In All Your Ways Know Him
The Concept of God and avodah begashmiyut in the Early Stages of Hasidism By Tsippi Kauffman May 2009 Paperback Danacode 110-20127 In Stock
This book explores models of avodah be-gashmiyut in nascent Hasidism and aims to determine how it provides a response to the tension between the halakhic demand for a certain manner of religious conduct and the immanentistic trends in the Hasidi...
This book is a study of the philosophy of R. Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, during the period between 1945 and 1965. The first section analyses R. Soloveitchik`s great phenomenological work U`Bikashtem Misham. The second section deals with a number of...
The Vilna Gaon`s writings are all commentaries, thus making it difficult to assess his views on the central issues of Judaism. Now, for the first time, one of the more controversial issues in the Gaon`s writings has been decoded: his views on th...
Collection of articles dealing with different views on Repentance and Redemption from a philosophic perspective. The collection focuses on the’approach of Jewish philosophers, beginning with the teachings of Rav Yosef Albo and the Maharal of Pra...
An annotated critical edition of Heshek Shelomo, R. Shelomo ben Yehudaof Lunel`s commentary on the Kuzari by R. Yehuda Halevi. This commentary was written between the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century and it affords us a rare...
Rav Kook has, until recently, been recognized primarily as an original thinker and an intelligent philosopher of wide intellectual scope. However, alongside his broad horizons, Rav Kook was also an extraordinary religious personality, marked by ...
This book analyses the attitude of Habad philosophers to Maimonides and their interpretation of Maimonidean doctrines. Maimonides was not viewed by Habad philosophers only as an eminent philosopher and rabbinic sage, but also as one who merited ...
This book is based on translated articles by Hungarian Jewish writers and thinkers as well as interviews with them. The articles express different views on Jewish identity in Hungary. The attitudes articulated in the articles reflect a’variety o...
A study of the phenomenon of cooperation between Jews and Arabs in the municipality of Haifa during the British Mandate. This is a first attempt to present a comprehensive and inclusive research that deals with the local government`s influence o...
A collection of interdisciplinary studies on the Jews of Tunisia. The 22 articles by foremost scholars from Israel and from abroad encompass a wide variety of fields such as: rabbinic literature, history of Tunisian Jewry throughout the ages, co...
Times of crisis are the making or unmaking of a leadership. The present volume examines this theme in great depth and variety, encompassing a time span from classical Athens to the second half of the 20th century, and moving through Europe, Asia...