Nosson Slifkin The ancient and mysterious midrash of Perek Shirah uses verses from Scripture to illustrate the ''song'' of the different components and inhabitants of the natural world - their...

Bernard Lewis In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through...

Daniel C Snell In this sweeping overview of life in the ancient Near East, Daniel Snell surveys the history of the region from the invention of writing five thousand years...

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin What do the great Jewish writings of the last 3,500 years tell us about these and all other vital questions about our lives? Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has...

Louis H Feldman Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true,...

Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (the Rav) was the towering rabbinic thinker of the twentieth century. In addition to his wellspring of Torah knowledge, the Rav taught,...

Peter Partner Bound by religious vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the Knights Templar were a Military Crusading Order engaged in religious war in the Holy Land. At the end...

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh The Ba'al Shem Tov, the 18th century founder of the Chassidic movement whose teachings are rooted in Kabbalah, revealed that any process of spiritual growth must proceed...

Roman A Foxbrunner Habad: The Hasidism of R. Shneur Zalman of Lyady is a scholarly examination of the philosophical and spiritual foundations of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism. Roman A. Foxbrunner provides an...

Y David Shulman The Jewish mystical tradition teaches that in order to create the many planes of being that culminated in our world, God brought into being ten sefirot, or...

Jeffrey M Cohen Everything you wanted to know about the Passover tradition and rituals. February 1, 1996 by Jason Aronson Inc

Betty Rojtman Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical exegesis, Betty Rojtman unveils a striking modernity in these early forms of textual...