Books Received

Reality Check: A Handbook of Hashkafa by R. Yosef Segal (Mosaica) The Six Steps of Bitachon by R. Chaim Goldberger (Mosaica) Conversations With G-d – Prayers for Jewish Women by Ruchi Koval (Mosaica) Megillas Esther with Rashi’s Commentary by R. Yisrael Herczeg (Mosaica)

Wine & Wisdom – A Halachic Overview of Fine Wines and Their Brachos by R. Daniel Yaakov Travis (Feldheim) The Sefiros and the Self – A Divine Blueprint for Self-Discovery and Personal Growth by R. Yaakov Feder (Feldheim) Self-Esteem in the Talmud by R. Yisroel Roll (Feldheim)

The Exodus You Almost Passed Over by R. David Fohrman (Aleph Beta)

As If We Were There: Readings for a Transformative Passover Experience by R. Dr. Gidon Rothstein (Kodesh)

Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity by Dr. Stuart Halpern ed. (Maggid) Confrontation and Other Essays by R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Maggid/YU) Peninei Halakha: Laws of Shabbat, Vol. 1 by R. Eliezer Melamed (Maggid) Peninei Halakha: Laws of Shabbat, Vol. 2 by R. Eliezer Melamed (Maggid)

The Theory and Practice of Universal Ethics – The Noahide Laws by R. Dr. Shimon Dovid Cowen (Kehot) False Facts and True Rumors: Lashon HaRa in Contemporary Culture by R. Daniel Z. Feldman (Maggid/YU) A Practical Guide to the Laws of Kashrut by R. Pinchas Cohen (Maggid) The Weekly Mitzva by R. Binyamin Tabory (Maggid)

Shadal on Exodus: Samuel David Luzzatto’s Interpretation of the Book of Shemot by tr. Daniel A. Klein (Kodesh)

God and Politics in Esther by Yoram Hazony (Cambridge) Halachic Positions: What Judaism Really Says about Passion in the Marital Bed by Yaakov Shapiro (np) Nefesh HaTzimtzum: Rabbi Chaim Volozhin’s Nefesh HaChaim with Translation and Commentary by R. Avinoam Fraenkel Urim)

The Jewish Fact Finder by Yaffa Ganz (Feldheim)

J. David Bleich: Where Halakhah and Philosophy Meet (Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers) by eds. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Aaron W. Hughes (Brill)