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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “shalom carmy”
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  • Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel

    Edited by Jeffrey Saks, Shalom Carmy ...
    Series series Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies Series
    "As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. "But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem." Agnon's act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Judaism, Science, and Moral Responsibility

    by David Shatz, Rivkah Teitz Blau, Shalom Carmy, Michelle Friedman, Basil Herring, Robert Pollack, Haim Sompolinsky, Moshe Halevi Spero, Rachel Yehuda0 ...
    Series series The Orthodox Forum Series
    Do human beings have free will? Are they genuinely responsible for their actions? These questions have persisted all through the history of philosophy, but in the 21st century they have become defined more sharply and clearly than ever. Indeed, a vivid and mighty tension underlies today's intellectual struggles over free will. On the one hand, the rapid advances of several empirical disciplines, ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah

    Edited by Shalom Carmy ...
    Series series The Orthodox Forum Series
    From the Preface:"The principal thrust of this book is to challenge the compartmentalization to which we seem all too easily resigned, to discover whether, and to what extent, the methods of modern scholarship can become part and parcel of the study of Torah, conceived as a religious-intellectual way of life. Not 'Modern Scholarship and the Study of Torah,' but 'Modern Scholarship in the Study of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    by Adina Hoffman, Peter Cole ...
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    by Judea Pearl, Ruth Pearl ...
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