Books by Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Books by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of the Shalom Center.
A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: The Jewish Life-Spiral as a Spiritual Path
Arthur Ocean Waskow and Phyllis Ocean Berman
Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002
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A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven (Paperback)
Arthur Ocean Waskow and Phyllis Ocean Berman
Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003
The book that Arthur Ocean Waskow and Phyllis Ocean Berman wrote on the Jewish life-spiral as a spiritual journey -- A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE UNDER HEAVEN -- has been published by Farrar Straus & Giroux as a paperback, costing only $13. The book is the first that integrates the newer ceremonies created during the last half-century (brit for baby girls, weaning, bat mitzvah, menarche and menopause, egalitarian and gay weddings, mid-life transformation and retirement) into the whole life-path of Jewish ceremony, expanding on and renewing the
classic and ancient ceremonies.
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Take Back Your Time
John De Graaf, ed.
Berrett Koehler, 2003
Contains an article by Arthur Waskow entitled "Can America Learn From Shabbat?"
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The Freedom Seder
Arthur Waskow
Micah Press, 1969
A new haggadah for Passover.
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Godwrestling
Arthur Waskow
Schocken Books, 1978
Looks at the changing faces of Torah as renewal communities wrestle and dance with it. It includes a theology of human and Jewish history and of why the movement for Jewish renewal has appeared at this historical moment, and addresses the nature and future of the the State of Israel, the meaning of the Holocaust, applying the Jubilee in high-tech society, understanding and dealing with the present environmental crisis, prayer forms that energe from new ways of connecting with God, and other crucial tikkun-olam concerns.
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Godwrestling - Round 2: Ancient Wisdom, Future Paths
Arthur Waskow
Jewish Lights Publishing, 1996
Looks at the changing faces of Torah as renewal communities wrestle and dance with it. It includes a theology of human and Jewish history and of why the movement for Jewish renewal has appeared at this historical moment, and addresses the nature and future of the the State of Israel, the meaning of the Holocaust, applying the Jubilee in high-tech society, understanding and dealing with the present environmental crisis, prayer forms that energe from new ways of connecting with God, and other crucial tikkun-olam concerns.
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Torah of the Earth (Volume 1)
Arthur Waskow
Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000
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Torah of the Earth (Volume 2)
Arthur Waskow
Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000
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Seasons of Our Joy: A Modern Guide to the Jewish Holidays
Arthur Waskow
Beacon Press, 1990
A guide to walking the festivals as a spiritual path that evokes both nature and history, intertwined with an explanation of millennial change in the festivals as an index to the spiritual growth of the Jewish people as a whole.
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Tales of Tikkun: New Jewish Stories to Heal the Wounded World
Phyllis Ocean Berman and Arthur Ocean Waskow
Jason Aronson, Inc., 1996
Draws on both Bible and Talmud in writing new midrashic tales to heal wounded aspects of tradition -- especially the absence of women -- and thus to turn the world at large as well in a healing direction.
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These Holy Sparks
Arthur Waskow
HarperSanFrancisco, 1982
An interpretive history of the jewish renewal movement from its origins (ca. 1967) to 1982.
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Trees, Earth, and Torah: A Tu B'Shvat Anthology
Edited by Ari Elon, Arthur Waskow, and Naomi Mara Hyman
Jewish Publication Society of America, 2000
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Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life
Arthur Waskow
Quill, 1997
Draws on the past and imagined the future of Jewish ways of making holy daily practice regarding food, money, sex, and rest -- for example, in pointing toward eco-kosher ways of consuming not only food but coal, oil, wood, etc; toward new Jewish sexual ethics; toward the socially responsible use of money; and toward the crucial element of restfulness in healing a production-addicted society.
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