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Tales of the Righteous
By Simcha Raz - Trans. Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2011
Throughout the generations, Jews have been inspired and guided by the tales of gedolim, our great masters of piety and wisdom. Simcha Raz’s Tales of the Righteous, newly translated by Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, brings the lives of these masters to life. Raz’s pithy vignettes and awe-inspiring tales show that together with their brilliance in Torah study, these rabbis were also paragons of sensitive, ethical behavior. Book Details
Price: $24.95
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Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul - Paperback
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2001
This collection is filled with stories that celebrate the joys, sorrows and challenges of being Jewish. Storytelling is a major component of the Jewish tradition, and this book honors that heritage. Some stories are timely and others are timeless; all are filled with heart-and, of course, love. In these pages you will doscover the invincible power of love-love of family, love of tradition, love of God. Whether you are a Jew or a non-Jew, this collection is sure to capture your heart. Publishers Weekly called it the best of the entire Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Book Details
Price: $18.00
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Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul - Hardcover
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2001
This collection is filled with stories that celebrate the joys, sorrows and challenges of being Jewish. Storytelling is a major component of the Jewish tradition, and this book honors that heritage. Some stories are timely and others are timeless; all are filled with heart-and, of course, love. In these pages you will doscover the invincible power of love-love of family, love of tradition, love of God. Whether you are a Jew or a non-Jew, this collection is sure to capture your heart. Publishers Weekly called it the best of the entire Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Book Details
Price: $24.00
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DOV-ray TORAH e-Newsletter
By Dov Peretz Elkins, published annual weekly subscription
This is an annual subscription, filled with short divray Torah, book reviews, d'var Tefilah, Torah study, divray Torah for special occasions, current Israel issues & much more. Main issue comes out every Sunday or Monday, Supplement Wednesday or Thursday. $249. - web site shows $217., which automatically adds 15% s&h to make $249. Book Details
Price: $217.00
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SIMPLE ACTIONS FOR JEWS TO HELP GREEN THE PLANET
By Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2011
The Jewish heritage has a great deal to teach about the preservation and care of the planet, God’s gift to all of us. Drawing upon the wisdom of biblical, Talmudic, midrashic and other texts, as well as modern, reliable, scientific research, Rabbi Elkins lists scores of specific actions that we can perform to slow, and hopefully reverse, the deterioration of our environmental well-being. While there are other books on the subject of Judaism and the environment, SIMPLE ACTIONS FOR JEWS TO HELP GREEN THE PLANET (Growth Associates / October 2011/ Softcover/ $17.99) is the only one that deals directly with specific actions and behaviors that Jews (and people of all faiths and backgrounds) can perform to become active in helping to green the planet. Book Details
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Hasidic Wisdom: Sayings From The Jewish Sages
By Simcha Raz, published 1997
Collected in this volume are over one thousand of the most popular and trenchant aphorisms of the past several centuries of hasidic teaching that have captured the heart and soul of world Jewry since the birth of Hasidism. Most remarkable about these pithy hasidic sayings is how they combine the wisdom of Jewish tradition with sound modern psychological and spiritual insight. The book is divided into thirty brief chapters on issues that have relevance to every human being: love and hate, faith, truth, the inner life, heaven and hell, leadership, loneliness, friendship, piety, anger, music, poverty, righteousness, prayer, charity, and repentance. The reader will find in this newest and most clearly focused treasure of hasidic doctrine a touching and heart-warming collection of profound revelations on spirituality, Torah, human relationships, and personal growth. Book Details
Price: $35.00
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SIDRAH SPARKS: TALKING TORAH AT THE TABLE
By Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2010
The Torah is called -Etz Chaim – a tree of life. In all of his writings, Dov Peretz Elkins has managed to make the ancient wisdom of Judaism come alive for modern men and women. He is at his best in Sidrah Sparks, Talking Torah at the Table with Your Family. Rest assured, not only will this book give you something to talk about at your table with your family; it will also give rabbis something to talk about in their synagogue with their congregants. The book really does help make the Torah come alive! Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg is the rabbi of the Beth Tfiloh Congregation in Baltimore, MD -- Rabbi Elkins has created a valuable, easy-to-use resource for families to connect to stimulating nuggets from Torah. while connecting to each other. Helene Tigay, Consultant for Jewish Education -- Book Details
Price: $17.99
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Minhah and Maariv Service for a House of Mourning
By Rabbi Bob Freedman, published 2006
A traditional softcover Siddur with Minhah and Maariv for a House of Mourning, with a few readings of comfort. Light, easy to put 50 copies into a brief case and carry to a shivah home. Ask for quantity prices. Book Details
Price: $10.00
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Moments of Transcendence Supplement CD -1992-2004
By Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2004
This CD includes 13 Moments of Transcendence Supplements from 1992 to 2004 - including approximately 1500 pages of inspiring readings for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Book Details
Price: $149.00
Discount: $49.00
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The Bible's Top 50 Ideas: Essential Concepts Everyone Should Know
By Dov Peretz Elkins with Abigail Treu, published 2004
The author's theory is that if one knows 50 verses of the 5000 in the Torah (1%!), the reader will begin to grasp the essence of the Bible This is a revolutionary approach. Finally, a book about the Bible that is accessible, which focuses on its great moral principles, and not about passages which relate long genealogies, and complicated priestly rituals at the altar. Book Details
Price: $18.00
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Sidrah Sparks - Combined CD
By Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2004
This CD contains all three Sidrah Sparks volumes: Sidrah Sparks; More Sidrah Sparks; New Sidrah Sparks. Book Details
Price: $99.00
Discount: $39.90
Sale Price: $59.10
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The Wisdom of Judaism: An Introduction to the Values of the Talmud
By Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, published March, 2007
The author has a remarkable knack for choosing those statements in the wide sea of the Talmud that best express the human values of Judaism. Even as a collection of moral and ethical aphorisms, the book will be outstanding. Add to that the authors elaboration and explication of the values inherent in these dicta in a charming and literate style, and you have a book that is not only worth reading and studying, but also sharing with others. Rabbi Norman Lamm, Chancellor, Yeshiva University **** While the Tanakh is the cornerstone of Judaism, it is the Talmud that provides many central values for living, setting specific guidelines regarding kindness through giving, treating others fairly, openly and lovingly; personal values such as humility and dignity; family values re marriage and unconditional love - and other profound words of advice for life's most intractable puzzles. Book Details
Price: $17.00
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Moments of Transcendence: Annual Supplement-5773/2012
By Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2012
This is in the MOMENTS OF TRANSCENDENCE Supplement series, comments on the High Holiday liturgy, except with an easier format and expanded number of pages for 5773. CD only. Book Details
Price: $50.00
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MOMENTS OF TRANSCENDENCE - CD - Annual Supplement 2011- 5772
By Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2011
This CD contains new material in the format of all the previous Supplements. There is no hard copy. CD only. Not duplicated in any hard back volume. Book Details
Price: $30.00
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Moments of Transcendence 5774- 2013 - New Annual Supplement
By Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2013
These emailed files contain new material in the format of all the previous Supplements. There is no hard copy. Emailed files only. Not duplicated in any hard back volume. Book Details
Price: $43.00
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NAME CARDS - B'shem HaShem
By Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, published 2010
Beautifully Crafted Cards with a Hebrew Name and Matching Biblical Verse. -The Perfect Inexpensive Jewish Gift for Rabbis and Laypeople to Give. Unique and meaningful laminated business-size cards with Hebrew names and individualized verses from the Bible. According to Jewish tradition, each person has a special verse in the Bible that begins with the first letter of his/her first name and ends with the last letter of that name. For example, for the name Avraham, the verse is from Proverbs 25:21 ~ “Im ra-ev sona-a-kha, ha-a-kheelayhu lahem, v'im tza-may, hashkayhu mayiM.”[If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, If he is thirsty, give him water to drink.] Book Details
Price: $25.00
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