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A Personal Encounter with the Creator of the Universe

7 practical tips to enhance your High Holiday Tefillot
by Rabbi Dr. Jay Goldmintz

1. Choose quality not quantity. Imagine this as an encounter with

Someone whom you want to talk to sincerely and meaningfully. That
kind of conversation often requires careful thought and focus and time.
Don't rush! With one or two exceptions (ask your rabbi), if that means
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and only at this point in time. What can I do to take a step closer to
fulfilling my potential?

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Meet the Authors

School Spotlight

The Best of Contemporary Jewish Thought

The following day schools around the globe kicked off their school year
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Adelson Educational Campus - Las Vegas, NV
Albert Einstein Academy - Wilmington,
DE Atlanta Jewish Academy - Atlanta, GA
Basisschool Rosj Pina - Amsterdam, Holland
Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva Day School - Paramus, NJ
Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School - Baltimore, MD
Bialik College - Victoria, Australia
Bi-Cultural Day School (BCDS) - Stamford, CT
Bornblum Jewish Community School - Memphis, TN
Brauser Maimonides Academy - Hollywood, FL
Brodetsky Jewish Primary School - Leeds, UK
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School - Rockville, MD
Friedel Jewish Academy - Omaha, NE
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy - Beverly Hills, CA
Hasmonean Girls School - London, UK
Hebrew Academy of Nassau County - West Hempstead,NY
Hebrew Academy - Miami, FL
Heritage Academy - Longmeadow, MA
Hillel Day School of Boca Raton, FL
Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School - Skokie , IL
Independent Jewish Day School - London, UK

Jewish Education Center of Cleveland - Cleveland Heights, OH

King David Primary School - Manchester, UK
Luria Academy - Brooklyn, NY
Maimonides School - Brookline, MA
Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy - Rockville, MD
Moriah College - Sydney, Australia
Mount Sinai College - Sydney, Australia
North Shore Hebrew Academy - Great Neck, NY
Robert M. Beren Academy - Houston, TX
SAR Academy - Riverdale, NY
Scheck Hillel Community School - North Miami Beach, FL
Shalhevet High School - Los Angeles, CA
Shefa School - New York, NY
Striar Hebrew Academy - Sharon, MA
The Silver Academy - Harrisburg, PA
Westchester Day School - Mamaroneck, NY
Yavneh Academy - Dallas, TX
Yeshiva Lab School - Narberth, PA
Yeshiva of Flatbush - Brooklyn, NY
Yeshivat He'Atid - Bergenfield, NJ

Dr. Erica Brown

Rabbi Nati Helfgot

Rabbi Barry Kislowicz

Rabbi Adin
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Rabbi Dr.
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Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

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New books on parasha & Jewish thought from Maggid Books

HOW PERFECT WERE THE PATRIARCHS AND MATRIARCHS?

from Essays on Ethics, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

No religion has held a higher view of humanity than the book that tells us we are each in the image and likeness
of God. Yet none has been more honest about the failings of even the greatest. God does not ask us to be perfect.
He asks us, instead, to take risks in pursuit of the right and the good, and to acknowledge the mistakes we will
inevitably make.
In Judaism the moral life is about learning and growing, knowing that even the greatest have failings and even
the worst have saving graces. It calls for humility about ourselves and generosity towards others. This unique
blend of idealism and realism is morality at its most demanding and mature.

Rendezvous with God

Rabbi Nathan Laufer
A fascinating examination of
how the rituals and liturgy of the
biblical holidays express the unique
narrative of the Jewish people.

Essays on Ethics
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
A companion volume to Covenant
& Conversation, Rabbi Sacks offers
an ethical exploration of the weekly
Torah portion that uncovers its
message of truth, justice, dignity,
compassion, forgiveness and love.

With Might and Strength

An Autobiography:
Rabbi Shlomo Goren
(ed. Avi Rath)
The first-person account of the
legendary chief rabbi of Israel and
halakhic decisor who served during
the liberation of Jerusalem during
the Six Day War.

The Person in the Parasha

Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Based on his syndicated parasha
column, the world-renowned
clinical psychologist and Torah
scholar presents a psychological look
at the weekly Torah reading.

Nehemiah: Statesman and Sage

Dov Zakheim
A political biography of the ancient
governor of Persian Judea written by
a former Under Secretary of Defense
in the US government.

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In the Beginning
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
A journey through the mysteries of
creation and the Book of Genesis
that draws upon on the teachings of
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the
founding father of Chabad chassidut.

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Leading the Revival in Tanakh Study

Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun

The two centers of Jewish life offer a study

key fundamental, conceptual issues based
When students in Religious-Zionist and
in contrasts. Israel is faced with an ongoing
upon the works of the Rishonim (medieval
Modern-Orthodox yeshivot study Talmud
threat to its physical and political survival, but
commentators) and certain important
and Halakha, they do so in the same way, in
its Jewish identity is strong, even amongst
works of the Aaronim (post-medieval
the same language, and with the same tools
its secular populace perhaps due to the
commentators).
that students have been studying those texts
existential threat to the countrys survival.
for hundreds of years. When they encounter
In contrast, the Jewish Diaspora in North
The aggadic sections are almost completely
students of aredi yeshivot, they can discuss
America is faced with the persistent threat
ignored (and are, in fact, omitted by Rabbi
with them the same sugyot (Talmudic
of assimilation, while its physical survival
Alfasi entirely in his work), despite the great
sections) they are studying; they can listen to
is assured. The total number of American
protestations of rabbinic giants. In addition,
and understand the same lectures that their
Jews is static, and possibly decreasing. On
traditional Talmud study breeds students with
aredi counterparts attend, and they can
the other hand, the core
read and understand the
group of Jews who are
same volumes of Talmudic
Traditional Talmud study breeds students with
members of communities
novellae.
the inability to understand the sections in which
and synagogues continues
to strengthen itself. It is
In the realm of Tanakh
the Talmud explains verses of Tanakh.
in this core group that
study, however, there is no
much important educational work is being
common ground with the aredi yeshiva world.
accomplished in areas of connection to
Students of that world have no understanding
Judaism and the State of Israel.
of the discourse of the modern yeshivot. They
will not hear lectures in this spirit, nor (with
Under these conditions, any connection
a few exceptions) will they read articles that
between North American Jewry and the Israeli
take the approach to Tanakh study that takes
experience and the renewed study of Tanakh
place in the Religious-Zionist and Modernin the land of Israel contains within it blessing
Orthodox world.
and great hope. It is possible that we will only
be able to evaluate the fruits of this dedicated
My educational and pedagogic experience over
effort in a generation or more!
forty years indicates that the overwhelming
the inability to delve into and understand the
majority of students of Yeshivat Har Etzion
On the verse, And to Zion it shall be said: This
sections in which the Talmud explains verses of
and its kindred institutions recognize the
man, this man, was born in her (Psalms 87:5),
Tanakh. Questions in these areas are generally
important issues that are raised in choosing
the Sages of blessed memory comment: This
answered with statements such as this is a
to study Tanakh in the academic world. At
verse is applicable to any Jew that was born
gezeirat hakatuv (a scriptural decree) or the
the same time, however, they maintain their
in Zion and to anyone who yearns to see her
rabbis received this concept via tradition,
belief in the fundamental principle of Torah
(Ketubot 75a). In the merit of this connection,
without leaving any room for further enquiry.
from Heaven, that the word of God comes to
let us all hope for the complete unification
us through the medium of the Tanakh. Those
of the entire Jewish People in the land of the
However, when there is no room left open for
who take our approach, coupled with the love
Tanakh, using the language of the Tanakh. May
questions, there is no room for understanding.
of Torah, emerge unscathed by this encounter,
it be the will of God that the conclusion of this
Approximately half of the corpus of the Talmud
even when they pursue academic degrees in
verse and He will establish her on High
remains a closed book to yeshiva students
Bible. In contrast, many of those who turn to
be yet fulfilled in our day.
and scholars, and all the more so to those who
general academic study of Tanakh are harmed
study large sections of the Talmud in bekiut
in their beliefs, and there is often a negative
Adapted from the preface of Mikra and
style. Like traditional study of Tanakh, this
effect on their religious conduct as well.
Meaning: Studies in Bible and its Interpretation
situation cannot continue for much longer;
by Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot. Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun
nature abhors a vacuum, and academic Talmud
A similar situation exists when it comes to
is the author of the forthcoming Maggid Studies
study will be sure to fill the space abandoned
Talmud study in yeshivot. Talmud study in the
in Tanakh volume on Isaiah, co-authored with
by the yeshivot. Here, too, there is a chasm
yeshivot is, for the most part, focused on the
Rabbi Binyamin Lau.
between the Torah world and the world of the
halakhic sections, emphasizing understanding
academy that must be resolved.

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Religion / Jewish Thought / Bible Studies

Ethicising Religion

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Foreword by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman

Essays on Ethics

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman on

Rabbi Sacks newest book Essays on Ethics

Essays on Ethics is the second companion volume to Rabbi Jonathan Sackss

celebrated series Covenant & Conversation. Believing the Hebrew Bible to be
the ultimate blueprint for Western morality, Rabbi Sacks embarks upon an
ethical exploration of the weekly Torah portion, uncovering its message of
truth and justice, dignity and compassion, forgiveness and love.

Why was Abraham ordered to sacrifice his son? Was Jacob right in stealing the
blessings? Why were we commanded to destroy Amalek? What was Moses sin
in hitting the rock? And how did the Ten Commandments change the Jewish
people, and humankind, for good?

Sacks

The Torah in Genesis 1 is telling us something radical. The reality to which Torah
is a guide is moral and ethical. The question Genesis seeks to answer is not How
did the universe come into being? but How then shall we live? This is the
Torahs most significant paradigm shift. For the first time, religion was ethicised.

ESSAyS on

In this wonderful volume of essays drawing ethical lessons from each weekly
portion of the Hebrew Bible, Rabbi Sacks speaks in a strong, principled, and
eloquent voice. His insights will enrich the readers understanding of the Torah
and guide the daily efforts each of us makes to choose good over evil.

EthicS

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman

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A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

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As someone who believes in public service and

knows how much leaders affect peoples lives for
better or worse, I have been embarrassed and
deeply troubled by the number of current leaders
who are guilty of unethical or immoral behavior
leaders in government, politics, business, sports,
and even religion. In one sense, there is nothing new
about this. Since the Garden of Eden, people have
struggled with the choice between good and evil.
But, in our time, too many leaders seem to lose their
way and make bad choices, which are in turn quickly
communicated by modern telecommunications
and social media to people all over the world. The
result is a wide and deep distrust of leadership in
general and a resulting popular insecurity about the
present and future.

With thumb
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navigation!
Tanakh Ma'alot with Thumb Index

Introducing
The Koren Mishna Sdura

Mishna Sdura: Kav vNaki

The Koren Mishna Sdura is the brainchild of

Rabbi Eliyahu Dordek, who has spent over 25
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students to develop the skills to understand
and remember the Mishna. Tables summarize
Mishnaic content.

clarity. understanding. memory

Mishna Sdura: The Bartenura Edition

Onto this muddy field of ethical failures now comes

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with a pen that is
mightier than all the immorality. In this wonderful
volume of essays drawing ethical lessons from each
weekly portion of the Hebrew Bible, Rabbi Sacks
speaks in a strong, principled, and eloquent voice.
His insights will enrich the readers understanding
of the Torah and guide the daily efforts each of us
makes to choose good over evil.

MAGGID

MAGGID

A central theme of this book and elsewhere in

Rabbi Sackss work is that ethical behavior is the
essence of Jewish life and Jewish destiny. Religious
observances and rituals have been critical to
protecting the mandates of the Bible and enabling
the miracle of Jewish survival over the millennia.
However, the Jewish peoples ultimate reason for
being is to bring to the world the values that were
codified and transmitted by God to man at Sinai.
Rabbi Sacks advances that mission brilliantly.
From the foreword of Essays on Ethics, now available
online and at your local bookstore.
Now Senior Counsel at the law firm of
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres, and Friedman in
New York, Joseph I. Lieberman was a member
of the US Senate from Connecticut for twentyfour years.

In Genesis, Rabbi Sacks observes, religion is

for the first time ethicised. Abraham is the
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In 1965, he began his monumental Hebrew

translation and commentary on the Talmud.
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Hebrew. Not, thankfully, a worse Agnon, but one with
manifestly different strengths.

Born in Jerusalem in 1937 to secular parents, Rabbi Steinsaltz studied physics and
chemistry at the Hebrew University. He established several experimental schools and, at
the age of twenty-four, became Israels youngest
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Genesis is Judaisms foundational work, a

philosophy of the human condition under the
sovereignty of God. It is less about God, than
about human beings and their relationship
with God. The theology is almost always
implicit rather than explicit. What Genesis is,
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what can we know, are we free, and how we
should behave. But it does so in a way quite
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In the Beginning

Cover photograph: Great Synagogue and

Old Beit Midrash, Buczacz (1922)

Back cover: Buczacz town square, with Great Town

Hall on left (courtesy of Agnon House)

Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks

EDITED BY ALAN MINTZ AND JEFFREY SAKS

A City in Its fullness

S.Y. AGNON (1888-1970) was the central figure

of modern Hebrew literature, and the 1966 Nobel
Prize laureate for his body of writing, which
constitutes a distillation of millennia of Jewish
texts from the Bible through the rabbinic codes
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The Toby Press S.Y. Agnon Library

This is the chronicle of the city of Buczacz, which I have written in my pain
and anguish so that our descendants should know that our city was full of
Torah, wisdom, love, piety, life, grace, kindness and charity, begins this epic
literary memorial which Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon devoted to his Galician
city (in todays western Ukraine). In the last years of his life, Agnon returned
in his fiction to his birthplace and the city of his ancestors in order to reimagine Buczacz in the days of its greatness. This new collection contains
annotated translations of the major stories of A City in Its Fullness, a nuanced
and complex fictional picture of the past of one Jewish community.

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Author photo: Courtesy of Agnon House, Jerusalem

This kind of ironic play with Jewish and non-Jewish

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This is precisely the effect of reading Agnon in Hebrew:

the illusion of simplicity and the symbols that refuse
to remain symbolic, all layered over a deep emotional
burrowing through time and pain and renewal, until
the reader has the sudden feeling that the essence of
existence is right here, in this story. Fifty years after Agnon
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A typical Agnon story or novel is like an archaeological

mound composed of the remnants of past civilizations,
each layer destroyed and rediscovered and given new,
often ironic significance. As if that werent enough, the
stories themselves often have layers within Agnons own
imagined world, because he often rewrote his stories
in different published versions with entirely different
meanings

Birkon Mesorat HaRav

The Wintman Edition
Commentary based on the teachings of
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The Orange Peel

The Orange Peel

In this new collection of political satires by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon we

witness the satirist sharpening his pen like a carving knife, revealing his
opinions from behind the mask of his art. Treating themes and events in the
history of early twentieth-century Zionism, these stories continue to fascinate
contemporary readers, questioning the degree to which a gap remains between
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Mitokh HaOhel
Part of a series

The theological question strikes us from the moment we open this fifth book of the Bible: Moses
is speaking with his voice to the people of Israel.
Each of the other four biblical books are written
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Israel's the Judaica Centre - Toronto, ON

J Levine Judaica - New York, NY
Jacob's Judaic Book & Gift Center - Cleveland, OH
Rodal's Quality Judaica - Montreal, QC

Rosenblum's World of Judaica - Chicago, IL

The Mitzvah Store - Los Angeles, CA
www.thechosengift.net - Miami, FL
Long Island Judaica - West Hempstead, NY

FULL 42-VOLUME SET

OF KOREN TALMUD BAVLI

5 VOLUME SET
KOREN SACKS MAHZORIM

$1800 CAD

off

$50

$1600
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