Signifying the end of childhood and the passage into adult life, the Bar Mitzvah is one of the most famous ceremonies in Judaism. Celebrated at the synagogue...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:367
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Marc-Alain Ouaknin
ISBN:9780789205230
tells how Protosinaic pictograms -- derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the twentieth century -- changed through the millennia and left their traces on our alphabet....more details Format:Hardback
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Marc-Alain Ouaknin
ISBN:9780789205216
Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet....more details Format:Paperback
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Marc-Alain Ouaknin
ISBN:9780789206541
A text supplemented by more than a hundred illustrations of letters, art, and sculpture covers such topics as the four divine names and the five modalities of being...more details Format:hardback Pages:432
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Marc-Alain Ouaknin
ISBN:9782843236327
Combining scholarship with play, The Mystery of Numbers tackles--in a simple and educational manner--the history, symbolism, and philosophy of figures and numbers...more details Format:Hardback
Full-page images of precious religious artifacts such as the Holy Ark and the Sabbath candlesticks, but also holy sites including synagogues and the Mount of Olives...more details Format:Hardback Pages:108
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Marc-Alain Ouaknin
ISBN:9780691059204
In a look at what it means for new generations to read and interpret ancient religious texts, rabbi and philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin offers a postmodern reading of the Talmud. Combining traditional learning and contemporary thought...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Marc-Alain Ouaknin;Llewellyn Brown
ISBN:9780691037295
In a profound look at what it means for new generations to read and interpret ancient religious texts, rabbi and philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin offers a postmodern reading of the Talmud...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:272