Jewish Texts

Major books of halakhot from the geonic period.

The first halakhic code.

Messianism in Chabad-Lubavitch challenges Jews of all denominations to consider the limits of Jewish theology.

Legal midrash on Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

A companion volume to Pirkei Avot.

Rabbi Hayim of Brisk revolutionized Talmud study--and his method remains dominant today.

A Hasidic spiritual leader believed to maintain a channel to God.

Founder of the Chabad school of Hasidism.

The grandson of Rashi and leader of medieval French Jewry.

The problem of divine withdrawal inspires an alternate view of the universe.

A master Torah commentator who foreshadowed biblical criticism

The lives of Abraham and Job provide us with two models for confronting poverty.