Navigating the Journey

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Publisher : CCAR Press
ISBN 13 : 0881233021
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)

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Book Synopsis Navigating the Journey by : Rabbi Peter S. Knobel, PhD

Download or read book Navigating the Journey written by Rabbi Peter S. Knobel, PhD and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely revised and updated classic resource serves as an introduction to the Jewish life cycle. The first part of the book uses a question and answer format to introduce ideas about moments in the Jewish life cycle, including birth, Jewish education, bar/bat mitzvah, the Jewish home, marriage, divorce, conversion, death, and mourning. With new essays on topics such as mitzvah, infertility, the ketubah, b'rit milah, welcoming converts, tzedakah, Jewish voices on sexuality, and more, by rabbis and scholars such as Rabbis Aaron Panken, Rachel Mikva, Amy Schienerman, A. Brian Stoller, Lisa Grushcow, Mary Zamore, and Elyse Goldstein. This is the essential resource you've been waiting for!

The Jewish Life Cycle

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803924
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jewish Life Cycle by : Ivan G. Marcus

Download or read book The Jewish Life Cycle written by Ivan G. Marcus and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the advanced years—the book traces the origin and development of specific rites associated with the events of birth, circumcision, and schooling; bar and bat mitzvah and confirmation; engagement, betrothal, and marriage; and aging, dying, and remembering. Customs in Jewish tradition, such as the presence of godparents at a circumcision, the use of a four-poled canopy at a wedding, and the placing of small stones on tombstones, are discussed. In each chapter, detailed descriptions walk the reader through such ceremonies as early modern and contemporary circumcision, weddings, and funerals. In a comparative framework, Marcus illustrates how Jewish culture has negotiated with the majority cultures of the ancient Near East, Greco-Roman antiquity, medieval European Christianity, and Mediterranean Islam, as well as with modern secular and religious movements and social trends, to renew itself through ritual innovation. In his extensive research on the Jewish life cycle, Marcus draws from documents on various customs and ritual practices, offering reassessments of original sources and scholarly literature. Marcus’s survey is the first comprehensive study of the rites of the Jewish life cycle since Hayyim Schauss's The Lifetime of the Jew was published in 1950, written for Jewish readers. Marcus’s book addresses a broader audience and is designed to appeal to scholars and interested readers.

The Jewish Life Cycle

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Total Pages : 688 pages
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Book Synopsis The Jewish Life Cycle by : Daniel Sperber

Download or read book The Jewish Life Cycle written by Daniel Sperber and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the major "rites of passage" of the Jewish life cycle. From birth, through circumcision, to marriage, divorce, sickness, death and mourning, Daniel Sperber presents detailed descriptions of the major customs attending these events. These customs are examined in light of their original sources, their integration and evolution in varying Jewish communities, and the popular explanations given for their practice, both historically and today. This book draws on the whole spectrum of rabbinic literature, comparing its stories and explanations with folk beliefs of other cultures throughout the world. Sperber makes use of a wide range of resources--medieval and modern, legal, folkloristic, anthropological and literary-in his discussion of customs, proving that Jewish communities were never isolated from their environment. He also examines in depth the earliest origins of many of our well-known and commonly practiced Jewish customs. This book makes use of iconographic material found in illustrated books written by non-Jews describing Jewish practice. These illustrations are analyzed in detail, constituting yet another rich source for the understanding of the evolution of Jewish customs. Customs, by their nature, are often taken for granted. In this book, Daniel Sperber offers an expert, detailed, and lively analysis of some of the most and least commonly practiced customs in Jewish tradition.

Living Jewish Life Cycle

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Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN 13 : 158023335X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis Living Jewish Life Cycle by : Goldie Milgram

Download or read book Living Jewish Life Cycle written by Goldie Milgram and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spiritual tools you can use to infuse Jewish life cycle ceremonies with meaning, integrity and joy.

Gates of Mitzvah

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Publisher : CCAR Press
ISBN 13 : 9780916694531
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (945 download)

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Book Synopsis Gates of Mitzvah by : Simeon J. Maslin

Download or read book Gates of Mitzvah written by Simeon J. Maslin and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to Jewish observance throughout the life cycle is the best introduction to Reform Jewish practice available.

Jewish Passages

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520206939
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Passages by : Harvey E. Goldberg

Download or read book Jewish Passages written by Harvey E. Goldberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Goldberg's breadth of knowledge is particularly impressive. Here is a scholar who has read everything, and has produced a rich, first-rate book that is both comprehensive and accessible, making Jewish customs meaningful even to non-specialists. A scholarly achievement that is also a great bar-mitzvah gift, with tremendous value for anyone in Jewish Studies including rabbis and members of synagogue study groups."—Jack Kugelmass, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor and Director, Jewish Studies Program at Arizona State University "Sweeping in its reach and richly informative in its details. Jewish Passages offers a treasury of wonderfully interesting information. This is a work that will not be lost. " Samuel C. Heilman, author of When a Jew Dies

This Jewish Life

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ISBN 13 : 9781934879368
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (793 download)

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Book Synopsis This Jewish Life by : Debra B. Darvick

Download or read book This Jewish Life written by Debra B. Darvick and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "This Jewish Life: Stories of Discover, Connection, and Joy," fifty-five voices enable readers to experience a calendar's worth of Judaism's strengths-community, healing, transformation of the human spirit and the influence of the Divine. Within these pages are stories of joyous engagement and poignant loss. Readers will meet a teen who followed the path of Judaism after a chance encounter and men and women who turned to Judaism in their struggles with drug addiction and spousal abuse. Structured to mirror a complete year of Jewish life cycle events and holidays, this unique book showcases a bar mitzvah service in rural Illinois, a commitment ceremony in a California metropolis, a Soviet family's first Passover Seder, and much more. These stories will carry readers, Jew and non-Jew alike, through twelve months of Jewish Living

Jewish Family and Life

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780307440860
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Family and Life by : Yosef I. Abramowitz

Download or read book Jewish Family and Life written by Yosef I. Abramowitz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for Jewish families on how to incorporate Jewish traditions into their lives including bedtime and morning rituals, the meaning of the holidays, and advice on communicating codes of behavior to children.

Teaching Jewish Life Cycle

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Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780867050400
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Teaching Jewish Life Cycle by : Barbara Binder Kadden

Download or read book Teaching Jewish Life Cycle written by Barbara Binder Kadden and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1997 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background information on every stage of life; covers every Jewish life cycle event from birth to death; insights from Jewish tradition; hundreds of creative activities for all ages.

The Jewish Lifecycle Book

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Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780870682605
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jewish Lifecycle Book by : Michal Shekel

Download or read book The Jewish Lifecycle Book written by Michal Shekel and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of Life After Life

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Publisher : Iyyun Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780991472000
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Life After Life by : Dovber Pinson

Download or read book The Book of Life After Life written by Dovber Pinson and published by Iyyun Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a soul? What happens to us after we physically die? What is consciousness, and can it survive without a physical brain? Do Near-death Experiences prove immortality? What is Heaven? Who Reincarnates? Can we remember our past lives?Overcoming the fear of death...?Drawing from all sources of Jewish wisdom coupled with a modern and scientific understanding of consciousness, Rav Pinson will explore the possibility of surviving death, the near-death experience and a glimpse into what awaits us after this life.

Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo

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Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813043549
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo by : Misha Klein

Download or read book Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo written by Misha Klein and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Jewish in Brazil--the world's largest Catholic country--is fraught with paradoxes, and living in São Paulo only amplifies these vivid contradictions. The metropolis is home to Jews from over 60 countries of origin, and to the Hebraica, the world’s largest Jewish athletic and social club. Jewish identity is rooted in layered experiences of historical and contemporary dispersal and border crossings. Brazil is famously tolerant of difference but less understanding of longings for elsewhere. Celebrating both Carnival and the High Holidays is but one example of how Jews in São Paulo hold themselves together as a community in the face of the forces of assimilation. Misha Klein’s fascinating ethnography reveals the complex intertwining of Jewish and Brazilian life and identity.

Sefer Ha-berakhot

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Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807010174
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Sefer Ha-berakhot by : Marcia Falk

Download or read book Sefer Ha-berakhot written by Marcia Falk and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of blessings, poems, meditations, and rituals presented in English and Hebrew offers a traditional perspective to weekday, Sabbath, and New Moon festival observances.

A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven

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Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374528973
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (289 download)

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Book Synopsis A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven by : Arthur Ocean Waskow

Download or read book A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven written by Arthur Ocean Waskow and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Seasons of Our Joy and his wife consider the Jewish life cycle from birth to death as celebrated through live event ceremonies, from those involving the celebration of a newborn to those honoring marriage, midlife, and the mourning period after a death. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Prayer Book and Life Cycle Guide for Messianic Believers in Yeshua

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Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598589644
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Prayer Book and Life Cycle Guide for Messianic Believers in Yeshua by : William A. Berg

Download or read book Prayer Book and Life Cycle Guide for Messianic Believers in Yeshua written by William A. Berg and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jewish Traditions

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Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827610394
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Traditions by : Ronald L. Eisenberg

Download or read book Jewish Traditions written by Ronald L. Eisenberg and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an encyclopedic reference for anyone who wants information about all things Jewish, Eisenberg distills an immense amount of material from classic and contemporary sources into a single volume.

The Jewish Dark Continent

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674062647
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jewish Dark Continent by : Nathaniel Deutsch

Download or read book The Jewish Dark Continent written by Nathaniel Deutsch and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the historian Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish “Dark Continent.” Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky pledged to explore the Pale. He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that would produce an archive—what he called an Oral Torah of the common people rather than the rabbinic elite—which would preserve Jewish traditions and transform them into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture. Between 1912 and 1914, An-sky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs, and created a massive ethnographic questionnaire. Consisting of 2,087 questions in Yiddish—exploring the gamut of Jewish folk beliefs and traditions, from everyday activities to spiritual exercises to marital intimacies—the Jewish Ethnographic Program constitutes an invaluable portrait of Eastern European Jewish life on the brink of destruction. Nathaniel Deutsch offers the first complete translation of the questionnaire, as well as the riveting story of An-sky’s almost messianic efforts to create a Jewish ethnography in an era of revolutionary change. An-sky’s project was halted by World War I, and within a few years the Pale of Settlement would no longer exist. These survey questions revive and reveal shtetl life in all its wonder and complexity.