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Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine’s Poet and the Other as the Beloved
by Dalya Cohen-MorMahmoud Darwish: Palestine’s Poet and the Other as the Beloved focuses on Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), whose poetry has helped to shape Palestinian identity and foster Palestinian culture through many decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dalya Cohen-Mor explores the poet’s romantic relationship with “Rita,” an Israeli Jewish woman whom he had met in Haifa in his early twenties and to whom he had dedicated a series of love poems and prose passages, among them the iconic poem “Rita and the Gun.” Interwoven with biographical details and diverse documentary materials, this exploration reveals a fascinating facet in the poet’s personality, his self-definition, and his attitude toward the Israeli other. Comprising a close reading of Darwish’s love poems, coupled with many examples of novels and short stories from both Arabic and Hebrew fiction that deal with Arab-Jewish love stories, this book delves into the complexity of Arab-Jewish relations and shows how romance can blossom across ethno-religious lines and how politics all too often destroys it.
Mahoma: La historia del último profeta
by Deepak ChopraDeepak Chopra nos ofrece la apasionante biografía de uno de los más grandes profetas: Mahoma. Esposo y padre de familia, Dios le habla a través de arcángel Gabriel para encomendarle una peligrosa tarea: convencer a su pueblo de que renuncie a sus ídolos ancestrales y a la veneración de múltiples dioses para confiar en un dios único. Huérfano desde los seis años, Mahoma creció en una enorme familia, convirtiéndose en un excelente comerciante. Si bien Mahoma no se consideraba el hijo de un Dios ni un iluminado, esta magnífica novela da cuenta de la vida de un ser humano ordinario, al que le ocurrió algo totalmente extraordinario que dio origen a una nueva religión, el islam, la segunda en importancia hoy en todo el mundo. Partiendo de detalles históricos, Deepak Chopra hace vivir al profeta a través de los ojos de quienes lo rodeaban. Cada voz, cada capítulo nos ofrece la vida de Mahoma y la creación del islam bajo una nueva luz. Es la historia poco conocida de un hombre y un momento histórico que cambiaron el mundo para siempre. Reseñas:«Estoy agradecido porque Deepak Chopra, en vez de agregar una inútil biografía más de Mahoma, ha creado en cambio una absorbente novela basada en la vida de Mahoma. Los lectores van a estar mejor informados tanto sobre el profeta como sobre el islam, la segunda religión más grande del mundo.»Harvey Cox, profesor de Teología de la Universidad de Hardvard «El libro ofrece al lector una lección de historia que refleja la actual relación entre el islam y el resto del mundo... Contada de manera atrayente, también ayuda, especialmente a los no musulmanes, a entender mejor las complejidades y contradicciones que rodean al islam.»Booklist «Una de las biografías de Mahoma más imaginativas y emocionantes.»Publishers Weekly
Mai Kaun Hu: मैं कौन हूँ?
by Dada Bhagwanकेवल जीवन जी लेना ही जीवन नहीं है। जीवन जीने का कोई ध्येय, कोई लक्ष्य भी तो होगा। जीवन में कोई ऊँचा लक्ष्य प्राप्त करने का ध्येय होना चाहिए। जीवन का असली लक्ष्य ‘मैं कौन हूँ’, इस सवाल का जवाब प्राप्त करना है। पिछले अनंत जन्मों का यह अनुत्तरित प्रश्न है। ज्ञानीपुरुष परम पूज्य दादाश्री ने मूल प्रश्न “मैं कौन हूँ?” का सहजता से हल बता दिया है। मैं कौन हूँ? मैं कौन नहीं हूँ? खुद कौन है? मेरा क्या है? मेरा क्या नहीं है? बंधन क्या है? मोक्ष क्या है? क्या इस जगत् में भगवान हैं? इस जगत् का ‘कर्ता’ कौन है? भगवान ‘कर्ता’ हैं या नहीं? भगवन का सच्चा स्वरूप क्या है? ‘कर्ता’ का सच्चा स्वरूप क्या है? जगत् कौन चलाता है? माया का स्वरूप क्या है? जो हम देखते और जानते हैं, वह भ्रांति है या सत्य है? क्या व्यावहारिक ज्ञान आपको मुक्त कर सकता है? इस संकलन में दादाश्री ने इन सभी प्रश्नों के सटीक उत्तर दिए हैं।
Mai Più!
by Gabriel AgboIl SIGNORE dice: “Vi compenserò delle annate divorate dal grillo, dalla cavalletta, dalla locusta e dal bruco... Il mio popolo non sarà mai più coperto di vergogna. Conoscerete che io sono in mezzo a Israele, che io sono il SIGNORE, vostro Dio, e non ce n'è nessun altro; e il mio popolo non sarà mai più coperto di vergogna.” Gioele 2: 25-27 È ora di fermare quelle cose che vogliono fermarti. È la volontà di Dio fermare qualunque cosa voglia distoglierti dai Suoi piani per la tua vita. E tu sai già che il Suo piano per te è che tu abbia il massimo della gioia, della pace, della prosperità, della pietà, della buona salute e che tu possegga tutto ciò che ti spetta. Anche se ti trovi sotto il Suo giudizio, questo può cambiare oggi e tu ricomincerai a nuotare nella Sua grazia. Abbiamo anche visto le esperienze di altri e la versione della moderna Israele di Mai Più. Perchè hanno adottato questo slogan e dove sono arrivati per rinforzarlo? Certo, Israele oggi è diventata una delle nazioni più potenti sulla terra (ha la migliore organizzazione per la sicurezza - Mossad - ed è la terza potenza militare nel mondo) non solo perchè Dio è con loro, ma perchè hanno anche promesso che gli ebrei non avrebbero mai più subito trattamenti disumani, dolore e morte come avevano vissuto durante gli sfortunati ed inevitabili eventi dello scorso secolo. Oggi, primeggiano non solo nella difesa, ma anche nell’agricoltura, nell’informatica, nella scienza e nella medicina. Sì, adesso possiamo dire mai più! Questo libro sarà davvero un’interessante lettura!
Maia Toll's Wild Wisdom Companion: A Guided Journey into the Mystical Rhythms of the Natural World, Season by Season (Wild Wisdom)
by Maia TollMaia Toll&’s Wild Wisdom series—The Illustrated Herbiary, The Illustrated Bestiary, and The Illustrated Crystallary—introduced readers to the mystical energy of the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. In this capstone to the Wild Wisdom series, Maia Toll's Wild Wisdom Companion guides readers in developing a personalized earth-based spiritual practice using rituals, writing prompts, recipes, symbols, and reflections tied to each season. Organized into 12 chapters—Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox, plus early and late stages of each of the four seasons — the book features seasonal practices; exercises for the body and for writing and reflection; plant, animal, and mineral medicine; and symbolic explorations of the gifts and challenges that arise with seasonal change. Original illustrations by Kate O&’Hara illuminate the symbolic richness of the text, and 28 pop-out oracle cards plus four bound-in pocket pages enhance the invitation for readers to use this interactive guide as an ongoing tool for cultivating the sacred in their own lives.
Mail Order Cowboy
by Laurie KingeryWith beaux scarce in post–Civil War Texas, practical Milly Matthews and her "Spinster Society" friends have their hands full protecting their ranches. Their only hope: advertising for mail-order grooms. But aristocratic British cavalry officer Nicholas Brookfield isn't exactly Milly's idea of a cowboy-or a man she can trust. And the more Nick proves himself as a ranch hand, the more he must hide his past from the woman he longs to make his own. Now Milly and Nick will need all their courage to face hidden dangers...and believe in a love that can answer all their prayers.
Mail Order Mix-Up
by Christine JohnsonGroom Not Wanted When Pearl Lawson sees an ad for a mail-order bride, she leaps at the opportunity to find a husband for her best friend. But the town's most dashing bachelor has caught the eye of several aspiring brides-to-be...and even Pearl is drawn to him. Though the schoolteacher has no intentions of marrying, her instant connection with Roland Decker cannot be denied. Roland doesn't know how an ad seeking a wife for his brother found its way into print. But now he has to handle the hopeful applicants-women who think he's the future groom. Not to mention the feisty, matchmaking schoolteacher who is just as determined not to marry as he is. Will this mix-up push Roland and Pearl to forget their plans of staying single and allow love into their lives? Boom Town Brides: Taking a leap of faith for love
Mail Order Mommy
by Christine JohnsonA Mother by Christmas Nursing a broken heart, Amanda Porter had answered a frontier mail-order bride ad placed by Garrett Decker's children-only to find the groom-to-be didn't want a wife. The widowed bachelor she hoped to marry does need a housekeeper, though, and taking the job is Amanda's only option. But his adorable children are determined she'll be their mother by Christmas... His wife's betrayal and tragic death demolished Garrett's life. Now he can't even look at another woman, let alone marry Amanda, who resembles his first love. Even if she does make his house feel like a home, filling it again with laughter and his children's smiles. But with his daughter convinced Amanda is the perfect mother, will Garrett realize she's also his perfect match?
Mail Order Sweetheart
by Christine JohnsonThe Husband Hunt Theater singer Fiona O'Keefe is on a quest to form the perfect family for her orphaned niece. It's a shame handsome and musically talented Sawyer Evans can't support a household on his sawmill-manager wages. Fiona needs a respectable gentleman of means. And if she can't find one in Singapore, Michigan, then she'll just have to look for a husband in the mail-order want ads... Sawyer doesn't want Fiona to marry a stranger...or anyone other than him. It would be easy to reveal that he's secretly heir to a railroad fortune. But Sawyer's determined to be a self-made man, so he isn't willing to take his father's money. Instead, can he prove to Fiona that the man she needs is already by her side?
Mail-Order Bride Switch: The Rancher Inherits A Family Montana Lawman Rescuer Mail-order Bride Switch The Unconventional Governess (Stand-in Brides Ser. #3)
by Dorothy ClarkHis Imposter Bride Garret Stevenson must find a bride or forfeit his newly built hotel. With his deadline approaching, he plans an in-name-only marriage with a maid who’ll cook and clean for his guests. When a pampered, pretty heiress arrives instead, the deception confirms Garret’s distrust of women. But Virginia Winterman has more substance than her elegant clothes suggest.Fleeing West to escape a cruel suitor, Virginia finds a business arrangement with Whisper Creek’s brusque hotel owner is mutually beneficial, and she relishes being useful. Yet what was once a practical solution soon blossoms into a deeper union. Can Garret get past old betrayals before his future with Virginia slips away?
Mail-Order Christmas Baby: A Lawman For Christmas Mail-order Christmas Baby Their Mistletoe Matchmakers A Child's Christmas Wish (Montana Courtships)
by Sherri ShackelfordIn an 1880 mining town, a rancher is about to get a very special delivery . . . The “package” is addressed to him, but rancher Sterling Blackwell certainly didn’t order a baby! More scandalous still, he and the town’s pretty teacher are named as parents. With gossip running wild, only a marriage of convenience can protect little Gracie and their reputations until her real family is found.Heather O’Connor is content to be the spinster schoolmarm of Valentine, Montana . . . until Gracie’s arrival stirs her heart. She can’t keep the adorable child without Sterling’s help, though she promises not to interfere with his life. But staying aloof from her handsome husband isn’t easy with a tiny matchmaker in tow. A mistake brought them together, but love might just make them a family by Christmas . . .
Mail-Order Christmas Brides Boxed Set
by Jillian HartUSA TODAY bestselling authors Jillian Hart and Janet Tronstad will capture your heart with stories that celebrate the joys and excitement when you combine Christmas with mail-order weddings. Enjoy three romances of adventure and faith in one great bundle! A little girl longs for a new mother for Christmas so she convinces her single father to advertise for a mail-order wife, whose arrival offers them the chance to forge a real family. A would-be bride discovers her intended groom has abandoned her before she even arrives but then she unexpectedly falls for the groom's brother. A gruff rancher's marriage offer to a widowed single mother is based solely on convenience...until it becomes a matter of the heart. This bundle includes: MAIL-ORDER CHRISTMAS BRIDES MAIL-ORDER HOLIDAY BRIDES MAIL-ORDER MISTLETOE BRIDES
Mail-Order Holiday Brides
by Jillian Hart Janet TronstadLove arrives just in time for Christmas in these cozy historical Western romances from two bestselling authors.Home for Christmas by Jillian HartChristina Eberlee is desperate for the safe haven promised to her by the Montana man whose bridal ad she answered. Yet she can’t forget the handsome marshal who helps her on the journey. Maybe venturing from her planned path could lead Christina to the home she was truly meant to find.Snowflakes for Dry Creek by Janet Tronstad“Maybe you could marry her.” Gabe Stone’s niece and nephew long for a mother just like the mail-order bride Gabe’s brother sent for and then abandoned. Yet in making the children’s Christmas dreams come true, Gabe and Annabelle may discover the most precious gift of the holidays is love.
Mail-Order Marriage Promise
by Regina ScottWanted: Husband and FatherStunned that his sister ordered him a mail-order bride, John Wallin insists he’s not the husband Dottie Tyrrell needs. The scholarly logger knows Dottie will make the perfect wife—for some other man. Yet he’s compelled to invite the lovely widow and her infant son to stay with his family…but only until she can find her own way.Dreams of true love are for other women. Betrayed by her baby’s father, Dottie just wants a safe home for her precious child. But who could resist a man with John’s quiet strength? When her secret past brings danger to their door, they may yet find this mail-order mix-up to be the perfect mistake…
Mail-Order Mistletoe Brides
by Jillian Hart Janet TronstadBig Sky Brides Find a Family-and Love-This Christmas Christmas Hearts by Jillian Hart Thirteen-year-old Amelia longs for a new ma. Little George needs a father's guidance. For their children's sake, Cole Matheson and Mercy Jacobs agree on a businesslike marriage. But though Cole tries to keep his distance, Mercy offers the very thing he's stopped believing in-the chance to forge a real family. Mistletoe Kiss in Dry Creek by Janet Tronstad "Passable cook wanted as wife. Marriage in name only." Noah Miller doesn't expect any replies to his plainspoken ad, though it's the only kind of offer the guarded rancher's prepared to make. Until widowed Maeve Flanagan and her sweet daughter arrive, turning his home and his heart upside down....
Maimonides
by Joel L. KraemerLeading scholars have combined forces to produce this volume on the philosophy and legal views of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) and the historical context in which he worked.
Maimonides
by Sherwin B. NulandMoses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work--The Guide for the Perplexed--attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God. He was a Jew living in a Muslim world, a rationalist living in a time of superstition. Eight hundred years after his death, his notions about God, faith, the afterlife, and the Messiah still stir debate; his life as a physician still inspires; and the enigmas of his character still fascinate. Sherwin B. Nuland, best-selling author of How We Die, focuses his surgeon's eye and writer's pen on this greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of Jewish philosophers, and most honored of Jewish doctors. He gives us a portrait of Maimonides that makes his life, his times, and his thought accessible to the general reader as they have never been before.
Maimonides & Spinoza: Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature
by Joshua ParensUntil the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza—as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization—among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers were in fact much closer than was previously thought. In his perceptive new book, Joshua Parens sets out to challenge the now predominant view of Maimonides as a protomodern forerunner to Spinoza—and to show that a chief reason to read Maimonides is in fact to gain distance from our progressively secularized worldview.Turning the focus from Spinoza’s oft-analyzed Theologico-Political Treatise, this book has at its heart a nuanced analysis of his theory of human nature in the Ethics. Viewing this work in contrast to Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed, it makes clear that Spinoza can no longer be thought of as the founder of modern Jewish identity, nor should Maimonides be thought of as having paved the way for a modern secular worldview. Maimonides and Spinoza dramatically revises our understanding of both philosophers.
Maimonides and Spinoza: Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature
by Joshua ParensUntil the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza--as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization--among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers were in fact much closer than was previously thought. In his perceptive new book, Joshua Parens sets out to challenge the now predominant view of Maimonides as a protomodern forerunner to Spinoza--and to show that a chief reason to read Maimonides is in fact to gain distance from our progressively secularized worldview. Turning the focus from Spinoza's oft-analyzed Theologico-Political Treatise, this book has at its heart a nuanced analysis of his theory of human nature in the Ethics. Viewing this work in contrast to Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed, it makes clear that Spinoza can no longer be thought of as the founder of modern Jewish identity, nor should Maimonides be thought of as having paved the way for a modern secular worldview. Maimonides and Spinoza dramatically revises our understanding of both philosophers.
Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism: Secrets of "The Guide for the Perplexed"
by Micah Goodman Rabbi Yedidya SinclairA publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in Israel, the original Hebrew edition of Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism has been called the most successful book ever published in Israel on the preeminent medieval Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides. The works of Maimonides, particularly The Guide for the Perplexed, are reckoned among the fundamental texts that influenced all subsequent Jewish philosophy and also proved to be highly influential in Christian and Islamic thought. Spanning subjects ranging from God, prophecy, miracles, revelation, and evil, to politics, messianism, reason in religion, and the therapeutic role of doubt, Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism elucidates the complex ideas of The Guide in remarkably clear and engaging prose. Drawing on his own experience as a central figure in the current Israeli renaissance of Jewish culture and spirituality, Micah Goodman brings Maimonides’s masterwork into dialogue with the intellectual and spiritual worlds of twenty-first-century readers. Goodman contends that in Maimonides’s view, the Torah’s purpose is not to bring clarity about God but rather to make us realize that we do not understand God at all; not to resolve inscrutable religious issues but to give us insight into the true nature and purpose of our lives.
Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
by Mark R. CohenThe advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in custom to adapt Jewish law to the new economic and social reality.In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of even further pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth century. While Maimonides insisted that he was merely restating already established legal practice, Cohen uncovers the extensive reformulations that further inscribed commerce into Jewish law. Maimonides revised Talmudic partnership regulations, created a judicial method to enable Jewish courts to enforce forms of commercial agency unknown in the Talmud, and even modified the halakha to accommodate the new use of paper for writing business contracts. Over and again, Cohen demonstrates, the language of Talmudic rulings was altered to provide Jewish merchants arranging commercial collaborations or litigating disputes with alternatives to Islamic law and the Islamic judicial system.Thanks to the business letters, legal documents, and accounts found in the manuscript stockpile known as the Cairo Geniza, we are able to reconstruct in fine detail Jewish involvement in the marketplace practices that contemporaries called "the custom of the merchants." In Maimonides and the Merchants, Cohen has written a stunning reappraisal of how these same customs inflected Jewish law as it had been passed down through the centuries.
Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon
by James A. DiamondJewish thought since the Middle Ages can be regarded as a sustained dialogue with Moses Maimonides, regardless of the different social, cultural, and intellectual environments in which it was conducted. Much of Jewish intellectual history can be viewed as a series of engagements with him, fueled by the kind of "Jewish" rabbinic and esoteric writing Maimonides practiced. This book examines a wide range of theologians, philosophers, and exegetes who share a passionate engagement with Maimonides, assaulting, adopting, subverting, or adapting his philosophical and jurisprudential thought. This ongoing enterprise is critical to any appreciation of the broader scope of Jewish law, philosophy, biblical interpretation, and Kabbalah. Maimonides's legal, philosophical, and exegetical corpus became canonical in the sense that many subsequent Jewish thinkers were compelled to struggle with it in order to advance their own thought. As such, Maimonides joins fundamental Jewish canon alongside the Bible, the Talmud, and the Zohar.
Maimonides for Moderns
by Ira BedzowThis book aims to construct a contemporary Jewish philosophy that accounts for virtue ethics or, rather, to give Jewish virtue ethics a contemporary language for its expression. Ira Bedzow draws significantly on the work of Moses Maimonides and his religio-philosophical explanation of Jewish ethics. However, Bedzow moves away from various aspects of Maimonides's Aristotelian biology, physics, metaphysics, and psychology. The objective of the volume is to integrate the normative principles of the Jewish tradition into everyday life. While the book translates Jewish ethics from a medieval, Aristotelian framework into a contemporary one, it also serves as a means for Judaism to continue as a living tradition.
Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed": A Philosophical Guide
by Alfred L. IvryA classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary--even contradictory--statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guarded and dissembling manner in order to convey different meanings to different readers, with the knowledge that many would resist his bold reformulations of God and his relation to mankind. As a result, for all the acclaim the Guide has received, comprehension of it has been unattainable to all but a few in every generation. Drawing on a lifetime of study, Alfred L. Ivry has written the definitive guide to the Guide--one that makes it comprehensible and exciting to even those relatively unacquainted with Maimonides' thought, while also offering an original and provocative interpretation that will command the interest of scholars. Ivry offers a chapter-by-chapter exposition of the widely accepted Shlomo Pines translation of the text along with a clear paraphrase that clarifies the key terms and concepts. Corresponding analyses take readers more deeply into the text, exploring the philosophical issues it raises, many dealing with metaphysics in both its ontological and epistemic aspects.