The Prophet Jeremiah sits in shackles in King Zedekiah's prison, waiting for God's promise to be fulfilled-the destruction of Jerusalem and its Holy Temple. Soon all will be lost, unless he acts swiftly by saving the one member of the ruling household able to produce an heir to the throne, and spiriting away the Urim and Thummim, the two most magical objects in all of Judaism, which can be used to prove who the Messiah really is.

Ben Silverman, the head of an ancient, yet secret, Jewish organization is on the verge of paving the way for the Messiah to appear. Using his knowledge of the Bible Code, he has identified the location of the Urim and Thummim. The former, a crystal ball that sees into the future; the latter a pair of supernatural dice able to distinguish between the truth and lies. Both are gifts from God delivered to Aaron, Moses' brother, when the Israelites began their forty-year wanderings through the desert.

Finding them is one thing, but possessing them and using them are altogether different. On Temple Mount in Jerusalem stands the Dome of the Rock, the Muslim world's third holiest shrine. The Muslim waqf, which manages the Mount, through a covert organization of their own will stop at nothing to destroy any object showing the location of King Solomon's Temple to be this site, or to kill anyone who stands in their way. Unfortunately for Ben Silverman, the waqf knows he's coming

"Sepher Yetzira" is a second or third century Hebrew book that is considered to be the seminal work of Kabbalah because it is a mystical interpretation of "the Old Testament"'s creation story, and Kabbalists delve beneath the surface of "the Bible" to understand the unspoken mysteries of how the world came to be. "Ancient Secrets of Creation" is a new translation and reinterpretation of "Sepher Yetzira" that provides the answers to questions about how God created the world, especially how the expression, "And God said" is used. Because of "Sepher Yetzira"'s succinctness and the passage of time, its implicit meanings have been lost. However, this work provides a fresh understanding of "Sepher Yetzira" by rediscovering and clearly explaining those mathematical, scientific, philosophical, and theological foundations on which it rests. These include pertinent pre-Socratic Greek philosophies; the ideas of Plato, Plotinus, Iamblichus, Neopythagoreanism, and Neoplatonism; as well as "the works of Philo of Alexandria," "the Old Testament," and rabbinic understandings at the time that "Sepher Yetzira" was written. This translation and explication unlock the secrets hidden within the Hebrew-language text of "Sepher Yetzira," the book that started Kabbalah.

Spanning more than a hundred years, "Public Education in Camden, N.J.: From Inception to Integration" tells the history of one of the oldest and largest school districts in New Jersey.

Using vignettes and historical narratives, author Fred Reiss, current assistant superintendent of the Camden Board of Education, tells how the Camden Public Schools survived and thrived through events both mundane and spectacular. "Public Education in Camden, N.J.: From Inception to Integration" describes and interprets the actions of a board of education throughout a century of history, including: The Civil War eraHostility between the Republican-controlled city and the Democratic-controlled statePeculation and jobbery by board membersThe World WarsThe Great DepressionRacism and segregation

Using detailed records from many primary sources, Reiss offers a compelling look at the growth and development of an educational board within an historical framework.

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