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An astonishing realization has recently gripped the Christian world: "Jesus Christ" was not a blond-haired, blue-eyed Gentile. Yeshua of Nazareth was raised in an observant Jewish family in a culture where the Torah (five books of Moses) was the National Constitution. Yeshua's teachings, which supposedly form the basis for Western Christianity, are now filtered through 2000 years of traditions born in ignorance of the land, language, and culture of the Bible. The issues over which Yeshua wrestled with the Pharisees are simply not understood by modern Christians; nor are his most important instructions followed by those who claim to be his disciples.

Former Pharisee, Nehemia Gordon, a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar and Semitic language expert, explores the ancient Hebrew text of the Gospel of Matthew from manuscripts long hidden away in the archives of Jewish scribes. Gordon's research reveals that the more "modern" Greek text of Matthew, from which the Western world's versions were translated, depicts "another Jesus" from the Yeshua portrayed in the ancient Hebrew version of Matthew. Gordon explains the life-and-death conflict Yeshua had with the Pharisees as they schemed to grab the reins of Judaism in the first century, and brings that conflict into perspective for both Jew and Christian alike..
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Karaite Judaism is the oldest form of Judaism in the world. Today most Jews live by the teachings of the Talmud written by the Rabbis 1500 years ago. In contract, Karaite Jews still adhere to the Hebrew Scriptures (Tanakh) revealed by the Almighty to the prophets of ancient Israel. Karaites believe that our walk with God must be based on the Hebrew Scriptures, not on man-made religious doctrines and sanctified traditions. The Hebrew Scriptures contain a rich heritage of divine instruction, history, prophecy, wisdom, and poetry which enrich our spiritual lives. The read is invited to explore Karaite Judaism and the Karaite understanding of Scripture with some of the world's foremost Karaite scholars. This book answers common questions about Karaite Judaism such as: What do Karaites believe? When was Karaite Judaism founded? Do the Hebrew Scriptures support the idea of an "Oral" Law? Do Karaites take the Bible "literally"? Why don't Karaites light Sabbath Candles? How does the Biblical calendar work?.
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An intimate look, from a female perspective, at the world of the Hasidic Jew in pre-World War I Central Europe. This is a fascinating memoir of a young girl awakening to spirituality and religious consciousness in a unique place and time. Malkah Shapiro's tale, translated and presented in Rabbi Nehemia Polen's capable hands, is poetic and sensitive, providing a rich and inviting history for its readers..
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SPANISH EDITION In these twelve chapters about leadership, Pastor Rick Warren examines the life and extraordinary ministry of Nehemiah, bringing
out important points of view and analogies about what it takes to have complete success in leading people through difficult projects..
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Breathe New Life into Your Prayer with the Wisdom of Kabbalah and the Hasidic Masters

Jewish mystics teach that every word a person utters in prayer should radiate light. Even the letters of the words of prayer carry sparks of the Divine that yearn to join together in holiness.

In this inspiring spiritual companion, Reform rabbi Lawrence Kushner and Orthodox rabbi Nehemia Polen join together to provide a window into the liturgy for people of all backgrounds by offering fresh insights and meditations that bring the traditional prayerbook to life. Drawing from the Torah, Zohar, and ancient and contemporary Hasidic masters, Kushner and Polen reflect on the joy, gratitude, compassion, mystery, and awe embedded in traditional prayers and blessings, and show how you can imbue these familiar sacred words with your own sense of holiness. Insightful, fresh, and wise, Filling Words with Light will enrich your understanding of the prayer book and guide you on how to put more of yourself into the holy words of the Jewish tradition..
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The history of the Islamic faith in Africa spans 14 centuries This book provides a detailed mapping of the cultural, political, geographic and religious past of Islam in a single volume. Intended as a reference and textbook, it does not assume prior knowledge of the subject..
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Reviewing, comparing, and contrasting models of foreign policy, this volume focuses on the cognitive vs rational debate about decisionmaking on war and peace. It provides alternative models of foreign policy choice and identifies when one strategy is more appropriate than another..
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The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman

Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto is a journey into the mind and spirit of a sublime hasidic master in his moments of joy and tranquillity, and later, in his time of personal and communal catastrophe. The reader takes a voyage into the rich and variegated world of twentieth-century Hasidism in Poland, a world destroyed by the Holocaust. This is a volume inspired by a deeply sensitive and poetic individual of faith who is grappling with an unfolding disaster. While the Holocaust has engendered a voluminous body of religious and philosophical writings attempting to probe the issues this unfathomable period raises in all their enormity, virtually all were written after the war, when a modicum of distance and reflection is possible. Contemporaneous diaries and chronicles written as the events were happening concentrate on the descriptive accounts of the horrors. The Holy Fire, however, engages a sustained theological reflection and stands alone as an extended religious response from within the heart of darkness itself while the catastrophe takes place, and is, for this reason, an extraordinary document and an astonishing personal achievement.

In The Holy Fire, Rabbi Nehemia Polen analyzes the social and spiritual anguish of war-besieged Warsaw and of Eastern Europe's last hasidic master. Polen's research articulates Rabbi Shapira's realization that the theological garment, however holy and true, is acknowledged as inadequate for understanding the atrocities with which he is confronted.

Faith, the author suggests, involves a mystical, participatory relationship with God, leaving no room for a realm isolated from divinity. Human will, power, mind, and heart are all gifts from God and are all surrendered fully to Him. In this consciousness, one arrives at a view of the world beyond judgment, beyond evaluation, beyond criticism or the need for explanation. The world simply is; it is the way it must be. Such a vision is achieved by a surrender of every particle of autonomous ego, a total submergence of the self and the mind in the enveloping waters of divine being. While the world crumbles around him, disassembled piece by piece, and his soul is simultaneously cut to the marrow by the inexorable progression of events, Rabbi Shapira continues to inject his living, unyielding, and edifying presence and occasions the birth of a document among the falling ruins..
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El mundo cristiano ha quedado atónito al entender que "Jesucristo" no era gentil rubio de ojos azules. Yeshúa de Nazaret fue criado en el seno de una familia judía practicante, dentro de una cultura donde la Toráh (los cinco libros de Moisés) era la constitución nacional. Las enseñanzas de Yeshúa, que se supone constituyen el fundamento del cristianismo occidental, se hallan filtradas a través de 2000 años de tradiciones que originan de la ignorancia acerca de la tierra, el idioma, y la cultura bíblica. Las cuestiones sobre las cuales Yeshúa contendía con los Fariseos sencillamente no son entendidas por los cristianos modernos, y sus instrucciones más importantes no son acatadas por los que profesan ser sus discípulos. El ex fariseo Nehemia Gordon, erudito en materia de los Rollos del Mar Muerto y perito en los idiomas semitas, explora el antiguo texto hebreo del Evangelio de Mateo a partir de manuscritos refundidos en los archivos de los escribas judíos. La investigación de Gordon revela que el texto griego de Mateo, que es más "moderno" y que es de donde fueron traducidas las versiones del mundo occidental, presenta "otro Jesús" diferente al Yeshúa presentado en la antigua versión hebrea de Mateo. Gordon explica el conflicto de vida o muerte que tuvo Yeshúa con los fariseos, al conspirar éstos para asirse de las riendas del judaísmo del primer siglo, y enfoca dicho conflicto tanto para el judío, como para el cristiano..
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This book tells the story of West Africa south of the Sahara from the ninth to the fourteenth century from the viewpoint of Arab geographers, historians, and travelers. The first reports in written Arabic sources deal with urban west African centers from the seventh century. The growth of the trans-Saharan trade and the process of Islamization enriched outsiders' knowledge about "the lands of the blacks." Geographers such as al-Bakri and al-Idrisi provided the most accurate descriptions, including maps of the region. In the eleventh and twelve century Ghana converted to Islam and encyclopedists compiled substantial material on the region. The best-known Arab traveler, Ibn Batutta, and the eminent historian Ibn Khaldun provided the most detailed and comprehensive first-hand information about West Africa in the fourteenth century. This book is based on the highly acclaimed 1981 edition of the Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History, translated by N. Levtzion and J.F.P. Hopkins, which is no longer available. The Corpus was geared toward experts. This book is designed in a reader-friendly way with commentaries for the non-expert and the student of world history..
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