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From early morning till late at night, people are using their Schottenstein Talmud volumes and enriching their lives with the word of Hashem. Now - thanks to this new ultra-lightweight, paperback TRAVEL EDITION - more people than ever will be able to take Torah with them, on land, and in the air. 

A durable paperback book that slips easily into a briefcase or carry-on bag Includes every word of the English elucidation and commentary found in the full-size edition Less than a third the weight of the regular hard-cover Daf Yomi Edition the same high quality paper and printing you expect from ArtScroll/Mesorah! 

Format: Paperback Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches / Weight: 1 LBS Published By: ArtScroll Mesorah Publications Size: Travel Size

On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand.

So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophistication and human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters--Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians--as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power.

Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid.

Yad Avrohom Mishnah Series 30 - Tractate Bechoros (Seder Kodashim 2B): A new translation with a commentary anthologized from Talmudic, Midrashic and Rabbinic sources This Tractate Discusses Firstborns. The ArtScroll Mishnah Series with Yad Avraham commentary brings the text to life as it is developed and clarified by contending minds in the study hall. Hebrew text fully punctuated and vowelized New English translation distinguished for clarity In-depth introduction preceding each tractate Every phrase in the Mishnah is accounted for; no need to refer back and forth from text to commentary Illustrative diagrams to explain concepts Prefatory comments to introduce new concepts Yad Avraham commentary covering the full range of major, and many secondary, commentarie ISBN-10: 0899063071 ISBN-13: 9780899063072 Binding: Hardcover / Pages: 192 Dimensions: 6" x 9" Published: by ArtScroll / Mesorah

Included in this Set:

• The Shabbos Home Vol. 1: A comprehensive halachic guide to the laws of shabbos as they apply throughout the home
• The Shabbos Home Vol. 2: A comprehensive halachic guide to the laws of shabbos as they apply throughout the home
• Muktzeh: A Practical Guide: A comprehensive treatment of the principles and common applications of the laws of muktzeh
• The Shabbos Kitchen: A comprehensive halachic guide to the preparation of food and other kitchen activities on Shabbos.
• Radiance of Shabbos: The complete laws of the Shabbos and Festival candle-lighting, Kiddush, Lechem Mishneh, meals, Bircas HaMazon, and Havdalah.
• Sanctity of Shabbos: A comprehensive guide to the laws of Shabbos and Yom Tov as they apply to a non-Jew doing work on behalf of a Jew.
• Aura of Shabbos: A selection of relevant Erev Shabbos and Shabbos laws

An Israeli child is born in a Ukrainian bomb shelter -- and United Hatzalah brings her home under fire ...

A United Hatzalah volunteer scales a 12-foot-wall – and is the first to respond to the tragedy of Meron ...

Eli Beer, founder of United Hatzalah, slips and breaks his leg racing to an emergency -- and manages to crawl to the choking child and save her life ...

The amazing work of Israel’s United Hatzalah began, incredibly, when five-year-old Eli Beer witnessed a terror attack and dreamed of being the one to save the victim. While still a young teen, Eli set out to make that dream come true, creating an underground network of pioneering EMTs who were determined to bring their life-saving skills to victims in only 90 seconds, no matter where they were.

90 Seconds is the story of how a boy who failed in school created one of the world’s largest all-volunteer emergency service. It’s the story of dramatic rescues, sometimes under fire. Of life-changing and life-saving innovations such as the “ambucycle.” Of bringing United Hatzalah’s lifesaving experience to Nepal, Haiti, and, most recently, Ukraine, and their heart-rending rescue work in the Surfside and Versailles wedding hall tragedies.

It is the story of how with determination, vision, self-sacrifice and compassion -- and, of course, siyata D’Shmaya (the help of Heaven) -- lives can be saved and dreams can come true.

Rabbinic literature is called the Oral Law, because it is not found in the text of the Bible. It was preserved as oral statements that originated with the giving of the Torah and became the focus of study and deliberation throughout the generations. The Oral Law comprises explanations of biblical verses, ancient halakhic traditions not rooted in the text of the Bible, and rabbinic ordinances enacted throughout the generations. Since the scope of rabbinic literature is enormous, this work is limited to citing the Mishna, the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud, the minor tractates, and the aggadic Midrash primarily Midrash Rabba and Midrash Tanhuma. The basis of this anthology is largely the aggadic material in the Talmud and in the various works of aggadic Midrash. The matters included here serve as commentary on the written Torah. Features: -Introductions and explanations that place talmudic and midrashic passages in context -Talmudic discussions broken down to component parts to aid comprehension -Full integration with other Concise Guide volumes The Erez Series is comprised of the Concise Guides to the full gamut of Jewish thought, from the Torah to modern halakha (Jewish law) and Mahshava (Jewish philosophy). The late Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz zt'l was one of the leading thinkers of the modern age and the most prolific author of Jewish thought and commentary since the middle ages. The Erez Series distills the essence of 4 of the principal schools of the Jewish tradition Torah, the Sages (Hazal), Halakha, and Mahshava as a tool for review or introduction to the world of Jewish thought.

Have you ever seen something in a new light, to the point that you can't remember how you ever understood it before?

Have you ever taken a few moments to 'look a little deeper'?

For twenty-three years, Rabbi Judah Gross has been asking good questions, finding impressive answers, and collecting fascinating ideas.

In this unique and impressive work, for the first time, his insights are available to all.

"Groundbreaking. . . . To fully understand Satmar, of course, one has to be born into it. But to understand how political prowess and real-estate know-how shaped the group's current iteration in Brooklyn, it would be wise to start with this outstanding book."--Laura E. Adkins, LA Review of Books

The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less known is how the community survived in one of the toughest parts of New York City during an era of steep decline, only to later resist and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of the neighborhood.

Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely opposed the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime, divestment of city services, and, ultimately, extreme gentrification. By showing how Williamsburg's Hasidim rejected assimilation while still undergoing distinctive forms of Americanization and racialization, Deutsch and Casper present both a provocative counter-history of American Jewry and a novel look at how race, real estate, and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential, and yet deeply misunderstood, New York neighborhood.

Rabbi Lichtenstein (1933-2015), born in France and educated in the United States, was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut, Israel from 1971 until his death.Rabbi Lichtenstein's early Torah education was at Yeshivat Chaim Berlin, where he studied with Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner, and Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik. He received his advanced training and ordination at Yeshivat Rabbi Yitzchok Elchanan (Yeshiva University) from his primary mentor, the renowned Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. In addition to his yeshiva studies, Rabbi Lichtenstein completed a Ph.D. in English Literature at Harvard University. He taught Talmud and was the first head of the Kollel at Yeshiva University. At Yeshivat Har Etzion, he taught Talmud and Jewish Thought and mentored generations of students from Israel and abroad.Rabbi Lichtenstein has written on a wide range of Torah topics – Gemara, Halacha, Mahshava, and Tanakh. He was awarded the Rabbi Kook Prize for Original Torah Literature in 2012 and Israel Prize for Torah Literature in 2014