Tanya - Likutei Amarim (Revised Hebrew and English Edition)
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The Tanya considered the "Written Torah" of Chasidism, is now studied by tens of thousands of people, from all walks of life. The Bilingual Tanya has contributed enormously to this global interest, by both stimulating and sating the quest for deeper involvement in Chasidut, in those to whom the orginal Hebrew text remains inaccessible, not only on the intellectual level, but as a modus vivendi.
Shulchan Oruch Hilchos Talmud Torah - English (Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi) (English and Hebrew Edition)
(The sheer number of Jewish laws infuses everyday life wit...)
The sheer number of Jewish laws infuses everyday life with endless opportunities to touch the divine within. With this modern translation, the English-reading public can study Jewish law as taught by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe, from the original source. In this new edition, the translation page faces the newly reset Hebrew text. Notations appear when the Alter Rebbe's rulings are at variance with Rabbi Yosef Karo's Shulchan Aruch and when other halachic works cite the subject at hand. The handsome, hardbound volume is a desk friendly 7.5"x 9.5" format with a satin ribbon marker.
Subtitle: Orach Chaim 58-156 Laws Regarding Recitation of Shema, Prayer, Priestly Blessings, Torah Study and Business ================== Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi's Code of Jewish Law in clear and contemporary English facing the Hebrew text, complete with footnotes below the line, done in 2-tone, in black and bright red, covering the laws of the Shema, Prayer, the Priestly Blessing, the Supplications that follow the Shemoneh Esreh, Torah Study, and Business Involvement.
Jewish Men Pray: Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
(A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer―to strengt...)
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer―to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men―diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions―have convened in this collection to offer contemporary, compelling and personal prayers. The words published here are not the recitation of established liturgies, but the direct address of today's Jewish men to ha-Shomea Tefilla, the Ancient One who has always heard, and who remains eager to receive, the prayers of our hearts." ―from the Foreword by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL This collection of prayers celebrates the variety of ways Jewish men engage in personal dialogue with God―with words of praise, petition, joy, gratitude, wonder and even anger―from the ancient world up to our own day. Drawn from mystical, traditional, biblical, Talmudic, Hasidic and modern sources, these prayers will help you deepen your relationship with God and help guide your journey of self-discovery, healing and spiritual awareness. Together they provide a powerful and creative expression of Jewish men's inner lives, and the always revealing, sometimes painful, sometimes joyous―and often even practical―practice that prayer can be. Jewish Men Pray will challenge your preconceived ideas about prayer. It will inspire you to explore new ways of prayerful expression, new paths for finding the sacred in the ordinary and new possibilities for understanding the Jewish relationship with the Divine. This is a book to treasure and to share. Contributors: Israel Abrahams • Aharon of Karlin • Daniel S. Alexander • Alexandri (third century CE) • Bezalel Aloni • Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL • Rabbi Samuel Barth • Hillel Bavli (1893–1961) • Shye Ben-Tzur • Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873–1934) • Sheldon H. Blank (1896–1989) • Ben Zion Bokser (1907–1984) • Harold Braunstein • Daniel S. Brenner • Eliezer Bugatin • Shlomo Carlebach • (1925–1994) • Avraham Chalfi (1904–1980) • Rabbi Howard Cooper • Rabbi Menachem Creditor • Abraham Danziger (1748–1820) • Harry K. Danziger • Elazar (end of first century CE) • Elimelech of Lizhensk (1717–1787) • Dov Peretz Elkins • Abraham ibn Ezra (1089–1164) • Morley T. Feinstein • Edward Feld • Adam D. Fisher • Ira Flax • Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) • Elihu Gevirtz • Jeffrey Goldwasser • James Stone Goodman • Rabbi Arthur Green • Sidney Greenberg (1917–2003) • Judah HaLevi (1075–1141) • Rabbi Jules Harlow • Rabbi Shai Held • Rabbi Hayim Herring • Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) • Lawrence A. Hoffman • Rabbi David A. Ingber • Rabbi Ben Kamin • Yehuda Karni (1884–1949) • Rabbi Paul J. Kipnes • Eliahu J. Klein • Cantor Jeffrey Klepper • Rabbi Michael Knopf • Harold Kohn • Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) • Rabbi Andy Koren • Rabbi Cary Kozberg • Rabbi Elliot Kukla • Rabbi Irwin Kula • Harold S. Kushner • Rabbi Lawrence Kushner • Rabbi Robert N. Levine • Rabbi Stan Levy • Immanuel Lubliner (1923–1997) • Moses Maimonides (1135–1204) • Mar the son of Rabina (fourth century) • Rabbi Craig Marantz • Danny Maseng • Daniel C. Matt • Hershel Jonah Matt (1922–1987) • Rabbi Ralph D. Mecklenburger • Andrew Meit • Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler • Jay Michaelson • Rabbi James L. Mirel • Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810) • Louis Newman • Dan Nichols • Reb Noson (1780–1844) • Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky • Rabbi Jesse Olitzky • Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky • Natan Ophir (Offenbacher) • Bachya ibn Pakuda (eleventh century) • Daniel F. Polish • Andrew Ramer • Avrom Reyzen (1876–1953) • Haim O. Rechnitzer • Rabbi Jack Riemer • Rabbi Albert Ringer • Rabbi Brant Rosen • James B. Rosenberg • Joel Rosenberg • Robert Saks • Jeffrey Salkin • Rabbi Neil Sandler • Zalman Schachter-Shalomi • Rabbi Robert Scheinberg • Harold M. Schulweis • Rabbi Arthur Segal • Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro • Rabbi Rick Sherwin • Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812) • Yaakov David Shulman • Danny Siegel • Rifat Sonsino • Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz • Chaim Stern (1930–2001) • Rabbi Arnold Stiebel • Rabbi Warren Stone • Rabbi Neil A. Tow • Roy A. Walter • Simkha Y. Weintraub • Rabbi David Wolpe • Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1740–1809) • Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942) • Rabbi Reuben Zellman • Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel • Rabbi Shawn Zevit • Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman • Rabbi Mishael Zion • Rabbi Raymond A. Zwerin
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Shneur Zalman of Liady was an Orthodox rabbi and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi in the Russian Empire. He was the author of many works, and is best known for Shulchan Aruch HaRav, Tanya and his Siddur Torah Or compiled according to the Nusach Ari.
Background
Shneur Zalman was born in 1745 in the small town of Liozna, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (present-day Belarus). He was the son of Baruch, great5-grandson of the mystic and philosopher Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the "Maharal of Prague". He was a prominent (and the youngest) disciple of Dovber of Mezeritch, the "Great Maggid", who was in turn the successor of the founder of Hasidic Judaism, Yisrael ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov.
Education
He displayed extraordinary talent while still a child. By the time he was eight years old, he wrote an all-inclusive commentary on the Torah based on the works of Rashi, Nahmanides and Abraham ibn Ezra.
Until the age of twelve, he studied under Issachar Ber in Lyubavichi (Lubavitch); he distinguished himself as a Talmudist, such that his teacher sent him back home, informing his father that the boy could continue his studies without the aid of a teacher.
At the age of twelve, he delivered a discourse concerning the complicated laws of Kiddush Hachodesh, to which the people of the town granted him the title "Rav".
Career
At the age of twenty, already famed as a genius in Torah study, he reached the court of Dov Ber of Mezeritch. The depth of his knowledge greatly impressed that master, who asked him to compose a new and modernized Shulhan Arukh (authoritative code of Jewish law by Joseph Caro). Shneur Zalman worked on the book for many years. Though most of it was lost in a fire, a portion was published posthumously, and is considered an important halakhic work.
Confronted with the vociferous opposition of traditional Jewry to the revolutionary innovations of Hasidism, Shneur Zalman traveled to Vilna in 1774, in the hope of making peace with Elijah ben Solomon, the gaon of Vilna, head of the Mitnaggedim, the opponents of Hasidism. The gaon, who had led a bitter campaign against the Hasidim, refused to meet them and stepped up his persecution. Yet despite the atmosphere of enmity Shneur Zalman’s group of followers continued to grow, and in 1797, overwhelmed with questions and requests for guidance, Shneur Zalman published, anonymously, his Likkutai Amarim (“Collected Sayings”), retitled in the second edition as the Tanya (“It Is Taught”).
Shneur Zalman’s systematic, rational teachings, profound and eloquently expressed, eventually earned him the respect of all circles. Yet as his influence threatened to penetrate even the hearts of his enemies, the Mitnaggedim made a last desperate strike against Hasidism: they informed on the Hasidim to the Russian government. Shneur Zalman was accused of treason and of founding a forbidden religious sect, arrested, and tried in 1798. He was acquitted but denounced again in 1801. He was finally released late in the same year when Alexander I became tsar. The anniversary of his release on Kislev 19 was thereafter celebrated annually as a holiday by his followers. In 1804 he settled in Lyady, Belorussia. At the disastrous end of the Franco-Russian war, he fled Russia and died en route in Piena, in the Russian interior. He was buried in Hadich, Poltava.
To Shneur Zalman, the Hasidic leader was a spiritual guide rather than a wonder worker. A dynamic spiritual leader and mystic himself, Shneur Zalman was beloved for the sensitivity he expressed in his writings and in the Hasidic melodies he composed. He founded a new stream of Hasidism founded on a more rational approach than the other emotion-laden trends. This was called Habad, an acronym of the Hebrew for “wisdom, understanding, knowledge.” The Tanya is considered the written law of Habad Hasidism; in it, the author develops the ideal of Jewish figure of the beinoni (average man), an image “to which every man should aspire.” The Tanya is at once a psychological study, based on kabbalistic sources, and a theosophical inquiry, intended to arouse faith and love for God.
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Views
Quotations:
APHORISMS OF SHNEUR ZALMAN
• Virtue flowing from reason is superior to virtue not founded on reason.
• One may not interrupt one’s study of Halakhah for prayer.
• Though not itself food, salt adds flavor to dishes. The same is true of Kabbalah: though scarcely comprehensible — and tasteless — in itself, it adds flavor to the Torah.
• There are shrines in the heavenly sphere that may only be opened through song.
• Lord of the universe: I want neither Your Garden ot Eden nor Your rewards in the hereafter. What I desire is You alone!
• The only way of converting darkness into light is by giving to the poor.
• Every act of kindness that God performs for man should make him feel not proud, but more humble and unworthy.
Connections
At age fifteen he married Sterna Segal, the daughter of Yehuda Leib Segal, a wealthy resident of Vitebsk, and he was then able to devote himself entirely to study. During these years, Shneur Zalman was introduced to mathematics, geometry and astronomy by two learned brothers, refugees from Bohemia, who had settled in Liozna.
Rabbi Shneur Zalman's sons were: Dovber Schneuri who eventually succeeded him, Chaim Avraham, and Moshe, who allegedly converted to Catholicism. Moshe's apostasy is negated by Chabad sources, but supported by Belarusian State archives in Minsk uncovered by historian Shaul Stampfer. Rabbi Shneur Zalman's daughters were named Freida, Devorah Leah and Rochel. Other families have lore telling that they are also descendants of the Alter Rebbe, but they are undocumented in existing family records of the Alter Rebbe's descendants.