| Man's Search for Meaning
| Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move fo...More
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| Men of the Bible
| The Bible is full of men and women who shapped our world. In Men of the Bible D. L. Moody tells the story of nine men. Some you know, Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist...some you may not know, Naaman, The Penitent Thief, Nehemiah. All had a role to fulfill and Moody tells their stories in a historical and enlightening manor. Men of the Bible includes stories of : Abraham's Four Surrenders The Call of Moses Naaman the Syrian The Prophet Nehemiah Herod and John the Baptist The Man Born Blind and J...More
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| Orthodoxy
| This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called "Heretics" because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is unavoidably affirmative and therefore unavoidably autobiographical. The writer has been driven back upon somewhat the same difficulty as that which beset Newman in writing his Apologia; ...More
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| How to Sleep Like a Baby, A Meditation on Psalm 3
| The 21st century is the age of insomnia. The stresses of life have so multiplied in these times that sleeplessness has become truly epidemic. Check out the bookstore. There are hundreds of books to help you manage the pressure of life and there is more than books. They have DVD’s reproducing sounds of forests, oceans, birds and rainfall. They have yoga and eastern mysticism, not to mention stress balls, stress beads, and body rollers that you roll up-and-down your head and your back to relieve...More
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| The Jewish Annotated New Testament
| Although major New Testament figures--Jesus and Paul, Peter and James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene--were Jews, living in a culture steeped in Jewish history, beliefs, and practices, there has never been an edition of the New Testament that addresses its Jewish background and the culture from which it grew--until now. In The Jewish Annotated New Testament, eminent experts under the general editorship of Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler put these writings back into the context of the...More
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| Have a Little Faith: A True Story
| Now including a new chapter for the paperback edition. “A masterpiece.” --Publishers Weekly “In the beginning there was a question. ‘Will you do my eulogy’ As is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor. In truth, I was being given one...” “An absolute wonder—tender, transporting, and deeply moving.” --Scott Turow, author of ...More
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| The Secret Power of Speaking God's Word
| #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer teaches readers how to create change in their lives and truly receive God's blessings. Includes powerful Scriptures covering over 50 topics, such as patience, loneliness, and wisdom. Download the free Joyce Meyer author app.
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| The Wars of the Jews; Or the History of the Destruction of Jerusalem
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Jews -- History; Jews; History / Jewish;
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| A Time for Verse - Poetic Ponderings on Ecclesiastes
| We quote Ecclesiastes - "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven," "there is no new thing under the sun," "cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days," "he hath made everything beautiful in his time." We quote it, but who reads Ecclesiastes? What does it say for us here, now? How can we reconcile the Twenty-first Century with a century ended before the counting began? Barbara B. Rollins, like The Teacher, looks back on decades o...More
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| When Bad Things Happen to Good People
| When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being. Often imitated but never superseded, When Bad Things Happen to Good People i...More
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| Moses - Steps to a Life of Faith
| This book traces some of the significant events of Moses' life, showing how God used an ordinary man and shaped the events of his life to bring him to the place where he could be mightily used to accomplish God's purposes. This book is about how God built faith into a man. God is a dreamer. One day he had a dream, and he thought to himself, "Who will I get to fulfill this dream?" Then he made you. He created you to fulfill a dream. You are made for a purpose. This book is about knowing God's dr...More
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| Kosher Jesus
| Kosher Jesus is a project of more than six years research and writing. The book seeks to offer to Jews and Christians the real story of Jesus, a wholly observant, Pharisaic Rabbi who fought Roman paganism and oppression and was killed for it. While many Christians will be confused by its assertion that Jesus never claimed divinity and not only did not abrogate the Torah but observed every letter of the Law, they will find comfort in my tracing most of Jesus principal teachings back to Jewish sou...More
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| The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
| In the trenches of a typical day, every parent encounters a child afflicted with ingratitude and entitlement. In a world where material abundance abounds, parents want so badly to raise self-disciplined, appreciative, and resourceful children who are not spoiled by the plentitude around them. But how to accomplish this feat? The answer has eluded the best-intentioned mothers and fathers who overprotect, overindulge, and overschedule their children's lives. Dr. Mogel helps parents learn how to t...More
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| Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
| Praise for THOU SHALL PROSPER"Rabbi Daniel Lapin's wisdom has helped untold numbers of people, including me, grow in our business, family, and spiritual lives. In Thou Shall Prosper, Rabbi Lapin has done it again. This book tells it like it is in a helpful, honest, hopeful, informative way. He offers valid, useful information based on ancient wisdom and modern experience."-Zig Ziglar, author and motivational teacher"Is it practical to apply spiritual lessons to the hardheaded world of business? ...More
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| The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers
| New York Times bestselling author, internationally known clinical psychologist, and lecturer Wendy Mogel returns with a revelatory new book on parenting teenagers. Mogel’s sage advice on parenting young children has struck a chord with thousands of readers and made her one of today’s most trusted parenting authorities. Now, in a long-awaited follow-up, Mogel addresses the question she hears most frequently: what to do when those children become teenagers, when their sense of independe...More
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| The Remnant - Stories of the Jewish Resistance in WWII (Boomer Book Series)
| "I can't kill Nazis if I'm dead. . ." Solomon ShalenskyAfter researching the transcripts of the Nuremburg Trials and interviewing 'The Remnant' or Jewish survivors of the holocaust, many still living in Israel; Othniel Seiden was compelled to write their startling and remarkable stories of World War II. In this stunning and compelling historical novel about the Jews who were able to remain free and fight, Seiden documents their survival, their suffering, their missions and their guerrilla warfar...More
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| Survival In Auschwitz
| In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human ...More
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| Sons of Encouragement
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| The Legends of the Jews - Volume 1
| This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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| Jewish Stories of Prague, Jewish Prague in History and Legend
| For more than eight centuries, the Jews of Prague lived in the Prague ghetto. During that time, Jewish Prague had always been a place of much mystery to outsiders, even to the closest Christian neighbors. Uncover the secrets of this long forgotten world. Learn about how the famous Old-New Synagogue received its name; about the four words that saved the Prague Jews in the Middle Ages; about Rabbi Loew and his Golem who could be brought to life by inserting a magic card into his mouth; about the C...More
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