
Accounting for Judaism in the Study of American Messianic Judaism
... 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 members of the Jewish community or that their religion is a form of contempora ...
... 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 members of the Jewish community or that their religion is a form of contempora ...
Yom Kippur - Sept. 23, 2015
... On the eve of Yom Kippur the community joins at the synagogue. Men put on prayer shawls (not usually worn in the evenings). Then as the night falls the cantor begins the "Kol Nidre", it is repeated 3 times, each time in a louder voice. The Kol Nidre emphasizes the importance in keeping vows, as viol ...
... On the eve of Yom Kippur the community joins at the synagogue. Men put on prayer shawls (not usually worn in the evenings). Then as the night falls the cantor begins the "Kol Nidre", it is repeated 3 times, each time in a louder voice. The Kol Nidre emphasizes the importance in keeping vows, as viol ...
Hanukkah - Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
... light the candle marking the night, there will always be one more candle lit than the day you are celebrating.) The candles are lit each evening at or after sunset. The candle lighting is accompanied by the reciting or singing of specific blessings. Following the candle lighting each evening, it is ...
... light the candle marking the night, there will always be one more candle lit than the day you are celebrating.) The candles are lit each evening at or after sunset. The candle lighting is accompanied by the reciting or singing of specific blessings. Following the candle lighting each evening, it is ...
Chapter 2 The challenge of modernity
... outstanding expression of the encounter between Judaism and modernity – Reform Judaism –, one tends to be influenced by some common views on Dutch Jewry. It is important to be aware of them. For example, the question whether Dutch Jews did keep up with modernity tends to be answered in the negative ...
... outstanding expression of the encounter between Judaism and modernity – Reform Judaism –, one tends to be influenced by some common views on Dutch Jewry. It is important to be aware of them. For example, the question whether Dutch Jews did keep up with modernity tends to be answered in the negative ...
Jewish feelings, Jewish practice?
... • Maintaining social ties with other members of the community generally constitutes an important component in the participants’ lives. Nevertheless, participants expressed how certain situations or being in the presence of specific groups could cause them to cast doubts on their Jewish identity. Me ...
... • Maintaining social ties with other members of the community generally constitutes an important component in the participants’ lives. Nevertheless, participants expressed how certain situations or being in the presence of specific groups could cause them to cast doubts on their Jewish identity. Me ...
Nathan Glazer`s American Judaism
... histories,4 and Glazer wanted no part of these celebratory studies. Instead, his monograph maintained a conspicuous academic distance between author and subject, signaled by cautionary lines such as ‘‘many things will be said that may hurt Jews’’5—warning readers that his goal was not to shore up th ...
... histories,4 and Glazer wanted no part of these celebratory studies. Instead, his monograph maintained a conspicuous academic distance between author and subject, signaled by cautionary lines such as ‘‘many things will be said that may hurt Jews’’5—warning readers that his goal was not to shore up th ...
Messiah vs. Mashiach - Toby`s Learning Emporium
... Some of Judaism's greatest minds have cursed those who try to predict the time of the mashiach's coming, because errors in such predictions could cause people to lose faith in the messianic idea or in Judaism itself. This actually happened in the 17th century, when Shabbatai Tzvi claimed to be the m ...
... Some of Judaism's greatest minds have cursed those who try to predict the time of the mashiach's coming, because errors in such predictions could cause people to lose faith in the messianic idea or in Judaism itself. This actually happened in the 17th century, when Shabbatai Tzvi claimed to be the m ...
Calendar of Main Jewish Religious Observances and Resource Guide
... remembrance will vary from year to year. Even though the dates of the Jewish religious observances will be different each year, they will always be observed in the same season. The Jewish Sabbath (Shabbat) begins each week on Friday at sunset and ends Saturday at nightfall (approximately one hour af ...
... remembrance will vary from year to year. Even though the dates of the Jewish religious observances will be different each year, they will always be observed in the same season. The Jewish Sabbath (Shabbat) begins each week on Friday at sunset and ends Saturday at nightfall (approximately one hour af ...
jewish concepts
... asked : Do you not know that this nation is downtrodden and afflicted, subjected to many ills, liable to varied penalties for disobedience to the precepts of the Torah? . . . If he persists, he takes a ritual bath and submits to circumcision . . ." (Yevamoth 47a) . Both male and female applicants be ...
... asked : Do you not know that this nation is downtrodden and afflicted, subjected to many ills, liable to varied penalties for disobedience to the precepts of the Torah? . . . If he persists, he takes a ritual bath and submits to circumcision . . ." (Yevamoth 47a) . Both male and female applicants be ...
Introduction to Judaism
... 5. Ethical Values and the Formation of the Person • What does it mean to be a good Jew? A good person? • Where do ethics come from? • How do celebrations of milestones (lifecycle events) contribute to the formation of the individual? • How have Jewish ethics/values changed over time? Lecture 1 ...
... 5. Ethical Values and the Formation of the Person • What does it mean to be a good Jew? A good person? • Where do ethics come from? • How do celebrations of milestones (lifecycle events) contribute to the formation of the individual? • How have Jewish ethics/values changed over time? Lecture 1 ...
Introduction to the UMJC
... tremendous inroads among the Jewish people. Indeed a first century Jerusalem follower of Messiah might easily have imagined that the time of restoration promised by Israel’s prophets was at hand. Thousands of Jewish people were coming to teshuvah or repentance, recommitting themselves to the God of ...
... tremendous inroads among the Jewish people. Indeed a first century Jerusalem follower of Messiah might easily have imagined that the time of restoration promised by Israel’s prophets was at hand. Thousands of Jewish people were coming to teshuvah or repentance, recommitting themselves to the God of ...
The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
... search for more information and learned Jews who search for new insights; and non-Jews who wish to understand the underlying visions of Judaism and who may find that it resonates in their own religious living. It is a privilege to be able to write at such a unique moment in our people's history. The ...
... search for more information and learned Jews who search for new insights; and non-Jews who wish to understand the underlying visions of Judaism and who may find that it resonates in their own religious living. It is a privilege to be able to write at such a unique moment in our people's history. The ...
*TRADITION, JUDAISM, AND THE JEWISH RELIGIONƒ *IN
... Israel), synonymously with Torah (a euphemism for the Jewish d religion). They are less likely to refer to Judaism ©© but when they do, they mean Torah and ”masoret•. In other words, all the terms are basically identical although they do evoke somewhat different images. But Tradition, we must recall ...
... Israel), synonymously with Torah (a euphemism for the Jewish d religion). They are less likely to refer to Judaism ©© but when they do, they mean Torah and ”masoret•. In other words, all the terms are basically identical although they do evoke somewhat different images. But Tradition, we must recall ...
Text - Association of Jewish Libraries
... only one component of it. Jews do not have to abandon their intellect to practice Judaism. God should be interpreted as a force or process in the universe, the power that makes for salvation, not as a supernatural being. Mitzvot and Torah are not God-given, but because the rituals and prayers of the ...
... only one component of it. Jews do not have to abandon their intellect to practice Judaism. God should be interpreted as a force or process in the universe, the power that makes for salvation, not as a supernatural being. Mitzvot and Torah are not God-given, but because the rituals and prayers of the ...
Denominations in Judaism
... synagogues in Israel, and each time its members had attempted to worship at the Wall with men and women together it had been attacked. On Shavuot two years earlier, ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students had rained soiled diapers on the minyan. Two months after that, on Tisha b'Av, the police had shoved an ...
... synagogues in Israel, and each time its members had attempted to worship at the Wall with men and women together it had been attacked. On Shavuot two years earlier, ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students had rained soiled diapers on the minyan. Two months after that, on Tisha b'Av, the police had shoved an ...
Why was the Torah given to us in the wilderness?
... dissuade them nor encourage them (Midrash Rut Rabati 2:17), but ask them: “What did you see to make such a choice? Do you not know we are a people that has been brutalized and downtrodden and unpopular, and our ways are very different from the ways of the rest of the world?” We do this in order to t ...
... dissuade them nor encourage them (Midrash Rut Rabati 2:17), but ask them: “What did you see to make such a choice? Do you not know we are a people that has been brutalized and downtrodden and unpopular, and our ways are very different from the ways of the rest of the world?” We do this in order to t ...
Intermarriage – Its Positive Effect on Messianic Judaism
... households, and raise their children as Messianic Jews. Given the opportunity, they would not hesitate to formalize their commitment to their adopted people Israel. ...
... households, and raise their children as Messianic Jews. Given the opportunity, they would not hesitate to formalize their commitment to their adopted people Israel. ...
1 JEWISH CIVILIZATION BETWEEN RISE
... We do not know when men became aware that history was not a repetition of identical events, but a sequence of different periods, some good and some bad. Neither do we know when men began to believe that they lived once in a “Golden Age”, which was better than their own age. The Ancient World thought ...
... We do not know when men became aware that history was not a repetition of identical events, but a sequence of different periods, some good and some bad. Neither do we know when men began to believe that they lived once in a “Golden Age”, which was better than their own age. The Ancient World thought ...
Creativity and Cultural Influence in Early Jewish
... law has been the focus of scholarly discussion only fairly recently. A cultural analysis approach to law asks "how to talk about and interpret law in cultural terms." s According to Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon, cultural analysis has traditionally been "associated with 'softer' research tradition ...
... law has been the focus of scholarly discussion only fairly recently. A cultural analysis approach to law asks "how to talk about and interpret law in cultural terms." s According to Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon, cultural analysis has traditionally been "associated with 'softer' research tradition ...
Judaism
... A Torah scroll is very expensive; the average cost is about $25,000. In most institutions, it is not possible to have a Torah Scroll, but it is appropriate for the contract rabbi to bring the Torah for special occasions. When a quorum of Jews requests a Torah scroll, it is appropriate to ask a synag ...
... A Torah scroll is very expensive; the average cost is about $25,000. In most institutions, it is not possible to have a Torah Scroll, but it is appropriate for the contract rabbi to bring the Torah for special occasions. When a quorum of Jews requests a Torah scroll, it is appropriate to ask a synag ...
Defining Judaism: Accounting for “Religions” in
... own definitional purposes. When early Christians used the term “Judaism,” they did so to help define themselves—“Judaism,” as they understood it, was necessary for them to tell the story of Christianity. These Christian definitions of Judaism ultimately had an impact on Jewish selfunderstandings, an ...
... own definitional purposes. When early Christians used the term “Judaism,” they did so to help define themselves—“Judaism,” as they understood it, was necessary for them to tell the story of Christianity. These Christian definitions of Judaism ultimately had an impact on Jewish selfunderstandings, an ...
Rationalization and Apologia: The Intellectual
... disputed passage, b. Baba Kamma 38a, states that if a Canaanite ox gores an Israelite damages must be paid, but damages need not be paid if an Israelite ox gores a Canaanite—an expression of the fundamentally ethnocentric ethics of the Talmud that has figured in anti-Semitic writing in modern times ...
... disputed passage, b. Baba Kamma 38a, states that if a Canaanite ox gores an Israelite damages must be paid, but damages need not be paid if an Israelite ox gores a Canaanite—an expression of the fundamentally ethnocentric ethics of the Talmud that has figured in anti-Semitic writing in modern times ...
Imperialism And Jewish Society, 200 BCE To 640
... From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel ...
... From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel ...
Eliezer Berkovits, Theologian of Zionism
... For this reason, Berkovits argues, Judaism has always understood its central mission to be the creation of an exemplary community, and not just exemplary individuals. Such a community dedicates its entire public existence, as well as the efforts of the individuals who live in it, towards a higher, di ...
... For this reason, Berkovits argues, Judaism has always understood its central mission to be the creation of an exemplary community, and not just exemplary individuals. Such a community dedicates its entire public existence, as well as the efforts of the individuals who live in it, towards a higher, di ...