The Mitzvah Project Book
The Mitzvah Project Book

Author: Diane Heiman

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2011-09-12

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1580234984

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Make the world a better place through good deeds—big or small. "Thank you, really, for devoting your energies to making the world just a little bit better. By doing so, you are saying to yourself, and to others, that this whole Bar/Bat Mitzvah thing is real and important. And, this book will help you figure out great ways to put your own passions, interests, and hobbies to work for mitzvah." —from the Foreword Are you searching for a meaningful and fun mitzvah project? This inspiring book is packed with ideas to help you connect something you love to a mitzvah project or tikkun olam initiative that you can be passionate about. It is filled with information, ideas and activities to spark your imagination, as well as a planning guide to get you organized and off to a good start. Creativity and Compassion Arts & Crafts • Clothes & Fashion • Computers & Technology • Food & Cooking • Movies & Drama • Reading & Writing Putting Mitzvot in Motion Animals • Camp • Fitness • Health • Music & Dance • Sports Your World, Our World Environment • Family • Friends, Neighbors & Your Community • Global Community • Israel • Your Jewish Heritage

Bar Mitzvah Disco
Bar Mitzvah Disco

Author: Roger Bennett

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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This collection of essays and photos is the offshoot of the Web site of the same name, on which the authors solicited photos from the late 1960s through the 1980s displaying the peculiarities of their times. The book is structured as a professionally photographed bar mitzvah album, starting with awkward portraits and ending with the requisite "waving good-bye" shot.

A Taste of Challah
A Taste of Challah

Author: Tamar Ansh

Publisher: Feldheim Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781583309223

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Full-color, illustrated instructions for making dozens of Jewish Challah breads.

Mishkan T'filah
Mishkan T'filah

Author: Central Conference of American Rabbis/CCAR Press

Publisher: CCAR Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780881231069

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Benny's Mitzvah Notes
Benny's Mitzvah Notes

Author: Marc Lumer

Publisher: Harchai Publishing

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 1929628692

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Every day, Benny's mother writes him a mitzvah note, and his father draws a picture on it. Those precious notes, highlighting Benny's good deeds, mean so much to him. At the end of the school year, the teacher puts each child's mitzvah notes into an album. Benny and his family regard each day as a blank page in an album, just waiting to be filled with more and more acts of kindness, friendship, and Jewish observances. No one is perfect, but Benny certainly tries his best! As he grows too old for those little notes, mitzvos remain at the center of Benny's life. When it's time for him to write a mitzvah note for someone else, what will it say, and who gets to keep it? A heartwarming story of life and love that parents and children will want to read over and over again!

This Is My God
This Is My God

Author: Herman Wouk

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2008-12-05

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0316055522

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"Valuable, wise, and quietly moving" (Chicago Tribune), This Is My God is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Herman Wouk's famous introduction to Judaism. A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing religion with all the power, clarity, and wit of Wouk's celebrated novels. "Anyone who wants to know what orthodox Judaism means to an informed and intelligent orthodox Jew, who is at the same time thoroughly American in outlook and culture, will do well to study this work." --New York Times Book Review

Pearls of Jewish Wisdom on Living with Kindness
Pearls of Jewish Wisdom on Living with Kindness

Author: Shmuly Yanklowitz

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-06-29

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1666779814

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In this book, we will share forty lessons, each with its own unique theme. The common thread to the series is living with deeper kindness. How can the Jewish tradition inspire us to live with deeper love and compassion? How can Jewish pearls of wisdom inform how we care for one another? The book contains five sections: Kindness Toward Specific Individuals; Kindness Toward All Individuals; Kindness Through Restraint; Care for Our Environment; and Self-Improvement as a Catalyst for Kindness to Others. The first two sections address proactive kindness towards our fellow humans; the third addresses kindness by avoiding hurting others; the fourth, kindness towards all of God's creations, including animals and nature, as kindness cannot be only people-directed; the fifth serves as a starting point and catalyst for all of the above, for without first being kind to ourselves and improving our general character we cannot be truly kind towards others. The argument is not only that God wants us to live with kindness and that Torah necessitates it, but that kindness has the greatest chance of bringing happiness and meaning to our lives.

Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment
Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment

Author: Daniel Chanan Matt

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780809123872

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This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.

The New Joys of Yiddish
The New Joys of Yiddish

Author: Leo Rosten

Publisher: Harmony

Published: 2010-04-14

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0307566048

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More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said “to give body and soul to the Yiddish language,” The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians, and students, as well as a perennial bestseller for three decades. Rosten described his book as “a relaxed lexicon of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Yinglish words often encountered in English, plus dozens that ought to be, with serendipitous excursions into Jewish humor, habits, holidays, history, religion, ceremonies, folklore, and cuisine–the whole generously garnished with stories, anecdotes, epigrams, Talmudic quotations, folk sayings, and jokes.” To this day, it is considered the seminal work on Yiddish in America–a true classic and a staple in the libraries of Jews and non-Jews alike. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten’s masterful work up to date. Revised for the first time by Lawrence Bush in close consultation with Rosten’s daughters, it retains the spirit of the original–with its wonderful jokes, tidbits of cultural history, Talmudic and Biblical references, and tips on pronunciation–and enhances it with hundreds of new entries, thoughtful commentary on how Yiddish has evolved over the years, and an invaluable new English-to-Yiddish index. In addition, The New Joys of Yiddish includes wondrous and amusing illustrations by renowned artist R.O. Blechman.