<p>A decade in the making, The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews contains a century of thoughtful inquiry into the most profound of all Jewish questions: how to suffuse life with timeless values, how to remain loyal to the covenant that binds the Jewish people and the God of Israel and how to embrace the law while retaining an abiding sense of fidelity to one s own moral path in life. Written in a multiplicity of voices inspired by a common vision, the authors of The Observant Life explain what it means in the ultimate sense to live a Jewish life, and to live it honestly, morally, and purposefully. The work is a comprehensive guide to life in the 21st Century. Chapters on Jewish rituals including prayer, holiday, life cycle events and Jewish ethics such as citizenship, slander, taxes, wills, the courts, the work place and so much more . . . The Observant Life explains the way halakhah (Jewish law) impacts on the way Jews actually live in the world and interact with the world. It will serve as an excellent guide for anyone seeking to create a course devoted to contemporary Conservative theology and belief. The Observant Life is hailed by Jonathan D. Sarna, the Joseph H. &amp; Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University. With this volume, the Conservative movement spells out in unprecedented detail and wondrously accessible form how to live the observant life . Combining the timeless teachings of Judaism on a range of expected and unexpected topics, with a keen sensitivity to ethics and to the challenges of modern Jewish life, this guide provides a comprehensive and up-to-date answer to an age-old question: what does it mean to be a good Jew?</p>

The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews

Martin S. Cohen

Michael Katz

The Rabbinical Assembly

<p>This is the fourth book of the anticipated 10-volume Mesorah Matrix series and is titled Kaddish. Mesorah Matrix is a major - and potentially landmark - intellectual-spiritual- philosophical endeavor. The plan well-underway is to publish 10 separate books, each on a very focused Jewish theme - under the Mesorah Matrix umbrella. By the end of 2018, over 150 leading authors/essayists globally will be involved in the decade- spanning project. The focused-purpose and raison d'etre of the series is to more fully draw-out the spiritual and transcendent embedded within Judaism. These aspects are sometimes referred-to as Elyonoth or "Higher-Sphere" themes. The intent of the quite- unique 10-volume series is to be "transformational." There will be a total of two Senior Editors, each responsible for multiple books/themes. The Editor-in- Chief of the over-all series is David Birnbaum of Manhattan, author of the Summa Metaphysica philosophy series (independent of Mesorah Matrix). Mesorah Matrix, in turn, is under the greater umbrella of New Paradigm Matrix Publishing which exclusively publishes "new paradigm" works - in metaphysics, philosophy, history and now, spirituality. Works by New Paradigm Matrix are Course Texts at major universities around-the- world. For Kaddish, Senior Editor Martin S. Cohen; Associate Editor Saul J Berman; Contributors: Adena K. Berkowitz, Benjamin Blech, Herbert Bronstein, Reuven P. Bulka, Geoffrey Claussen, Martin S. Cohen, Noah Zvi Farkas, Baruch Frydman-Kohl, Aubrey L. Glazer, Mark B. Greenspan, David Greenstein, James Jacobson-Maisels, Elie Kaunfer, Steven Kepnes, Peter S. Knobel, David A. Kunin, Martin I. Lockshin, Michael Marmur, Dalia Marx, Avi S. Olitzky, Kerry M. Olitzky, Dan Ornstein, Avram Israel Reisner, Jeremy Rosen, Barbara Thiede, Orna Triguboff, Ruth Walfish, and Herbert A. Yoskowitz.</p>

Kaddish by David Birnbaum and Martin S. Cohen (2016)

David Birnbaum

New Paradigm Matrix

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Kaddish by David Birnbaum and Martin S. Cohen (2016)