Between the thirteenth-century expulsion of the Jews from England, Oxford was home to a significant Jewish community and a noted Jewish scholar known as Moses of Oxford. Some seven hundred years later, his life and work still serve as an inspiration to the Oxford University L'Chaim Society and its dynamic director, Rabbi Shmuel Boteach.Rabbi Boteach reviews profound scholarship (did the bible ever mean the translated phrase 'an eye for an eye' to be taken seriously? - his summary is that it did not); social and academic values (the pressures of achievement, history and tradition); racism; relationships and retaining passion in monogamous sexuality; what he describes as 'the absolute centrality and equality of women' and much else. His broad interest range from Shylock and Darwin, Freud and Star Trek's Mr. Spock.Already regarded as a leading contemporary Jewish thinker, Rabbi Boteach, in this stimulating and comprehensive work, examines both the lessons of the past and looks to the future, exploring the key issues confronting Judaism as the end of the millennium approaches.

Moses of Oxford: A Jewish Vision of a University and Its Life (2 Volume Set)

Religion & Spirituality

Boteach, Shmuel

Judaism

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandments

Health, Fitness & Dieting

HODDER STOUGHTON RELIGIOUS

We live in a world that is broken. Soaring divorce rates, an economy that rewards the few and punishes the many, religious-fueled hatred?the headlines paint a grim picture and we feel as if we are victims in a society that desperately needs fixing. But as Rabbi Shmuley Boteach reveals in his new book, Renewal, our society can only be made whole again when we as individuals make the choice to live a life based on values. For too long, conversations about values have been derailed by political movements trying to score points over hot-button issues like gay marriage or abortion. Boteach, one of our wisest and most respected counselors and religious experts, reaches deep into our history and into our shared religious legacy to revive the key values of Judaism. He presents these age-old ideas as guideposts for living in the modern world. These values, while rooted in Jewish tradition, can be applied to anyone in the modern world?Muslims, Christians, Hindus?who want to renew life’s meaning and to understand what is truly precious in this world. Here is a sampling of the major values of the Jewish faith, explaining their origins and how they can be applied in everyday life: Destiny: a rejection of humankind’s sinfulness and instead believe in its perfectibility. Redemption: world redemption must precede personal salvation. The betterment of the community must always outweigh the perfection of the individual. Action: what you do is more important than what you believe. The concept of mitzvah?good deeds, righteous actions?is the most central Jewish value of all. Enlightenment: belief in the illumination that comes from the pursuit of knowledge. Marriage: the softening of the masculine by exposure to the feminine. Jewish families are strong because Jewish men have been domesticated for thousands of years. Struggle: it is wrestling with our nature, rather than attaining perfection, in which we achieve true righteousness. Sacred Time: Whereas other religions sanctify space, Jewish tradition privileges moments. The Sabbath day, the holiest day of the week, saves us from frittering our lives away on ephemera.

Renewal: A Guide to the Values-Filled Life

Basic Books

Intelligent Person's Guide to Judaism (Intelligent Person's Guide S.)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Duckbacks

A belief in and hope for the coming of the Messiah has always been a part of Judaism. In fact, Maimonides, surely one of the greatest minds of Jewish history, includes the belief in the arrival of the Messiah and the messianic era as one of the Thirteen Articles of Jewish Faith. As Maimonides writes, these thirteen principles are 'the fundamental truths of our religion and its very foundations.' In The Wolf Shall Lie with the Lamb: The Messiah in Hasidic Thought, Rabbi Shmuel Boteach offers the first book-length exposition in English of this important pillar of Jewish belief. In addition to Rabbi Boteach's thorough discourse on the Jewish belief in the Messiah, the twelfth of Maimonides' Thirteen Principles of Faith, this volume includes a clear analysis of the thirteenth and final principle, that of the Jewish belief in the resurrection of the dead. Rabbi Shmuel Boteach is the rabbi and director of the Chabad (Lubavitch) House of Oxford University. His book is largely based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. The Wolf Shall Lie with the Lamb appears at a time when attention to messianic speculation among the Lubavitcher Rebbe's followers in particular appears to be on the increase. However, the belief in the coming of the Messiah is not a new phenomenon. Nor is daily preoccupation with the hope in the arrival of the Messiah something introduced by the Lubavitcher Rebbe. On the contrary, traditional Jews express messianic yearning each and every day in their prayers. If anything, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, his hasidim, and others who have recently stepped up their teaching and learning about this profound concept in Jewish thought are merely bringing to the fore that which has traditionally been on the minds and in the hearts of the Jewish people for centuries. The Wolf Shall Lie with the Lamb clarifies a grossly misunderstood Jewish belief in terms that can be grasped by both layperson and scholar.

The Wolf Shall Lie With the Lamb: The Messiah in Hasidic Thought

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Essays based on the public orations of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, as compiled and presented by Rabbi Yoel Kahn.

Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge: Basic Concepts of Hasidic Thought

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Wrestling With the Divine: A Jewish Response to Suffering

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Jason Aronson

Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl enjoy the sparks in the early years, but eventually settle into a comfortable friendship, and all passion disappears from their marriage. That s just the way it goes, right? As many as one in three long-term marriages in America are sexless, and most people accept this as the inevitable course of a romantic relationship. In this groundbreaking book, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach explains why the prioritizing of love and companionship in marriage is all wrong, and why we should not go quietly into that dark night of celibate marriage. It is not love, Rabbi Shmuley shows, but lust that is the glue of a marriage.
 In this book you will learn how to restore lust to its rightful place as the central pillar of marriage. You will learn about the three principles of lust, and how to tap into them to keep the flames burning in the family hearth. Finally, you will discover the incredible emotional and spiritual potential of the intimate marital bond. In a wide-ranging discussion that plumbs the depths of the erotic mind, Rabbi Shmuley delivers a revolutionary message with the power to completely transform your most important relationship.

Kosher Lust: Love Is Not the Answer

Self-Help

Gefen Books

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