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A Baptist Among the JewsISBN 0787965588 (0-7879-6558-8)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Beliefnet Guide To Kabbalahby Arthur Goldwag, Lawrence KushnerISBN 0385514530 (0-385-51453-0)
Softcover, Three Leaves Pub
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The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook to the Jewish Yearby Scott-Martin Kosofsky, Lawrence KushnerISBN 0060524375 (0-06-052437-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook to the Jewish Year'Book summary:Fifteen years ago while researching Jewish imagery, award-winning book designer Scott-Martin Kosofsky happened upon a 1645 edition of the Minhogimbukh -- the "Customs Book" -- a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to the Jewish year written in Yiddish, the people's vernacular. Captivated, he investigated further and learned that from 1590 to 1890, this cross between a prayer book and a farmer's almanac was immensely popular in households all across Europe. Published in dozens of editions and revised over the centuries in Venice, Prague, Amsterdam, and throughout Germany before moving eastward in the nineteenth century to Poland and Russia, these books detail the evolution of Jewish custom over three hundred years. But by the 1890s, as Jewish practice became polarized between the secularist and traditionalist views, the Minhogimbukh disappeared.
There are no works quite like the historical customs books available today#151;none so thorough and concise, intuitive in organization, and beautiful. Inspired by the originals, Kosofsky set out to make his own, adapting the books for modern use, adding historical perspective and contemporary application. The result is the reappearance of the Minhogimbukh after more than a hundred-year absence, and the first complete showing of all the original woodcuts -- a visual vocabulary of Jewish life -- since the 1760s. Faithfully based on the earlier editions, The Book of Customs is an updated guide to the rituals, liturgies, and texts of the entire Jewish year -- from the days of the week and the Sabbath to all the months with their festivals, as well as the major life-cycle events of wedding, birth, bar and bat mitzvah, and death. With the revival of this lost cultural legacy, The Book of Customs can once again become every family's guide to Jewish tradition and practice. [via]
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The Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spiritual Awareness For Parents to Read to Their Children, for Children to Read to Their Paby Lawrence KushnerISBN 0807403237 (0-8074-0323-7)
Softcover, Urj Pr
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Book Of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide To Jewish Spiritualityby Lawrence KushnerISBN 0613906691 (0-613-90669-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Book of Words (Sefer Shel Devarim): Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talkby Lawrence KushnerISBN 1580230202 (1-58023-020-2)
Softcover, Jewish Lights Pub
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Centered Livingby Lawrence KushnerISBN 0764804952 (0-7648-0495-2)
Softcover, Liguori Pubns
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Eyes Remade for Wonder: A Lawrence Kushner Readerby Lawrence KushnerISBN 1580230423 (1-58023-042-3)
Softcover, Jewish Lights Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyes Remade for Wonder: A Lawrence Kushner Reader'Book summary:Eyes Remade for Wonder: A Lawrence Kushner Reader, by Lawrence Kushner, with an introduction by Thomas Moore, collects some of the best writings by one of the most insightful rabbis in America. Kushner writes with profound reverence for the silence that surrounds his words. He believes that the essence of religious seeking is to "devotedly, stubbornly, compulsively return again and again to that line between noise and silence, hoping against hope to find a way to say what finally cannot be said. If it could be said straight out, you wouldn't have to try to find a better way to say it. If you couldn't speak it at all, then you'd have to resort to such nonverbal modes of communication as art or dance or music. The thing about spiritual truth is that it wants to be spoken. It is too important, too transforming, to be left alone in silence. It seems to have speakable content." This book begins with a selection of writings on cultivating awareness of God, the self, and the world. It moves on to explore the bedrock of Jewish religion, sacred text. Later chapters describe mystical, ethical, and political aspects of Jewish spiritual life, concluding with an excellent selection of meditations on the revelatory power of daily life. Kushner sees divine light glinting off his eyeglasses, shining through telescopes, and beaming out from lighthouses. Eyes Remade for Wonder is excellent devotional reading, and a fine introduction to Kushner's wide-ranging mind and empathic spirit. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomyby David Mamet, Lawrence KushnerISBN 0805242201 (0-8052-4220-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Here is a fascinating glimpse into two great minds, as each author approaches the text from his unique perspective, each seeking an understanding of the Bibles personalities and commandments, paradoxes and ambiguities. Kushner offers his words of Torah with a conversational enthusiasm that ranges from family dynamics to the Kabbalah; Mamet challenges the reader, often beginning his comment far afieldwith Freud or the American judiciarybefore returning to a text now wholly reinterpreted.
In the tradition of Israel as a people who wrestle with God, Kushner and Mamet grapple with the biblical text, succumbing neither to apologetics nor parochialism, asking questions without fear of the answers they may find. Over the course of a year of weekly readings, they comment on all aspects of the Bible: its richness of theme and language, its contradictions, its commandments, and its often unfathomable demands. If you are already familiar with the Bible, this book will draw you back to the text for a deeper look. If you have not yet explored the Bible in depth, Kushner and Mamet are guides of unparalleled wisdom and discernment. Five Cities of Refuge is easily accessible yet powerfully illuminating. Each weeks comments can be read in a few minutes, but they will give you something to think about all week long.
Lawrence Kushner teaches and writes as the Emanu-El Scholar at The Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. He has taught at Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion in New York City and served for twenty-eight years as rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, Massachusetts. A frequent lecturer, he is also the author of more than a dozen books on Jewish spirituality and mysticism. He lives in San Francisco.
David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright. He is the author of Glengarry Glen Ross, The Cryptogram, and Boston Marriage, among other plays. He has also published three novels and many screenplays, children's books, and essay collections. [via]More editions of Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy:
God at 2000by Joan Chittister, Marcus J. Borg, Desmond Tutu, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Karen Armstrong, Lawrence Kushner , Ross MacKenzie, Diana EckISBN 0819218588 (0-8192-1858-8)
Hardcover, Morehouse Pub Co
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Honey from the Rock: [Devash Mi-Sela (Romanized Form)] = Dvash Misela Visions of Jewish Mystical Renewalby Lawrence KushnerISBN 0060649011 (0-06-064901-1)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Honey from the Rock: Ten Gates of Jewish Mysticismby Lawrence KushnerISBN 0060649046 (0-06-064904-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Kabbalah: The Way of Lightby Lawrence KushnerISBN 0767924134 (0-7679-2413-4)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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The Oracle of Kabbalah : Mystical Teachings of the Hebrew Lettersby Richard Seidman, Lawrence KushnerISBN 0312241739 (0-312-24173-9)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Our Lives As Torah : Finding God in Our Own Storiesby Richard Seidman, Lawrence KushnerISBN 0787944734 (0-7879-4473-4)
Hardcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Repairing the World : Introducing Jewish Spiritualityby Lawrence KushnerISBN 0232524475 (0-232-52447-5)
Softcover, Darton, Longman & Todd, Limited
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The River of Lightby Lawrence KushnerISBN 006064902X (0-06-064902-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Sefer Otiyot: The Book of Letters Sefer Otiyotby Lawrence KushnerISBN 0060649003 (0-06-064900-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Way into the Jewish Mystical Traditionby Lawrence KushnerISBN 1580230296 (1-58023-029-6)
Hardcover, Jewish Lights Pub
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