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...

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...

Rabbi Ezra Bick Our recitation of the Thirteen Middot HaRahamim (God's Attributes of Mercy) is the focal point of Selihot and the highlight of Ne'ila on Yom Kippur. How are...

Shaye JD Cohen In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were...

Jacob Neusner (Editor), Ernest S. Frerichs (Editor), Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher (Editor) Every culture makes the distinction between "true religion" and magic, regarding one action and its result as "miraculous,"...

David I Kertzer Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award FinalistThe extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in...

Walter Burkert The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the...

Benjamin Blech In these troubled times, people are asking very difficult questions about God and their Benjamin Blech admits, the answers are not simple. There is no one-size-fits-all explanation. Indeed,...

Meir Tamari With the mounting interest in traditional Jewish texts, classes abound in Chumash, Talmud, Tehillim, and the Megillot. Yet the books of Nevi im through which a major part...

Arnold Blumberg This book studies the interaction of the European, Turkish, and Palestinian natives for a forty-two year period, just prior to when the great Jewish immigration to Palestine began....

Joel Covitz Thousands of years before Freud and Jung, the role of dream interpreter was an established profession among the Jewish nation who regarded these "Visions of the Night" as...

Moshe Halbertal While Scripture is at the center of many religions, among them Islam and Christianity, this book inquires into the function, development, and implications of the centrality of text...