Judaism: Worship, Rites & Ceremonies

The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts w...

This volume offers a broad view on the statutes of Ashkenazic communities in their seventeenth and eighteenth century heyday. For the first time it...

This book challenges scholars' assumption, without any explicit evidence, of institutionalized public prayer with fixed contents and times in the Q...

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Visual Arts Award, 2017. The carved wooden Torah arks found in eastern Europe from the seventeenth to...

This book follows the origins of the Kedushta, a sequence of poems that leads up to the epitome of Jewish prayer, the Kedusha or Sanctus. It tracks...

Spanning a full sixteen months from September 2024 through December 2025, including US and Jewish holidays, Sabbath candle-lighting times in 11 maj...

In the sixteenth century, the famous kabbalist Isaac Luria transmitted a secret trove of highly complex mystical practices to a select groups of st...

Spanning a full sixteen months from September 2024 through December 2025, including US and Jewish holidays, Sabbath candle-lighting times, and a li...

Artist Adam Rhine creates ornate, highly detailed Judaic paintings in watercolor, colored pencil, and acrylic. Each work is crafted to glorify the ...