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Rabbi Joseph Telushkin |
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0688129587
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When, if ever, should lying be
permitted? If you've damaged a
person's reputation unfairly, can the
damage be undone? Is a person who
sells weapons responsible for how
those weapons are used?
if the fetus is not a life, what is
it? How, as an adult, can one carry
out the command to honor one's parents
when they make unreasonable demands?
What are the nine biblical challenges
a good person must meet? What do the
great Jewish writings of the last
3,500 years tell us about these and
all other vital questions about our
lives? Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has
devoted his life to the search for
answers within the teachings of
Judaism. In Jewish Wisdom, Rabbi
Telushkin, the author of the highly
acclaimed Jewish Literacy, weaves
together a tapestry of stories from
the Bible and Talmud, and the insights
of Jewish commentators and writers
from Maimonides, Rashi, and Hillel to
Einstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and
Elie Wiesel. A richer source of
crucial life lessons would be hard to
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Master of
Dreams A Memoir of Isaac Bashevis
Singer |
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Author: |
Dvorah Telushkin |
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0688118666 ···
Hardcover ··· 350 pages. |
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In 1975,
twenty-one-year-old Dvorah Telushkin
wrote a letter to the great Yiddish
writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, offering
to drive him to and from a creative
writing class in return for permission
to attend the course. The literary
master, then seventy-one, accepted the
offer, which led to a twelve-year-long
apprenticeship for Telushkin.
Throughout Dvorah Telushkin's tenure
with Singer, she kept detailed diaries
chronicling both their literary
efforts and the evolution of their
personal relationship. Indeed,
Telushkin was the one person to whom
Singer tried to teach his craft as a
writer. She writes about the great
moments in Singer's public life, his
winning the Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1978, his fiery encounter with the
Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin,
his surprising meeting with Barbra
Streisand, who adapted and starred in
the movie version of Singer's short
story "Yentl." But the private Singer
is revealed as well, the "merry
pessimist" haunted by despair and torn
between the old-world ethic of his
Hasidic forebears in Europe and the
moral abandon of modern secular man. |
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The Nine Questions
People ask about Judaism
Dennis Prager
and Joseph Telushkin |
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Author: |
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin |
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ISBN: |
0671622617 ···
Softcover ··· 224
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If
you have ever wondered what being born
Jewish should mean to you; if you want
to find out more about the nature of
Judaism, or explain it to a friend; if
you are thinking about how Judaism can
connect with the rest of your life --
this is the first book you should own.
It poses, and thoughtfully addresses,
questions like these:
Can one doubt God's existence and
still be a good Jew? Why do we need
organized religion? Why shouldn't I
intermarry? What is the reason for
dietary laws? How do I start
practicing Judaism?
The Nine Questions
People Ask About Judaism
was written for the educated,
skeptical, searching Jew, and for the
non-Jew who wants to understand the
meaning of Judaism. It has become a
classic and very widely read
introduction to the oldest living
religion. Concisely and engagingly,
authors Dennis Prager and Joseph
Telushkin present Judaism as the
rational, moral alternative for
contemporary man.
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The Book of
Jewish Values |
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Author: |
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin |
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ISBN: |
0609603302 ···
Hardcover ··· 554
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Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has
combed the Bible, the Talmud,
and the whole spectrum of
Judaism's sacred writings to
give us a manual on how to
lead a decent, kind, and
honest life in a morally
complicated world. Telushkin
speaks to the major ethical
issues of our time, issues
that have, of course, been
around since the beginning. He
offers one or two pages a day
of pithy, wise, and easily
accessible teachings designed
to be put into immediate
practice. The range of the
book is as broad as life
itself. |
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Jewish
Literacy |
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Author: |
Rabbi Joseph
Telushkin |
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0688085067
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A companion volume to Jewish
Literacy sets texts from chosen
Jewish passages, ranging from the
Talmud to modern writings, in a
historical perspective while
explaining why they are vital and
challenging to contemporary Jews.
663 pages. |
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Words That Hurt, Words That Heal : How to Choose Words Wisely
and Well |
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Author: |
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin |
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ISBN: |
0688163505 ···
Hardcover ··· 240
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Joseph Telushkin is renowned for
his warmth, his erudition, and his
richly anecdotal insights, and in
Words That Hurt, Words That
Heal he focuses these gifts on
the words we use in public and in
private, revealing their
tremendous power to shape
relationships. With wit and
wide-ranging intelligence, Rabbi
Telushkin explains the harm in
spreading gossip, rumors, or
others' secrets, and how unfair
anger, excessive criticism, or
lying undermines true
communication. By sensitizing us
to subtleties of speech we may
never have considered before, he
shows us how to turn every
exchange into an opportunity.
Remarkable for its clarity and
practicality, Words That Hurt,
Words That Heal illuminates
the powerful effects we create by
what we say and how we say it. |
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Golden Land:
The
Story of Jewish Migrations to America |
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Author: |
Rabbi Joseph
Telushkin |
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ISBN: |
0609609041
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The Golden Land is a
museum-in-a-book that devotes a
double-page spread--complete with
removable letters, documents, and
personal effects--to each of the
successive waves of Jewish
immigration to America, from the
Germans and Eastern Europeans in
the 19th and early 20th centuries
to the refugees from the Nazis in
the 1930s and ’40s to the Soviet
Jews in the 1970s and '80s.America
was the first nation where Jews
were regarded as citizens from the
very beginning, and The Golden
Land reveals how they
converted opportunity to success
in fields from commerce, medicine,
and science to movies, music, and
literature.
The
book includes facsimiles of George
Washington’s letter to a community
of Jews in Rhode Island, Emma
Lazarus’s poem that was later
inscribed on the base of the
Statue of Liberty, Irving Berlin’s
handwritten lyrics for “God Bless
America,” a quiz challenging
readers to guess the original
names of American-Jewish
show-business celebrities, and
plenty of other materials to give
readers a real feel for how
America changed the Jews and how
the Jews changed America. |
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