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©2010
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"A practical approach to creating wealth-based on the established principles of ancient Jewish wisdom-made accessible to people of all backgrounds. The ups and downs of the economy prove Rabbi Daniel Lapin's famous principle that the more things change, the more we need to depend upon the things that never change. There's no better source for both practical and spiritual financial wisdom than the time-tested knowledge found in the ancient Jewish faith...
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[2018]
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"Steven R. Weisman tells the dramatic history of how Judaism redefined itself in America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--the personalities that fought each other and shaped its evolution and, crucially, the force of the American dynamic that transformed an ancient religion. The struggles that produced a redefinition of Judaism illuminate the larger American experience and the efforts by all Americans to reconcile their faith with modern...
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2023.
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How do you hold on to faith in a modern world? Rabbi Michael Strassfeld digs deep into the Jewish tradition to help us get to the root of the matter: our need to create connection - to our past, to our present, to each other. To connect with the unity underlying the universe that draws us all together. Judaism Disrupted is about the future of Judaism-starting now. Do the time-honored traditions of rabbinic Judaism meet our spiritual needs? Do we feel...
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Written in 75 AD by the Jewish historian and Roman citizen Titus Flavius Josephus, "The Wars of the Jews", describes Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem in 164 BC. to the destruction of the city in 70 AD. Josephus, born in Jerusalem in 37 AD with the name Yosef ben Matityahu, was from a Jewish family with a father of a priestly heritage and a mother who claimed to have royal blood. Josephus fought against the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman...
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[2008]
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Dr. Gafni explores how Judaism was permanently transformed by the events that took place between 586 BC [Babylonian captivity] and 70 AD [Roman invasion]. He shows how the loss of the 2 temples, their land, and the Diaspora in the first century AD changed worship practices, interpretation of sacred texts, and how the people's view of themselves changed and their relation to the world at large and to God.
75) In God's hands
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While contemplating their problems in a synagogue, Jacob and David, one man rich, the other poor, come to realize their role in making miracles happen. Inspired by an ancient legend.
76) God in between
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When two wise people leave their lonely, confused town to find out if God really does exist, they make an amazing discovery about where He can be found.
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[2021]
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"What kind of revolution brings true freedom to both society and the human soul? Cultural observer Os Guinness contrasts the secular French Revolution with the faith-led revolution of ancient Israel. Arguing that the story of Exodus is the richest vision for freedom in human history, his exploration offers a framework that charts the path to the future for America and the West"--
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The Jewish community has lost some of the most sensitive spiritual souls of this generation. They are Jews who were looking for God and found spiritual homes outside of Judaism. Their journeys traversed the Jewish community, but nothing there beckoned them. The creation of synagogue-communities in which the voices of seekers can be heard and their questions can be asked will challenge many loyalist Jews. It will upset and enrage them. But it would...
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We Sing We Stay Together is a sing-along TRANSLITERATED ENGLISH TEXT prayer book of the Shabbat (Saturday) morning service. It is designed primarily to make it even easier to learn the prayers when listening and singing along to the double CD album of the same name; but it also stands, in its own right, as a learning tool explaining the meaning of the words and the service. It is super user-friendly.
Our Jewish prayers are beautiful love songs;...
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