-SSP)
$13.00
Selected Sayings from Proverbs Hebrew/English/German/French “A good name is better than fine perfume.” “Who is honored? He who honors others.” Jewish tradition is rich in verses of ethics and wisdom. These volumes offer stylized, graphic presentations of Hebrew verses from the Proverbs of Solomon, Kohelet, Pirkei Avot, and the Talmud, accompanie...

Selected Sayings from Ecclesiastes KOHELET (BKE-SSK)
$13.00
Selected Sayings from Ecclesiastes Hebrew/English/German/French “A good name is better than fine perfume.” “Who is honored? He who honors others.” Jewish tradition is rich in verses of ethics and wisdom. These volumes offer stylized, graphic presentations of Hebrew verses from the Proverbs of Solomon, Kohelet, Pirkei Avot, and the Talmud, accomp...

Selected Sayings Wisdom from Jewish Tradition 4 Vol Set (BKE-SS)
$52.00
Set of Selected Sayings Ethics & Wisdom from Ecclesiastes, Ethics of the Fathers, the Talmud & Proverbs “A good name is better than fine perfume.” “Who is honored? He who honors others.” Jewish tradition is rich in verses of ethics and wisdom. These volumes offer stylized, graphic presentations of Hebrew verses from the Proverbs of Solom...

Morasha Kehillat Yaakov ENGLISH Jonathan Sacks (BKE-MKY)
$39.00
Morasha Kehillat Yaakov: Essays in Honour of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks English Edition Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is one of the most distinguished rabbinic leaders of our day and a world-renowned spokesman for Judaism. To honor him upon his retirement from the chief rabbinate of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwea...

The Candle of God Adin Steinsaltz (BKE-TCOG)
$33.00
The Candle of God Discourses on Chasidic Thought By: Adin Steinsaltz Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz takes readers on a journey of the soul through the teachings of Hassidic leaders, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad movement, and his grandson, Rabbi Menachem Mendel. With characteristic ease and lucidity, he explains the hidden aspects ...

In His Image by Rabbi Yuval Cherlow (BKE-IHI)
$33.00
At a time when religion is distorted to crush, belittle, and negate Man, when personal responsibility is replaced by passive faith, and human endeavor is deemed unworthy, In His Image seeks to reinstate on of the fundamental truths of Judaism: the creation of Man in the image of God. Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, one of th emost prominient leaders of Mod...

Listening to God by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (BKE-LTG)
$39.00
Listening to God Inspirational Stories for My Grandchildren By: Shlomo Riskin See the divine in every human encounter. Be receptive to God’s voice. Act out of faith. These are just a few of the life lessons Rabbi Shlomo Riskin imparts in this collection of personal stories. Rabbi Riskin takes us from his grandmother’s Brooklyn Shabbat table to t...

Holistic Prayer A Guide to Jewish Spirituality Avraham Weiss (BKE-HP)
$39.00
Holistic Prayer A Guide to Jewish Spirituality By: Avraham Weiss Few commandments are as challenging as prayer. The tensions between human limitations and God’s infinity, self-assertion and self-submission, structure and spontaneity, hope and surrender, individual expression and collective experience make tefilla one of the most difficult aspe...

Faith Shattered and Restored by Rabbi Shagar (BKE-FSAR)
$33.00
The starkly innovative spiritual and educational approach of Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (known as Rabbi Shagar) has shaped a generation of Israelis who yearn to encounter the Divine in a world progressively at odds with religious experience, nurturing religious faith within a cultural climate of corrosive skepticism. Possessing the rare abil...

Books of the People: Revisiting Classic Works of Jewish Thought (BKE-BOTP)
$39.00
The Jews have ever been a people molded by the written word. It is no coincidence, therefore, that certain texts have come to play key roles in the continuum of Jewish discourse. Books of the People: Revisiting Classic Works of Jewish Thought presents ten foundational books written between the tenth and the twentieth centuries that have dramatic...

Confrontation And Other Essays by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (BKE-CAOE)
$26.00
This volume brings together five classic works by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, one of the most eminent Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. These essays some collected here for the first time address both perennial questions of religious existence and dilemmas specific to the modern era. They cover topics such as individual and community; ...

False Facts and True Rumors by Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman (BKE-FFATR)
$39.00
In False Facts and True Rumors, Rabbi Daniel Feldman undertakes the vital task of examining the halakhic sources regarding lashon hara, derogatory speech, and applying them to today s technology-driven world. Combining erudite knowledge of rabbinic texts, philosophy, and psychology, Rabbi Feldman explores this uncharted territory of contemporary...

A Dear Son to Me Adin Steinsaltz (BKE-ADSTM)
$33.00
A Dear Son to Me A Collection of Speeches & Articles By: Adin Steinsaltz Enjoy this rare collection of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's lectures, articles, and personal writing, in which Rabbi Steinsaltz discusses a wide variety of issues, from What is a Jew to The Clash Between Science and Torah, The Boundaries of Holiness, and Peace and the Land of...
By His Light: Character and Values in the Service of God by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein (BKE-BHL)

By His Light: Character and Values in the Service of God by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein (BKE-BHL)
$26.00
In this volume, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein explores the development of the religious personality. He advocates a life centered on the service of God, but recognizes multiple paths to this goal. Acknowledging that both the Jewish value system and human experience are multifaceted, he examines the relevant issues from an unusually wide perspective....

Essays On Ethics by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (BKE-EOE)
$33.00
Why was Abraham ordered to sacrifice his son? Was Jacob right in stealing the blessings? Why were we commanded to destroy Amalek? What was Moses' sin in hitting the rock? And how did the Ten Commandments change the Jewish people, and humankind, for good? Essays on Ethics is the second companion volume to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's celebrated series ...