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Recommended
Reading
Books
for the New Year:
THE
ROSH HASHANA/YOM KIPPUR SURVIVAL GUIDE
Shimon Apisdorf's Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur Survival Kit is an essential
resource to anyone wishing to truly benefit from the High Holiday
Services. With an easy-to-read, fast-paced style, the book provides
readers with an overview to the holidays as a whole, and then some.
The Survival Kit is an excellent resource for preparing to face
the "Days of Awe" and for making the most of the Holy Days themselves.
Not only is it a wonderful tool for the festival season, but it
encompasses ideas pertinent to the rest of the year as well.
The Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur Survival Kit brings in ideas and fundamental
questions about Jewish beliefs and customs. Apisdorf addresses issues
like focusing during prayer, faith and the survival of the Jewish
People. In fact, the wide scope of the book addresses basic issues
and questions that have been asked, at some time or another, by
almost every Jew; and, he provides simple, straight forward answers.
The Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur Survival Kit is a guide. Buy it before
the holiday season and use it as a pre-festival guide. Read it,
takes notes on it, and meditate on the lesson within it. Then take
the messages of the holiday and use them to move forward and enter
the new year refreshed1881927148:Not
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The
reflective time of the Jewish New Year is a wonderful opportunity
to explore one's Jewish heritage. Below is a list of recommended
reading:
To
Be A Jew
by Hayim Halevy Donin
A detailed description of day to day Jewish life, To Be A Jew
is a valuable resource for every Jewish home. Read it through
or use it as a reference source, Hayim Halevy Donin covers topics
from circumcision to marriage and kashrut to holidays.
This
Is My G-d
by Herman Wouk Well known novelist Herman Wouk's reflections
on traditional Jewish life. This Is My G-d is the perfect overview
of the philosophy and details of Jewish life.
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