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  • The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
    Dov Schwartz / Batya Stein
    Dov Schwartz’s The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: A Conciliatory Perspective. Reflections on His Late Thought explores the later thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903-1993), focusing on his writings from the 1960s onward. It shows how Rav Soloveitchik modulated his earlier themes of existential loneliness, shifting toward communal engagement and integrating...
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    116,30 €

  • The Terror of Evil
    Avi Sagi / Dov Schwartz / Batya Stein
    This book explores how modern religious thought and religious Zionism have addressed the profound question of evil, with a particular focus on the Holocaust. It delves into the theological and philosophical challenges posed by absolute, undeniable, and inexplicable primal evil. The awareness of this primal evil serves as the foundation connecting the chapters, which trace the p...
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    116,65 €

  • 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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    144,85 €

  • 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 €

  • 'The Soul Seeks Its Melodies'
    Dov Schwartz / Batya Stein
    The connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one expression of it. This book is the first comprehensive research project on the encounter of music and Judaism in the theological and philosophical realms, tracing the historical evolution of the music motif in Jewish thought. It describes t...
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    125,35 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    125,96 €

  • Messianism in Medieval Jewish Thought
    Dov Schwartz / Batya Stein
    How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Yitzhak Abravanel, imagine a world that has experienced salvation? What is the nature of reality in the days of the Messiah? This work explores reactions to the seductive promises of apocalyptic teachings, tracing their fluctuations between intellect and imagination. The volume extensively surveys the tension between natural...
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    91,87 €

  • Reflections on Identity
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    The book deals with identity in general and with Jewish identity in particular. The book rejects rigid and one-sided notions of Jewish identity and offers a historical-cultural analysis of the identity discourse. ...
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    88,72 €

  • Prayer After the Death of God
    Avi Sagi / Batya Stein
    The book offers a new theory of prayer, based on an analysis of the actual experience of praying individuals rather than on the relationship with God. The thesis is that prayer is a primary phenomenon conveying that humans are praying beings. ...
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    100,31 €

  • Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse
    Avi Sagi / Yakir Englander / Batya Stein
    Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, including in cyberspace, and considers such issues as homosexuality, lesbianism, mastu...
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    99,88 €

  • 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 ...
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    245,82 €

  • 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 €

  • Jewish Religion After Theology
    Abraham Sagi / 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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    63,09 €

  • 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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    49,84 €

  • 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 €