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Lonely Man of Faith The

The Lonely Man of Faith

by Joseph B. Soloveitchik $24.95 [Hardcover] 100+ pages

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by Elie Wiesel $7.96 [Softcover] 100+ pages

Understanding Judaism Understanding Judaism

by Benjamin Blech $49.50 [Softcover] 300+ pages

Observant Life The

The Observant Life

by Martin S. Cohen & Michael Katz $34.95 [Hardcover] 900+ pages

Great Partnership The

The Great Partnership

by Jonathan Sacks $28.95 [Hardcover] 300+ pages

World From a Spiritual Perspective The

The World From a Spiritual Perspective

by Benjamin Blech $9.99 [Softcover] 300+ pages

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Summa Metaphysica

This philosophically exciting work has generated very considerable attention.

It has been widely reviewed, has been selected as a Main Feature Selection of The Jewish Book Club, has already been assigned as a course text at major universities around the world, and has been critically acclaimed as “the best book in print on the subject.”

by David Birnbaum

PRAISE FOR SUMMA I

“MASTERPIECE”

[Softcover] 300+ pages

- AJHS Heritage Journal New York - Nahum N. Glatzer Boston University -Dr. Sanford Drob Founder, NY Jewish Review According to Birnbaum, only the full plethora of potentials – and the quest thereof – could have ignited the cosmos.

The combined potentials for love, life, intellectu ality, spirituality and, indeed, for an infinitely Perfect Divine, ignited, birthed, nurtured, and projected the cosmos onward on its quest towards infinity. ‘Extraordinariation,’ according to the author, is the overarching goal.

[Softcover] 700+ pages

- Professor William Johnson Brandeis University - Rabbi Benjamin Blech Yeshiva University - Professor Masako Nakagawa Villanova University

$17.00 / book $34.00 / set

About the Author David Birnbaum is known in academic circles as the author of the Summa Metaphysica series: an overarching metaphysics.

He is a graduate of Yeshiva Dov Revel (Forest Hills), Yeshiva University High School (Manhattan), CCNY and Harvard.

God and Evil (1988), the first book in the landmark Summa Metaphysica series, has been assigned as a Required Text at universities around the world, and was a Book of the Month feature selection of the Jewish Book Club. The work has gone through Five Printings and eighteen thousand copies to date. The author is known as a leading conceptual theorist.

The two-volume Summa Metaphysica series was crafted over a twenty-six year span, 1982-1988 and then 2001-2008.

Jews, Church & Civilization – Birnbaum’s multi-volume integrated Jewish TimeLine work – was crafted in the 2002-2010 period.

David Birnbaum’s works have been used as course texts at Brandeis, UCLA, Hebrew University, Yeshiva University, Hebrew Union College, Tel Aviv University, Emory, JTS, Bar Ilan, and Union Theological Seminary, among others. His works have been reviewed by dozens of leading academic journals worldwide.

A long time ago, he taught “The Science of Strategy” at the New School in NY. He lives and works in Manhattan.

Jews, Church & Civilization

David Birnbaum’s Jews, Church & Civilization is a uniquely distinctive work on the extraordinary historical odyssey of the Jews.

Birnbaum starts not with Abraham, but somewhat more adventurously, with the ‘origin’ of the cosmos as we know it. The author uniquely places the Jewish journey within the context of Western and Asian history and advance.

Playing–out themes of the ebbs–and–flows of empires, discovery and exploration, scientific, intellectual and artistic advance, Birnbaum injects history with spice, flavor, irony and texture…. $90.00 / 7-volume set [Softcover]

Crucifixion of the Jews The

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David Birnbaum’s The Crucifixion (of the Jews) is a uniquely distinctive work on the extraordinary historical odyssey of the Jews during a pivotal slice of history.

This work focuses on the 1300 year time frame bracketing the emergenceof Christianity in the First Century, followed by the Christianizing of the Roman Empire post–Constantine, and finally, by the ending of the Crusades c. 1300 CE. Via the mode of an integrated TimeLine, the author focuses on the crushing historical forces at–play. The Jewish nation which entered this period, is unrecognizable from the Jewish nation which emerged….

[Softcover] 400+ pages

$30.00 / set

[Softcover] 300+ pages

120 Guardian

God’s

Angels

God’s 120 Guardian Angels is Birnbaum’s mode of explicating his signature theme– “Holy Quest for Potential.” Birnbaum conceived-of – and proposed – the theme in his first book God and Evil (1988). The author posits that “Quest for Potential” is the core and underlying dynamic of the cosmos.

Using his construct of “120 Guardian Angels,”Birnbaum focuses on assorted eclectic slices of the universe, and on some important metaphysical themes which directly relate to his metaphysics. $12.95 [Softcover] 200+ pages

Lost Manual The

The “Lost Manual” work plays with the applicability of Birnbaum’s Quest for Potential∞ metaphysics – from the Summa Metaphysica series on an INDIVIDUAL level.

The work maintains that Quest for Potential∞ drives not only the COSMOS as well as the DIVINE but also, the INDIVIDUAL. All are in1:1 parallel relationship to one another.

The Quest for Potential∞ metaphysics would support the proposition that “enlightened Self–Actualization” is front–and–center in human development.

The Lost Manual is a self–actualization / human potential pathfinder – as well as a 21st century (alleged) “Wisdom Book” – along with several other treats... $11.95 [Softcover] 100+ pages

Cosmic Womb of Potential The “Cosmic Womb of Potential” nourishes, enhances, and sustains the cosmos....

A womb woven within a womb within a womb....ad infinitum Nourished, enhanced and sustained within this womb, we live and grow, and attempt to thrive and advance....

Potential is the amniotic fluid of the infinitely expanding multi-layered Cosmic Womb...

The Cosmic Womb of Divine Potential sustains and advances life and all potential – stretching forward to the far reaches of time and infinity.... $14.00 [Softcover] 300+ pages

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Sanctification

Edited by David Birnbaum & Rabbi Benjamin Blech

from Essay for ‘Sanctification’ book

by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks ... And there is the priestly task of kedushah, sanctifying life by honouring the sacred ontology, the deep moral structure of the universe, through the life of the 613 commands, a life of discipline and self-restraint, honesty and integrity, respect and love, the code set out in the chapter of the Torah that opens with the momentous words, “Be holy for I, the Lord your God, am holy.” Other cultures and faiths drew inspiration from its wisdom and prophetic traditions, but kedushah remained a specific Jewish imperative that made us different. Even so, it contains a message for the world, which Jews bear witness to whenever and wherever they remain faithful to it.

Our vocation remains, to be mamlechet cohanim vegoi kadosh, “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”

- “The Ethic of Holiness”, August 2012

Rabbi Benjamin Blech Rabbi Saul Berman Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka Rabbi David C. Flatto Rabbi Hillel Goldberg Dr. James Kugel Dr. Tamar Ross Rabbi Shubert Spero Rabbi Amitai Adler Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Diamond Rabbi Jill Jacobs Rabbi Jonathan Slater Prof. Michael Graetz

Rabbi Martin S. Cohen Rabbi Yitzchak Blau Prof. Elisheva Carlebach Rabbi Barry Freundel Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot Rabbi Dr. David Mescheloff Rabbi Sol Roth Dr. Suzanne Last Stone Rabbi Dr. Brad Artson Rabbi Dr. Elliot N. Dorff Rabbi Rivon Krygier Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman

Chief Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks Dr. Judith Bleich Rabbi Shalom Carmy Mrs. Rachel Friedman Rabbanit Chana Henkin Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Dr. Lawrence Schiffman Rabbi Joel B. Wolowelsky Rabbi Dr. Michael J. Broyde Rabbi Dr. S. Tamar Kamionkowski Rabbi Dr. Gail Labovitz Rabbi Noam Zion Prof. Dan Greyber

>> MESORAH MATRIX: Participants to-date November, 2012 Dr. Michelle Sarna Rabbi Chaim Brovender Rabbi Alfred Cohen Rabbi Menachem Genack Rabbi Simcha Krauss Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Dr. David Shatz Dr. Avivah Zornberg Rabbi Yehonatan Chipman Rabbi Dr. Miriyam Glazer Rabbi Asher Lopatin Rabbi Ira Stone

David Birnbaum Editor-in Chief

10 - BOOK SERIES 100+ Essayists

Sanctification

Tikkun Olam

Modeh Ani

Birkat Kohanim

Betrothal / Ha-rei Ath

The Kaddish

Havdalah

Eheyeh asher Eheyeh

Search for Meaning

V’Shamru

THE SPARK OF THE INFINITE DIVINE

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Martin S. Cohen Editor, ConservativeJudaism, JTS

Jonathan Sacks United Hebrew Congregations

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James Kugel Institute for the History of the Jewish Bible

Michelle Sarna The Tikvah Center, Educational Alliance

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Benjamin Blech Yeshiva University, “Understanding Judaism�

Shalom Carmy Yeshiva University, Tradition Magazine

Bruce Chilton Bard College, Yale University

Lawrence Schiffman Yeshiva University

Peter Atkins University of Oxford, Lincoln College

Saul Berman Encyclopedia Judaica, Edah

HarvardMatrix@gmail.com

www.HarvardMatrix.com Elisheva Carlebach Marcelo Gleiser Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Graduate Center, science blog 13.7 CUNY

Emanuel Feldman Tradition Magazine, Ariel Chumash

Menachem Genack Orthodox Union, Norpac

Shlomo Riskin Ohr Torah Stone Colleges, Efrat

Suzanne Stone Yeshiva University, Center for Jewish Law

The highly anticipated

Masorah Matrix Series has three books underway so far: Sanctification

Tikkun Olam

Modeh Ani

co-edited by

co-edited by

co-edited by

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Martin S. Cohen

Dr. Michelle Sarna

Mesorah Matrix [ Mesorah1000.com ] is a major – and potentially landmark – intellectual-spiritual-philosophical endeavor. The plan well-underway is to publish 10 separate books – each on a very focused Jewish theme – under the Mesorah Matrix umbrella. By the end of 2013, over 100 leading authors/ essayists globally will be involved in the decade-spanning project.

There will be a total of 5-7 renowned independent editors, each responsible for 1-3 themes/books. Each book, in turn, will have 10-15 separate essays – each by a separate essayist/author. The publisher is seeking vibrant and erudite pieces for this major endeavor – from Judaism’s elite across the global spectrum.

The focused-purpose and raison d’etre of the series is to more fully draw-out the spiritual and transcendent embedded within Judaism. These are sometimes referred-to as Elyonoth or ‘Higher-Sphere’ themes. The intent of the quiteunique 10-volume series is to be ‘transformational’.

The Editor-in-Chief of the over-all series is David Birnbaum of Manhattan, author of the Summa Metaphysica philosophy series (independent of Mesorah Matrix). [ see www.Philosophy1000.com ]

Code of Jewish Ethics A

A code of Jewish Ethics

by Joseph Telushkin $29.25 [Hardcover] 500+ pages

Days of Awe

Days of Awe

by S.Y. Agnon $12.00 [Softcover] 200+ pages

“With the stated purpose of restoring ethics to its central role in Judaism, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin offers hundreds of examples from the Torah, the Talmud, rabbinic commentaries, and contemporary stories to illustrate how ethical teachings can affect our daily behavior….”

S.Y. Agnon

First Jewish Catalog The

The First Jewish Catalog

by Richard Siegel, Michael Strassfeld $39.95 [Softcover] 300+ pages

“The original “Whole Earth” Jewish Catalogue. One of J Levine’s all time best sellers. For anyone who has ever wondered how to make wine, crochet a kippah, locate a Jewish film, start a Jewish library, or bring the Messiah, this exciting collection of far-ranging topics can help any Jew--those steeped in tradition or those just discovering Judaism--to become personally involved in the many aspects of Jewish ritual life, customs, cooking, crafts, and creation.”

Studies in Torah Studies in Torah 7-volumes

by Nehama Leibowitz $199.99 [Hardcover]

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The Essential Talmud by Adin Steinsaltz

by Adin Steinsaltz $17.95 [Softcover] 300+ pages

The Essential Talmud: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition by Adin Steinsaltz and translated by Chaya Galai. …Describing the Talmud as “the backbone of creativity and national life” for Jews, Rabbi Steinsaltz explains that “understanding the Talmud gives one a key, not only for itself, but for all Jewish culture.” He goes on to state that “from a cultural perspective the Talmud is the tool for selfunderstanding” for the Jewish people….