A guide to Jewish living, this book is being called "the Jewish Catalog of the 1990s." From lighting Shabbat candles to spending a night in a homeless shelter, this book identifies hundreds of ways to transform daily living into Jewish living.
A guide to Jewish living, this book is being called "the Jewish Catalog of the 1990s." From lighting Shabbat candles to spending a night in a homeless...
Chaos becoming cosmos--we are participants and recipients in its meaning and marvels.
"Human beings and our ancestors have been meaning seekers and meaning makers even before our most ancient beginnings. And at the start of that search are these questions: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why is the world comprehensible at all? Where did we come from? Do we belong?" --from the Introduction
In this daring blend of Jewish theology, science and Process Thought, theologian Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson fleshes out an appreciation of creation in the...
Chaos becoming cosmos--we are participants and recipients in its meaning and marvels.
Roland Faber Santiago Slabodsky Bradley Shavit Artson
The World Parliament of Religions adopted the view that there will not be peace in this world without including peace among religions. Yet, even with the unified force of the world's religions and wisdom traditions, this cannot be accomplished without justice among people. In one way or another, "unity" among religions, as based on justice and the will to accept the other's religions and even irreligiosity as means of justice, will not prevail without an internal and external, spiritual, theological, philosophical and practical investigation into the very reasons for religious strife and...
The World Parliament of Religions adopted the view that there will not be peace in this world without including peace among religions. Yet, even with ...
Chaos becoming cosmos--we are participants and recipients in its meaning and marvels.
"Human beings and our ancestors have been meaning seekers and meaning makers even before our most ancient beginnings. And at the start of that search are these questions: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why is the world comprehensible at all? Where did we come from? Do we belong?" --from the Introduction
In this daring blend of Jewish theology, science and Process Thought, theologian Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson fleshes out an appreciation of creation in the...
Chaos becoming cosmos--we are participants and recipients in its meaning and marvels.
Challenges you to go beneath the brief, shocking story and ask: who is the tester, who is the tested and what motivates the test?
Among stories so terrible they rend our hearts, so profound they touch the depths of our souls and so exalted they reach to heaven, none is more poignant than the Bible story of Abraham's sacrifice of his son, Isaac. A story revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims, and turned over and over by great secular thinkers searching for meaning, this gripping tale shocks us into complete attention, then takes us--in nineteen short verses--on a...
Challenges you to go beneath the brief, shocking story and ask: who is the tester, who is the tested and what motivates the test?<...
Kerry M. Olitzky Stuart M. Matlins Bradley Shavit Artson
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer--to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men--diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions--have convened in this collection to offer contemporary, compelling and personal prayers. The words published here are not the recitation of established liturgies, but the direct address of today's Jewish men to ha-Shomea Tefilla, the Ancient One who has always heard, and who remains eager to receive, the prayers of our hearts."
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer--to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
