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Judaism All-In-One For Dummies is a comprehensive resource on Jewish beliefs, practices, traditions, and sacred texts. This helpful guide offers a deep understanding of the 4,000-year-old faith that continues to provide meaning to millions of people all around the world.
This book covers everything from foundational beliefs to Torah study, Hebrew language basics, and traditional Jewish cooking. Judaism All-In-One For Dummies makes nuanced religious concepts easy to understand for all readers, whether you're coming to the faith for the first time or you've been practicing it for decades.
Inside:
- Comprehensive coverage of sacred Jewish texts, beliefs, practices, customs, and spiritual traditions
- Practical Hebrew language guidance to help you better understand Jewish prayers, texts, and culture
- Traditional Jewish cooking recipes and customs that connect food with faith and community
Perfect for Jewish people looking for a deeper understanding of their faith, Judaism All-In-One For Dummies is also a great starting point for anyone considering conversion, as well as people curious about this religion and culture. It's an accessible and complete resource that will help you engage with Jewish people, traditions, customs, cuisines, and more.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Book 1 Getting Started with Judaism
- Chapter 1 What Jews Generally Believe
- Recognizing Who's a Jew and Why
- Jews far and wide
- Who decides if you're Jewish?
- After all, it's a small world
- Major branches of the tree
- Orthodox Jews
- Breakaway denominations
- It's All One: Judaism and God
- Pondering Jewish beliefs about God
- Calling one God many names
- The Singular Being hidden in the plural
- God's Own name
- Looking behind the name
- A Never-Ending Torah: The Unfolding of a Tradition
- The TaNaKH: The Hebrew Bible
- A hidden revolution: The Oral Torah
- A Path of Blessing: Judaism as a Daily Practice
- Connecting with God and community through blessings and prayers
- The community worship service
- Sh'ma and its blessings
- The Amidah
- Reading the Torah, Aleinu, and Kaddish
- Going to synagogue
- Following Jewish dietary laws: A brief guide to kosher food
- Purifying the spirit: Rites and rituals
- Dressing for God: Jewish garments and clothing customs
- The yarmulka
- Fringes and shawls
- Tefillin
- The Jewish home
- Examining Jewish Mysticism
- Focusing on the Kabbalah
- Taking a magical mystical tour
- Early mystical texts
- Isaac Luria, Safed's sage
- Going above and beyond: Jewish meditation
- Following maps to understanding: The images and symbols
- Facing Ethical Challenges
- Getting to the heart of the matter
- Meeting at the intersection of righteousness and charity
- Unraveling the problem of the other
- Intra- and interfaith challenges
- Embracing our sexuality
- Traditional views on modern topics
- Prohibited relationships
- Finding a way to peace
- Respecting animals and the environment
- Chapter 2 From Womb to Tomb: The Life Cycle
- In the Beginning: Birth and Bris
- Making the cut: Ritual circumcision
- Knowing who's involved
- Adhering to the rituals and ceremonies
- Thanking God for little girls
- Playing the name game
- Buying back the first born
- Coming of Age: The Bar/Bat Mitzvah
- Celebrating the Bar/Bat Mitzvah
- A night to celebrate
- Celebrating as a grown up
- Get Me to the Chuppah On Time: Weddings
- Looking at the origins of Jewish marriage
- Preparing for the ceremony
- Enjoying the wedding
- Raising the chuppah
- Drinking the fruit of the vine
- Exchanging the rings
- Sharing the seven blessings
- Breaking the glass
- Putting it in writing
- Enjoying sacred moments, before and after
- Getting a get: Divorce
- Stepping through the Valley: The Shadow of Death
- Writing an ethical will
- Making final confessions and reciting parting words
- Arranging the funeral
- Observing the mourning period
- The first week following a funeral
- The first month and year
- Saying Kaddish
- Remembering the dead
- Chapter 3 Exploring Jewish History
- Let My People Go: From Abraham to Exodus
- The Genesis of a people
- The next generation
- Who gets blessed?
- Wrestling with God
- The son also rises
- Interpreting dreams
- A dream comes true
- The enslavement and Exodus
- A star is born
- Are we there yet?
- Entering the Promised Land
- The Kings of Israel: The First Temple
- Continuing war and peace
- Living under the lion of Judah
- The wisdom of Solomon
- Building the Temple
- Telling a tale of two kingdoms
- The fall of the first Temple
- Bracketed by Exile: The Second Temple
- There's no place like home
- Building and rebuilding
- It's all Greek to me
- A parting of ways
- An edifice complex
- Not one but many messiahs
- Death and dismemberment
- Sects and violence
- The Exiles Continue: The First Millennium
- Revolutions and messiahs
- The raising of the Talmud
- Running out of Rome
- Jews under Islam
- Second class is better than no class
- The rise of the Gaon
- All that glitters is gold
- Let my people stay: Prosperity and persecution
- Turn the other cheek
- Take the money and run
- The reign in Spain
- The Greatest Horror, the Greatest Triumph
- When Poland was a heartland
- The dawning of a New Age
- The Enlightenment
- The question of citizenship
- Going beyond the Pale of Settlement
- Responses to Enlightenment
- The rise of nationalism and racism
- Getting worse and getting out
- Passage to Palestine
- Close, but not quite there
- Hitler's rise to power
- The Holocaust
- Too little, too late
- The war against the Jews
- The death camps
- The fall of the Third Reich
- Founding a new Jewish state
- Jewish Buddhists and Other Challenges of the New Age
- The mixed blessing of the United States
- You will be assimilated
- The choosing people
- The Problem of Anti-Semitism
- Ten People Who Helped Shape Judaism
- Chapter 4 Eyeing Celebrations and Holy Days
- A Taste of Paradise: Shabbat
- In with the New: Rosh Hashanah
- Making judgments
- Teshuvah: Getting back on track
- Beginning the 40-day plan
- Celebrating Rosh Hashanah
- The Makhzor: The High Holy Day prayer book
- Blowing your horn
- Tashlikh - Letting go
- The Days of Awe
- Getting Serious: Yom Kippur
- Celebrating Yom Kippur
- Fasting, but not quickly
- Taking a long day's journey
- Preparing for Yom Kippur
- Considering the Kol Nidre: The evening service
- Reading and kneeling
- Honoring the light of Yom Kippur
- The Great Outdoors: Sukkot
- Sukkot: A fun-filled family event
- Sh'mini Atzeret
- Simchat Torah
- Seeking Light in Dark Times: Chanukah
- Noting what Chanukah celebrates
- Embracing Chanukah customs
- Celebrating Renewal: Tu B'Shvat
- A seder of fruit and wine
- Enlightened gardeners
- A Jewish Carnival: Purim
- It all starts with a banished queen
- Haman: The villain
- Why Purim survived
- Bang a gong: Celebrating Purim
- From Groan to Glee: Passover
- Looking at the reasons behind Passover
- Recognizing what (and what not) to eat
- Eating kosher
- First things first: Preparing for Passover
- The Seder: As easy as 1, 2, 3 . . .
- The prepared table
- Steps of the seder
- It's not over till it's Omer
- The magical, mystical seven
- Yom Ha-Shoah
- Israeli Independence Day
- Lag B'Omer
- The universal themes in Passover
- Spring Is Busting Out All Over: Shavuot
- The ideas behind Shavuot
- Meeting at Sinai
- Tune in today!
- Go tell it on the mountain
- Telling stories
- Searching for new rituals
- Pulling the mystical all-nighter
- Deck the halls . . .
- Got milk?
- A Day of Mourning: Tisha B'Av
- Fasting, reading, and reflecting
- Today's Tisha B'Av
- Tu B'Av: Releasing into joy
- Chapter 5 Answering Common Questions about Judaism
- Why Don't Jews Believe in Jesus?
- What Does It Mean to Be the "Chosen" People?
- Why Is Israel Important to the Jews?
- Why Are So Many Doctors, Lawyers, and Entertainers Jewish?
- What Is "Jewish Humor"?
- Self-critical
- Anxious
- Rarely cruel
- Democratic
- Instructive
- Characters
- Resigned
- What Role Does Music Play in Jewish Culture?
- Who's In Charge of Judaism?
- Can You Convert to Judaism?
- What's the Relationship between Judaism and Islam?
- Book 2 Perusing the Torah
- Chapter 1 The Torah 101 - Just the Basics
- Beginning with Torah Basics
- God, the Torah's author
- Recognizing the Torah's important elements
- The Written Torah
- The Oral Torah
- Living life according to the Torah
- Encountering God, the Ultimate Author
- Using the Torah as a blueprint
- Creating the world in six "days"
- Calling God by many names in the Torah
- Getting to know the nature of God
- Growing closer to God
- Examining the Torah's Structure
- Tanakh
- The Oral Torah and the Talmud
- Midrash
- The Zohar
- Getting a Grip on What the Torah Isn't
- Chapter 2 Navigating the Books of the Torah
- The Five Books of Moses
- Focusing on the Book of Genesis
- It takes two: Adam and Eve
- Avoiding the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
- Falling to the temptation of the serpent
- Sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel
- When it rains, it pours: Noah and the flood
- Reach for the sky: The Tower of Babel
- Father figure: The story of Abraham
- Exploring the Book of Exodus
- The Ten Commandments
- Teachings from God
- A movable worship tent
- Explaining the Book of Leviticus
- Drawing near to God: The laws of sacrifices
- Surveying the priestly duties
- Discovering the laws of purity and impurity
- Clean and unclean animals
- Ritual cleanliness
- The laws of tzarat (some call it leprosy)
- Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement
- Sexual laws
- Holiness laws
- Priestly laws
- Reward and punishment
- Perusing the Book of Numbers
- Counting the children of Israel
- Appointing the Levites to serve in the Tabernacle
- Looking at a few important laws
- The Priestly Blessing
- Witnessing wild events in the desert
- The report of spies to the Holy Land
- The boundaries of the Holy Land
- Looking At the Book of Deuteronomy
- The first discourse of Moses
- Asking permission to enter the Promised Land (permission denied)
- Teaching the foundation of faith
- Stressing allegiance to God
- The second discourse of Moses
- Presenting the most important Jewish statement of faith: The Shema
- Trusting, loving, and remembering God
- Making the right choices
- Recounting the laws of Judaism
- A warning against breaking laws
- The final discourse of Moses
- The final days of Moses
- The death of Moses
- Chapter 3 The Torah: An Operating Manual
- Defining the Essence of the Torah
- Being a Mensch: Personal Behavior
- Look sharp! Dressing appropriately
- Everything is relative: Family rules
- A lot more than love: Being fair
- Showing kindness to furry friends
- Living by the Word of the Torah in the Community
- Doing better business
- What's mine is mine, what's yours is yours
- Order in the court - The Torah way
- Observing the Holy Days in Torah Time
- The day: "It was evening and it was morning, one day"
- The week: Torah time is a spiral, not a straight line
- The month: When the moon hits your eye
- The year: When holy days abound
- The seven-year cycle: Giving the land and debtors a break
- The 50-year cycle: When all land belongs to God
- Shabbat: Observing the Holiest Day
- Examining the laws of Shabbat
- The start of Shabbat
- The 39 things you can't do on Shabbat
- Baking bread
- Creating clothing
- Making leather and parchment
- Doing general types of work
- The close of Shabbat
- Celebrating Holy Days in the Torah
- Rosh Hashanah: Happy birthday, universe
- Yom Kippur: The day of at-one-ment
- Sukkot: Recreating the exodus from Egypt
- Passover: The oldest Jewish holy day
- Shavuot: When God gave the Torah to the world
- Following Jewish Customs
- Circumcision
- The Bar and Bat Mitzvah
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Death
- Eating Kosher
- Chapter 4 Exploring the Torah Synagogue Service
- Appreciating the Basic Customs of Torah Readings
- Reading the Torah publicly
- Reading a portion of the Torah weekly
- Comparing the one-year cycle to the three-year cycle
- Dividing the Torah into 54 sections
- Connecting with others by reading the same section at the same time
- Preparing for the Torah Service
- Having a quorum of ten
- Showing respect by standing
- Storing the Torah Scroll
- Facing the Ark and Jerusalem
- Opening the doors
- Retrieving the scroll and closing the doors
- Understanding the Torah Scroll Procession
- Moving through the synagogue sanctuary
- Reaching the reading platform
- Undressing the Torah Scroll
- Blessing the Holy Words
- Announcing the honorees' names
- Ascending to the Torah
- Blessing the Torah before and after each part of the reading
- Reciting a healing prayer
- The Big Event: Reading the Torah Out Loud
- Qualifying as "the master of the reading"
- Looking at every word - no memorizing!
- Pronouncing every word correctly
- Concluding the Torah Service
- Lifting the Torah for all to see
- Dressing the Torah
- Going through another procession (and more kissing!)
- Returning the Torah to the Ark
- Chapter 5 Digging Deeper into the Torah
- Writing a Torah Scroll
- Analyzing the Torah
- Just like a diamond: Studying the Torah's 70 facets
- Finding everything in the Torah
- Everyone's on a different level of understanding
- Every person is a letter: Using the Torah to discover your identity
- Studying the Torah
- Getting help from great commentators
- Using other resources to study the Torah
- Explaining Biblical Archaeology
- Exploring the five contributions
- Examining discoveries related to the Five Books of Moses
- Book 3 Exploring the Talmud
- Chapter 1 Introducing the Talmud
- Recognizing What the Talmud Is
- Looking closer at the layout
- Knowing that it covers everything
- Studying the Talmud
- Tracing the History of the Talmud
- Rashi: The great commentator of the Talmud
- Post-Rashi: The Tosafot period
- Key milestones in Jewish history
- Key events in Talmudic history
- Blessings for Studying Torah (Including the Talmud)
- Blessings before and after a study session
- Rituals for studying Torah
- Study partners
- Giving tzedakah each time you study
- Participating in Daf Yomi
- Enjoying a siyum
- Reciting the Kaddish D'Rabbanan
- Saying the Hadran
- The Antisemitic War against the Talmud
- Fabricated quotes and false statements about the Talmud
- Religious intolerance through history
- Identifying Key Terms and Concepts from the Talmud
- Marriage
- Courts and the law
- Human behavior
- Personal status
- Crimes
- Mitzvot
- Human emotions
- Chapter 2 Opening the Talmud
- Navigating the Talmud
- Mapping the Talmud for a beginner
- Studying your heart's desire
- Introducing the Talmud's Parts
- The order of the orders
- The Talmud masekhtot
- Talmud chapters and subjects
- The Talmud's structure
- The Mishna and Gemara
- Understanding the Layout of a Talmud Page
- Other voices in the margins
- Still more commentators
- Meeting the Stories and Laws of the Talmud
- Greeting the Great Talmudic Masters
- The rabbi currently known as Prince
- Rabbi Akiva: Announcing the Talmud's superstar
- Two by two (rabbis, not animals)
- The unforgettable Nachum ish Gamzu
- Rabbi Eliezer the Great
- The Talmud's heretic
- The five sages in the Passover Hagaddah
- Apologies and Reflections on Women in the Talmud
- Women as Orthodox rabbis? Why not?
- (Baseless) arguments against women studying and teaching the Talmud
- Teaching the Talmud as a woman
- Educating Jewish women
- Dealing with fear of change
- Getting help and hindrance from the Talmud itself
- Meeting the women in the Talmud
- The times they are a-changin'
- Thinking Like a Talmudic Rabbi
- A fish and a goat
- Teaching the whole Torah while standing on one foot
- The day a carob tree jumped across a garden
- A nest on a person's head
- Clarifying the law through absurdities
- Chapter 3 Living the Talmud Way
- Observing the Holidays as Holy Days
- Shabbat: The day of rest
- Lighting up the world on Chanukah
- Dwelling in a sukkah on Sukkot
- Masquerading on Purim
- Preparing for Passover
- Rosh Hashanah: It's not a party
- Yom Kippur: Not a day of judgment after all
- Eating - But Only If It's Kosher
- Sorry, no bacon cheeseburgers
- Knowing how the animal was slaughtered
- Determing whether the animal itself is kosher
- Don't mix dairy with meat
- Praying and Blessing
- Hello God, it's me
- Saying the Amidah
- Breaking Taboos: Sexual Intimacy in the Talmud
- Determining sexual requirements based on occupation
- Exploring Talmudic perspectives on marital sex
- Dealing with a rebellious wife
- Litigating the Talmudic Way
- Understanding Jewish law
- Jewish civil laws
- Jewish criminal laws
- Justice in the Talmud
- Types of civil damages
- Punishments for noncapital crimes
- Capital punishment: No way (almost)!
- Following the laws
- Taking an oath is a big deal
- Book 4 Examining the Kabbalah
- Chapter 1 Unmasking Kabbalah
- Understanding What Kabbalah Is
- Getting to know Kabbalah, "The Received Tradition"
- Recognizing that Kabbalah is Jewish theology
- Identifying the big ideas
- Noting other major concepts
- Searching for God
- Picking a Kabbalah that works for you
- Magic, Mishegas, and Other Things That Kabbalah Isn't
- What Kabbalah is
- What Kabbalah isn't
- Figuring out who's legit and who's not
- Looking Back: A Brief History of Kabbalah
- Kabbalists in the Bible
- Adam: First man, first Kabbalist
- Abraham and his Kabbalistic contributions
- Moses: The greatest teacher who ever lived
- Kabbalah in the Rabbinic period
- Rabbi Akiva: A spiritual teacher to the last moment
- Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai writes the Zohar
- Thriving in Spain in the 13th century
- Coming of age in the mystical city of Tzfat
- The creation of the world
- The need to repair the world
- The Shabbatai Tzvi affair
- The Great Revival: Hasidism
- The rise of the Baal Shem Tov
- A movement is born
- Eyeing Kabbalah Today
- Chapter 2 Cutting to the Core of Kabbalah
- The Link between Heaven and Earth: Kabbalah's Own Top-Ten Countdown
- The world is filled with God
- God is constantly creating and sustaining the world
- A new Creation every moment
- Fundamental forces that sustain the world
- Ways to look at the Tree of Life
- The work of the Kabbalist
- Transforming the spiritual into physical action
- Everything (Even a Traffic Jam) Is for the Best
- Getting the words right: Gam Zu L'Tovah
- An important rule about saying, "Everything is for the best"
- Don't confuse acceptance with passivity
- Training oneself to see like a Kabbalist
- In the beginning, a vessel was shattered
- Individual divine assignments
- Bodies Don't Have Souls
- Souls Have Bodies
- A spark of God in everyone
- The soul of the matter
- Descent for the sake of ascension - that's life
- The four worlds of Kabbalah
- The progression of the four worlds
- The four realms of human existence
- Inhabits of each world
- Going up? The soul's journey of five levels
- Like Déjà Vu All Over Again: Reincarnation
- The soul's tasks
- Birth and death
- The significance of reincarnation
- Instant Karma's Gonna Get You
- Angels: The Kabbalistic key to karma
- An angel isn't a blonde girl with wings
- Process of change
- Suffering hurts but isn't random
- Chapter 3 Living the Life of a Kabbalist
- Living One Day at a Time
- Waking up
- Getting washed and dressed
- Putting on your shoes with purpose
- Dressing with modesty
- Offering prayers and meditation
- Grabbing a bite
- Repairing the world
- Ending the day
- Living One Week at a Time
- Preparing to receive the gift of the Sabbath
- Greeting the Sabbath the Kabbalistic way
- Transforming the Shabbat dinner table into a holy altar
- Observing and enjoying the Sabbath
- Saying goodbye to the Sabbath
- Living a Year in the Life of a Kabbalist
- Rosh Hashanah
- The Days of Awe
- Yom Kippur
- Sukkot
- Chanukah
- Purim
- Passover
- Sefirat haomer
- Shavuot
- Tisha B'Av
- Birthdays
- Exploring a Kabbalist's Lifecycle
- Pre-burial
- The first week after death
- The first month after death
- The first year after death
- Annually after death
- Chapter 4 Fine-tuning the Essential Skills of the Kabbalist
- Discovering Kabbalistic Books
- Studying Like a Kabbalist
- Knowing where to begin
- When the student is ready: Finding a good teacher
- Pairing with a study buddy
- Praying Like a Kabbalist
- Recognizing the four kinds of prayer
- Inner attitude is what counts
- Praying and saying blessings daily
- Knowing the Unknowable God
- What Kabbalists know about God, even though they know nothing about God
- Six ways a Kabbalist relates to God
- Book 5 The Basics of Hebrew
- Chapter 1 Starting with Hebrew
- Speaking Hebrew Like a Native
- Counting in Hebrew
- Reading Hebrew
- Deciphering the consonant letters
- Those dots and dashes they call vowels
- Introducing the Shvah and a Dagesh
- Chapter 2 Delving into Basic Hebrew Grammar
- Making Sense of Hebrew Syntax
- Questioning
- Meeting Parts of Speech
- Naming nouns
- Directing your objects
- Defining definite objects
- Perfecting your pronouns
- Clarifying this and that
- Getting personal
- Showing possession
- Applying adjectives
- Pinpointing Hebrew verbs
- Putting verbs through their tenses
- Looking at some common verbs
- Detecting adverbs
- Spotting prepositions
- Chapter 3 Meeting and Greeting
- Shalom! Shalom!
- Greeting all day long
- Replying to a greeting
- Putting a name to a face
- Making Grand Introductions
- Introducing yourself
- Introducing others
- Getting Better Acquainted
- Talking about where you come from
- Chatting about how you feel
- Extending and Responding to Invitations
- Asking Questions: The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How
- Asking yes or no questions
- Forming negative questions
- Recognizing Some Favorite Hebrew Expressions
- Mazal Tov
- B'Karov Etzleh?
- Titchadesh
- B'Teavon
- B'Ezrat HaShem
- Yishar Koah?
- Dash
- Nu
- Kol HaKavod
- L'?aim
- Book 6 Jewish Cooking
- Chapter 1 Divinely Inspired and Downright Delicious
- Living by the Jewish Holidays
- Keeping Kosher
- Meat and poultry
- Dairy foods
- Fish
- Other foods
- Kosher menu planning
- Exploring Jewish Cuisine
- Ashkenazic style
- Delights from the deli
- Treats from the bakery
- Sephardic style
- Israeli style
- Adding Flavor
- Chapter 2 Cooking for the Holidays
- Rosh Hashanah: A New Year as Sweet as Apples and Honey
- Honey foretells happiness
- Veggies and fruit: Prosperity and a sweet future
- Yom Kippur: A Fast Surrounded by Feasts
- Sukkot: When Camping Out Is a Commandment
- Hanukkah: The Light-Hearted Festival of Lights and Latkes
- Purim: When the Mitzvah Is
- Passover: What Happened When the Bread Didn't Rise
- Shavuot: The Holiday Devoted to Dairy Delights
- Shabbat: A Weekly Excuse to Rejoice
- Challah
- Cold foods
- Cholent
- Chapter 3 Beginning the Feast
- Starting with Spreads and Noshes
- Great garbanzos and delectable dips
- Ever-popular falafel and versatile veggies
- Sipping on Soups, the Jewish Mother's Cure-All
- Chapter 4 The Heart of the Celebration
- Preparing Brunch Favorites
- Serving bagels with their partners
- Choosing companions for eggs
- Making Dinner Recipes for the Win
- Giving Low Effort, Getting Lots of Flavor
- Creating Ground Meat Meals
- Chapter 5 Side Dishes and Pareve Entrees
- Using More Than Your Noodle
- Focusing on the Pareve Plate
- Beans and grains
- Pasta from noodles to couscous
- Preparing Vegetables: To Each Its Own
- Making a Salad a Day
- Chapter 6 Sweet Noshes
- Cakes You Crave
- Treats You Make in Miniature
- Old-Country Fruit Is Back in Fashion
- Old-Fashioned Comfort Food Never Goes Out of Vogue
- Index
- EULA
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