Best jewish orthodox movements books according to redditors

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The Egyptian community would have particular customs to them. To be totally authentic, you would do best to not rely on modern sefardic siddurs which will either be a mishmash of different traditions or one of the more dominant strains, but you can probably use them. Transliterated in Latin letters is fairly unlikely and you would need hebrew capability for this level of research. I would contact The Association Of Jews From Egypt which is a UK based organization (though maybe it looks like they're now Nebe Daniel in France, which reminds me that Egyptian Jews always pronounce ב as a B).

Apparently, there's also Siddur Farḥi which is the Egyptian specific siddur (Hebrew-Arabic from 1917) and here's a Hebrew book that discusses the Egyptian customs so that might help as well.

> Open orthodoxy doesn't fall under the incredibly wide tent of orthodoxy for some unknown reason.
> And yes, the reason is unknown.

See here: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Open-Orthodoxy-Not-Orthodox/dp/0692727043

Here: https://cross-currents.com/2015/11/17/rav-aharon-feldman-on-open-orthodoxy/

Just about every other article here: https://cross-currents.com/

Here: http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/open-orthodoxy-is-openly-unorthodox/2016/11/03/

Its really not hard to find the reasons. I have no idea why you say the reasons are unknown.

The following is a list of basic books that will help you get a good handle on traditional Judaism. All the books listed are broadly recognized as being reliable, and many are considered classics in their own right:

• A Maimonides Reader by Isadore Twersky. An excellent compilation of the writings of Maimonides covering almost all of the most basic concepts in Judaism.
  
  
• With Perfect Faith by Rabbi J. David Bleich. This is an excellent introduction to medieval Jewish philosophy, based on Maimonides' thirteen foundations. Includes extensive lengthy quotations from many major Jewish philosophers.
  
  
• Path of the Just by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Classic description of the ideal spiritual Jewish life. The opening chapter is particularly important for understanding almost all of modern traditional Jewish thought.
  
  
• The Nineteen Letters by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. An classic overview of Jewish thought presented in the form of a correspondence between a young rabbi and a childhood companion who is questioning the purpose and validity of traditional Judaism.
  
  
• The Stone Chumash - A good one-volume translation of the Torah, with an extensive commentary based on traditional sources.
  
  
• Ethics from Sinai by Irving Bunim. An excellent, three-volume commentary on Pirkei Avos, the Talmudic tractate that deals with ethics.
  
  
• The World of Prayer by Rabbi Elie Munk. An excellent two-volume commentary on the Jewish prayers.

Based on your flair, I would definitely recommend The Nineteen Letters (online version).

Ehhhh.... (waggles hand back and forth).

Open Orthodoxy is an organized denomination with an official head board and all that. The vast majority of frum organizations do not recognize them as being frum. Their conversions are not accepted, their shechita is not accepted, and their psak halachas are ignored.

Books worth of material (literally) have been written about the subject. Pretty much the only people who consider them comparable to MO are the OO heads themselves and people who don't know any better. I mean, a recent spat of controversy arouse when an OO Rabbi defended intermarriage a position that, by it's very definition, is against Orthodox Judaism. And it's hardly the most controversial thing to come out of OO.

You might take a look at the Holy Apostles Convent Orthodox New Testament in two volumes: Volume I is an Evangelistarion (Gospels); Volume II is a Praxapostolos (Acts/Epistles/Revelation). Admittedly, it is a little off the beaten path, but well worth the $85 or so it costs from the publisher (it's more expensive on Amazon). It's packed with footnotes from the commentaries of the Church Fathers along with a lot of clarifications of the Greek that seem to be missed by non-Orthodox commentaries. Read some of the reviews on Amazon

I read this book and it was excellent: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Writings-Abraham-Isaac-Kook/dp/097698623X/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MJFS51SDKXF1BZY6JBFZ

Also free on the AU store (for a change hah): https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B079WVYPNH/ref=pe_1007802_166382312_TEM1DP

Here's another that just came out, and is free right now on Kindle:

Stoicism - Maya Bennet

I haven't read this one yet, so can't comment on the content.

While I read a bunch of the books listed here as well, such as Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy and Becoming Orthodox, one of the books that really stuck out to me that I try to re-read every now and then is Philokalia: The Bible of Orthodox Spirituality!

There is a whole book about it, which I've read. You're not gonna discredit the whole book with one sentence.

Note that some of the arguments in the book are a bit of a stretch because they are written from a charedi perspective, but the book makes enough convincing valid points aside from those.

Modern orthodoxy is mostly based on Tum

Torah U'madda- founded by R' Nochum Lamm read his book describing it.


You might also like Torah Im Derech Eretz- founded Rav Shampson Rafael Hirsch, I recommend his Nineteen letters.

I mean, the main books on Kabbalah are the Tanya, and the Zohar, but one isn't supposed to learn the Zohar until they are 40, and know the entire Torah. Tanya on the other hand is open for Everyone.
https://smile.amazon.com/Tanya-Likutei-Amarim-Revised-English/dp/0826604005/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473773017&sr=8-1&keywords=tanya

>Open Orthodoxy is an organized denomination with an official head board and all that. The vast majority of frum organizations do not recognize them as being frum. Their conversions are not accepted, their shechita is not accepted, and their psak halachas are ignored.
>

Not quite, my friend. There is an Open Orthodox yeshiva, and that's about it. There's nothing like the RCA or the URJ. The non-acceptance you speak of generally falls under personal discrimination, as in: "Yes, this posek is very well done and it makes perfect sense. What? He learned from so-and-so? This poskim is not orthodox."


>Books worth of material (literally) have been written about the subject.

I can find plenty of material on plenty of untrue things. OO is the new bogeyman of orthodoxy. It was Rambam, it was chasidism, it's OO now. Everyone is trying to get to the front of the line and say who can disavow them the loudest. Therefore, the positions against them tend not to hold much substance.



>Pretty much the only people who consider them comparable to MO are the OO heads themselves and people who don't know any better.


You could not use a bigger fallacy in your argument. "People who disagree don't know any better."


>I mean, a recent spat of controversy arouse when an OO Rabbi defended intermarriage a position that, by it's very definition, is against Orthodox Judaism.


I know that rabbi, and he didn't defend intermarriage. He simply said we need to look at the culture around it and not shun those who have already done it. "A jew has intermarried? Ok, that's terrible, but will we still count him for a minyan?" That's what the rabbi was talking about, and he later even clarified the point in the same publication.



>And it's hardly the most controversial thing to come out of OO.


Do tell.