Schlepping Through Life Without a Road Map
Schlepping Through Life Without a Road Map

Author: Bruce Warshal

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-07-28

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1666771996

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There comes a time in most people’s lives when he or she asks key questions: What can I believe about God, prayer, the source of ethics, the problem of evil, the answers in which we find our own tranquility? Warning: There are no right or wrong answers. Rabbi Warshal shares his own quest but makes no claim to finding universal truth, only his personal truth. If this book helps each person find his or her own way—schlepping through life without a road map—then he would consider the book a success. The process works for readers of all religions and those with none. But he presents the topics within a Jewish context and concludes the book with relating one’s conclusions to the structure of the Jewish communal life in America.

The Highly Effective Detective Duo
The Highly Effective Detective Duo

Author: Richard Yancey

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780739499801

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"The Highly effective detective: After the death of his ailing mother, Teddy quits his job as a night watchman to fulfill his childhood dream of being a detective. With little planning and even less foresight, he hangs up his shingle and hires his favorite waitress from the local diner to be his Girl Friday. His first case? Bringing to justice the thoughtless driver who mows down a gaggle of baby geese. Not the most exciting assignment- until Teddy's 'wild-goose chase' quickly evolves into an investigation of a vicious murder. The ... detective goes to the dogs: Teddy thinks his investigating days are over when the state of Tennessee shuts him down for practicing detection without a license. Then he discovers the body of a man outside his office, a man he had befriended just the day before. Though Teddy suspects foul play, the police think he's barking up the wrong tree. Next thing he knows he's getting a visit from two unexpected- and potentially dangerous- characters from the pound. Teddy has a weakness for the underdog, but this puppy could get him killed"--Jacket flaps

Schlepping Through Life Without a Road Map
Schlepping Through Life Without a Road Map

Author: Bruce Warshal

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-07-28

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 166677197X

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There comes a time in most people’s lives when he or she asks key questions: What can I believe about God, prayer, the source of ethics, the problem of evil, the answers in which we find our own tranquility? Warning: There are no right or wrong answers. Rabbi Warshal shares his own quest but makes no claim to finding universal truth, only his personal truth. If this book helps each person find his or her own way—schlepping through life without a road map—then he would consider the book a success. The process works for readers of all religions and those with none. But he presents the topics within a Jewish context and concludes the book with relating one’s conclusions to the structure of the Jewish communal life in America.

Library Journal
Library Journal

Author: Melvil Dewey

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 1030

ISBN-13:

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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

A Sense of Direction
A Sense of Direction

Author: Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1594631492

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In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the fear and self-sacrifice that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to paralyze him, and when a friend extends a drunken invitation to join him on an ancient pilgrimage route across Spain, Lewis-Kraus packs his bag, grateful for the chance to wake each morning with a sense of direction. Irreverent, moving, hilarious, and thought-provoking, A Sense of Direction is Lewis-Kraus’s dazzling riff on the perpetual war between discipline and desire, and its attendant casualties. Across three pilgrimages and many hundreds of miles, he completes an idiosyncratic odyssey to the heart of a family mystery and a human dilemma: How do we come to terms with what has been and what is—and find a way forward, with purpose?

Becoming a Bar Mitzvah
Becoming a Bar Mitzvah

Author: Arnine Cumsky Weiss

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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An inspiring collection of bar mitzvah stories demonstrate how moving, diverse, humorous, and uplifting the ritual is. The stories are fast-paced and full of energy. The continual change of subject and location allows each story to grab the reader's mind and emotions.

Staying Human
Staying Human

Author: Harris Bor

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-11-17

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1725278626

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Futurists speculate that we are heading towards a 'singularity,' where AI will outsmart human beings, and humanity will coalesce into a single, ever-expanding mind for which data is everything. The idea mirrors conceptions of God as everything, singular, and all-knowing. But is this idea of the singularity, or God, good for humanity? Oneness has its attractions. But what space does it leave for individuality and difference? In this book, British-Jewish theologian, Harris Bor, explores these questions by applying approaches to oneness and difference found in the thought of philosophers, Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), to the challenges of religious belief and practice in the era of AI. What emerges is a dynamic religion of the everyday capable of balancing all aspects of being, while holding tight to a God who is both singular and wholly other, and which urges us, above all, to stay human.

Like Streams to the Ocean
Like Streams to the Ocean

Author: Jedidiah Jenkins

Publisher: Convergent Books

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0593137248

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “As inviting, wide-ranging, and philosophical as an all-night conversation with a best friend, and as revealing and thought-provoking as the diary of a curious adventurer.”—Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We You can travel the world looking for yourself, but if you don't know what you're looking for, how can you find it? Like Streams To The Ocean is about examining the things that make us who we are and getting to know ourselves, our stories, and the decisions that shape our one and only life. Writing with the passion and clarity that made his debut, To Shake the Sleeping Self, a national bestseller, Jedidiah Jenkins brings together new and old writings to explore the eight subjects that give life meaning: ego, family, home, friendship, love, work, death, the soul. Who am I? What am I made of? How much of how I act boils down to avoiding the things that make me feel small? As he examines the experiences that shape our conscious and subconscious answers to these questions, Jenkins leads readers in a wide-ranging conversation about finding fulfillment in the people and places around us and discovering the courage to show our deepest selves to the world.