Dennis Prager, author of The Rational Biblewhich, upon its first publication, was the number one bestselling non-fiction book in Americaturns his attention to the Haggadah, the book used for the most widely celebrated Jewish ritual, the Passover Seder.
Dan Juster describes how the various restoration movements in church history have connected to their Jewish roots an Israel to lay the groundwork for what is happening today.
Features the history and customs of Passover, including the story of the Exodus, all about chametz and matzah, the tradition of tzedakah at Passover, and an introduction to the seder.
The first English translation of Maria de Naglowska's treatise on advanced sexual magic practices, Le mystre de la pendaison *; Details Naglowska's advanced occult teachings on the Third Term of the Trinity and the spiritually transformative power of sex *; Explains the mystical erotic hanging rituals of La confrrie de la Flche d'Or [The Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow], the notorious occult order of 1930s Paris *; Continues the sexual initiatory teachings first expounded in Naglowska's The Light of Sex Available for the first time in English, Advanced Sex Magic illuminates the revolutionary occult teachings of Maria de Naglowska--Russian mystic, esoteric high priestess, and self-styled ';Satanic Woman' of 1930s Paris.
A radical reinterpretation of the relationship of Judas and Jesus *; Reexamines the role and the purpose the key figure of Judas played in the crucifixion story *; Reveals how Judas was ';betrayed' by Jesus, and how, taken to the limits of his humanity, he lost everything he most cherished on the path to his true self The familiar story of Judas, betrayer of Jesus, is striking because of its incomprehensibility.
In image and word, this primer on Kabbalah, Tarot and conscious evolution offers a daily spiritual practice of developing trust in our intuitive wisdom.
The Old Testament bears witness to an in-your-face, holy God--a God who gets down and dirty with creation and history; a God who gets in people's face with love and law, with power and purpose.
Shares the spiritual wisdom of Rastafari through the stories, teachings, and traditions of practicing Rastas in Jamaica *; Includes the author's interviews with bush doctors, healers, and Rastafarians gathered during his 15 years of living in Jamaica *; Reveals the old ways of the Rastafarians and how their beliefs form an unbroken lineage tracing back to King Solomon *; Explains the connection of Rasta beliefs to important biblical passages Tracing their lineage back to King Solomon--the wisest man who ever lived--Rastafarians follow a spiritual tradition of peace and meditation that is more a way of life than an organized religion.
The true story of students who helped quantify the horrors of the HolocaustAt a middle school in a small, all white, all Protestant town in Tennessee, a special after-school class was started to teach the kids about the Holocaust, and the importance of tolerance.
A Rosh Hashanah story based on the first historic train ride from Jaffa to Jerusalem in 1892, shortening the journey between the two cities from 3 days to 3 hours.
From the critically acclaimed author of Amina's Voice comes the third book in an exciting middle grade series about a scrawny fourth-grader with big dreams of basketball stardom.
An in-depth look at the role of number as a bridge between Heaven and Earth *; Reveals the numerical code by which the ancients maintained high standards of art and culture *; Sets out the alchemical formulas for the fusion of elements and the numerical origins of various sacred names and numbers *; Describes the rediscovery of knowledge associated with the Holy Grail, through which the influence of the Heavenly Order is made active on Earth The priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft, and all the institutions of their civilization.
Introduces children to the many different ways of celebrating Passover around the world, including customs that can be adopted for use in the child's own family seder.
The first collection of poems translated into English from the forbidden volume of the Divan of Rumi*; Presents Rumi's most heretical and free-form poems*; Includes introductions and commentary that provide both 13th-century context and modern interpretationAfter his overwhelming and life-altering encounters with Shams of Tabriz, Rumi, the great thirteenth-century mystic, poet, and originator of the whirling dervishes, let go of many of the precepts of formal religion, insisting that only a complete personal dissolving into the larger energies of God could provide the satisfaction that the heart so desperately seeks.
This 15th book in Kar-Ben's popular Sammy Spider series finds Sammy and his human friend Josh presenting a delightful cookbook of Hanukkah recipes and crafts.
It is an odd thing: a desire comes to me to write, and to write in my faltering mother tongue, which, as it happens, I have not spoken since I left the home of my parents.
An investigation into the ancient technologically advanced artifacts amassed by Father Carlo Crespi and how they offer proof of Atlantis in South America *; Includes photos and descriptions of the strange machines and beautiful artifacts that once comprised the ';Crespi Treasure' *; Connects Crespi's treasures to readings by Edgar Cayce and Annie Besant's descriptions of Atlantean colonies in Ecuador *; Reveals the nuclear war between the Atlanteans and the Aryans and the radioactive evidence left behind in the Bahamas and Pakistan In 1923 an Italian priest, Father Carlo Crespi, came to Ecuador as a missionary.
As German scholars, poets, and theologians searched for the origins of the ancient Israelites, Ofri Ilany believes they created a model for nationalism that drew legitimacy from the biblical idea of the Chosen People.
His work in its original, German form has already, since its publication fourteen years ago, exercised on the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size.