Mile Chai Jewish Books Judaica and Everything to make your home kosher - Torah - Judaism - Jewish Bible
Mile High City Denver Colorado

A Home For G-d What does it mean to make our world a home for G-d? A basic tenet of our faith is that "the entire world is filled with His presence" and "there is no place void of Him." So it's not that we have to bring G-d into the material world -- He is already there. But G-d can be in the world without being at home in it. Being "at home" means being in a place that is receptive to your presence, a place devoted to serving your needs and desires. It means being in a place where you are your true, private self, as opposed to the public self you assume in other environments.
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Dedicated to the Blessed Memory of
Esther Cohen Strauss
1937-2004

Aharon, Chavah,
Dovid, Adom, Miriam,
Shoshana Brewer and Esther

 Esther Strauss
[picture to the left]
Last Sept 2002 had a stroke and in February she had surgery to remove a brain tumor.

Read about Esther and her late husband Mel Cohen efforts to save
the Golda Meir House in Denver
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Starting Our 10th year

Aharon's Books and Judaica
Receives Best of Denver Honors 2004 and congratulations from
Congresswoman Diane DeGette.

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Denver is known for the home of Golda Meir [biography] and various legends including The Unsinkable Molly Brown. 
Within 7 short years our store has taken on this legend.  No job is easy.  No endeavor is done without hard work.  It has taken us time to gain the experience to over come what at times seems impossible odds.  We are in the middle of the country.  Everything we do has to be shipped and done over the phone.   Still we have the best prices on Jewish books and judaica.

 

Who are we?  We are a family of 6 located in the Mile Chai [Mile High] city of Denver, Colorado.  My wife and I always wanted to have a bookstore. This is our story ... and what we love doing best!

Because we love the Jewish community of Denver, books, and a challenge. We were told no one could make a living selling Jewish Books in Denver.   So we rolled up our sleeves and went to work -- Chavah and I are working as much as 90 hours ea. in 6 days.  Our children have been a great help too!  Dovid, our oldest, is our right hand man is now 18 and in College. He has helped me in the store since he was a young man of 13.  Our twin girls, Miriam and Shoshanah, bring a bit of sunshine in long days and nights of work.  And Adom, what can I say, this red headed young man is growing into a Torah Scholar and dazzles customers with his great big blue eyes and smile.

As we start our 6th year with the slogan "Shop Israel all year long at Aharon's Books - Judaica and MileChai.Com -  We also need your help, too!

Please help us out:  SPREAD THE WORD! Share us with a friend.  Remember to support your local Jewish Business, and visit Israel if you can.

My father's family moved to Denver at the turn of the century.  My mother's family moved to Canon City in the late 1890s.  All our children were born in Canon City and now attend Jewish Day School in Denver. 

We have become Denver's 
largest Jewish Book and Judaica Store.
We supply all the major Orthodox Shuls  as well as the 
many other Conservative and Reform Shuls
throughout the Mile Chai City of Denver.

What drives us to do this?

To bring a bit of Torah to the world that wasn't there before -- which is why our slogan is "Spreading Torah at the Speed of Light!"

So, please bookmark our page, come back often.    Our pledge is do the best job possible and we are willing to go the "extra mile" to get the job done.

Be Well, and Thank You for dropping in ... and if you are ever in Denver look us up... and G-d Bless.

This page is dedicated to my wife and Children ... thank you so much...

Aharon
 

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Aharon's Jewish Books and Judaica
 

The 24 Books of the Hebrew Bible In their simplest form, the twenty-four books of the Jewish Bible - the Tanach - present a history of the first 3500 years from creation until the building of the second Temple in Jerusalem. The books also relate the history of the Jewish nation from its earliest stage, through the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai, and until the end of the first commonwealth. But the Tanach is much more than just history. In it one can learn about G-d's plan for the world and of His relationship with mankind, specifically, His chosen nation - the Jews.

Chavah and Dovid discussing the new arrivals

 

Jewish Cooking.org - is looking for interesting or favorite recipe or Family Story dealing with Jewish Cooking, Shabbos....
If we use it you will receive a coupon for discounts on JewishCooking.org

Here is where G-d tells us what He wants us to do! And now, Israel, what does the Lord your G-d want of you? Only to fear the Lord your G-d, to go in all His ways and to love Him and to serve the Lord your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul. To guard the commandments of G-d and His statutes..." (Deuteronomy 10 12-13) Presented here is a very short overview of each of the books of Tanach, divided into three main categories: the Chumash, the Prophets and the Writings.

The Five Books of Moses (Chumash) Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy The Eight Books of the Prophets (Neviim) Joshua Judges Samuel Kings Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekial The Twelve (minor prophets) Trei-Assar The Eleven Books of the Writings (Kesuvim) Psalms - Tehilim Proverbs - Mishlei Job - Iyov Song of Songs - Shir HaShirim Ruth - Rus Lamentations - Eicha Ecclesiastes - Koheles Esther Daniel - Doniel Ezra/Nehemia Chronicles - Divrei Hayamim

 
Jewish Books From ArtScroll, Feldheim, Moznaim, Jason Aronson and other publishers, we carry thousands of titles in all Hebrew, English or Hebrew/English... as well as many translated works. 

We have black Hats, Italian made Borsalino and Huckel Hats. 
We also carry a wide range of Ritual and Judaica Items:   kosher

Hours and Location

Monday - Tuesday Thursday 9 am to 6 pm
Wednesday 9 am to 7 pm
Friday and Sunday 9:am to 2 pm
 we take calls from 9 am to 6 pm MST

Take the Evans exit [turn right/heading East]
Go approx 1 mile to Holly - Turn left on  Holly
 Heading North on Holly go approx 3 miles. 
At the intersection of Leetsdale/Holly
Aharon's Books is located in the Leestsdale Shopping Center
[behind Garramones and across from Colorado Athletic Club
[Chabad House is one block north of our location]

If you are coming South on Highway 25
Take the Evans exit [turn left /heading East]
follow the above directions

If you are coming east from Boulder
Take the Colorado Blvd Exit [right turn]
Heading South on Colorado Blvd take a left onto Alameda
Alameda/Holly intersection take a right.  Come two blocks
we are on the Southeast side of the street.
Aharon's Books is located in the Leestsdale Shopping Center

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12th year of the Festival!

Sunday, June 11, 2006 from 11 am to 5 pm
Boulder County Courthouse Lawn and
Pearl Street Mall from 1200 Pearl to 1500 Pearl
Boulder, Colorado

Come in and Visit!

Aharon and Chavah

Chavah working

The Frontier of Self - There are two basic steps to the endeavor of making our world a home for G-d. The first step involves priming the material resource as a "vessel for G-dliness": shaping the leather into tefillin, donating the money to charity, scheduling time for Torah study. The second step is the actual employment of these "vessels" to serve the divine will: binding the tefillin on the arm and head, using the donated money to feed the hungry, studying Torah, etc. At first glance, it would seem that the second step is the more significant one, while the first step is merely an enabler of the second, a means to its end. But the Torah's account of the first home for G-d built in our world places the greater emphasis on the construction of the "home," rather than its actual employment as a divine dwelling.

A sizable portion of the book of Exodus is devoted to the construction of the Sanctuary built by the children of Israel in the desert. The Torah, which is usually so sparing with words that many of its laws are contained within a single word or letter, is uncharacteristically elaborate. The fifteen materials used in the Sanctuary's construction are listed no less than three times; the components and furnishings of the Sanctuary are listed eight times; and every minute detail of the Sanctuary's construction, down to the dimensions of every wall-panel and pillar and the colors in every tapestry, is spelled out not once, but twice -- in the account of G-d's instructions to Moses, and again in the account of the Sanctuary's construction.

All in all, thirteen chapters are devoted to describing how certain physical materials were fashioned into an edifice dedicated to the service of G-d and the training of the Kohanim (priests) who were to officiate there. (In contrast, the Torah devotes one chapter to its account of the creation of the universe, three chapters to its description of the revelation at Mount Sinai, and eleven chapters to the story of the Exodus).

For this is where the true point of transformation lies -- the transformation from a self-oriented object to a thing committed to something greater than itself. If G-d had merely desired a hospitable environment, He need not have bothered with a material world; a spiritual world could just as easily have been enlisted to serve Him. What G-d desired was the transformation itself: the challenge and achievement of selfhood transcended and materiality redefined. This transformation and redefinition occurs in the first stage, when something material is forged into an instrument of the divine. The second stage is only a matter of actualizing an already established potential, of putting a thing to its now natural use.

Miriam Adom Dovid Chavah Shoshanah
Making Vessels - You meet a person who has yet to invite G-d into his or her life. A person whose endeavors and accomplishments -- no matter how successful and laudable -- have yet to transcend the self and self-oriented goals. You wish to expand her horizons -- to show him a life beyond the strictures of self. You wish to put on tefillin with him, to share with her the divine wisdom of Torah. But he's not ready yet. You know that the concept of serving G-d is still alien to a life trained and conditioned to view everything through the lens of self. You know that before you can introduce her to the world of Torah and mitzvot, you must first make her receptive to G-dliness, receptive to a life of intimacy with the divine. So when you meet him on the street, you simply smile and say, "Good morning!" You invite her to your home for a cup of coffee or a Shabbat dinner. You make small talk. You don't, at this point, suggest any changes in his lifestyle. You just want her to become open to you and what you represent.
Dovid working with the Kippot
The 24 Books of the Hebrew Bible In their simplest form, the twenty-four books of the Jewish Bible - the Tanach - present a history of the first 3500 years from creation until the building of the second Temple in Jerusalem. The books also relate the history of the Jewish nation from its earliest stage, through the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai, and until the end of the first commonwealth. But the Tanach is much more than just history. In it one can learn about G-d's plan for the world and of His relationship with mankind, specifically, His chosen nation - the Jews.
Adom pulling books for orders

Filling Internet Orders
Ostensibly, you haven't "done" anything. But in essence, a most profound and radical transformation has taken place. The person has become a vessel for G-dliness. Of course, the purpose of a vessel is that it be filled with content; the purpose of a home is that it be inhabited. The Sanctuary was built to house the presence of G-d. But it is the making of vessels for G-dliness that is life's greatest challenge and its most revolutionary achievement. Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Chavah and our two daughters busy filling orders and making invoicess

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