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  • Light Through the Crack
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    An epidemic such as COVID-19 challenges life’s very order and meaning, interferes in our relations with others, and breaks apart our routine. It raises many questions in the realms of ethics, politics, theology, psychology, and beyond. Perhaps more than anything else, it prompts us to ponder: what does this encounter with widespread anguish and distress imply about the human se...
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    48,31 €

  • Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah
    Yuval Harari / Batya Stein
    'Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts?' Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah is a comprehensive study of early Jewish magic focusing on three major topics: Jewish magic inventiveness, the conflict with the culture it reflects, and the scientific study of both. The f...
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    64,83 €

  • The Many Faces of Maimonides
    Dov Schwartz / Batya Stein
    This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides’ commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kalām, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge. Maimonides’ search for objective truth is also analyzed in its connection with the scientific writing...
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    31,41 €

  • To Be a Jew
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    To Be a Jew deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence. Many of Brenner’s readers assumed that Brenner completely negated Jewish existence and sought to form a new way of life completely disconnected from the traditional Jewish existence.In contrast to this perception, Avi Sagi proves that not only d...
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    66,82 €

  • Jewish Religion After Theology
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    Jewish Religion after Theology ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: from a metaphysical and theological standpoint toward a new manner of philosophizing based primarily on practice. Different chapters study this great shift and its various manifestations. The central figure of this new examination is Isaiah Leibowitz, whose thoughts encapsulate mo...
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    39,16 €

  • Religious Zionism
    Dov Schwartz / Batya Stein
    Religious Zionism is a major component of contemporary Israeli society and politics. The author reviews the history of religious Zionism from both a historical and ideological-theological perspective. His basic assumption is that religious Zionism cannot be fully understood solely through a historical description, or even from social, political, and philosophical vantage points...
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    28,13 €

  • The Open Cannon
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    In this groundbreaking study Avi Sagi outlines a broad spectrum of answers to important questions presented in Jewish literature, covering theological issues bearing on the meaning of the Torah and of revelation, as well as hermeneutical questions regarding understanding of the halakhic text. This is the first volume to attempt to provide a comprehensive map of the available vi...
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    68,08 €