Contemporary Questions about Covenant(s)
... B. How would a "Jewish theology of Christianity" (or of Judaism in relation to Christianity) reckon with the Church's self-understanding, especially its convictions that Jesus is Lord, God's Word Incarnate? A theology of revelation is relevant here. Speaking of revelation, I would like to end with a ...
... B. How would a "Jewish theology of Christianity" (or of Judaism in relation to Christianity) reckon with the Church's self-understanding, especially its convictions that Jesus is Lord, God's Word Incarnate? A theology of revelation is relevant here. Speaking of revelation, I would like to end with a ...
Our Covenant With Stones - The Rabbinical Assembly
... Often, the Mishnah postulates the overlap of the People(v4w Yisrael) and the Land (Eretz Yisrael), the two primary concentrations of holiness. Even within the Tannaitic period, however, the existence of significant Jewish pop ulations in Syria, Egypt and Babylonia required some adjustments to the n ...
... Often, the Mishnah postulates the overlap of the People(v4w Yisrael) and the Land (Eretz Yisrael), the two primary concentrations of holiness. Even within the Tannaitic period, however, the existence of significant Jewish pop ulations in Syria, Egypt and Babylonia required some adjustments to the n ...
Reconstructionist Judaism
... Reconstructionist Jews understand Judaism primarily as a spiritual path, the means by which the search for ultimate meaning in life is conducted. God is the source of meaning, the power within that urges us toward generosity, responsibility, concern and self-fulfillment. God is found when we look f ...
... Reconstructionist Jews understand Judaism primarily as a spiritual path, the means by which the search for ultimate meaning in life is conducted. God is the source of meaning, the power within that urges us toward generosity, responsibility, concern and self-fulfillment. God is found when we look f ...
Conservative Judaism - The Rabbinical Assembly
... Often, the Mishnah postulates the overlap of the People( Am Yisrael) and the Land (Bretz Yisrael), the two primary concentrations of holiness. Even withln the Tannaitic period, however, the existence of significant Jewish populations in Syria, Egypt and Babylonia required some adjustments to the not ...
... Often, the Mishnah postulates the overlap of the People( Am Yisrael) and the Land (Bretz Yisrael), the two primary concentrations of holiness. Even withln the Tannaitic period, however, the existence of significant Jewish populations in Syria, Egypt and Babylonia required some adjustments to the not ...
UNDERSTANDING OTHER RELIGIONS
... not the Messiah. Belief in God, his law (the Old Testament), and the lawgiver (Moses) are core themes in Judaism. Judaism is divided into several branches (like Christianity), including Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews, and these Jewish groups have significant differences in their beliefs and ...
... not the Messiah. Belief in God, his law (the Old Testament), and the lawgiver (Moses) are core themes in Judaism. Judaism is divided into several branches (like Christianity), including Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews, and these Jewish groups have significant differences in their beliefs and ...
Man as Symbol of God
... clearly based on Assyro-Babylonian models. It is not easy to decide whether these images, found on reliefs, were worshipped as deities or were made for the glorification of the king of the kings only. Anyhow, we do not find freestanding images or temples at this stage. With the reign of Artaxerxes I ...
... clearly based on Assyro-Babylonian models. It is not easy to decide whether these images, found on reliefs, were worshipped as deities or were made for the glorification of the king of the kings only. Anyhow, we do not find freestanding images or temples at this stage. With the reign of Artaxerxes I ...
LOUIS JACOBS` DOCTRINE OF REVELATION tainted
... ing the fourth approach to the question, that of Mordecai Kaplan. Kaplan describes the mitzvot as ...
... ing the fourth approach to the question, that of Mordecai Kaplan. Kaplan describes the mitzvot as ...
1 Introduction
... huge range of ideas, questions, applications, stories, and traditions. Again, notice a “range” of interpretations. Because of this, modern Judaism is essentially Talmudic in character. By that, I mean that its focus is on all the various rabbinic interpretations of the Torah. The average Jew today m ...
... huge range of ideas, questions, applications, stories, and traditions. Again, notice a “range” of interpretations. Because of this, modern Judaism is essentially Talmudic in character. By that, I mean that its focus is on all the various rabbinic interpretations of the Torah. The average Jew today m ...
Wikipedia entry on Reconstructionism
... latter theology, Kaplan still rejects classical forms of theism and any belief in miracles, but holds to a position that in some ways is neoplatonic. Most "classical" Reconstructionist Jews (those agreeing with Kaplan) reject traditional forms of theism, though this is by no means universal. Many ar ...
... latter theology, Kaplan still rejects classical forms of theism and any belief in miracles, but holds to a position that in some ways is neoplatonic. Most "classical" Reconstructionist Jews (those agreeing with Kaplan) reject traditional forms of theism, though this is by no means universal. Many ar ...
Messianic Judaism – Substance and Form
... Avraham, then do the things Avraham did! As it is, you are out to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Avraham did nothing like that! You are doing the things your father does. (John 8:39-41) Then He hit them with what is the heart of our understanding today, If God were ...
... Avraham, then do the things Avraham did! As it is, you are out to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Avraham did nothing like that! You are doing the things your father does. (John 8:39-41) Then He hit them with what is the heart of our understanding today, If God were ...
Reform Judaism: In 1000 Words God
... Some of Reform Judaism’s understanding of God is instrumental, considering what trusting in the concept of God does for us. As Rabbi Jonathan Romain puts it, trusting in God enables a Jew to assert that “the world has a purpose, life has meaning, all people are equal, each person is unique and each ...
... Some of Reform Judaism’s understanding of God is instrumental, considering what trusting in the concept of God does for us. As Rabbi Jonathan Romain puts it, trusting in God enables a Jew to assert that “the world has a purpose, life has meaning, all people are equal, each person is unique and each ...
Making Jewish Sense of Paul`s Theology
... Hebrew Scripture means “directive” and sometimes “teaching”, but was expanded to include: divine teaching, prophetic preaching, and moral exhortation. Eventually it becomes synonymous with divine revelation as a whole. Paul’s community, like others in Asia Minor and Egypt used the Greek Septuagint t ...
... Hebrew Scripture means “directive” and sometimes “teaching”, but was expanded to include: divine teaching, prophetic preaching, and moral exhortation. Eventually it becomes synonymous with divine revelation as a whole. Paul’s community, like others in Asia Minor and Egypt used the Greek Septuagint t ...
Reform Judaism - The Humane Society of the United States
... that the Holy One, blessed be God, created, nothing was created without purpose.’ (Shabbat 77b) In fact, we are told in Talmud (Sanhedrin 38a) that human beings were not created until the “sixth day so that if our minds become too proud, we could be reminded, 'Even the gnats preceded you in creation ...
... that the Holy One, blessed be God, created, nothing was created without purpose.’ (Shabbat 77b) In fact, we are told in Talmud (Sanhedrin 38a) that human beings were not created until the “sixth day so that if our minds become too proud, we could be reminded, 'Even the gnats preceded you in creation ...
Judaism Presentation - Birmingham Diocesan Education Service
... know the hope God’s call holds for them We speak the truth and challenge what works against the spirit of the gospel We are restless leaders because nothing is perfect ...
... know the hope God’s call holds for them We speak the truth and challenge what works against the spirit of the gospel We are restless leaders because nothing is perfect ...
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... against misrepresentation and to offer it to any of our fellow-men who may wish, with free conviction, to avail themselves of it. We must rid ourselves of the inferiority complex which sees Judaism as a duarf beside the giant of Christmanity. ...
... against misrepresentation and to offer it to any of our fellow-men who may wish, with free conviction, to avail themselves of it. We must rid ourselves of the inferiority complex which sees Judaism as a duarf beside the giant of Christmanity. ...
October 2012 - In the Flesh - Chosen People Ministries (Canada)
... “battle” was not with a non-Jew, but rather with a Jewish person— an extraordinary Jewish person—who claimed to be the Messiah and God in the flesh. Every bone in my body rejected the possibility that either of these statements was true. I read through the New Testament Scriptures, comparing them wi ...
... “battle” was not with a non-Jew, but rather with a Jewish person— an extraordinary Jewish person—who claimed to be the Messiah and God in the flesh. Every bone in my body rejected the possibility that either of these statements was true. I read through the New Testament Scriptures, comparing them wi ...
ELJC Newsletter Learning Zone –August 2015 Adon Olam and
... Yigdal is a very different song from Adon Olam, both in content and purpose. In SLC it can be found on page 526 in the concluding songs and we sometimes use it as an alternative to Adon Olam at the end of the service. It is a great proclamation of the Thirteen Principles of Faith of Maimonides, summ ...
... Yigdal is a very different song from Adon Olam, both in content and purpose. In SLC it can be found on page 526 in the concluding songs and we sometimes use it as an alternative to Adon Olam at the end of the service. It is a great proclamation of the Thirteen Principles of Faith of Maimonides, summ ...
Also "Theologie nach Auschwitz" ("Theology after Auschwitz"
... The Holocaust is a mystery beyond human comprehension. God has reason for what God does, but our finite human understanding can not start to understand the purpose of divine action. MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON (Hasidic). Rejects “punishment” theory. The destruction of six million Jews in such a horri ...
... The Holocaust is a mystery beyond human comprehension. God has reason for what God does, but our finite human understanding can not start to understand the purpose of divine action. MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON (Hasidic). Rejects “punishment” theory. The destruction of six million Jews in such a horri ...
LEXICON: JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN TERMS
... language to turn the disaster of the crucifixion into the good news of Jesus Christ. And in so doing, they created the church’s Old Testament. Oral Torah: In traditional Jewish thought, God revealed instructions for living a Jewish life both through the “written” Torah and through a parallel process ...
... language to turn the disaster of the crucifixion into the good news of Jesus Christ. And in so doing, they created the church’s Old Testament. Oral Torah: In traditional Jewish thought, God revealed instructions for living a Jewish life both through the “written” Torah and through a parallel process ...
4. Infertility, IVF and Judaism
... completely different system of geometry based on the world's being curved rather than a rectangular structure, assumed that if through a point, any number of parallel lines can be drawn parallel to any existing line. This "non-Euclidean" system of geometry was the basis for much of Einstein's comput ...
... completely different system of geometry based on the world's being curved rather than a rectangular structure, assumed that if through a point, any number of parallel lines can be drawn parallel to any existing line. This "non-Euclidean" system of geometry was the basis for much of Einstein's comput ...
A Jewish Theology of Pluralism1
... This doctrine is a rabbinic assertion of the ability of every human being, even unconverted, to find favour in the eyes of God; Judaism does not have an equivalent to extra ecclesiam non est salus (there is no salvation outside the Church).13 The reports of this debate between Joshua and Gamaliel do ...
... This doctrine is a rabbinic assertion of the ability of every human being, even unconverted, to find favour in the eyes of God; Judaism does not have an equivalent to extra ecclesiam non est salus (there is no salvation outside the Church).13 The reports of this debate between Joshua and Gamaliel do ...
Community as Cornerstone - Jewish Reconstructionist Communities
... drama, languages and literature, and our relationship with the land of Israel itself are also integral parts of Jewish culture. Each of these aspects provides a gateway into the Jewish experience that can enrich and inspire us. Community as Cornerstone While deeply connected to the historical experi ...
... drama, languages and literature, and our relationship with the land of Israel itself are also integral parts of Jewish culture. Each of these aspects provides a gateway into the Jewish experience that can enrich and inspire us. Community as Cornerstone While deeply connected to the historical experi ...
Lesson Plan: Are Science and Judaism
... it, be master of everything else. The second account describes man as a living “soul”, he is alone, and his task is to “care” for the earth and tend it, he is put in the garden by God.) There are many interpretations as to why the story is told twice, but Rav (Rabbi) Soloveitchik understood it this ...
... it, be master of everything else. The second account describes man as a living “soul”, he is alone, and his task is to “care” for the earth and tend it, he is put in the garden by God.) There are many interpretations as to why the story is told twice, but Rav (Rabbi) Soloveitchik understood it this ...
Response to “Jewish History and the Deity of Yeshua” Rich
... “Even worse”—what an interesting comment. And then too, there are similarities or parallels to addressing prayer to different persons of the Godhead, namely the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. For example, R. Jacob the Nazirite (twelfth century) claimed that the first three and last three benedictions ...
... “Even worse”—what an interesting comment. And then too, there are similarities or parallels to addressing prayer to different persons of the Godhead, namely the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. For example, R. Jacob the Nazirite (twelfth century) claimed that the first three and last three benedictions ...
hasidim and lurianic kabbalah
... Talmudism and the Cabala in the Middle Ages, and between rabbinism and the mysticMessianic movements from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. When it arises, inevitably there is a conflict between those adhering to the mystical and those who adhere to Church doctrine. The same is true within Ju ...
... Talmudism and the Cabala in the Middle Ages, and between rabbinism and the mysticMessianic movements from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. When it arises, inevitably there is a conflict between those adhering to the mystical and those who adhere to Church doctrine. The same is true within Ju ...