Shalom! This video is about building your Jewish Library. The very first book I recommend that everybody get is a Hamash that is the 5 books of Moses with the Haftara, the prophetic portions we read on the Sabbath and holidays. And there are one volume editions that synagogues use, the one I highly recommend is Ascheim. This is my business card. It looks like this and is published by the rabbinical assembly in and the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism. It is the new standard conservative Torah volume with a lot of commentaries on every page. You have the Hebrew Torah vocalized with English translation and then commentary of both Rabbinic Midrash and explanations and legal points, it is a very good edition.
Besides that, in the path are brilliant essays of biblical scholarship and many wide ranging subjects. So again, I highly recommend people get the Ascheim volume of the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
And then people should have a prayer book to use, and it is a very good prayer book which has good commentaries. It is a large edition, it is for the Sabbath and festivals, it is called Kiddush by Rabbi Reuven Hammer. It is also published by the rabbinical assembly in United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. What makes it so good is that it has the prayers with English translation and then very good commentary on the sides.
Now, the most comprehensive bigsy doors by a Rabbi named Hertz, but I would definitely suggest, you can get this from the United Synagogue website or maybe from your closest Jewish book store Kiddush percept as an holidays for Siddur Sim Shalom with the commentary.
Now, two other books I would highly recommend, this one is very difficult to find, Amazon right now has a couple of copies bynovels.com. They have some copies, it is called the Mitzvot by Rabbi Abraham Chill and what is great about it is that it goes through all of the commandments of the Torah, according to Maimonides and then it gives you the legal Hawa Ka from an orthodox perspective, and then below, there are commentaries, the synthesis of commentators of the great commentators of Judaism.
In the beginning of the book, it tells you who they all are, with a little paragraph. It is a fascinating way to study the commandments, the commandments and the rationale. So this book is called the Mitzvot by Abraham Chill. If you can get I, it is really a terrific study guide. And everybody should have a code of Jewish law. The one I recommend for non-orthodox is called A guide to Jewish Religious Practice, this is it without the cover and it is by a Rabbi named Isaac Kline, and it is very comprehensive, it covers, it has a lot of the laws. And it may be a little technical for beginners. He has a lot of laws for daily prayer, blessings, the Sabbath, all of the holidays, the new moon, laws of mourning, slaughtering an animal, of Kashrud, of marriage, of ritual circumcision, adoption, conversion, divorce and the laws of family purity. It has some explanation and lots and lots of law. Quoting, the standard codes and some innovations and changes by the Rabbinical Assembly.
So again, A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice by Rabbi Isaac Kline. Four really basic books that every Jewish library I think should have, especially for the non-orthodox, I am very worthwhile.
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