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• God Was in This Place & I, I Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality, and Ultimate Meaning (The Kushner series)

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  
   

• Because Nothing Looks Like God (Teacher's Guide)

  Karen Hushner, Lawrence Kushner, Karen Kushner

  
  What is God like? Mixing sparks of curiosity and spiritual imagination, this wondrous book lights children’s creativity and shows how God is with us everyday, in every way.

  In this, their first collaborative book, husband-and-wife team Lawrence and Karen Kushner combine their experience to help introduce children to the possibilities of spiritual life. Real-life examples of happiness and sadness-from goodnight stories, to the hope and fear felt the first time at bat, to the closing moments of someone’s life-invite parents and children to explore, together, the questions we all have about God, no matter what our age.

  
   

• The Way Into Jewish Mystical Tradition

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  
   

• The Book of Letters: A Mystical Hebrew Alphabet (The Kushner Series)

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  
   

• The BOOK of WORDS: Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talk (The Kushner series)

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  
   

• Eyes Remade for Wonder: A Lawrence Kushner Reader (The Kushner series)

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  
   

• Where is God?

  Lawrence Kushner, Karen Kushner

  
  To young children the world is full of things to see and touch. And by using those very examples, this enchanting book gently invites children to become aware of God’s presence all around us.

  Abridged from Because Nothing Looks Like God by Lawrence and Karen Kushner, Where Is God? has been specially adapted to board book format to delight and inspire younger readers.

  
   

• The Oracle of Kabbalah: Mystical Teachings of the Hebrew Letters

  Richard Seidman, Lawrence Kushner

  
  
   

• Jewish Spirituality : A Brief Introduction for Christians

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  
   

• Kabbalah: A Love Story

  Lawrence Kushner

  

  Sometime, somewhere, someone is searching for answers . . .
  . . . in a thirteenth-century castle
  . . . on a train to a concentration camp
  . . . in a New York city apartment
  
  Hidden within the binding of an ancient text that has been passed down through the ages lies the answer to one of the heart’s eternal questions. When the text falls into the hands of Rabbi Kalman Stern, he has no idea that his lonely life of intellectual pursuits is about to change once he opens the book. Soon afterward, he meets astronomer Isabel Benveniste, a woman of science who stirs his soul as no woman has for many years. But Kalman has much to learn before he can unlock his heart and let true love into his life. The key lies in the mysterious document he finds inside the Zohar, the master text of the Kabbalah.

  
   

• Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary (The Kushner series)

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  Lawrence Kushner, whose previous books have opened up new spiritual possibilities, now tells us stories in a new literary form. Through his everyday encounters with family, friends, colleagues, and strangers, Kushner takes us deeply into our lives, finding flashes of spiritual insight in the process. Such otherwise ordinary moments as fighting with his children, shopping for bargain basement clothes, or just watching a movie are revealed to be touchstones for the sacred.

  This is a book where literature meets spirituality, where the sacred meets the ordinary, and, above all, where people of all faiths, all backgrounds, can meet one another and themselves. Kushner ties together the stories of our lives into a roadmap showing how everything ordinary is supercharged with meaning if we can just see it.

  
   

• The Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spiritual Awareness : For Parents to Read to Their Children, for Children to Read to Their Pa

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  
   

• How Does God Make Things Happen?

  Lawrence Kushner, Karen Kushner

  
  To young children, the world is full of things to see and touch. And by using those very examples, this enchanting book gently invites children to become aware of God's presence all around us.

  Abridged from Because Nothing Looks Like God by Lawrence and Karen Kushner, How Does God Make Things Happen? has been specially adapted to board book format to delight and inspire younger readers.

  Much has been written about the importance of reading simple, beautiful books to babies and preschoolers to stimulate brain development. But perhaps even more important, what you read begins to shape your child's world, and creates the images that will remain with him or her throughout life. We read books to our children about letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and safety, but do we give their minds the early food they need to think about life's bigger questions?

  As spiritual development experts now tell us, each child develops an image of God by age 5, with or without religious instruction. How Does God Make Things Happen? takes you and your child on an imaginative journey designed to help you open not only your child's mind, but your child's heart and soul as well.

  
   

• I'm God; You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  
   

• Honey from the Rock Anniv Ed PB

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  
   

• What Does God Look Like? (2000)

  Lawrence Kushner, Karen Kushner

  
  To young children, the world is full of things to see and touch. And by using those very examples, this enchanting book gently invites children to become aware of God's presence all around us.

  Abridged from Because Nothing Looks Like God by Lawrence and Karen Kushner, What Does God Look Like? has been specially adapted to board book format to delight and inspire younger readers.

  Much has been written about the importance of reading simple, beautiful books to babies and preschoolers to stimulate brain development. But perhaps even more important, what you read begins to shape your child's world, and creates the images that will remain with him or her throughout life. We read books to our children about letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and safety, but do we give their minds the early food they need to think about life's bigger questions?

  As spiritual development experts now tell us, each child develops an image of God by age 5, with or without religious instruction. What Does God Look Like? takes you and your child on an imaginative journey designed to help you open not only your child's mind, but your child's heart and soul as well.

  
   

• The River of Light: Jewish Mystical Awareness

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  This is an invitation to wade into a deeper spiritual consciousness. Taking us step-by-step, Kushner helps us to allow "the river of light"--the deepest currents of consciousness--to rise to the surface and animate our lives.
  
   

• Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy

  Lawrence Kushner, David Mamet

  
  In the ancient Jewish practice of the kavannah (a meditation designed to focus one’s heart on its spiritual goal), Lawrence Kushner and David Mamet offer their own reactions to key verses from each week’s Torah portion, opening the biblical text to new layers of understanding.
  
  Here is a fascinating glimpse into two great minds, as each author approaches the text from his unique perspective, each seeking an understanding of the Bible’s personalities and commandments, paradoxes and ambiguities. Kushner offers his words of Torah with a conversational enthusiasm that ranges from family dynamics to the Kabbalah; Mamet challenges the reader, often beginning his comment far afield—with Freud or the American judiciary—before returning to a text now wholly reinterpreted.
  
  In the tradition of Israel as a people who wrestle with God, Kushner and Mamet grapple with the biblical text, succumbing neither to apologetics nor parochialism, asking questions without fear of the answers they may find. Over the course of a year of weekly readings, they comment on all aspects of the Bible: its richness of theme and language, its contradictions, its commandments, and its often unfathomable demands. If you are already familiar with the Bible, this book will draw you back to the text for a deeper look. If you have not yet explored the Bible in depth, Kushner and Mamet are guides of unparalleled wisdom and discernment. Five Cities of Refuge is easily accessible yet powerfully illuminating. Each week’s comments can be read in a few minutes, but they will give you something to think about all week long.
  
  Lawrence Kushner teaches and writes as the Emanu-El Scholar at The Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. He has taught at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City and served for twenty-eight years as rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, Massachusetts. A frequent lecturer, he is also the author of more than a dozen books on Jewish spirituality and mysticism. He lives in San Francisco.
  
  David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright. He is the author of Glengarry Glen Ross, The Cryptogram, and Boston Marriage, among other plays. He has also published three novels and many screenplays, children's books, and essay collections.
  
   

• Honey from the Rock: An Easy Introduction to Jewish Mysticism (The Kushner series)

  Lawrence Kushner

  
  An introduction to the ten gates of Jewish mysticism and how it applies to daily life.
  
   

• Filling Words with Light: Hasidic and Mystical Reflections on Jewish Prayer

  Lawrence Kushner, Nehemiah Polen

  
  Breathe New Life into Your Prayer with the Wisdom of Kabbalah and the Hasidic Masters Jewish mystics teach that every word a person utters in prayer should radiate light. Even the letters of the words of prayer carry sparks of the Divine that yearn to join together in holiness. In this inspiring spiritual companion, Reform rabbi Lawrence Kushner and Orthodox rabbi Nehemia Polen join together to provide a window into the liturgy for people of all backgrounds by offering fresh insights and meditations that bring the traditional prayerbook to life. Drawing from the Torah, Zohar, and ancient and contemporary Hasidic masters, Kushner and Polen reflect on the joy, gratitude, compassion, mystery, and awe embedded in traditional prayers and blessings, and show how you can imbue these familiar sacred words with your own sense of holiness. Insightful, fresh, and wise, Filling Words with Light will enrich your understanding of the prayer book and guide you on how to put more of yourself into the holy words of the Jewish tradition.