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Free Download Yoram Bilu, "Without Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya’aqov Wazana "
English | ISBN: 0814343244 | 2017 | 192 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya’aqov Wazana, a Jewish healer who worked in the Western High Atlas region in southern Morocco and died there in the early 1950s. Impressed by his healing powers and shamanic virtuosity, Moroccan Jews are intrigued by his lifestyle and contacts with the Muslim and the demonic worlds that dangerously blurred his Jewish identity.

Free Download Paul Wilkes, "And They Shall Be My People: An American Rabbi and His Congregation"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0802137253 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 2.2 mb
Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum is devoted to his congregation of mostly middle- and upper-middle-class Conservative Jews – yet their lax observance frustrates and saddens him. Competing daily with an increasingly secular culture, Rosenbaum struggles to show his congregation the riches and fulfillment of an observant Jewish life. Exploring the rabbi’s sometimes troubled, sometimes joyful leadership, And They Shall Be My People presents a complex and human portrait of American Judaism in our modern age. "A striking and valuable book…. A powerful, haunting story for a society easily seduced by new emphases and values." – Gerald I. Wolpe, The Philadelphia Inquirer; "To call this ‘a revealing portrait’ is an understatement. It is a mirror of organized Jewish life." – Robert L. Wolkoff, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

Free Download The boldness of a halakhist: an analysis of the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein The Arukh Hashulhan: a collection of social-anthropological essays By Epstein, Yechiel Mechel Halevi;Fishbane, Simcha
2009 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 1934843032 | PDF | 2 MB
Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein : his life and works — Long live the tsar : Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Epstein and the Russian political system — Today not yesteryear : Rabbi Y.M. Epstein’s adjudicative process as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan — In any case there are no sinful thoughts : the role and status of women in Jewish law as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan — The audacity of a religious adjudicator : Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Epstein and modernity — Mercy is vouchsafed from heaven : halakhah’s response to violence as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan Oreh Hayyim, sections 560 and 576:8 — Secular studies are the supplement of Torah studies : Kol Ben Levi : the homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein : the first sermon — Recurrent themes in the homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein — Social reality or the written word : minhag as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan

Free Download Sara Davidson, "The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life’s Greatest Mystery"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0062281747, 0062281755 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.4 mb
In the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture, New York Times bestselling author Sara Davidson met every Friday with 89-year-old Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, the iconic founder of the Jewish Renewal movment, to discuss what he calls The December Project. "When you can feel in your cells that you’re coming to the end of your tour of duty," he said, "what is the spiritual work of this time, and how do we prepare for the mystery?"

Free Download The Rabbi’s Brain: Mystics, Moderns, and the Science of Jewish Thinking by Andrew Newberg, David Halpern, John Lescault
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07JVGTV93 | MP3@64 kbps | 14 hrs 28 mins | 397 Mb
The topic of neurotheology has garnered increasing attention in the academic, religious, scientific, and popular worlds. But there have been no attempts to explore more specifically how Jewish religious thought and experience may intersect with neurotheology. The Rabbi’s Brain engages this groundbreaking area.
Topics included relate to a neurotheological approach to the foundational beliefs that arise from the Torah and associated scriptures, Jewish learning, an exploration of the different elements of Judaism (i.e., reform, conservative, and orthodox), an exploration of specifically Jewish practices (i.e., davening, Sabbath, kosher), and a review of Jewish mysticism. The Rabbi’s Brain engages these topics in an easy-to-understand style and integrates the scientific, religious, philosophical, and theological aspects of the emerging field of neurotheology.