Marriage, Children, Shabbat, Freedom, Prayer... Each of these anthologies explore a particular topic with a cross-section of articles, essays, stories and images, culled from the thousands of documents in our library
Jacob has an "encounter" on Mount Moriah; Pinchas conducts a "judgment" with G-d; Isaac and Rebecca "entreat" for a child; Jonah "cries out" from the belly of the fish... 27 stories, voices, essays and insights into prayer
In twenty-four articles and stories, mothers and fathers tell of the love and the pain, the joy
and the fears, the wisdom and the faith, the mystery and the mysticism of having children
Thirty two articles and stories on love: filial love, romantic love,
friendship, love of self, love of G-d -- so different from each other, yet somehow all the same
The scratch in the seedling... The art of toddling... A Yeshivah in Egypt...
The benefits of being stupid when you're old... and fourteen other stories,
insights and essays on education
The path of light, sunglasses of the soul, the Lamplighter, the discovery of darkness, the inexistence of the universe, the spiritual significance of the rainbow -- 26 stories, essays and meditations on light and luminescence
Thirty essays and stories on the cosmology and geometry, wonder and whimsy, guilt and desire, politics and economics, history and future, the Talmud and the Kabbalah of food
The three garments of the soul, the High Priest's eight vestments, a philosopher's skullcap, a soldier's boots, the Chassid's long black coat, Jacob's historic disguise...
We think about it all the time, so here's more to think about: twenty articles and stories on the joys, sorrows, importance, insignificance, nature, function and essence of money -- from the Golden Calf to the credit card
Whom to Marry... Why Do We Fall in Love... The Kabbalah of Marriage... Yes and No... The Mikvah... Waiting... Moses vs. Freud... Adam & Eve... The Loving Friends.. Ring, Round & Roof... and 20 other articles and stories on marriage
What is happiness? How does it work? Why is it it so important to our spiritual and physical well-being? Sixteen insights, stories, personal voices, meditations, readings and recordings on joy
What was the Holy Temple? Why was it destroyed? Do we have anything like it
today? Do we really want to see it rebuilt and bring back those animal
sacrifices? Seventeen essays, articles and stories on the holiest place on earth
The concept of dirah b'tachtonim ("a dwelling in the physical world") addresses the most basic questions of existence: What is our world? What is matter and physicality? What is holiness? What does G-d want of us? Why are we here?
There is fierce love in it, and unquestioning loyalty. There is passion, devotion, admiration, appreciation, awe, mentorship, care, concern, sacrifice...
Where are we headed? What is the Jewish interpretation of history? Twenty-eight articles and dozens of source texts on the why, how, who, when and what of Moshiach and the future redemption.
Wanton hatred, wanton love... A soldier's boots... When heaven is evil... Life after terror... Nine, eleven and ten... The burning palace... Transcending fear... Should we hate them?