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Title: Buried Treasure : Hidden Wisdom from the Hebrew Language by Rabbi Daniel Lapin ISBN: 1-57673-722-5 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 30 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect title
Comment: The title for this book is perfect. Rabbi Lapin uses details about the Hebrew language as a springboard to wisdom. I first learned about Rabbi Lapin when he filled in for a local talkshow host. This book is not about politics as you would expect. Instead it is a collection of essays about relationships, parenting, and business.
Some of his explanations of Hebrew grammar are flaky as are his flights of gematria (studies using the numeric values of the Hebrew letters). But they are not the point. The point of the book is to teach life lessons based on Hebrew words - that the Torah is a guidebook for successful living.
Rating: 5
Summary: Golden Nuggets
Comment: This book is so enjoyable to read that you may be surprised how much you are learning and gleaning from its insights. This book has great examples of how to apply lessons to your day-to-day life. I loved Rabbi's other book, but this is great in a totally different way. It is non-political but still has a lot to say on th best way for us to organize our relationships, relate to our Maker, and become successful in our professional lives. This book made me want to meet the author and ask his advice on everything- which most 'self help' books do not usually do. I heartily recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Buried Treasure" is an accurate title for this book
Comment: I went to Hebrew school in the 1970s for my bar mitzvah and "learned Hebrew" -- meaning, learned how to pronounce the letters, while having absolute no idea what the words meant. This is about all the Hebrew education Reform and Conservative Jews tend to get from their temples. Later I learned to understand Hebrew well enough to read the Pentateuch. As a longtime resident of the Upper West Side, Manhattan, I heard all kinds of rabbis talk about all kinds of Jewish subjects. But I didn't REALLY begin to comprehend this amazing language till I started reading Rabbi Lapin's writings about the insights that are coded in the very structure of Hebrew grammar, spelling, etc. So when I heard he'd written a whole book about Hebrew, I was very excited. I'm a little disappointed that the book isn't more comprehensive; it's fairly short. Hopefully there'll be a second volume. But what's here is great: a variety of Hebrew words analyzed in detail, in a very accessible, charming way, that yield lots of sometimes-counterintuitive "life lessons" about everything from sex to work to deepening your relationship with God. There's no heavy grammar or vocabulary. You won't come away from the book being able to speak or read Hebrew. That's not the point. It's more like a series of fun, elegant essays about life that unfold from Lapin's incomparable command of this ancient tongue. I've read all about those "Bible code" books, that are supposed to show how information is coded in the text of the Hebrew Bible. I'm not sure about that. But the way Hebrew works -- almost like mathematics -- is enough to make you wonder if there's something supernatural going on with this language. I mean, I don't think Enlish works that way. "Buried Treasure" is a pretty accurate title for this book.
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Title: Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money by Rabbi Daniel Lapin ISBN: 0471218685 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 13 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: America's Real War by Rabbi Daniel Lapin ISBN: 1576736555 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 30 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Judaism for Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faith by Schmuley Boteach, Shmuley Boteach ISBN: 0465007953 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: To Kindle a Soul: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Parents and Teachers by Lawrence Kelemen ISBN: 1881927199 Publisher: Leviathan Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Messianic Mystics by Moshe Idel ISBN: 0300082886 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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