A welcoming introduction to the most important ideas in Judaism.In an age of fluid identity, many people are honestly asking the question "Why be Jewish?" Is there anything to this religious and ethnic legacy that is worth p...

This comprehensive and accessible entree into the world of Kabbalah covers 1,600 years of Jewish mystical thought and features a variety of thinkers—from the renowned to the obscure—unavailable in any other volume. It's a fresh ta...

A short introduction to the wisdom teaching of the Ba'al Shem Tov, by Rabbi Burt Jacobson. The author's hope is that the teachings and insights found in and between the lines of print in this book will open the reader, not only to an ...

"Hasidism is the willingness to make ourselves transparent to God's grace and will, to live in the authentic Presence of God—nokhah p'nai Ha'Shem—as if facing God in every moment, allowing this awareness to change our behavio...

In 2004, as a private gift for Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's 80th birthday, a number of his students and colleagues were invited to contribute to a festschrift or commemorative volume in his honor. To make the volume truly unique, ...

"A serene, lucid, and stylish essay in intellectual autobiography that at the same time commemorates a vanished world."—The Times Literary SupplementFrom Berlin to Jerusalem portrays the dual dramas of the author's total b...