Modeh Ani
Author: Sarah Gershman
Publisher: Eks Publishing
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 9780939144648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes the text of selections from the Morning benedictions in Hebrew with English translation.
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Modeh Ani
Author: David Birnbaum
Publisher: New Paradigm Matrix
Published:
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo reference death as sleep is commonplace. Indeed, so usual is the use of the terminology of rest, repose, and slumber to denote the process of dying and, indeed, death itself, that such linguistic turns barely call attention to themselves at all: to wish aloud that a deceased individual rest in peace could hardly be more ordinary a prayer even for moderns little given to lyrical expression or to the use of metaphor in daily speech. But to approach the equation from the other direction—and so to assert that, no less than death is sleep, sleep is death, or at least death dialed down sufficiently to deprive it of its permanence and awful finality—is less common a thing to say...and it is even less common than that actually to believe. Indeed, although the Talmud, speaking with strange precision, asserted long centuries ago that sleep is precisely one-sixtieth of death, it is hard to find moderns who comfortably or naturally think of awakening from a night’s sleep as a kind of daily resurrection.1 Consider, for example, the undeservedly obscure prayer of Sir Thomas Browne, the seventeenth-century English polymath, who movingly wrote:
Sefer Ha-berakhot
Author: Marcia Falk
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780807010174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of blessings, poems, meditations, and rituals presented in English and Hebrew offers a traditional perspective to weekday, Sabbath, and New Moon festival observances.
Sammy Spider's First Rosh Hashanah
Author: Sylvia A. Rouss
Publisher: Kar-Ben
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0761389369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSammy Spider wants to taste the golden honey the Shapiros set out for a sweet New Year. Mom tells him to stick to spinning webs, but will curious Sammy listen?
Thank You Modeh Ani
Author: Alyson Solomon
Publisher: Apples & Honey Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781681155692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModah Ani means "I am grateful" in Hebrew and is inspired by Jewish prayers of gratitude for waking up to a new day. In this book children dance, jump and sing their gratitude.
The Week
Author: David M Henkin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-11-16
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0300263066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world. With meticulous archival research that draws on a wide array of sources—including newspapers, restaurant menus, theater schedules, marriage records, school curricula, folklore, housekeeping guides, courtroom testimony, and diaries—David Henkin reveals how our current devotion to weekly rhythms emerged in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. Reconstructing how weekly patterns insinuated themselves into the social practices and mental habits of Americans, Henkin argues that the week is more than just a regimen of rest days or breaks from work, but a dominant organizational principle of modern society. Ultimately, the seven-day week shapes our understanding and experience of time.
Sefer Haminhagim
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike a friendly elder chasid at one's elbow, this translation of Sefer Haminhagim is a welcome guide to the customs of Chabad with regard to the practice of mitzvot throughout the year.
All Who Go Do Not Return
Author: Shulem Deen
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2015-03-24
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 155597337X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world—only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression—turning on the radio—is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.
The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices
Author: CLAL—The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2012-02-24
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1580235611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover how to make virtually any moment in your day a significant part of a meaningful Jewish life. As we have discovered, and as our sages have long known, there is no experience in the life of a Jew that cannot be marked in Jewish ways.... The book you hold in your hands is the result of the kinds of rituals we have sculpted together over the years. It is not a prayer book or even a compendium of obligatory Jewish rituals. Rather, it is a source for all to use creatively. —from the Introduction Decades of experience by CLAL—The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in connecting spirituality with daily life come together in this one comprehensive handbook. In these pages, you have access to teachings that can help to sanctify almost any moment in your day. Offering a meditation, a blessing, a profound Jewish teaching, and a ritual for more than one hundred diverse everyday events and holidays, this guide includes sacred practices for: Lighting Shabbat candles Blessing your parents Running a marathon Visiting the sick Building a sukkah Seeing natural wonders Moving into a new home Saying goodbye to a beloved pet Making a shiva call Traveling ... and much more Drawing from both traditional and contemporary sources, The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices will show you how to make more holy any moment in your daily life.
Wisdom to Heal the Earth
Author: Tzvi Freeman
Publisher: Ezra Press
Published: 2018-10
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780826690036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Bringing Heaven Down To Earth, Tzvi Freeman explored an original means to deliver the wisdom of a great sage of our times, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, known universally as simply "the Rebbe." Using pithy yet highly readable, brief meditations, that book unveiled for us a deeper meaning to life and provided practical guidance to weather its waves and storms. It is a book that changed tens of thousands of lives. Now, in Wisdom to Heal the Earth, Freeman continues with that winning format, this time along with complementary brief essays. But now he takes us yet further, peering toward the Rebbe's vision of a world towards which all humanity is headed, and demonstrating how the details of our everyday lives are vital, crucial, and today especially urgent in reaching that grand and ultimate destiny. In Jewish parlance we call this Tikun Olam"€"the notion that we all enter this world with a mission to accomplish: to repair and perfect our assigned share of the world, so that it can become the world its Creator meant it to be.
