Alphonsus Bonihominis`s Conversionary Letter
... the reader is inexorably made a participant in the argument up to the point where he has to take the final step himself and reach the inevitable conclusion. As Limor has rightly pointed out, the Epistle of Samuel is, in fact, a perfect example of the Dominican art of persuasion ( 193 ). The style an ...
... the reader is inexorably made a participant in the argument up to the point where he has to take the final step himself and reach the inevitable conclusion. As Limor has rightly pointed out, the Epistle of Samuel is, in fact, a perfect example of the Dominican art of persuasion ( 193 ). The style an ...
The Holocaust and Minnesota History
... Image #1: Felicia in first grade class Image #2: Portrait of Felicia at age 10 Step 1: Read “The Summer Camp” (1939) Felicia is 13 years old in this memory. This story recounts a summer spent at a camp in the countryside of Poland. It also reinforces the fact that Felicia is Jewish. The terms “Shabb ...
... Image #1: Felicia in first grade class Image #2: Portrait of Felicia at age 10 Step 1: Read “The Summer Camp” (1939) Felicia is 13 years old in this memory. This story recounts a summer spent at a camp in the countryside of Poland. It also reinforces the fact that Felicia is Jewish. The terms “Shabb ...
Discovering History 20th Century Biographies
... share what they know about the conflicts that arose from the 1948 establishment of a Jewish homeland in the region. On the board print the names David Ben-Gurion, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Chaim Weizmann. Ask students if they are familiar with any of these leaders. Explain that they will be viewing a ...
... share what they know about the conflicts that arose from the 1948 establishment of a Jewish homeland in the region. On the board print the names David Ben-Gurion, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Chaim Weizmann. Ask students if they are familiar with any of these leaders. Explain that they will be viewing a ...
Eliezer Berkovits, Theologian of Zionism
... One example is Judaism’s approach to economic affairs. While the idea of individual property rights is deeply embedded in Jewish law and tradition—perhaps even constituting a fundamental element of the Jewish concept of man in the world—the halacha considered the proper functioning of the economy as ...
... One example is Judaism’s approach to economic affairs. While the idea of individual property rights is deeply embedded in Jewish law and tradition—perhaps even constituting a fundamental element of the Jewish concept of man in the world—the halacha considered the proper functioning of the economy as ...
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... 3) National Reasons -- The Jewish people have a mission of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world. A special diet reminds us of our mission and keeps us together as a people to fulfill it. (Intermarriage is kind of hard when you have to take your non-Jewish date to a kosher restaurant, or if you go to a p ...
... 3) National Reasons -- The Jewish people have a mission of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world. A special diet reminds us of our mission and keeps us together as a people to fulfill it. (Intermarriage is kind of hard when you have to take your non-Jewish date to a kosher restaurant, or if you go to a p ...
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... Pet 1:14, 18; 2:9-10, 25; 3:6; 4:3-4). He even applies to them the categories that directly relate to Jews.8 Thus, Peter’s use of diaspora can include the “communities of people living outside their native land, which is not Jerusalem or Palestine but the heavenly city.”9 These scattered communance ...
... Pet 1:14, 18; 2:9-10, 25; 3:6; 4:3-4). He even applies to them the categories that directly relate to Jews.8 Thus, Peter’s use of diaspora can include the “communities of people living outside their native land, which is not Jerusalem or Palestine but the heavenly city.”9 These scattered communance ...
(2014) Conservative Judaism_Vol 1_pg 577 to 587
... accepted) and affirm the existence of a covenant between God and the Jewish people that binds them to the 613 mitzvoth, or commandments, listed in the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible). Along with ethical precepts, the mitzvoth include such ritual practices as kashruth—rules and regul ...
... accepted) and affirm the existence of a covenant between God and the Jewish people that binds them to the 613 mitzvoth, or commandments, listed in the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible). Along with ethical precepts, the mitzvoth include such ritual practices as kashruth—rules and regul ...
Defining Judaism: Accounting for “Religions” in
... century CE, the Rabbis had created “the rudiments of a full-fledged heresiology” that knows of “historical and genealogical Israelites who are not ‘Israel’ ” (2004: 61). That is, the rabbinic project mirrored that of the Church fathers, understanding membership in true Israel to be determined by rul ...
... century CE, the Rabbis had created “the rudiments of a full-fledged heresiology” that knows of “historical and genealogical Israelites who are not ‘Israel’ ” (2004: 61). That is, the rabbinic project mirrored that of the Church fathers, understanding membership in true Israel to be determined by rul ...
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... History of Progressive Judaism Michael A. Meyer: Response 29 Modernity, A History'of the Reform Movement in Judaism (Oxford University Press, 1988). This supersedes all previous histories of its scope except W. Gunther Plaut's Rise 92 Reform Judaism and Egg Growth 3: Reform Judaism, World Union forE ...
... History of Progressive Judaism Michael A. Meyer: Response 29 Modernity, A History'of the Reform Movement in Judaism (Oxford University Press, 1988). This supersedes all previous histories of its scope except W. Gunther Plaut's Rise 92 Reform Judaism and Egg Growth 3: Reform Judaism, World Union forE ...
Introduction to Judaism
... Jewish History in Six Acts 1. Israelite Origins and the Babylonia Exile (1900 BCE-587 BCE) 2. Return to Judea and the Second Temple (515 BCE-70 CE) 3. Diaspora and Rabbinic Judaism in Babylon and Jerusalem(70 CE-632 CE) 4. Jews in the Islamic World (632 CE-1500 CE) 5. Jews in Medieval Europe (900-1 ...
... Jewish History in Six Acts 1. Israelite Origins and the Babylonia Exile (1900 BCE-587 BCE) 2. Return to Judea and the Second Temple (515 BCE-70 CE) 3. Diaspora and Rabbinic Judaism in Babylon and Jerusalem(70 CE-632 CE) 4. Jews in the Islamic World (632 CE-1500 CE) 5. Jews in Medieval Europe (900-1 ...
book review
... The text is also a radical critique of religious language that would be at home in a literarytheory course. In rationalizing the Torah's descriptions of God's intervention in human affairs, Maimonides argues that any language describing God as having a body, or even emotions, must be understood meta ...
... The text is also a radical critique of religious language that would be at home in a literarytheory course. In rationalizing the Torah's descriptions of God's intervention in human affairs, Maimonides argues that any language describing God as having a body, or even emotions, must be understood meta ...
Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol
... if he knew what patch came from the original cloth. The fellow replied that nothing had remained from the original material. Such, noted the grandfather, is the state of religion; patch holds to patch, but no one knows whether any patch is of the original fabric. Nonetheless, religion may be seen as ...
... if he knew what patch came from the original cloth. The fellow replied that nothing had remained from the original material. Such, noted the grandfather, is the state of religion; patch holds to patch, but no one knows whether any patch is of the original fabric. Nonetheless, religion may be seen as ...
JC Relations - Jewish
... forms of anti-Zionism. 4 Nonetheless I feel I stand on firm ground in predicting that Benedict XVI's papacy will continue to exhibit unflinching opposition to antisemitism. Pope Benedict's remarks regarding the Holocaust, particularly in his Cologne address and his statement at the Birkenau extermi ...
... forms of anti-Zionism. 4 Nonetheless I feel I stand on firm ground in predicting that Benedict XVI's papacy will continue to exhibit unflinching opposition to antisemitism. Pope Benedict's remarks regarding the Holocaust, particularly in his Cologne address and his statement at the Birkenau extermi ...
A Short Introduction to the Paradoxical and
... measure of Jewish identity; as religious separatism and practice began retreat, a secular version of Zionism was actively promoted, and now, seculars have been ruling the country for decades. In addition, antireligious sentiment had become widespread in left-leaning Israeli circles of the 1960s [16] ...
... measure of Jewish identity; as religious separatism and practice began retreat, a secular version of Zionism was actively promoted, and now, seculars have been ruling the country for decades. In addition, antireligious sentiment had become widespread in left-leaning Israeli circles of the 1960s [16] ...
Secular Studies
... 6) In a circumstance where one is studying secular philosophy even when there is nothing lacking per say in his understanding of Torah, since they know that they will use these ideas for Torah or the service of G-d at some later date. 16 It was specifically the sixth reasoning that fueled Rambam’s s ...
... 6) In a circumstance where one is studying secular philosophy even when there is nothing lacking per say in his understanding of Torah, since they know that they will use these ideas for Torah or the service of G-d at some later date. 16 It was specifically the sixth reasoning that fueled Rambam’s s ...
Judaism – Core Ethical Teachings
... 613 mitzvot are foundational to Jewish ethics The fundamental source of ethical guidance for Jews is the Torah, which includes the Written and Oral Torah. Different components of the Torah give ethical guidance to varying degrees of specificity. The 613 mitzvot provide the broadest application of Je ...
... 613 mitzvot are foundational to Jewish ethics The fundamental source of ethical guidance for Jews is the Torah, which includes the Written and Oral Torah. Different components of the Torah give ethical guidance to varying degrees of specificity. The 613 mitzvot provide the broadest application of Je ...
The Theology of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan
... great debt to what is known as “predicate theology”. This school of theology, which has contributed to a new understanding of the nature of God and religion not only in Judaism but also in liberal Christianity, was initially developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan and has been popularized and further dev ...
... great debt to what is known as “predicate theology”. This school of theology, which has contributed to a new understanding of the nature of God and religion not only in Judaism but also in liberal Christianity, was initially developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan and has been popularized and further dev ...
Unity of Faiths - Judaism
... IMPORTANT JEWS IN THE MODERN ERA .................................................................................. 13 Rabbi Israel Ben Eliezer ...................................................................................................................... 13 Moses Mendelssohn ................ ...
... IMPORTANT JEWS IN THE MODERN ERA .................................................................................. 13 Rabbi Israel Ben Eliezer ...................................................................................................................... 13 Moses Mendelssohn ................ ...
Beyond the Dark Ages
... Cordoba,” writes the former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, “rendered the philosophic strain of Spanish Judaism both pristine and normative.” 9 It is important for us to understand the role of medieval Sephardic Jewry and Moses Maimonides within the context of the movement for Jewish ...
... Cordoba,” writes the former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, “rendered the philosophic strain of Spanish Judaism both pristine and normative.” 9 It is important for us to understand the role of medieval Sephardic Jewry and Moses Maimonides within the context of the movement for Jewish ...
Jesus for Jews
... Christianity is for Gentiles and is not necessary or even relevant for Jews and their salvation. Thus they are reborn not as Christians, but as (Jewish) believers in Yeshua. [15] To be sure, Messianic Jews, like most conservative Christians, take passages such as John 14:6 and Acts 4:12 with the utm ...
... Christianity is for Gentiles and is not necessary or even relevant for Jews and their salvation. Thus they are reborn not as Christians, but as (Jewish) believers in Yeshua. [15] To be sure, Messianic Jews, like most conservative Christians, take passages such as John 14:6 and Acts 4:12 with the utm ...
The Unique Problem of Messianic Judaism
... normative beliefs or practice. At the same time the conscious decision to subscribe to another belief and practice system that conflicts with core Jewish principles is unacceptable and potentially ...
... normative beliefs or practice. At the same time the conscious decision to subscribe to another belief and practice system that conflicts with core Jewish principles is unacceptable and potentially ...
Multi-faith Calendar 2016
... Guru Nanak Dev was the founder of the Sikh faith and way of life. Sikhism stresses the importance of doing good deeds rather than ...
... Guru Nanak Dev was the founder of the Sikh faith and way of life. Sikhism stresses the importance of doing good deeds rather than ...
Introduction – Rabbinic Judaism
... Men of the Great Assembly…” Mishnah Avot 1:1 Judaism is often believed to be a religion based primarily in the Hebrew Bible, or even more specifically, the first five books of the Bible, known in Jewish tradition as the Torah. These five books, in the form of a Torah scroll, are found in nearly ever ...
... Men of the Great Assembly…” Mishnah Avot 1:1 Judaism is often believed to be a religion based primarily in the Hebrew Bible, or even more specifically, the first five books of the Bible, known in Jewish tradition as the Torah. These five books, in the form of a Torah scroll, are found in nearly ever ...
Judaism-Part 1
... have stories even of being taken to jail and not ever knowing why. Spending a night in jail and not ever knowing why. Because the system of justice is not upheld there. So that's kind of the environment that he has lived in for several years. Well, some time ago he was visiting here in the United S ...
... have stories even of being taken to jail and not ever knowing why. Spending a night in jail and not ever knowing why. Because the system of justice is not upheld there. So that's kind of the environment that he has lived in for several years. Well, some time ago he was visiting here in the United S ...