Mitzvah Action: Buy a Book
With all the time you’re spending at home, have you considered some décor changes?
Whether it’s a clock, plant or …. What we choose to decorate our living spaces with, sets the tone and mood of our environment.Get your home to feel more Jewish, simply buy a new Jewish book (and put it on a shelf).To quote the great poet and thinker, Rabbi Juda Halevi: “my library is my garden and my orchard”. With the purchase of a few Jewish books, you can transform and elevate your home. Their presence alone will permeate the entire home.Buying books is a great investment; it is the only home furniture that ages gracefully upon its continued use.
And it makes you look smart too.
Book Lists
Torah Basic
Chumash - https://store.kehotonline.com/products.asp?dept=327
Tehillim/Psalms - https://store.kehotonline.com/products.asp?dept=322
Tanya - https://store.kehotonline.com/products.asp?dept=379
Siddur - https://store.kehotonline.com/products.asp?dept=320
Tanach - https://korenpub.com/collections/english-tanakh/products/the-koren-tanakh-2
Chassidus, Mysticism:
Tanya - https://store.kehotonline.com/products.asp?dept=379
Chassidic Heritage Series - https://store.kehotonline.com/products.asp?dept=241
Overcoming Folly - https://www.amazon.com/s?k=overcoming+folly&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Creation and Redemption -
Hayom Yom - https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=ERE-HAYO.L
Daily Wisdom - https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Wisdom-Menachem-Mendel-Schneerson/dp/082660...
Bringing Heaven Down to Earth - https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Heaven-Down-Earth-Book/dp/1468141112
Chassidic Perspectives - https://www.amazon.com/Chasidic-Perspectives-Anthology-Menachem-Schneers...
Endless Light - David Aaron https://www.amazon.com/Endless-Light-Ancient-Path-Kabbalah/dp/0425166295
God, Rationality, and Mysticism, Irving Block - https://www.amazon.com/G-D-Rationality-Mysticism-Irving-Block/dp/0874627516
Halacha/Law, How To:
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch http://store.chabad.org/product.asp?Product=bk-ib-m114
39 Melachos Shabbos - https://www.amazon.com/39-Melochos-Elucidation-Practical-Application/dp/...
Our Heritage, Kitov - https://www.feldheim.com/book-of-our-heritage-2.html
Prayer
Haggadah - https://store.kehotonline.com/departments.asp?dept=532
A guide to Jewish prayer, Steinsaltz - https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Jewish-Prayer-Rabbi-Steinsaltz/dp/0805211470
To Pray as a Jew - https://www.amazon.com/Pray-As-Jew-Synagogue-Service/dp/0465086330My Prayer - https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=EP-MYPR.SB
Jewish Philosophy/Ethics, Jewish Living:
Positivity Bias, Mendel Kalmenson - https://www.amazon.com/Positivity-Bias-Rabbi-Mendel-Kalmenson/dp/0826690084
Toward a Meaningful Life, Simon Jacobson - https://www.amazon.com/Toward-Meaningful-Life-New-Schneerson/dp/0060732784
Seeds of Wisdom, Mendel Kalmenson - https://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Wisdom-encounters-Schneerson-righteous/dp/1...
Pirkei Avos - https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=EO-PIRK.DEL
Jewish Meditation, Aryeh Kaplan - https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Meditation-Practical-Aryeh-Kaplan/dp/08052...
This is my G-d, Herman Wouk - https://www.amazon.com/This-My-God-Herman-Wouk/dp/0316955140
In the Beginning, Steinsaltz - https://www.amazon.com/Adin-Steinsaltz/dp/1592643140
A Letter in the Scroll, Sacks - https://www.amazon.com/Letter-Scroll-Understanding-Identity-Exploring/dp...
The Gift of Rest, Joe Lieberman - https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Rest-Rediscovering-Beauty-Sabbath/dp/1451627319
To be a Jew, Donin - https://www.amazon.com/Be-Jew-Jewish-Observance-Contemporary/dp/0465086322
To Raise a Jewish Child, Donin - https://www.amazon.com/Pray-As-Jew-Synagogue-Service/dp/0465086330
Talmud
Start with Brachos vol 1
Koren Steinzaltz - https://korenpub.com/collections/talmud
The Reference Guide to the Talmud - https://www.amazon.com/Reference-Guide-Talmud-Rabbi-Steinsaltz/dp/159264...
The Essential Talmud: An Introduction, Steinsaltz - https://www.amazon.com/The-Essential-Talmud-An-Introduction/dp/B07D4328KH
The Oral Law, Haim Schimmel - https://www.amazon.com/Oral-Law-Rabbinic-Contribution-sheBeal/dp/1592645348
Maimonides Introduction to the Talmud - https://www.amazon.com/Maimonides-Introduction-Talmud-Translation-Commen...
Stories and History:
Rebbe, Joseph Telushkin - https://www.amazon.com/Rebbe-Teachings-Menachem-Schneerson-Influential/d... Story - https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=ERE-MYST
Chassidic Tales Festivals https://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Chassidic-Tales-Festivals-Artscroll/dp/0...
Dear Rebbe, Zaklikowski - https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Rebbe-Schneerson-corresponds-Holocaust/dp/19...
The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Memoirs - https://store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=EFR-LUBA.SB
Marriage
The Joy of Intimacy - Rabbi Manis Freidman https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Intimacy-Soulful-Sexuality-Marriage/dp/098627...
Words to Hear with Your Heart - Karmely https://www.amazon.com/WORDS-HEAR-HEART-SARAH-KARMELY/dp/1425712568/ref=...
The Edifice - Dovid Zaklikofsky https://www.amazon.com/Edifice-Dating-Marriage-Everlasting-Home/dp/19448...
Total Immersion - https://www.amazon.com/Total-Immersion-Anthology-Rivkah-Slonim/dp/965710...