the hellenization of judea under herod
... However, we do have inscriptions from statue bases, and thus it is likely that statues of Herod were attached to them. However, we can only speculate as to why none of his statues survived intact or are currently unable to be identified. Despite their small numbers, these epigraphs demonstrate Herod ...
... However, we do have inscriptions from statue bases, and thus it is likely that statues of Herod were attached to them. However, we can only speculate as to why none of his statues survived intact or are currently unable to be identified. Despite their small numbers, these epigraphs demonstrate Herod ...
Jewish Background to the New Testament
... period, due to big changes between the OT and NT periods. OT ends ~400 BC, NT begins ~4 BC. Government is Persia at end of OT, Roman at beginning of NT. Languages in OT period are Hebrew, Aramaic; NT period adds Greek, Latin. OT culture Semitic, NT culture Hellenistic. Geographic center: OT is Ferti ...
... period, due to big changes between the OT and NT periods. OT ends ~400 BC, NT begins ~4 BC. Government is Persia at end of OT, Roman at beginning of NT. Languages in OT period are Hebrew, Aramaic; NT period adds Greek, Latin. OT culture Semitic, NT culture Hellenistic. Geographic center: OT is Ferti ...
YESHIVAT HAR ETZION ISRAEL KOSCHITZKY VIRTUAL BEIT
... gemara determines that he must also abide by the Shabbat laws. Rashi comments that denying Shabbat is equivalent to worshipping idols; since the ger toshav is forbidden to serve idols, he must similarly observe Shabbat. This position of Rashi invites a famous question: Even complete gentiles are pro ...
... gemara determines that he must also abide by the Shabbat laws. Rashi comments that denying Shabbat is equivalent to worshipping idols; since the ger toshav is forbidden to serve idols, he must similarly observe Shabbat. This position of Rashi invites a famous question: Even complete gentiles are pro ...
Torah Rediscovered - Hebraic Roots Teaching Institute
... life of a holy community trying, by the power of the Spirit of God, to live out what it means to be a new creation in Yeshua the Messiah. Ariel’s experience as a pastor in America and as a teacher here in Israel-and D’vorah’s experience as a pastor’s wife along with their years of study, expressed i ...
... life of a holy community trying, by the power of the Spirit of God, to live out what it means to be a new creation in Yeshua the Messiah. Ariel’s experience as a pastor in America and as a teacher here in Israel-and D’vorah’s experience as a pastor’s wife along with their years of study, expressed i ...
Problemset Title Chapter Quiz Introductory Text Question 1 Type
... Main Jewish Ideological/Religious Responses to Modernity: The Nineteenth-Century Movements, page 70. ...
... Main Jewish Ideological/Religious Responses to Modernity: The Nineteenth-Century Movements, page 70. ...
Pronunciation of Azrael
... who is also Ezra". Again, depending on certain views of Christian spirituality, this could be seen as angelic influence from Ezrael/Azrael on Salathiel, though this view of spirituality is neither confirmed nor denied by the Catholic Church. While 2 Esdras is not considered canonical by most Christi ...
... who is also Ezra". Again, depending on certain views of Christian spirituality, this could be seen as angelic influence from Ezrael/Azrael on Salathiel, though this view of spirituality is neither confirmed nor denied by the Catholic Church. While 2 Esdras is not considered canonical by most Christi ...
Congregation Ohav Shalom‟s Passover Guide 5776/2016
... Exodus. This commandment, unique to this holiday, leads us not only to remember the Exodus but also to expand upon the tale, to explore its complexities and develop its meanings. Thus the Haggadah, the liturgy we use at the Seder, states: “In every generation, each person should feel as though she o ...
... Exodus. This commandment, unique to this holiday, leads us not only to remember the Exodus but also to expand upon the tale, to explore its complexities and develop its meanings. Thus the Haggadah, the liturgy we use at the Seder, states: “In every generation, each person should feel as though she o ...
Fordham Urban Law Journal
... parties were asked to sign an arbitration agreement enabling the beth din to decide their dispute.8 The interaction between the secular courts and beth din arbitration has created a distinct body of case law, where the secular courts have been called upon to either enforce or vacate decisions made p ...
... parties were asked to sign an arbitration agreement enabling the beth din to decide their dispute.8 The interaction between the secular courts and beth din arbitration has created a distinct body of case law, where the secular courts have been called upon to either enforce or vacate decisions made p ...
SECTION 2.2 Covenant, Land, Tikkun Olam
... G-d promises to protect his chosen people and give them the Promised Land. Today the Covenant is still kept strictly by Orthodox Jews but less strictly by Reform Jews. It is the foundation of Jewish faith. The implications of the Covenant are that Messiah/messianic Age will come and Jerusalem will ...
... G-d promises to protect his chosen people and give them the Promised Land. Today the Covenant is still kept strictly by Orthodox Jews but less strictly by Reform Jews. It is the foundation of Jewish faith. The implications of the Covenant are that Messiah/messianic Age will come and Jerusalem will ...
here - Congregation Ohav Shalom
... Exodus. This commandment, unique to this holiday, leads us not only to remember the Exodus but also to expand upon the tale, to explore its complexities and develop its meanings. Thus the Haggadah, the liturgy we use at the Seder, states: “In every generation, each person should feel as though she o ...
... Exodus. This commandment, unique to this holiday, leads us not only to remember the Exodus but also to expand upon the tale, to explore its complexities and develop its meanings. Thus the Haggadah, the liturgy we use at the Seder, states: “In every generation, each person should feel as though she o ...
Accounting for Judaism in the Study of American Messianic Judaism
... Since its modern renaissance in the mid-1970s, the Messianic Jewish movement in America has grown from a handful of house churches to a network of hundreds of synagogues and congregations. Mainline American Judaism has unanimously rejected the argument that Jews who believe in Jesus continue to be m ...
... Since its modern renaissance in the mid-1970s, the Messianic Jewish movement in America has grown from a handful of house churches to a network of hundreds of synagogues and congregations. Mainline American Judaism has unanimously rejected the argument that Jews who believe in Jesus continue to be m ...
Oral Tradition in the Writings of Rabbinic Oral Torah
... Sasanian Late Antiquity, from roughly the third through the seventh centuries of the Common Era. These centuries witnessed the origins of Rabbinic Judaism as a self-conscious communal form. Its circles of masters and disciples provided the social matrix for the formulation and transmission of the le ...
... Sasanian Late Antiquity, from roughly the third through the seventh centuries of the Common Era. These centuries witnessed the origins of Rabbinic Judaism as a self-conscious communal form. Its circles of masters and disciples provided the social matrix for the formulation and transmission of the le ...
the booklet Traditions
... fundamentals of Judaism. The emphasis on practice is also seen in the many rules known collectively as halakhah, which cover both the social and ritual aspects of life. The rabbis have been fine-tuning Jewish law down to the smallest detail for the last 2,000 years. Although the Hebrew Bible contain ...
... fundamentals of Judaism. The emphasis on practice is also seen in the many rules known collectively as halakhah, which cover both the social and ritual aspects of life. The rabbis have been fine-tuning Jewish law down to the smallest detail for the last 2,000 years. Although the Hebrew Bible contain ...
Mikve: The New Frontier
... beginning with her menstruation, and ending with immersion. Only then are they ready for procreation, perpetuation, the ful llment of His design. The Temple, representing the reciprocal interaction between Heaven and Earth, stood as a radical departure from what contemporaneous religions would have ...
... beginning with her menstruation, and ending with immersion. Only then are they ready for procreation, perpetuation, the ful llment of His design. The Temple, representing the reciprocal interaction between Heaven and Earth, stood as a radical departure from what contemporaneous religions would have ...
ShminiAtzeresVzos71
... Rabbi Wein always quotes the maxim: "No man is indispensable, yet no man is replaceable." This is very true. No man is indispensable to the extent that "we cannot continue onward." Yet no man is replaceable either. People have their own unique contributions that can never be replaced. This is anothe ...
... Rabbi Wein always quotes the maxim: "No man is indispensable, yet no man is replaceable." This is very true. No man is indispensable to the extent that "we cannot continue onward." Yet no man is replaceable either. People have their own unique contributions that can never be replaced. This is anothe ...
The Moon and the New Year (No. 213)
... The “Feast of the 7th Month” can be seen as another example of an ancient, that is, Second Temple tradition within Samaritanism. Both the Jewish and the Samaritan liturgical texts connect, although in totally different wording, various religious ideas based on biblical texts with the Feast of the Se ...
... The “Feast of the 7th Month” can be seen as another example of an ancient, that is, Second Temple tradition within Samaritanism. Both the Jewish and the Samaritan liturgical texts connect, although in totally different wording, various religious ideas based on biblical texts with the Feast of the Se ...
Yom Kippur - Sept. 23, 2015
... If you read the Al cheit carefully, you will see that the list of sins is not a list of the Mitzvot. Rather, it is a list of categories of sins that are the most common. Many relate to our misuse of speech and having the wrong type of thoughts or attitude. Some have to do with more concrete mitzvot ...
... If you read the Al cheit carefully, you will see that the list of sins is not a list of the Mitzvot. Rather, it is a list of categories of sins that are the most common. Many relate to our misuse of speech and having the wrong type of thoughts or attitude. Some have to do with more concrete mitzvot ...
Jewish feelings, Jewish practice?
... serve to inform communal practice. The following pieces of research reflect these premises. They were done by three different local research teams that worked under the close supervision of and in constant dialogue with the JDC-ICCD. Each of the reports, written in different styles and therefore re ...
... serve to inform communal practice. The following pieces of research reflect these premises. They were done by three different local research teams that worked under the close supervision of and in constant dialogue with the JDC-ICCD. Each of the reports, written in different styles and therefore re ...
Public religion in Samson Raphael Hirsch and Samuel Hirsch`s
... meaning in Jewish public acts of religious observance. For Hirsch, the academic study of Judaism (Wissenschaft) underscoresthe timeless and uniform meaning ofJewish ritual observance. An appropriate academic approach to Jewish commandments disclosesGod's intended meanings in symbolic ritual practice ...
... meaning in Jewish public acts of religious observance. For Hirsch, the academic study of Judaism (Wissenschaft) underscoresthe timeless and uniform meaning ofJewish ritual observance. An appropriate academic approach to Jewish commandments disclosesGod's intended meanings in symbolic ritual practice ...
Aphrahat‟s Demonstrations: A Conversation with the Jews of
... emerging Rabbinic Judaism and Aphrahat‟s Christian community had much more in common than only the Hebrew Bible, and that another layer of shared tradition was foundational for the future interpretive practices of “Jewish” and “Christian” communities.18 In her later articles she compared and contras ...
... emerging Rabbinic Judaism and Aphrahat‟s Christian community had much more in common than only the Hebrew Bible, and that another layer of shared tradition was foundational for the future interpretive practices of “Jewish” and “Christian” communities.18 In her later articles she compared and contras ...
5760 - Nitzavim-Va`yelech
... And with a third paradox, my point has been proven (see Amos, chapters 1 and 2 - "Al arba'a lo ashivenu"). The chief is infused with megalomania reminiscent of Ben Gurion, acting as one on a higher level than the people, even though he was chosen by them. On the other hand, the very same chief does ...
... And with a third paradox, my point has been proven (see Amos, chapters 1 and 2 - "Al arba'a lo ashivenu"). The chief is infused with megalomania reminiscent of Ben Gurion, acting as one on a higher level than the people, even though he was chosen by them. On the other hand, the very same chief does ...
Chapter 3: Israelites
... • These laws were known as the Torah, which became the first part of the Hebrew Bible. • The Ten Commandments—what God believes to be right and wrong—are the most important part of the Torah. • The Ten Commandments helped form the basic moral laws of many nations. ...
... • These laws were known as the Torah, which became the first part of the Hebrew Bible. • The Ten Commandments—what God believes to be right and wrong—are the most important part of the Torah. • The Ten Commandments helped form the basic moral laws of many nations. ...
Apocalypticism Bible and Its World
... his scholarship meant to him, Rick also knew and loved politics, and (in good Jesuit fashion!) he was passionate about a faith that does justice. His next book, after the present one, would have been about the contemporary political landscape in the United States. For him, no study of history or anc ...
... his scholarship meant to him, Rick also knew and loved politics, and (in good Jesuit fashion!) he was passionate about a faith that does justice. His next book, after the present one, would have been about the contemporary political landscape in the United States. For him, no study of history or anc ...
TEFILLAH:PRAYER
... words, the choreography, the structure and order all are designed by spiritual masters to maximize the TEFILLAH experience. Saying the words of the prayers is extremely important, even if I don’t understand them*. Just reciting the holy words fills the world with spiritual light. But, reciting the w ...
... words, the choreography, the structure and order all are designed by spiritual masters to maximize the TEFILLAH experience. Saying the words of the prayers is extremely important, even if I don’t understand them*. Just reciting the holy words fills the world with spiritual light. But, reciting the w ...