Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Judaism - Rituals & Practice

Was kann man sagen, wenn es einem die Sprache verschlAgt, wenn man selbst oder ein Mitmensch mit den Herausforderungen des Lebens konfrontiert wird, die ein traditionelles Gebetbuch nicht abdeckt - zum Beispiel wAhrend einer Chemotherapie, nach einer Fehlgeburt, bei Schlaflosigkeit, Panikattaken oder Depression, bei der Geburt eines nichtjUdischen Enkelkindes, beim Eintritt in den Ruhestand, nach einem Streit und Ahnlichen Situationen.

Dieses Buch versammelt Uber 50 neue jUdische Gebete, verfasst von verschiedenen Rabbinern und Rabbinerinnen, die im Laufe ihres...

How can we make sense of being born and growing up in the shadows of the Shoah without being able to speak about the unspeakable terror that killed so many in our families? As the second generation we were rarely to hear stories of love and loss or to participate in the mourning of so many who had been brutally murdered. Rather we were to grow up 'normally', and to learn to turn our backs on the past as we struggled towards future identities while imagining ourselves 'like everyone else'. Fearful of difference we were often ambivalent about Jewish identities that could threaten a sense of...

An unprecedented annotated anthology of the most important Jewish mystical works, A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader is designed to facilitate teaching these works to all levels of learners in adult education and college classroom settings. Daniel M. Horwitz's insightful introductions and commentary accompany readings in the Talmud and Zohar and writings by Ba'al Shem Tov, Rav Kook, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and others.

Horwitz's introduction describes five major types of Jewish mysticism and includes a brief chronology of their development, with a timeline. He...

Walking through Jesus' life from birth to death, Rabbi Evan Moffic serves as a tour guide to give Christians a new way to look at familiar teachings and practices that are rooted in the Jewish faith and can illuminate our lives today. Moffic...

"A profound exploration of the necessity of paying attention to God's presence."
Library Journal

In a daring blend of scholarship and imagination, psychology and history, Lawrence Kushner gathers an inspiring range of interpretations of Genesis 28:16 given by sages, from Shmuel bar Nachmani in third-century Palestine to Hannah Rachel Werbermacher of Ludomir who lived in Poland two hundred years ago. Through a fascinating new literary genre and Kushner s creative reconstruction of the teachers lives and times, we enter the study halls and sit at the...

Wisdom, solace and inspiration from Jewish tradition to bring you hope and healing after loss.

"Mourning can open doors you may not have imagined before your life was shaken by loss. This book provides keys to those doors and a way into the rooms beyond them. Whether you stand at grief's threshold or give counsel to someone who does, this book can offer guidance.... With words of wisdom, ranging from comforting to provocative, each author stands at the entrance to one of mourning s doors, extending a hand to offer the key you will need, inviting you into one of these...

Torah can help you recover your soul if you are willing to ask yourself the right questions.

"If the Torah is the all-encompassing moral compass that it claims to be, and I believe it to be so, then we can find anything in it, including the support needed for recovery . In it are the remedies for all spiritual maladies we just have to probe the text, dig deeply in it and drink of its life-giving waters."
from the Foreword

In this soul-restoring resource, Rabbi Mark Borovitz combines his knowledge of Judaism and his experience as a leader in the field of...

This volume of contemporary liturgical poetry is both a poetry collection and an aid to devotional prayer. Open My Lips dips into the deep well of Jewish tradition and brings forth renewed and renewing adaptations of, and riffs on, classical Jewish liturgy. Here are poems for weekday and Shabbat, festival seasons (including the Days of Awe and Passover), and psalms of grief and praise. Open My Lips offers a clear, readable, heartfelt point of access into the Jewish tradition and into prayer in general.

Those who wish to begin a prayer practice in English but don't know where to start...