- Author: Y.W. Editor
- Published: Sep 2nd, 2010
- Category: Jewish Book Reviews
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Struggle to the Summit
Some books just have the ability to speak to you. They get you to think, to reflect on a certain message, and even to change the way you’ve always perceived your everyday life. Like Struggle to the Summit—our newest, true medical drama.
Brimming with faith and inspiration, Struggle to the Summit tells the story of Rivka [...]
- Author: Y.W. Editor
- Published: Aug 16th, 2010
- Category: Jewish Book Reviews
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Shloshim Yom Kodem Hachag
Thirty days before a Yom Tov. The time when most frum people begin preparing in earnest for the approaching holiday, whether by cooking, cleaning, shopping, or taking care of any of the other myriads of details that are part and parcel of each Yom Tov.
According to the Gemara (Pesachim 6a), though, thirty days before a [...]
- Author: Y.W. Editor
- Published: Aug 5th, 2010
- Category: Jewish Book Reviews
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The Code of Jewish Conduct by Rabbi Yitzchok Silver
You want to buy a can of soda, but all the customers in the supermarket checkout line have full carts. May you cut the line? What inside information may you reveal about your roommate for shidduch purposes when asked? What information are you required to share, even when not asked?
What is worse – to show [...]
- Author: Y.W. Editor
- Published: Jul 6th, 2010
- Category: Jewish Book Reviews
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Mission Possible
It’s the classic case: You had a flight to catch for an extremely important visit or appointment somewhere, and you were running late—and missed the flight. And the flight did not crash.
Why me?! you think to yourself. Why did this have to happen to me?
Of course, when the stakes are higher, and the challenges and [...]
- Author: Y.W. Editor
- Published: Jun 9th, 2010
- Category: Jewish Book Reviews
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Waves Of Blue
She couldn’t understand what was happening to her. She had just given birth to a healthy baby, and everything was doing great. She had so much to be grateful for, so much to be happy about—so why was she feeling the exact opposite of grateful and happy?
And so begins Shoshanah Kagan’s true account of her [...]
- Author: Y.W. Editor
- Published: Jun 1st, 2010
- Category: Jewish Book Reviews
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New Book – BITACHON
Bitachon. Complete trust in Hashem. That much-desired trait that we all yearn to have. It is the key to shalom bayis, parnassah, and to a happier and more fulfilling life. Yet how do we go about acquiring bitachon?
In Bitachon, Rebbetzin Feldbrand, noted author of Simcha and Grow!, amongst her other popular books, gives us the [...]
- Author: Y.W. Editor
- Published: May 27th, 2010
- Category: Jewish Book Reviews
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Halachically Speaking Vol 2 Released
Great news for all of you Halachically Speaking fans out there! The anxiously-awaited Halachically Speaking 2, by Rabbi Moshe Dovid Lebovits, has finally been released!
As thousands of readers can testify, Halachically Speaking 2, like its predecessor, is an incredible sefer. It is extremely reader-friendly and easy to understand, and is chock-full of all those halachos [...]
- Author: Y.W. Editor
- Published: May 25th, 2010
- Category: Jewish Book Reviews
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Forever With Me
Forever with Me is a moving memoir depicting the searing pain of a teenager who watches her mother suffer from a terminal illness and eventually succumb to it. In her honest account, the author shares personal letters written lovingly to her mother as disease swept across her mother’s body, as well as the letters she [...]
- Author: Y.W. Editor
- Published: May 23rd, 2010
- Category: Jewish Book Reviews
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Bris Milah Secrets
Did you know that the reason the honor of kvatterin is given to a husband and wife is based on the idea that bris milah is compared to marriage, because through the milah the baby is betrothed to Hashem? And that one of the reasons why the bris milah takes place on the eighth day [...]
- Author: Y.W. Editor
- Published: May 17th, 2010
- Category: Jewish Book Reviews
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Special Delivery!
When Rachel Stein, popular children’s author and Yated columnist, began learning bei’ur tefillah in depth with a friend, she marveled at the layers of beauty hidden behind each word in the siddur. She saw firsthand how learning bei’ur tefillah enhanced her davening, and only wished she could share some of this treasure with her children. [...]