IsmailaGodHasHeard
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What is your favorite religious book? Mine is the New American Standard Bible translation of the Holy Bible.
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What is your favorite religious book?
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Dena
Active Member
I really like Telushkin's Jewish Literacy.
I also liked The Wisdom of Judaism: An Introduction to Talmud. It's very simple and easy to understand. Anyone could read it.
I also really liked Living a Joyouse Life: The True Spirit of Jewish Practice by Rabbi David Aaron. I didn't like another of his books I tried to read.
The Sabbath by Heschel is of course fantastic.
How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household by Blu Greenberg was good too. Obviously directed at Jewish women.
Last year around Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur I read a book called This is Real and You are Completely Unprepared. I wanted to read it again this year but I didn't buy it so I may not get it in time.
I also liked The Wisdom of Judaism: An Introduction to Talmud. It's very simple and easy to understand. Anyone could read it.
I also really liked Living a Joyouse Life: The True Spirit of Jewish Practice by Rabbi David Aaron. I didn't like another of his books I tried to read.
The Sabbath by Heschel is of course fantastic.
How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household by Blu Greenberg was good too. Obviously directed at Jewish women.
Last year around Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur I read a book called This is Real and You are Completely Unprepared. I wanted to read it again this year but I didn't buy it so I may not get it in time.
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
Either the Principia Discordia or the Satanic Bible, but the latter is mostly rehash of existentialist and nihilist philosophy.
freethinker44
Well-Known Member
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer.
It's about fundamentalist mormons.
It's about fundamentalist mormons.
IsmailaGodHasHeard
Well-Known Member
Those are all such interesting choices. I personally have the Bhagavad Gita too.
tumbleweed41
Resident Liberal Hippie
A few favorites...
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Karen Armstrong.
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, Thomas Paine
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (The Jefferson Bible), Thomas Jefferson
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Karen Armstrong.
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, Thomas Paine
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (The Jefferson Bible), Thomas Jefferson
Gaura Priya
IRL
I like the Bhagavad Gita, and all religious Scriptures, frankly (Guru Granth Sahib, the Bible, which I grew up with [American Standard Version], the Qur'an, the Baha'i Writings, and even our Chaitanya Charitamrta, the Pureland Sutras, the Book of Mormon, etc.).
The book I like the most is called the Sri Sri Prapanna-jivanamrtam, which is a compilation of all the Vedic Scriptures giving the essence of bhakti yoga and surrender to Krishna, compiled by my shiksha guru, Srila Sridhar Maharaj. You can find it online for free as well.
The book I like the most is called the Sri Sri Prapanna-jivanamrtam, which is a compilation of all the Vedic Scriptures giving the essence of bhakti yoga and surrender to Krishna, compiled by my shiksha guru, Srila Sridhar Maharaj. You can find it online for free as well.
IsmailaGodHasHeard
Well-Known Member
Those are good too.
Levite
Higher and Higher
Me'or Enayim, by R. Menachem Nachum of Chernobyl (18th century): he was the foremost student of the Baal Shem Tov (founder of Hasidism), and this book is his magnum opus of Torah insight.
Sefer Yetzirah. This is the primary work of pre-Zoharic Kabbalah, and probably dates from some time between 850 and 1100 CE.
Man's Quest for God, by R. Abraham Joshua Heschel. His small but amazing book on the philosophy of Jewish prayer.
Sefer Yetzirah. This is the primary work of pre-Zoharic Kabbalah, and probably dates from some time between 850 and 1100 CE.
Man's Quest for God, by R. Abraham Joshua Heschel. His small but amazing book on the philosophy of Jewish prayer.
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
IsmailaGodHasHeard
Well-Known Member
Those sound interesting.
BruceDLimber
Well-Known Member
The Book of Certitude (aka Kitab-i-Iqan), one of the volumes of Baha'i scripture.
You can see it here:
http://www.bahai-library.org
by clicking "Writings" and then the book title.
Best!
Bruce
You can see it here:
http://www.bahai-library.org
by clicking "Writings" and then the book title.
Best!
Bruce
Haven't read enough of them to say
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Satanic Bible was the best I've read so far, otherwise I only own the Tao Teh Ching, Analects, and another couple. The other two are also good.