The Illustrated Mishnayoth Shabbath

Experience a breakthrough in learning with this new, translated edition of the Hebrew P'nei Shabbat, with the commentary of the Bartenura. With endearing illustrations and lucid English translation, this work is ideal for children and adults alike.

This beautifully illustrated book can be read by children alone or in a family setting. With a colorful page for each week of the Jewish calendar, it is designed to integrate the weekly Torah portion with the ideas, traditions and customs of the Sabbath. Conceived and published by the producers of the Animated Haggadah The Shabbat Book will appeal to every Jewish child - and parent.

Enormously popular with both children and adults alike, this book outlines the complex laws of Shabbath, accompanied by Yoni Gerstein's irresistible, full-color illustrations. Large format.

The literary creation of the ancient Jewish teachers or Sages--also called rabbinic literature--consists of the teachings of thousands of Sages, many of them anonymous. For a long period, their teachings existed orally, which implied a great deal of flexibility in arrangement and form. Only gradually, as parts of the amorphous oral tradition became fixed, was the literature written down, a process that began in the third century CE and continued into the Middle Ages. Thus the documents of the rabbinic literature are the result of a remarkably long and complex process of creation and editing. This volume gives a careful and succinct analysis both of the content and specific nature of the various documents, and of their textual and literary forms, paying special attention to the continuing discovery and publication of new textual material. The contributors are all engaged in academic teaching and research in Israel. Incorporating ground-breaking developments in research, their essays give a comprehensive presentation published here for the first time.