Harry Potter and Torah (Paperback)

~ Dov Krulwich (Author)
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Product Description

Judaism, Torah, religion, spirituality, Bible, Harry Potter

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: LULU (February 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847532373
• ISBN-13: 978-1847532374
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #374,153 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent subject for family dinner table discussion, August 7, 2007

By	NJ Mom (USA) - See all my reviews

We thought Harry Potter and Torah is a very creative way to bring Jewish sources to the family dinner table....via the literary craze that has captured the imagination of so many of our children AND our contemporaries. The author has collected loads of interesting facts and stories from Torah and from other writings frm our religious heritage that the possibilities for conversation about them are endless!! My husband and I highly recommend this book!!

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting...but...., December 17, 2007

By	Victoria Goldenberg (New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It was a cute book but it was more Torah than Harry Potter. The chapters basically start off with a quote from Harry Potter and the rest of the chapter is just quotes from the Gemara, and other rabinical sources.Personally I felt that the book was incomplete because it gave so few Harry Potter connections. I think that I could five at lease 3 Torah relations to every Harry Potter chapter. The author could have expanded this book and made it great.It would've been also great if he could've related the valuable moral lessons in Harry Potter to the Torah especially because the Torah is all about moral lessons. Even the mishna and gemara is full of moral lessons. So all in all it was a good book but could be so much better. For the record, this review is coming from a girl who is educated in Torah, Navi, Gemara, Mishna and a whole other bunch of other Jewish texts, so my review is valid.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Harry Potter and the Torah, September 2, 2008

By	Penelope Francis - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book as gift for a friend and they loved it. Personally i am not Jewish, but for my friend this book was right up his "alley"!