Mishna brura

Mishna brura

Author: Aviel Orenstein

Publisher: Feldheim Publishers

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780873069465

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From Enemy to Friend

From Enemy to Friend

Author: Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1626980616

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The first female Conservative rabbi in the U.S. reflects on ancient Jewish traditions as a guide to reconciliation and peacebuilding in our lives, our communities, and our world.


Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Author: James C. VanderKam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1134709625

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1997 was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts. James C. VanderKam examines the pertinent texts, their sources and the different uses to which people put calendrical information in the Christian world. Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls provides a valuable addition to the Dead Sea Scrolls Series and contributes to the elucidation of the scroll texts themselves and their relation to other Biblical texts.


War of the Fathers - Part One

War of the Fathers - Part One

Author: Dan Decker

Publisher: Xander Revolutions LC

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13:

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After twenty years of war, the Hunwei left suddenly. Many called it a victory, few believed that they would return. When the war between the Hunwei and the humans ceased without warning, not many people had survived. Those survivors lost much of the technology that had been commonplace in their society, sending them back to the dark ages. More than a thousand years later, when most thought the Hunwei to be a myth, Adar believed that the Hunwei would return and resume the fight. Adar and his reluctant son Jorad continued to search for a way to defend their people. This time, without that technology, there will be nothing standing between them and the entire capture or destruction of the human race. This is the first of three parts.


Directing the Heart

Directing the Heart

Author: Rabbi Yael Levy

Publisher: Way In, Incorporated

Published: 2019-09

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781733238403

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"Directing the Heart: Weekly Mindfulness Teachings and Practices from the Torah" contains meditations and suggestions for Mindfulness practice inspired by the first five books of the Bible. For each week of the year, Rabbi Yael Levy searches out teachings from the Torah for guidance on how to love in the face of loss, to be open to joy, gratitude and beauty and to live with disappointments, sadness and pain. Using Rabbi Levy's own translations from the Hebrew, "Directing the Heart" can serve as a sourcebook for spiritual exploration for people of all faiths and paths. The book highlights the usefulness of taking time each day to set intentions and engage in spiritual practice. Each chapter includes a poetic meditation on the week's text followed by a recommendation for how to bring the teaching into daily life. Interest in Mindfulness has moved into mainstream American culture and Jewish Mindfulness adds an innovative spiritual component; Rabbi Levy has been exploring its potential for nearly two decades. Her approach strives to awaken the attention - to direct the heart - and strengthen the ability to meet well all that we encounter.


The Whole Megilla

The Whole Megilla

Author: Joshua A. Fogel

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-07-07

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0761873651

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The Babylonia Talmud is an immense collection of laws, practices, and customs of the Jewish people, edited in its present form in the fifth century. Tractate Megilla (literally, ‘scroll’) concerns a deep exegesis of the history and customs of the holiday of Purim, when the Jewish people in ancient Persia were saved through the intervention of Queen Esther at the last minute from extermination by the wicked Haman. It is a holiday of gaiety and commemoration. The Talmud is often extremely difficult to understand, and tractate Megilla is no exception. The Whole Megilla is an effort to explain the text, page by page, for interested readers. It affords the reader an opportunity to capture the flavor of the Talmud and follow the notoriously demanding text.


Hidden Empire

Hidden Empire

Author: Kevin J. Anderson

Publisher: Aspect

Published: 2002-07-24

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0759527210

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Humans may be used to ruling their world, but in Nebula Award winning author, Kevin Anderson's galaxy, they find themselves at the bottom of the food chain. In our galaxy's distant future, humans are one of three known intelligent races. Having had the ability to navigate star travel for only a few centuries, we are considered "the new kids on the block" in a long-established universe. The second intelligent race is the Ildirans, who are ruled by their Mage-Imperator; and the third race, the Klikiss, seems to have vanished and left behind a world full of artifacts and remarkable technology, which humans are now beginning to find and utilize. One such piece of technology is a device that has the power to turn a gaseous and useless supergiant planet into a small sun, thereby creating a new solar system in which humans can live. But when the device is tried for the first time, it awakens the wrath of a previously unsuspected fourth race, the Hydrogues -- and a galaxy-spanning war that threatens all life begins.


Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas

Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas

Author: Wilfried Raussert

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-12-02

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 3111552705

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Resorting to life narratives as a comprehensive umbrella term and embracing hemispheric American studies paradigms, this edited volume explores the interrelations between life narratives, the social world, creativity, and different forms of media to narrate and (re)present the self to see in which way these expressions offer (new) means of (self-) representation within cultural productions from the Americas. Creativity in the context of life narratives nourishes the act of narrating and propels among others the desire to link individual life stories with larger stories of social embeddedness, conditioning, and transformation thus pushing new forms of historiography and other forms of nonfictional writing. Accordingly, the creative impulse fuses individual and collective experience with a larger understanding of the social including the latter’s local and global embeddedness. The contributions in this volume analyze the ways in which the dynamics, tensions, and reciprocities between narrative, creativity, and the social world unfold in life narratives from the Americas. In particular, this volume addresses scholars and students of life writing, cultural and literary studies, gender, disability and postcolonial studies with new insights into life narratives from the Americas.


The Magus

The Magus

Author: J.P. Fletcher

Publisher: J.M. Fletcher

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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A Romance Fantasy Novel Love… Can it truly endure and survive where it is not meant to? The Magus Ru’ark had to have her, no matter how high the price might be. Nelina belonged to him, the moment her eyes met his for the first time. Their intense, unbridled, passion for one another will lead them deep into the dark shadows of betrayal dating back centuries. Who truly holds the Throne of Danthamore? The Queen of Danthamore, Celeste will stop at nothing to send The Magus, the Devil of the Great Waste, back to where he came from. King Agnar has no intention of gaining the ire of The Magus. He remembers the Great War all too well to dare such a thing. Who is the real traitor? Malark never trusted his brother Ru’ark to begin with, let alone now. Patience is a weapon, and when his brother makes a grave mistake- he will be there, ready and waiting. Aghadine will one day be free from its imprisonment in the Great Waste.