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  • Zimzum

    God and the Origin of the World

    by Christoph Schulte ...
    Translated by Corey Twitchell ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    The Hebrew word zimzum originally means “contraction,” “withdrawal,” “retreat,” “limitation,” and “concentration.” In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done before creating the world to create the world. Jewish mystic Isaac Luria coined this term in Galilee in the sixteenth century, positing that the God who was “Ein-Sof,” unlimited and omnipresent before creation, must ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Zimzum

    God and the Origin of the World

    by Christoph Schulte ...
    Translated by Corey Twitchell ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    The Hebrew word zimzum originally means “contraction,” “withdrawal,” “retreat,” “limitation,” and “concentration.” In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done before creating the world to create the world. Jewish mystic Isaac Luria coined this term in Galilee in the sixteenth century, positing that the God who was “Ein-Sof,” unlimited and omnipresent before creation, must ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Judaism for Christians

    Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657)

    Translated by Corey Twitchell ...
    by Sina Rauschenbach ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
    Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was one of the best-known rabbis in early modern Europe. In the course of his life he became an important Jewish interlocutor for Christian scholars interested in Hebrew studies and negotiated with Oliver Cromwell and Parliament the return of the Jews to England. Born to a family of former conversos, Menasseh was versed in Christian theology and astutely used this ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Role Model and Countermodel

    The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish Culture during the Era of Emancipation

    by Carsten Schapkow ...
    Translated by Corey Twitchell ...
    This book explores the “Golden Age” of Sephardic Jewry on the Iberian Peninsula and its perception in German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation. For Jews living in Germany, the history of Sephardic Jewry developed into a historical example with its distinctive valence and signature against the pressure to assimilate and the emergence of anti-Semitism in Germany. It provided, moreover, a ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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    An Answer For Today

    by Hans Kung ...
    Does God exist? The question implies another: Who is God? This book is meant to give an answer to both questions and to give reasons for this answer. Does God exist? Yes or no? Many are at a loss between belief and unbelief; they are undecided, skeptical. They are doubtful about their belief, but they are also doubtful about their doubting. There are still others who are proud of their doubting. ... Read more

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  • The Way of Man: According to Hasidic Teaching

    by Martin Buber, Bernard H. Mehlman, Gabriel E. Padawer ...
    This short and remarkable book presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and their relevance to our lives. Told through legendary tales of the Hasidic masters, together with Bubers own unique insights, The Way of Man offers us a way of understanding ourselves and our place in a spiritual ... Read more

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  • Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

    by Gershom Scholem ...
    A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today. ... Read more

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  • On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead

    Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah

    by Gershom Scholem ...
    Series series Mysticism and Kabbalah
    "Scholem's treatment is complex and stylistically brilliant as he systemically analyzes the history and intellectual background of these critical ideas. Highly recommended."--Library Journal. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Zakhor

    Jewish History and Jewish Memory

    by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    “Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship.” - New York Times Book Review ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • I Want You to Be

    On the God of Love

    Translated by Gerald Turner ...
    by Tomáš Halík ...
    In his two previous books translated into English, Patience with God and Night of the Confessor, best-selling Czech author and theologian Tomáš Halík focused on the relationship between faith and hope. Now, in I Want You to Be, Halík examines the connection between faith and love, meditating on a statement attributed to St. Augustine—amo, volo ut sis, “I love you: I want you to be”—and its ... Read more

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  • Rudolf Steiner and the Fifth Gospel

    Insights into a New Understanding of the Christ Mystery

    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Catherine E. Creeger ...
    Rudolf Steiner received The Fifth Gospel--unrecorded events from the so-called lost years of the life of Jesus, obtained by grace and by spiritual research into the akashic record--as a "sacred obligation" to which he experienced a deep sense of responsibility. However, he never finished the project of unveiling it. Had he done so, not only Anthroposophy but also Christianity would have received ... Read more

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  • The Price of Monotheism

    by Jan Assmann ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that it was indeed the Moses of the Hebrew Bible who introduced the true-false distinction in a ... Read more

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