Mishna brura
Author: Aviel Orenstein
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780873069465
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The Whole Megilla
Author: Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-07-07
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0761873651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
From Enemy to Friend
Author: Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1626980616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Esther
Author: Jean-Daniel Macchi
Publisher: Kohlhammer Verlag
Published: 2019-02-20
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 3170310283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book of Esther is one of the five Megillot. It tells the story of a Jewish girl in Persia, who becomes queen and saves her people from a genocide. The story of Esther forms the core of the Jewish festival of Purim. The commentary presents a literary analysis of the text, taking into account the inclusion and arrangement of different pericopes, and an analysis of the narration. Likewise, it will discuss the style, the syntax, and the vocabulary. The examination of the intellectual context of the book, biblical and extrabiblical textual traditions on which the book is based and with which it is in intertextual dialogue, leads to a discussion of the redactional process and the historical and social contexts in which the authors and redactors worked.
Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Author: James C. VanderKam
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1134709625
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1997 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.
Directing the Heart
Author: Rabbi Yael Levy
Publisher: Way In, Incorporated
Published: 2019-09
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781733238403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Mishna brura
Author: Aviel Orenstein
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780873069472
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Author: Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher: Aspect
Published: 2002-07-24
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 0759527210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumans 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.
War of the Fathers - Part One
Author: Dan Decker
Publisher: Xander Revolutions LC
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 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.
The Magus
Author: J.P. Fletcher
Publisher: J.M. Fletcher
Published: 2017-06-23
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
