RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING JUDAISM
... The Seder bowl or Passover Seder Plate, is at the centre of every Jewish dining-room table during Passover. Before the Seder the Seder Plate is arranged by placing three whole Matzot in a cover or special compartment under the plate. In Hebrew, the Seder plate is called a “Ka’arah”. It is the tradit ...
... The Seder bowl or Passover Seder Plate, is at the centre of every Jewish dining-room table during Passover. Before the Seder the Seder Plate is arranged by placing three whole Matzot in a cover or special compartment under the plate. In Hebrew, the Seder plate is called a “Ka’arah”. It is the tradit ...
The Written and Oral Torah
... Compiled 200 CE by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi (“Judah the Prince”) Oldest text of Rabbinic Judaism, recording their traditions How to live/apply/adapt the mitzvot (God’s commandments) ...
... Compiled 200 CE by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi (“Judah the Prince”) Oldest text of Rabbinic Judaism, recording their traditions How to live/apply/adapt the mitzvot (God’s commandments) ...
Shavuot - Bnei Akiva UK
... Pair me: Give them pairs of pictures of festivals and their specific Mitzvot to match up (e.g. Pesach and Matzah / Sukkot and Lulav / Shofar and Rosh Hashana, etc.) and then explain how Shavuot is unique in that it has no specific Mitzvot because we re-receive the Torah ourselves each year. My 10: W ...
... Pair me: Give them pairs of pictures of festivals and their specific Mitzvot to match up (e.g. Pesach and Matzah / Sukkot and Lulav / Shofar and Rosh Hashana, etc.) and then explain how Shavuot is unique in that it has no specific Mitzvot because we re-receive the Torah ourselves each year. My 10: W ...
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... special pointer is used by the reader so he can keep his place without touching it with his hand. ...
... special pointer is used by the reader so he can keep his place without touching it with his hand. ...
Adv. Ancient Civ. Name_________________________________
... Abraham the father of a great nation and to bless this nation. Abraham did as he was told, and his descendants became known as the Jewish people. The greatest leader of the Israelites was Moses. The Torah tells how he led his people out of slavery in Egypt. Moses told the Israelites that God would l ...
... Abraham the father of a great nation and to bless this nation. Abraham did as he was told, and his descendants became known as the Jewish people. The greatest leader of the Israelites was Moses. The Torah tells how he led his people out of slavery in Egypt. Moses told the Israelites that God would l ...
CFA: Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary - H-Net
... Social Scientific and Theological Perspectives.' The interface between Judaism and technology has been recorded since ancient times. No doubt, navigating these interactions has long presented religious authorities with critical challenges. Nonetheless, the breakneck pace with which novel forms of co ...
... Social Scientific and Theological Perspectives.' The interface between Judaism and technology has been recorded since ancient times. No doubt, navigating these interactions has long presented religious authorities with critical challenges. Nonetheless, the breakneck pace with which novel forms of co ...
Carthage College The Reform Movement and Abraham Geiger
... most progressive branch of Judaism is the reform movement. The reform movement is the most revolutionary and least restrictive of all the movements. In the reform movement each Jew get to make their own decision on what rules they would apply to their everyday life. They had the choice of how involv ...
... most progressive branch of Judaism is the reform movement. The reform movement is the most revolutionary and least restrictive of all the movements. In the reform movement each Jew get to make their own decision on what rules they would apply to their everyday life. They had the choice of how involv ...
“La Donna Rabbino”: The Chief Rabbi of Rome Considers the
... The first of these terms denotes the capacity and the authority to impart practical instructions as to how to conduct oneself in questions of Halakhah. Presented with a doubtful case, or one in which there is a controversy in the codes, one refers a question (she’elah) to the rabbi, who is the pers ...
... The first of these terms denotes the capacity and the authority to impart practical instructions as to how to conduct oneself in questions of Halakhah. Presented with a doubtful case, or one in which there is a controversy in the codes, one refers a question (she’elah) to the rabbi, who is the pers ...
Judaism 101: What Do Jews Believe?
... absolute, unchanging laws from G-d (Orthodox); some say they are laws from G-d that change and evolve over time (Conservative); some say that they are guidelines that you can choose whether or not to follow (Reform, Reconstructionist). For more on these distinctions, see Movements of Judaism. So, wh ...
... absolute, unchanging laws from G-d (Orthodox); some say they are laws from G-d that change and evolve over time (Conservative); some say that they are guidelines that you can choose whether or not to follow (Reform, Reconstructionist). For more on these distinctions, see Movements of Judaism. So, wh ...
Basic Judaism by Milton steinberg
... eretz should be seen as the playing field in which the elements of Judaism (Steinberg’s woven strands and perhaps many others) can play together harmoniously. Brit, for example, can be viewed as spiritu ...
... eretz should be seen as the playing field in which the elements of Judaism (Steinberg’s woven strands and perhaps many others) can play together harmoniously. Brit, for example, can be viewed as spiritu ...
Class #12 - Jewish Pathways
... Asceticism is not an ideal in Judaism, and asceticism that causes harm to a person is certainly forbidden. Nezirut is a form of asceticism that is permitted by Jewish law. A Nazir is a person who takes a vow temporarily abstaining from drinking wine (which represents worldly pleasures) and from cutt ...
... Asceticism is not an ideal in Judaism, and asceticism that causes harm to a person is certainly forbidden. Nezirut is a form of asceticism that is permitted by Jewish law. A Nazir is a person who takes a vow temporarily abstaining from drinking wine (which represents worldly pleasures) and from cutt ...
Louise Guilfoyle - Broadwater School
... when they were first given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai they were written on tablets of stone. ...
... when they were first given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai they were written on tablets of stone. ...
Messianism and Hassidism
... Hasidism There’s a Hasidic tale about a famous rabbi who was on his way to teach a village that was very interested in his ideas. This was going to be a very big event, and each Jew in the community made great preparations, pondering what question he or she might ask the wise man. The rabbi finally ...
... Hasidism There’s a Hasidic tale about a famous rabbi who was on his way to teach a village that was very interested in his ideas. This was going to be a very big event, and each Jew in the community made great preparations, pondering what question he or she might ask the wise man. The rabbi finally ...
What I Did on My Summer Vacation... or Sabbatical
... vestibule to the sanctuary. People kept on welcoming us and asking if they could be of help. When we asked what was going on in the sanctuary, we were told that there was a lecture accompanied by slides about healthy eating. That talk, as well as most of the conversation, was in Creole. While the tr ...
... vestibule to the sanctuary. People kept on welcoming us and asking if they could be of help. When we asked what was going on in the sanctuary, we were told that there was a lecture accompanied by slides about healthy eating. That talk, as well as most of the conversation, was in Creole. While the tr ...
Secular Studies
... affluent livelihood to be able to serve G-d, or knows how to apply them in the service of G-d and His Torah. This is the reason why Maimonides and Nachmanides, of blessed memory, and their adherents, engaged in them. While Tanya mentions two instances when it would be permitted to study secular thou ...
... affluent livelihood to be able to serve G-d, or knows how to apply them in the service of G-d and His Torah. This is the reason why Maimonides and Nachmanides, of blessed memory, and their adherents, engaged in them. While Tanya mentions two instances when it would be permitted to study secular thou ...
judaism - Yahuah Kingdom
... characteristics of the Judean ethnos) is the religion, philosophy, and way of life of the Jewish people. Originating in the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Tanakh) and explored in later texts such as the Talmud, Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenant relationshi ...
... characteristics of the Judean ethnos) is the religion, philosophy, and way of life of the Jewish people. Originating in the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Tanakh) and explored in later texts such as the Talmud, Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenant relationshi ...
Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality
... government can legally take over property to build highways and the like) if it would save lives, so be it. But it was still an uncomfortable feeling. One of the interesting aspects of this detail was the fact that each morning, the Arab owner of the house, an older man who looked to be in his sixti ...
... government can legally take over property to build highways and the like) if it would save lives, so be it. But it was still an uncomfortable feeling. One of the interesting aspects of this detail was the fact that each morning, the Arab owner of the house, an older man who looked to be in his sixti ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS - Lawrence J. Epstein
... such a way that those interested could study it, learn what Judaism has to teach, and see for themselves what they concluded. It is not the goal of the book to challenge anyone’s faith (or faithlessness) or to change anyone’s belief system. Rather I mean it as a guide for readers to learn about Juda ...
... such a way that those interested could study it, learn what Judaism has to teach, and see for themselves what they concluded. It is not the goal of the book to challenge anyone’s faith (or faithlessness) or to change anyone’s belief system. Rather I mean it as a guide for readers to learn about Juda ...
Submitted
... hairy, with a big nose; whose also is good with money. Obviously these stereotypes do not make up the entirety of the Jewish culture. Unfortunately this was just about the extent of my knowledge about their culture as a whole. Coming from a Catholic family I had never had a need or desire to learn a ...
... hairy, with a big nose; whose also is good with money. Obviously these stereotypes do not make up the entirety of the Jewish culture. Unfortunately this was just about the extent of my knowledge about their culture as a whole. Coming from a Catholic family I had never had a need or desire to learn a ...
JUDAISM
... Death and Burial • Ideal death includes the recitation of the Shma and confession of faults • The corpse is cleaned and wrapped in plain white shroud and often men have their prayer shawls placed on them • Burial in the ground is traditionally the only way (Antiquity it was in two stages. Burial for ...
... Death and Burial • Ideal death includes the recitation of the Shma and confession of faults • The corpse is cleaned and wrapped in plain white shroud and often men have their prayer shawls placed on them • Burial in the ground is traditionally the only way (Antiquity it was in two stages. Burial for ...
jewish texts for healing, healthcare and gemilut hasadim
... Hatzalat Nefashot – The Saving of Human Life: It is a positive commandment to save the life of a person in danger from illness. This duty falls under the general obligation of saving life, which is grounded in a number of biblical verses, including ‘thou shalt not stand idly by the blood of your fel ...
... Hatzalat Nefashot – The Saving of Human Life: It is a positive commandment to save the life of a person in danger from illness. This duty falls under the general obligation of saving life, which is grounded in a number of biblical verses, including ‘thou shalt not stand idly by the blood of your fel ...
Creating a Spiritual Postwar American Judaism - H-Net
... Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (Reform) and the Ramaz From whence arose American Jewish preoccupation with school (Modern Orthodox) put the author in a state of be- Tikkun Olam? (The Reform movement resuscitated this wilderment about contemporary American Judaism: “By Mishnaic concept that was given ne ...
... Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (Reform) and the Ramaz From whence arose American Jewish preoccupation with school (Modern Orthodox) put the author in a state of be- Tikkun Olam? (The Reform movement resuscitated this wilderment about contemporary American Judaism: “By Mishnaic concept that was given ne ...
Orthodox Judaism Carnegie Shul Chatter
... all the Haredim have in common a total dedication to Torah in its traditional form and believe that the secular world is best kept at arm’s length. Neo-Orthodoxy The basic difference between neo-Orthodoxy and the Haredim is the attitude taken toward modern culture. The founder of Neo-Orthodoxy, Sams ...
... all the Haredim have in common a total dedication to Torah in its traditional form and believe that the secular world is best kept at arm’s length. Neo-Orthodoxy The basic difference between neo-Orthodoxy and the Haredim is the attitude taken toward modern culture. The founder of Neo-Orthodoxy, Sams ...
islam_and_judaisim_common_1A
... systems of religious law based on oral tradition that can override the written laws and that does not distinguish between holy and secular spheres. In Islam the laws are called ‘Sharia’, In Judaism they are known as ‘Halakha’. Both Judaism and Islam consider the study of religious law to be a form o ...
... systems of religious law based on oral tradition that can override the written laws and that does not distinguish between holy and secular spheres. In Islam the laws are called ‘Sharia’, In Judaism they are known as ‘Halakha’. Both Judaism and Islam consider the study of religious law to be a form o ...
Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, Kt (Hebrew: Yaakov Zvi, יעקב צבי) (born 8 March 1948) is a British rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism.He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the UK, he was the Chief Rabbi of those Orthodox synagogues, but was not recognized as the religious authority for the haredi Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations or for the progressive movements such as Masorti, Reform and Liberal Judaism. As Chief Rabbi, Sacks formally carried the title of Av Beit Din (head) of the London Beth Din.Since stepping down as Chief Rabbi, in addition to his international travelling and speaking engagements and prolific writing, Sacks has served as the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University. He has also been appointed as Professor of Law, Ethics and the Bible at King's College London.