Cliff Notes - Temple Beth Am
... Activities: Shabbat begins with the lighting of candles. There are special synagogue services and blessings to say at meals. The point of Shabbat is not to work. Some use a strict set of rabbinic definitions to figure out what does and doesn't count as work, and those folks don't drive, carry money, ...
... Activities: Shabbat begins with the lighting of candles. There are special synagogue services and blessings to say at meals. The point of Shabbat is not to work. Some use a strict set of rabbinic definitions to figure out what does and doesn't count as work, and those folks don't drive, carry money, ...
Unit: 10 KS2 Key Theme: Beliefs and Questions Year 6 Autumn
... • Explore where the Torah is kept within the synagogue and how the Torah is produced. Allow children to handle a Torah, using a Yad (hand) and make suggestions on which language the Torah written in and how the text should ...
... • Explore where the Torah is kept within the synagogue and how the Torah is produced. Allow children to handle a Torah, using a Yad (hand) and make suggestions on which language the Torah written in and how the text should ...
Multi-faith Calendar 2016
... Bahau'llah, resided in a garden in Baghdad and proclaimed his mission. The First, ninth and 12th Days are the most holy. 21st April The First day Bahau'llah proclaimed His mission as God's messenger. 29th April The Ninth day the arrival of Baha'u'llah's family to the Ridvan garden. 2nd May The twelf ...
... Bahau'llah, resided in a garden in Baghdad and proclaimed his mission. The First, ninth and 12th Days are the most holy. 21st April The First day Bahau'llah proclaimed His mission as God's messenger. 29th April The Ninth day the arrival of Baha'u'llah's family to the Ridvan garden. 2nd May The twelf ...
Beyond the Dark Ages
... Jewish philosophers to reconcile Judaism with Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle. For Graetz, this second reason is especially important. Part of the historian’s polemic is in establishing a “Jewish history” that does not need to be reconciled with any other movement or religion and would reasse ...
... Jewish philosophers to reconcile Judaism with Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle. For Graetz, this second reason is especially important. Part of the historian’s polemic is in establishing a “Jewish history” that does not need to be reconciled with any other movement or religion and would reasse ...
Shavuot - InterfaithFamily
... • God gave the Ten Commandments, in full, to Moses. • Some say God gave Moses just the first commandment, or only the first word, or even the first letter. • The Torah is a response, written by men, to the encounter at Sinai. • The Torah is a collection of our mythic stories, which teach and dir ...
... • God gave the Ten Commandments, in full, to Moses. • Some say God gave Moses just the first commandment, or only the first word, or even the first letter. • The Torah is a response, written by men, to the encounter at Sinai. • The Torah is a collection of our mythic stories, which teach and dir ...
Shavuot: - InterfaithFamily
... • God gave the Ten Commandments, in full, to Moses. • Some say God gave Moses just the first commandment, or only the first word, or even the first letter. • The Torah is a response, written by men, to the encounter at Sinai. • The Torah is a collection of our mythic stories, which teach and dir ...
... • God gave the Ten Commandments, in full, to Moses. • Some say God gave Moses just the first commandment, or only the first word, or even the first letter. • The Torah is a response, written by men, to the encounter at Sinai. • The Torah is a collection of our mythic stories, which teach and dir ...
Belonging, Behaving, Believing: Exploring Reconstructionist Process
... bed, is hardly eating, and can no longer make sense of the world. She won’t even let Abraham in to see her. How can she face a husband who would blindly follow God to the point of coming only inches away from sacrificing their only son? Isaac is the son of their old age, the son promised to them by ...
... bed, is hardly eating, and can no longer make sense of the world. She won’t even let Abraham in to see her. How can she face a husband who would blindly follow God to the point of coming only inches away from sacrificing their only son? Isaac is the son of their old age, the son promised to them by ...
Intermarriage Officiation Policy Statement
... Rabbis play many different roles within communities. The rabbi is a counselor and source of comfort and support. The rabbi is also the mara d’atra, the religious decisionmaker for his/her particular community. This means the rabbi has the freedom and responsibility to make decisions on religious iss ...
... Rabbis play many different roles within communities. The rabbi is a counselor and source of comfort and support. The rabbi is also the mara d’atra, the religious decisionmaker for his/her particular community. This means the rabbi has the freedom and responsibility to make decisions on religious iss ...
Slide 3
... But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord, 12 1 and the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds; 3 but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lam ...
... But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord, 12 1 and the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds; 3 but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lam ...
Reflections on Covenant and Mission
... that Jews are "the people of God of the Old Covenant, never revoked by God," (2) "the presentday people of the covenant concluded with Moses," (3) and "partners in a covenant of eternal love which was never revoked." (4) The post- Nostra Aetate Catholic recognition of the permanence of the Jewish pe ...
... that Jews are "the people of God of the Old Covenant, never revoked by God," (2) "the presentday people of the covenant concluded with Moses," (3) and "partners in a covenant of eternal love which was never revoked." (4) The post- Nostra Aetate Catholic recognition of the permanence of the Jewish pe ...
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... • The people who became Hebrews originally lived in Mesopotamia. – Around 1950 B.C.E., they moved to the land of Canaan (modern day Israel) ...
... • The people who became Hebrews originally lived in Mesopotamia. – Around 1950 B.C.E., they moved to the land of Canaan (modern day Israel) ...
Pesach 5777
... Jerusalem. But for the majority who start right into Chapter 37 (including both Hertz and Etz Hayim), even this connection is lacking. There is a fascinating discussion in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 92b) about Ezekiel’s vision – was he describing something he actually saw or was it a vision, to be expla ...
... Jerusalem. But for the majority who start right into Chapter 37 (including both Hertz and Etz Hayim), even this connection is lacking. There is a fascinating discussion in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 92b) about Ezekiel’s vision – was he describing something he actually saw or was it a vision, to be expla ...
Autumn 2003
... He created Bahalachin in Israel, as a response to difficulties his fellow Ethiopian immigrants were having in their new land. In August, he was in the US, introducing his organization to officers of various Jewish organizations in a few cities, including Kulanu officers in Washington. Akale studied ...
... He created Bahalachin in Israel, as a response to difficulties his fellow Ethiopian immigrants were having in their new land. In August, he was in the US, introducing his organization to officers of various Jewish organizations in a few cities, including Kulanu officers in Washington. Akale studied ...
Nature in the Sources of Judaism
... succinctly when they stated that “Whatever God created, He created for His own glory” (Avot 6:12; Yoma 38a). Whereas the doctrine of creation evokes awe and reverence toward the natural world, the belief that God revealed God’s will in the form of Law to Israel assumes a certain distance between the ...
... succinctly when they stated that “Whatever God created, He created for His own glory” (Avot 6:12; Yoma 38a). Whereas the doctrine of creation evokes awe and reverence toward the natural world, the belief that God revealed God’s will in the form of Law to Israel assumes a certain distance between the ...
Glossary of Jewish Terminology (MSWord)
... committed, or for breach of trust. Asher 1) Son of Jacob (Israel). Ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel; 2) The tribe that bears his name. Ashkenazic Jews (ahsh-ken-AH-zik) or Ashkenazim (ahsh-ken-ah-ZEEM) Jews from eastern France, Germany and Eastern Europe, and their descendants. Most Jews in A ...
... committed, or for breach of trust. Asher 1) Son of Jacob (Israel). Ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel; 2) The tribe that bears his name. Ashkenazic Jews (ahsh-ken-AH-zik) or Ashkenazim (ahsh-ken-ah-ZEEM) Jews from eastern France, Germany and Eastern Europe, and their descendants. Most Jews in A ...
Jerusalem in Jewish religious customs
... accomplished in Jerusalem; no matter where a Jew lived, he would have to go to this holy city to do these things. Since there were so many rituals that could be performed only in Jerusalem, our sages teach us that ''Jerusalem is more holy than the rest of the Land of Israel." ...
... accomplished in Jerusalem; no matter where a Jew lived, he would have to go to this holy city to do these things. Since there were so many rituals that could be performed only in Jerusalem, our sages teach us that ''Jerusalem is more holy than the rest of the Land of Israel." ...
How did satyrday become the seventh day Sabbath
... pagan-named day of the week) it is because that particular day falls on the seventh day of the Creator’s Calendar week—a cycle established at Creation, by the Creator. When Satyrday Sabbatarians worship on the seventh day (of every week on their solar calendar) it is for one of two reasons, perhaps ...
... pagan-named day of the week) it is because that particular day falls on the seventh day of the Creator’s Calendar week—a cycle established at Creation, by the Creator. When Satyrday Sabbatarians worship on the seventh day (of every week on their solar calendar) it is for one of two reasons, perhaps ...
kcc-rel150-lecture5 - Judaism.key
... God and duties to people (1) Belief in God (2) Prohibi4on of Improper Worship (3) Prohibi4on of False Oaths (4) Observance of Sacred Times (5) Respect for Parents and Teachers (6) Prohibi4on of Physically Harming a Person (7) Prohibi4on ...
... God and duties to people (1) Belief in God (2) Prohibi4on of Improper Worship (3) Prohibi4on of False Oaths (4) Observance of Sacred Times (5) Respect for Parents and Teachers (6) Prohibi4on of Physically Harming a Person (7) Prohibi4on ...
Alphonsus Bonihominis`s Conversionary Letter
... that it has two closely intertwined themes, namely exile and redemption. Why, Rabbi Samuel asks of Rabbi Isaac at the outset of the letter, are we Jews suffering in exile and dispersion from what seems to be the perpetual wrath of God? This exile by now has lasted forover a thousand years and seems ...
... that it has two closely intertwined themes, namely exile and redemption. Why, Rabbi Samuel asks of Rabbi Isaac at the outset of the letter, are we Jews suffering in exile and dispersion from what seems to be the perpetual wrath of God? This exile by now has lasted forover a thousand years and seems ...
Judaism-Part 1
... And so Judaism introduced this idea that there was a God who had standards, who was ethical and who was true to those ethics and those standards himself, and that He expected that of those who were followers of Him, who were part of the covenant relationship with Him. Now, again, we take that a lit ...
... And so Judaism introduced this idea that there was a God who had standards, who was ethical and who was true to those ethics and those standards himself, and that He expected that of those who were followers of Him, who were part of the covenant relationship with Him. Now, again, we take that a lit ...
Expanded Guide to Jewish Holidays The description of the various
... identity and marked the birth of the Jews as a free people. So important are these concepts that the first of the Ten Commandments begins with a clear reference to the Exodus. Approximately two months before Passover, Food Service will need to order the Kosher-forPassover meals. All the Jewish deta ...
... identity and marked the birth of the Jews as a free people. So important are these concepts that the first of the Ten Commandments begins with a clear reference to the Exodus. Approximately two months before Passover, Food Service will need to order the Kosher-forPassover meals. All the Jewish deta ...
Imperialism And Jewish Society, 200 BCE To 640
... In part three, Schwartz traces the development of synagogue and community from 350-640 C.E. In chapter six, he argues that the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the fourth century had widespread effects on Jewish life. First, Christianization marginalized Jews as it "excluded [them] from ...
... In part three, Schwartz traces the development of synagogue and community from 350-640 C.E. In chapter six, he argues that the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the fourth century had widespread effects on Jewish life. First, Christianization marginalized Jews as it "excluded [them] from ...
The Western Wall
... In {jtips2}"Take heed to yourself that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you."|Deuteronomy 12:13-14{/jtips2}, ...
... In {jtips2}"Take heed to yourself that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you."|Deuteronomy 12:13-14{/jtips2}, ...
JEWISH LIFE FAMILY LIFE_orthodox
... live so far from home. With deep-felt sadness we talked about the losses such distance would bring—the prospect of not seeing him often, and the limited interaction with grandchildren, should we be fortunate in that regard some day. Glen lovingly acknowledged he would miss us, but remained committed ...
... live so far from home. With deep-felt sadness we talked about the losses such distance would bring—the prospect of not seeing him often, and the limited interaction with grandchildren, should we be fortunate in that regard some day. Glen lovingly acknowledged he would miss us, but remained committed ...
Messianism and Hassidism
... danced everywhere in the room, and, one by one, every person danced with him. Soon everyone in the whole community was dancing wildly together. Each person’s soul was healed by the dance, and everyone experienced a ...
... danced everywhere in the room, and, one by one, every person danced with him. Soon everyone in the whole community was dancing wildly together. Each person’s soul was healed by the dance, and everyone experienced a ...