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Judaism: Ideas, People, and Rituals is a collection of Jewish gems - each essay sparkles with knowledge and originality. Whether Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins is showing the Jewishness in Thoreau's thinking, or tackling knotty questions about divine revelation, he approaches his subject with authority, clarity and utter honesty. He has culled together sermons and portraits of figures and movement to display and share his wisdom with us, his readers and students. The topics are divided into three areas of Jewish vision, relationship, and practice. Rabbi Elkins treats us to some wonderful insights about all three areas. He explores how Judaism offers us a path to meaning, purpose, belonging and blessing. He mines Jewish tradition, introduces influential teachers, and shares his own unique and powerful rabbinic voice. There are wide ranging subjects, from human sexuality in Judaism, to hearing the sound of the Shofar. This work displays the knowledge, breadth, and insights of Rabbi Elkins's learning that he shares so clearly and brilliantly. This book opens up new worlds to explore. We are all the beneficiaries of his teachings and knowledge!

Using anecdotes, commentaries, and scholarly articles, Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins conveys the merits of speaking positively, or Leshon Hatov, and the unfortunate results of negative speech, or Leshon Hara, in "The Power Of Human Speech - From The Jewish Perspective". More than 50 scholars and writers address the virtues of speaking positively verses using improper negative speech. Written from the Jewish perspective, Rabbi Elkins, the compiler and editor of this book, opens with the five categories of speech as defined by the Required speech, Forbidden speech, Repulsive Speech, Desirable speech and Permitted speech. After reading this book, you will see how words are like feathers, and how it is impossible to reclaim words after they have been spoken, or how words are more like an arrow than a sword. Rabbi Elkins brings to light how words used in Internet bullying (electronic leshon hara) have had tragic consequences, as well as the results of spreading gossip. Maimonides writes, "What is noble can be expressed in any tongue. What is ignoble should be said in no tongue." "The Power Of Human Speech - From The Jewish Perspective" provides the foundation for using proper speech, and the strength to know when to remain silent, when not to speak, and how to create your world through your language.

It is the lot of everyone who walks the earth, at one time or another, to meet the dark angel face to face, and to suffer when sorrow and grief knock at the door. When that happens - when the dark shadow falls on our home, or on our community, we grasp for support from many places. One of the time-tested methods of mending hearts is through words. Finding the right words can act like a magic potion, speeding the long, slow process of restoration ever so slightly for those left behind. In this anthology of comfort and healing, Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins and Anne E. Pettit present this collection, chiseled out of the crucible of the pain of many hands - some from years past, others more recent, some from cavernous voids, others from lesser degrees of sorrow. It is their hope that the soothing words they have included in this book can be a contributing source of healing that will uplift a sorrowing heart, dry a tearing eye, and send a mourner on the necessary path to normal living.