Etrog

Etrog
Author: David Z. Moster
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2018-04-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3319737368

Every year before the holiday of Sukkot, Jews all around the world purchase an etrog—a lemon-like fruit—to participate in the holiday ritual. In this book, David Z. Moster tracks the etrog from its evolutionary home in Yunnan, China, to the lands of India, Iran, and finally Israel, where it became integral to the Jewish celebration of Sukkot during the Second Temple period. Moster explains what Sukkot was like before and after the arrival of the etrog, and why the etrog’s identification as the “choice tree fruit” of Leviticus 23:40 was by no means predetermined. He also demonstrates that once the fruit became associated with the holiday of Sukkot, it began to appear everywhere in Jewish art during the Roman and Byzantine periods, and eventually became a symbol for all the fruits of the land, and perhaps even the Jewish people as a whole.

Ze’enah U-Re’enah

Ze’enah U-Re’enah
Author: Morris M. Faierstein
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1265
Release: 2017-05-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 311046103X

This book is the first scholarly English translation of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah, a Jewish classic originally published in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and was the first significant anthological commentary on the Torah, Haftorot and five Megillot. The Ze’enah U-Re’enah is a major text that was talked about but has not adequately studied, although it has been published in two hundred and seventy-four editions, including the Yiddish text and partial translation into several languages. Many generations of Jewish men and women have studied the Torah through the Rabbinic and medieval commentaries that the author of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah collected and translated in his work. It shaped their understanding of Jewish traditions and the lives of Biblical heroes and heroines. The Ze’enah U-Re’enah can teach us much about the influence of biblical commentaries, popular Jewish theology, folkways, and religious practices. This translation is based on the earliest editions of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah, and the notes annotate the primary sources utilized by the author.

Understanding Jewish Holidays and Customs

Understanding Jewish Holidays and Customs
Author: Sol Scharfstein
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780881256345

Poetry. LGBT Studies. "A work of rich clear sensual language, of 'thermal tremble and juice,' these poems and photos pull the weaver's threads together, bring focus to 'wherein we can be a root to the sea.' Sinewy lines are constantly 'quoting my biology back to me as vow' and display a 'multi-creative musculature' we desperately need and desire. j/j is the real deal, reclaiming a space for engendered anarchy, opening Pandora's secret treasure trove, playing with fire, sound and love"—Anne Waldman.

Expecting Miracles

Expecting Miracles
Author: Chana Weisberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2004
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9789657108512

"Expecting Miracles" is a collection of refreshingly honest and inspiring interviews with traditionally observant Jewish mothers about their diverse experiences of pregnancy and childbearing. It is about the ways in which mothers have managed to make these important stages in their lives into a time for personal growth, spirituality and real-life miracles.

Jewish Women in Historical Perspective

Jewish Women in Historical Perspective
Author: Judith Reesa Baskin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780814327135

This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include portrayals of women in the Hebrew Bible, the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity, and Jewish women in the Middle Ages.

Jewish Spiritual Parenting

Jewish Spiritual Parenting
Author: Rabbi Paul Kipnes
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2015-07-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1580238211

Spiritually nourishing approaches to help you become more insightful, inspired parents and raise soulfully engaged children. Kipnes and November share their hard-won parenting techniques and spirit-filled activities, rituals and prayers to help you cultivate strong Jewish values and cherished spiritual memories in your own family.

The Citrus Industry: Crop protection

The Citrus Industry: Crop protection
Author: Walter Reuther
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1967
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

V.1. History, world distribution, botany, and varieties. v.2. Anatomy, physiolo gy, genetics, and reproduction. v.3. Production technology. v.4. Crop protectio n. v.5. Crop, protection, postharvest technology, and early history of citrus r esearch in California.