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The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,122 ratings — published 1951
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,534 ratings — published 1991
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,404,571 ratings — published 1956
Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,524 ratings — published 1998
The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.08 — 100,214 ratings — published 1967
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)
by (shelved 187 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,457 ratings — published
Living a Jewish Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,504 ratings — published 1991
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,336,322 ratings — published 1947
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,693 ratings — published 1955
To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,370 ratings — published 1993
Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.18 — 947 ratings — published 2000
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.04 — 160,308 ratings — published 2008
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,707 ratings — published 2021
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.21 — 644,204 ratings — published 1997
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,833 ratings — published 2003
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,023 ratings — published 2012
My Name Is Asher Lev (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.24 — 44,202 ratings — published 1972
To Be A Jew: A Guide To Jewish Observance In Contemporary Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,013 ratings — published 1952
I and Thou (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,142 ratings — published 1923
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,236 ratings — published -450
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.37 — 940,954 ratings — published 1946
Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.20 — 477 ratings — published 1995
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.89 — 53,469 ratings — published 1993
To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.21 — 657 ratings — published 1991
This is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,242 ratings — published 1959
When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.03 — 20,629 ratings — published 1981
The Essential Talmud (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.01 — 764 ratings — published 1976
Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.05 — 399 ratings — published 1990
The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,712 ratings — published 2003
The Guide for the Perplexed (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,359 ratings — published 1190
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.72 — 81,919 ratings — published 2007
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.39 — 386,854 ratings — published 1986
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,483 ratings — published 2013
Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,038 ratings — published 1985
The Jewish Book of Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.02 — 960 ratings — published 1981
The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.49 — 596 ratings — published 2000
The Lonely Man of Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,158 ratings — published 1992
Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.96 — 603 ratings — published 1931
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,000 ratings — published 2017
The Weight of Ink (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.14 — 41,956 ratings — published 2017
The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as judaism)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,563 ratings — published 1995
The Promise (Reuven Malter, #2)
by (shelved 65 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,436 ratings — published 1969
As a Driven Leaf (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,114 ratings — published 1939
Jews Don't Count (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.18 — 13,364 ratings — published 2021
Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.01 — 947 ratings — published 1300
The Prophets (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,383 ratings — published 1962
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.43 — 160,920 ratings — published 1991
Jewish With Feeling: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.21 — 257 ratings — published 2004
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,982,366 ratings — published 2005
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as judaism)
avg rating 4.32 — 670 ratings — published 1929
“This brings us to a further aspect of the doctrine of Tikkun, which is also the most important for the system of practical theosophy. The process in which God conceives, brings forth and develops himself does not reach its final conclusion in God. Certain parts of the process of restitution are allotted to man. Not all the lights which are held in captivity by the powers of darkness are set free by their own efforts; it is man who adds the final touch to the divine countenance; it is he who completes the enthronement of God, the king and the mystical Creator of all things, in His own Kingdom of Heaven; it is he who perfects the maker of all things! In certain spheres of being, divine and human existence are intertwined. The intrinsic, extramundane process of Tikkun, symbolically described as the birth of God's personality, corresponds to the process of mundane history. The historical process and its innermost soul, the religious act of the Jew, prepare the way for the final restitution of all scattered and exiled lights and sparks.”
― Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
― Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
“One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten, may his bones be worn to nothing'—along with detailed refutations and denunciations by Abraham ibn Ezra and others. These exciting anathemas, of course, ensured that his worrying 'questions' would remain current for as long as the Orthodox commentaries would be read. In this way, rather as when Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' Jewishness contrives irony at its own expense. If there is one characteristic of Jews that I admire, it is that irony is seldom if ever wasted on them.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
