How The Rosh Hashanah Challah Became Round by Sylvia B. Epstein
Hagit Migron (Illustrator) Yossi’s terrible tumble turns out to be a terrific triumph! A tale with year-round appeal, even though it takes place on Rosh Hashanah.
Category: Older Books
Secrets From the Lost Bible: Hidden Scriptures Found by Kenneth Hanson
In this trade paperback edition of the book (published in hardcover in 2004), Judaica scholar Kenneth Hanson, PhD uncovers the parallels within a collection of lost and suppressed sacred books (Kabbalah, apocrypha, Gnostic gospels,...
The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah by Elliot K. Ginsburg
This book is a critical study of the mystical celebration of Sabbath in the classical period of Kabbalah, from the late twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. The Kabbalists’ re-reading of the earlier Jewish...
Mystical Sociology: Toward Cosmic Social Theory (After Spirituality) by Philip Wexler
Culture changes historically, and along with it, reflexive disciplinary representations. Without fully abandoning Sociology, especially the classical tradition, and instead aligning it with its own religious origins and inclinations to an emergent socio-religious imaginary,...
Zohar: Annotated & Explained by Daniel Chanan Matt
Foreword: Andrew Harvey The splendor and enigmatic appeal of the Zohar, the major text of the Jewish mystical tradition, has never intrigued readers of all faiths more than it does today. But how can...
Opening the Tanya: Discovering the Moral and Mystical Teachings of a Classic Work of Kabbalah by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Written by the great Hasidic master Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi in the late eighteenth century, the Tanya is considered to be one of the most extraordinary books of moral teachings ever written. A...
Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem
Scholarship and rigor mark this magnum opus by the esteemed Gershom Scholem, who did work on Kabbalah back when such activity was in disrepute among Jewish scholars of his rank. It is here where...
The Juggler & the King: The Jew and the Conquest of Evil: An Elaboration of the Vilna Gaon’s Insights Into the Hidden Wisdom of the Sages by Aharon Feldman
An exciting expansion of the Vilna Gaon’s powerful ideas on the purpose of Creation, the Jewish People and its history and destiny, and the coming of Mashiach.
Heavenly Powers: Unraveling the Secret History of the Kabbalah by Neil Asher Silberman
Does the mysterious symbolism of the Kabbalah have a hidden meaning? Does its epic talk of struggle between the forces of Good and Evil have implications for understanding the political history of the Western...
A Guide to the Zohar by Arthur Green
The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes, concealed meanings, obscure...
