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| 1. |  | Tales of the Hasidim from Schocken Price: $13.60 Customer Review:  In translating and publishing Hasidic tales in early twentieth century Germany, Buber was attempting to present Hasidism as an untapped repository of the authentic Ashkenazic Jewish folk legacy, a bulwark against secularism. His Hasidic leaders were folk heroes who had uplifted the downtrodden and... |
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| 2. |  | Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls from NYU Press Price: $18.00 Customer Review:  This was such a wonderful eye-opening book about the variety of girls in the Lubavitch community in Crown Heights. This book breaks the stereotype that says that girls from very religious families become "drone-like" or don't have their individuality. Within their very prescribed world, because of... |
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| 3. |  | Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism from Schocken Price: $12.24 Customer Review: Do you want to study and understand kabbalah in details? Are you trapped or met blinds in your studies into mysticism? Are you intrested to know who and who are the true author/authors of the great and renowned book in kabbalah The Zohar? You have met blinds in your kabbalah studies? Here is the one... |
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| 4. |  | Opening the Tanya: Discovering the Moral and Mystical Teachings of a Classic Work of Kabbalah from Jossey-Bass Price: $15.61 Customer Review: Rabbi Steinsaltz is the author of numerous books on mysticism and Kabbalah, including the critically acclaimed Opening the Tanya, the first volume in his series of companion guides to the Tanya, and the modern classic The Thirteen Petalled Rose. Learning from the Tanya offers a key for... |
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| 5. |  | God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning (The Kushner Series) from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $11.53 Customer Review: Kushner walks us through the exegetical vantage points of seven different rabbis, each looking at the same text. Jacob awakes from a dream about a ladder (Gen 28:16), and declares that he has experienced God. Kushner then poetically imagines the seven rabbis ascending and descending the ladder to... |
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| 6. |  | Toward a Meaningful Life, New Edition: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson from Harper Paperbacks Price: $11.16 Customer Review: The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson's wisdom, foresight and teachings are truly a blessing to humanity. Finally a palapable compendium filled with thousands of teachings. Each word is truly a gem. |
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| 7. |  | Jewish With Feeling: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Practice from Riverhead Trade Price: $11.20 Customer Review: I am not a religious Jew in any sense of the term. But so far I have found this book a welcoming approach to religion. This humble approach to spirituality is refreshing. |
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| 8. |  | The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch from Schocken Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Sue Fishkoff, a journalist, has written a sympathetic but not sycophantic introduction to the Chabad Lubavitch Movement. She does this by describing her visits to and interactions with various Chabad families, reporting their anecdotes, and even providing some hard data. She writes so well that... |
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| 9. |  | Holy Days: The World Of The Hasidic Family from Touchstone Price: $12.60 Customer Review:  Lis Harris did for Chabad in the 80's what Sue Fishkoff has done in the early 21st century. Also excellent for information about the group, but with the typical anti-Orthodox slant (feminism, etc.). My feeling was that she didn't get much out of the whole experience, except perhaps a best-seller.... |
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| 10. |  | Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters from Simon & Schuster Price: $11.90 Customer Review:  I was disappointed with this work. It is more about Elie Weisel then about chassidic stories. Many of the stories are familiar to me, and in all cases they appear distorted and many times the point of the story is missing. To summarize, as one of the stories said, He didn't hear what was said, and... |
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| 12. |  | Kabbalah (Meridian) from Plume Price: $12.24 Customer Review: Scholem originally intended much of the material in this book to be entries in an encyclopedia and anyone approaching this book without that knowledge may find it's organization confusing. However his detailed & scholarly (dare I say intellectual) analysis of Kabbalah's fascinating history and... |
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| 13. |  | Learning From the Tanya: Volume Two in the Definitive Commentary on the Moral and Mystical Teachings of a Classic Work of Kabbalah (Arthur Kurzweil Book) from Jossey-Bass Price: $16.47 Customer Review: amazon.com: please change the excerpt from the book. as a big fan of the tanya, i must say this is an excellent book. rabbi steinsaltz' commentary is very helpful and even inspiring. helping to give more light to the great teachings of the alter-rebbe. the excerpt here is too "legal sounding".... |
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| 14. |  | The Language of Truth: The Torah Commentary of Sefat Emet from Jewish Publication Society of America Price: $26.40 Customer Review: Good translation and the subject material in this book creates a deep emotional connection to parashah commentary. Highly recommended. Also the introduction to the book is well written and presents an interesting introduction to the Sfat Emet. |
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| 15. |  | The Gentle Weapon: Prayers for Everyday and Not-so-Everyday Moments: Timeless Wisdom from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $9.99 Customer Review: The prologue explains the use of this book very well and I've found it works best when used in that way. This book is a sort of stimulus for prayer and once the words begin flowing its easy to put the book down and continue my conversation with my higher power. But for the times when you just can't... |
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| 16. |  | The Way of Man: According to the Teachings of Hasidism (Routledge Classics) from Routledge Customer Review: Buber is one of the great original thinkers of modern Judaism. He reads here six Hasidic tales and infuses them with his own fundamental perceptions as to the nature of the religious life. He writes with grace and power. And there is in his interpretations and retellings a sense of the holy and the... |
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| 17. |  | The Empty Chair: Finding Hope & Joy - Timeless Wisdom from a Hasidic Master, Rebbe Nachmann of Breslov from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $9.99 Customer Review: compact wisdom is always a pleasure. Rebbe Nachman offers a lot in a small package. |
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| 18. |  | Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer (A Jewish Lights Classic Reprint) from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $12.76 Customer Review: Let me just say that if your reading this then buy this book now... fate has brought you here. Read this book over and over and be enriched and renewed angain and again---connected to the ONE source of ALL. |
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| 19. |  | The Mystical Origins of Hasidism from Littman Library of Jewish Price: $24.95 | |
| 20. |  | Light And Fire of the Baal Shem Tov from Continuum International Publishing Group Price: $21.78 Customer Review: This is truly a special book. What comes through these pages are not just words and stories, but a real taste of the light and fire of the Baal Shem Tov. As I read it I had the sense that the book was a true vehicle for transmission. I was also touched by the effort of the author as I read the book.... |
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| 21. |  | Hasidic Tales: Annotated & Explained (Skylight Illuminations) from Skylight Paths Publishing Price: $12.71 | |
| 22. |  | Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety, the Beginning of Wisdom (Classics of Western Spirituality) from Paulist Press Price: $19.95 Customer Review: Because I didn't know much about Jewish thought, I selected this book out of many because of keywords related to Kabbalah, ritual, mysticism as well as many known biblical characters. I found what I was promised, lots of rules of behavior, unexpected and touching humanity. The style of writing is... |
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| 23. |  | The Ten Rungs & The Way Of Man: Ten Rungs from Citadel Price: $10.16 | |
| 24. |  | First Steps to a New Jewish Spirit: Reb Zalman's Guide to Recapturing the Intimacy and Ecstasy in your Relationship with God from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $11.53 Customer Review: Reb Zalman is an amazing man, and this book is an amazing piece. I have read it countless times and I am inspired every time. It is so simple and easy to read, yet it leaves you thinking about its words long after you put it down. My favorite thing about this (and the rest of Reb Zalman's... |
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| 25. |  | Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground from HarperOne Price: $11.16 Customer Review: I enjoyed this book, but there were a few things I found rather interesting/odd in his narrative- One, at one point he referred to the "Old Testament", a term which Jews find offensive. Two, for a guy who doesn't seem to know a lot about Judaism, I was surprised how much he did know when he... |
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| 26. | [no image] | The Light Beyond: Adventures in Hassidic Thought from Moznaim Pub Corp Price: $22.00 Customer Review: The Mystical Judaism had been the domain of the extremely learned since the beginning (since after Moses died), until 300 years ago the Baal Shem Tov began teaching and making it accessible through understandable parables to the common Jew. Even though he was completely learned and illuminated he... |
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| 27. |  | Living Waters: The Mei HaShiloach from Jason Aronson Price: $74.20 Customer Review: Bezalel Edwards has done a service to the entire Torah- loving- through - English - primarily world by translating the Mei Hashiloach into English. This is one of the great Hasidic commentaries on the Torah. Many are those who champion it and find in it the deepest of Torah insights. The Ishbitzer... |
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| 28. |  | Meditation and Kabbalah from Jason Aronson Price: $42.48 Customer Review: Kaplan's classic work in which he demonstrates how many advanced meditative techniques were used by the kabbalists. Aryeh Kaplan born in the Bronx, NY was a noted American rabbi and author, who had an MS in physics. In researching his books, Rabbi Kaplan once remarked: "I use my physics background... |
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| 29. |  | Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry from University of California Press Price: $22.45 Customer Review: Heilman is a student of Erving Goffman, and offers meticulous and insightful analyses of the haredi rituals he observes. He studies a category of Jews who insist upon their essential difference from the rest of humanity, and yet is able to communicate across these self-erected barriers. Marvelous,... |
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| 30. |  | The Legend of the Baal-Shem from Princeton University Press Price: $13.57 Customer Review: I was originally drawn to Judaism by Martin Buber's wonderful "Tales of the Hasidim" (which has a good section on the Baal Shem Tov). But Buber disavowed his earlier "Legend of the Baal Shem" because it was too flowery and departed too far from the original material; it is also only a mere snippet... |
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