This book is a comprehensive, hands-on volume that provides an up-to-date overview of the practices and beliefs of the Jews, as a guide to religious traditions, everyday practices, philosophical beliefs, and historical foundations of judaism.

Originally published in 2000.

Service of the heart: prayer and ritual -- Rejoice in your festivals: the Jewish year -- Birth to death: a Jewish life cycle -- 613 ways: living a Jewish life -- In the beginning: the Hebrew Bible -- The rabbis said: the Talmud and other rabbinical writings -- Jewish mysticism: emanations of the eternal -- The philosophers: the continuing evolution of Jewish thought -- Beyond the rabbis: how Judaism got where it is today.