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Contemporary Classics

Toward a Meaningful Life

A spiritual road map for living based on the teachings of one of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Bringing Heaven Down to Earth

Taste the Rebbe's wisdom, condensed from over 50 years of letters, talks and private conversations.

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Wisdom to Heal the Earth

Discover how the details of our everyday lives are vital, crucial, and especially urgent in reaching a grand and ultimate destiny.

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Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson

A work of history and a compendium of the Rebbe's teachings, The definitive guide to understanding the most vital figure of the last centuries.

Daily Wisdom

Daily Wisdom`s 378 daily lessons, are a taste of the Rebbe's vast and deep teachings, filled with love for G-d, Torah and the Jewish people.

A Guide to Jewish Prayer

For both the novice and for those who have been engaged in prayer for years, this is the one guide needed to practice Jewish prayer and understand the prayer book.

Book of Our Heritage

This beloved classic explores the holidays, Festivals and fast days of the Jewish calendar and explains their laws and customs.

Chasidic Perspectives: A Festival Anthology

Insights into the history and meaning of these celebrated days, and the role these holidays play in personal and family life.

In the Beginning: Discourses on Chasidic Thought

Drawing on the teachings of the Alter Rebbe, this book takes readers deep into the mysteries of Creation.

Seeds of Wisdom

Seeds of Wisdom is a valuable resource that makes many important points in a brief, memorable way

The Garden of Peace: A Marital Guide for Men

Take a stroll through a delightful and refreshing garden, where tranquil thoughts, soothing words, and brilliant insights abound.

The Joy of Intimacy

The Joy of Intimacy will give you the skills and confidence you need to keep your relationship alive, fresh, and fulfilling.

A Treasury of Chassidic Tales

This remarkable book is intelligently written and provides an organized structure to some very inspiring Hasidic Rabbinic figures.

Inside Time

Inside Time is a three-book series exploring the soul of time as defined by the Torah and as illuminated by chassidic teaching.

Sabbath: Day Of Eternity

This book is about the day that is the heart of Jewish existence, offering explanations and a concise guide to Sabbath observance.

From Infinity to Man

Explore creation, the role of man in this world, divine providence, miracles, good, evil and the soul.

The Mitzvot: The Commandments and Their Rationale

A pioneering study dealing with the traditional rationale behind the 613 commandments in the Torah.

Positivity Bias

An inspiring tapestry woven from hundreds of stories of how the Rebbe taught us to see ourselves, others, and the world around us.

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My Prayer

A commentary on the daily, Shabbat & Festival Prayers. Authored by the late Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel, noted scholar and prolific author, this work is the standard text on the Siddur.

Jewish Living - Simply Explained

With a concise bottom-line, plus an extensive list of follow-up references, this encyclopedic collection can be read in minutes, yet inspire for a lifetime.

G-D, Rationality and Mysticism

This book is aimed at addressing two common misconceptions. The first is that belief in G-d is purely a matter of faith. The second is that rationality is incompatible with mysticism.

An MBA from Heaven

How can someone practically build a successful career and business while contributing to a fair and just society.

This Is My God

This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing religion with all the power, clarity, and wit of Wouk's celebrated novels.

The Oral Law

For those looking to understand how the oral law works, was developed, and how the various rabbinic enactments and pronouncements interact with it.

Women's Wisdom: The Garden of Peace for Women

This book helps one understand the meaning of being a woman. In our society today many are confused about what the creator wants as our role. Most are influenced by society and the media and take on the role of the opposite sex.

Saturday Night, Full Moon

A collection of thirty-three Chasidic stories of Kabbalah sages, Chasidic masters and other Jewish heroes dating from 16th Century Israel to 21st Century USA.

Social Vision

Social Vision delves into the deep structures of social reality and the ways it is shaped and reshaped by powerful ideologies.

The Jewish Home

The mystical and Chassidic meaning of sharing our lives with our spouses and building a home that stands on the firm foundation of Torah and mitzvos.

The Wolf Shall Lie with the Lamb

This book clarifies the classic Jewish belief of Moshiach in terms that can be grasped by both layperson and scholar.

To Be a Jew

A clear and comprehensive introduction to traditional Jewish laws and customs as they apply to daily life in the contemporary world.

The Essential Talmud: An Introduction

A succinct description of the Talmud's history, structure, and methodology.

Think Jewish

Slice through the niggling conflicts that block a Jew from living Jewish. Each chapter opens with a tough question. The answers, which turn Western thought inside out, are down-to-earth and delivered in deftly polished prose.

To Pray As A Jew

From the simplest details to the most profound comments on the prayers themselves, the reader is guided through the entire prayer service.

Going Kosher in 30 Days

Teaches the simply curious and those considering going kosher all the whys and hows of kosher.

Endless Light: The Ancient Path of Kabbalah

Unlike other works on the Kabbalah, Endless Light is a thought-provoking, practical guide that illuminates our path in life.

A Letter in the Scroll

How, in the face of such adversity, has Judaism remained and flourished, making a mark on human history out of all proportion to its numbers?

Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide

Students of mediation are usually surprised to discover that a Jewish mediation tradition exists and that it is an authentic and integral part of mainstream Judaism.

My Story

With incredible insight and sensitivity, the Rebbe's wisdom and compassion serve as an unexpected ray of hope in the fact of challenge and adversity.

The Edifice

A journey into the Rebbe's uplifting world of ideas and life lessons on dating, love, marriage, the Jewish wedding, children and Mikvah.

Dear Rebbe

Four people’s lives are examined through their Jewish prism and how they reacted to the Rebbe’s calling for living their life more Jewishly.

Your Awesome Self

Personal encounters and authentic stories that will help you let go of toxic resentment, insecurity and helplessness as you embrace your inherent worthiness, dignity and unstoppable empowerment.

Living Jewish

The basic training every child needs to live the way G-d wants. Master basic prayers and blessings; find out how to keep G-d's commandments; explore the stages of a Jewish life cycle.