Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning -Honored by National Jewish Book Awards

Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning
Publisher: 
Reclaiming Judaism Press - The Mitzvah-Centered Life Initiative

edited by Goldie Milgram and Ellen Frankel with Peninnah Schram, Cherie Karo Schwartz and Arthur Strimling plus 60 contributing authors.

Sixty inspiring and provocative  stories crafted by leading Jewish storytellers, rabbis and authors from across the full spectrum of Jewish life. These juried, newly-minted tales reveal how each mitzvah, when carried out with understanding and creativity, becomes a rich source of spirituality and meaning. Meant for reading and retelling across the generations,

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Mitzvah Cards - Jewish Book World Cites for Excellence

Mitzvah Gorreret Mitzvah - One Mitzvah Leads to Another
Author: 
Rabbi Goldie Milgram -Bio Brief
Publisher: 
Reclaiming Judaism Press


Perfect for gifts, events and study, these 52 Mitzvah Cards convey many of the core spiritual practices of a meaningful Jewish life. Note: Name of each mitzvah appears in Hebrew with transliteration and inspiring explanation. $18/deck (Pesach special $14, $10 each for 12 or more) - 52 beautiful, professionally printed cards in a matching box

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Free Discussion Guide for Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning

Publisher: 
Reclaiming Judaism Press

Crafted by acclaimed author and educator, Shoshana Silberman*, this free easy-to-download to your computer discussion guide for groups, book clubs and classes, will help deepen learning and build community through discussion of the provocative new adult-level through mature teen collection recently named Book of the Week by the Jewish Book Council:  Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning

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Meaning & Mitzvah

Daily Practices for Reclaiming Judaism through Prayer, God, Torah, Hebrew, Mitzvot & Peoplehood
Author: 
Rabbi Goldie Milgram -Bio Brief
Publisher: 
Jewish Lights Publishing

Innovative guidebook to Prayer, God, Torah, Hebrew, Mitzvot & Peoplehood - six core Jewish spiritual practice categories. This volume empowers you to test their value within your own life through guided creative experiences in addition to clear explanations of Hebrew terms and practices. This volume concludes with an inspired vision of the meaning and relevance of Jewish peoplehood. Original thinking, methods of experiential teaching and careful scholarship make this book an important contribution. Excellent also for adult education, book groups and conversion classes.

ISBN 978-1580232562    BUY NOW

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Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice

Holy Days and Shabbat
Author: 
Rabbi Goldie Milgram -Bio Brief
Publisher: 
Jewish Lights Publishing

This inspiring guidebook is your wake-up call for understanding the powerful intellectual and emotional tools that are essential for a lively, relevant, and fulfilling Jewish spiritual practice. Designed to become a lifelong resource for holy days and Shabbat, RECLAIMING JUDAISM presents Judaism as an evolving tradition in which you are the entrusted heir. The exercises and practices draw from the foundations of Judaism and empower you to create meaningful, satisfying, contemporary Jewish experiences for how you live today. ISBN 978-1580232050  BUY NOW

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Living Jewish Life Cycle by Rabbi Goldie Milgram

How to Create Meaningful Jewish Rites of Passage at Every Stage of Life
Author: 
Rabbi Goldie Milgram -Bio Brief
Publisher: 
Jewish Lights Publishing

Discover the spiritual meaning in Judaism's major life cycle moments. Understand, create and enter wholeheartedly into Jewish life cycle ceremonies, preparatory practice, and celebrations. More than just how-to, Rabbi Goldie Milgram guides you in making your Jewish rites come alive with meaning, beauty and with lasting impact on you, your friends and family. She takes you beyond rote rites--beyond just surviving--and directly into accessing Jewish rites of passage as a force for thriving.
ISBN 978-1580233354 BUY NOW

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Seeking and Soaring: Jewish Approaches to Spiritual Direction

Author: 
Rabbi Goldie Milgram -Bio Brief
Publisher: 
Reclaiming Judaism Press

Rabbi Goldie Milgram [Ed]
Seeking and Soaring: Jewish Approaches to Spiritual Direction provides a fascinating opportunity to individually meet and appreciate many of the leading Jewish spiritual directors, teachers and scholars of our time. BUY NOW

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Make Your Own Bar/Bat Mitzvah

A Personal Approach to Creating a Meaningful Rite of Passage
Author: 
Rabbi Goldie Milgram -Bio Brief

Parents and teachers move from being taskmasters to team planners of a “B-mitzvah” rich in emotional satisfaction, intellectual expansion, spiritual connection and logistical excellence. Ground-breaking step-by-step guide to creating a meaningful and memorable Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Delights and enhances the student’s autonomy, thinking, creative engagement, Jewish identity and self esteem. Based on research funded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation. 

Thousands of parents and hundreds of communities acclaim this volume which teaches, step-by-step, how to create a relevant, meaningful, spiritually profound bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah. Rabbi Milgram did her doctoral research on creating new methods of bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah preparation and was recognized by the Covenant Foundation for this guide and the related programs she offers for communities world wide.

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