Lesson 7: Mikvah and Marriage
... For as long as a woman menstruates, her monthly cycle dictates the rhythm of conjugal relations within the marriage, and each month it is a mitzvah for husband and wife to draw renewal from the waters of the mikvah. For those who have not made a lifelong commitment at the onset of married life, it i ...
... For as long as a woman menstruates, her monthly cycle dictates the rhythm of conjugal relations within the marriage, and each month it is a mitzvah for husband and wife to draw renewal from the waters of the mikvah. For those who have not made a lifelong commitment at the onset of married life, it i ...
Judaism`s Strange Gods
... that Talmud students do not have to engage in work and can be supported by taxes. Karo said that "we must assume that he (Hillel) engaged in labor only at the beginning of his studies...How can we assume that when Hillel became ...
... that Talmud students do not have to engage in work and can be supported by taxes. Karo said that "we must assume that he (Hillel) engaged in labor only at the beginning of his studies...How can we assume that when Hillel became ...
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
... philosophy of ghettoization. The culture presents an insurmountable obstacle to traditional Judaism and must be rejected. The second group would rather “reframe” the problem with some interpretative license: We need to transform the challenge of modernity so that it ceases to be problematic. We can ...
... philosophy of ghettoization. The culture presents an insurmountable obstacle to traditional Judaism and must be rejected. The second group would rather “reframe” the problem with some interpretative license: We need to transform the challenge of modernity so that it ceases to be problematic. We can ...
Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia - Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley.
... production of the various chronological layers of named tradents had, as it were, had their say.18 For the purposes of my argument here, the only important assumption is that the essential work of redaction was in the post-amoraic late fifth–sixth centuries or later and that it was so substantial as ...
... production of the various chronological layers of named tradents had, as it were, had their say.18 For the purposes of my argument here, the only important assumption is that the essential work of redaction was in the post-amoraic late fifth–sixth centuries or later and that it was so substantial as ...
The Debate over Mixed Seating in the American Synagogue
... who had returned to settle in Hamburg following his father's death, because the sum was conditional on "men and women sitting together" in the new edifice. To Dr. Jacob Sanderling, then rabbi of the temple, that idea was shocking. "In the Hamburg Temple," he reports, "men and women remained separate ...
... who had returned to settle in Hamburg following his father's death, because the sum was conditional on "men and women sitting together" in the new edifice. To Dr. Jacob Sanderling, then rabbi of the temple, that idea was shocking. "In the Hamburg Temple," he reports, "men and women remained separate ...
Misinterpreting Rabbi Judah Ha-Levi
... against the attacks of philosophers and followers of other religions, and also against [Jewish] sectarians who attacked the rest of Israel. This reminded me of something I had once heard concerning the arguments of a Rabbi who sojourned with the King of the Khazars. The latter, as we know from histo ...
... against the attacks of philosophers and followers of other religions, and also against [Jewish] sectarians who attacked the rest of Israel. This reminded me of something I had once heard concerning the arguments of a Rabbi who sojourned with the King of the Khazars. The latter, as we know from histo ...
Haredi Construction of Rabbinic Authority: A Case Study
... the law of our sacred Torah to participate with them either as an individual or as an organized communal body. May the Almighty have mercy on His people and close the breaches [in Torah life] and may we be worthy of the elevation of the glory of our sacred Torah and our people Israel. 7 The specifi ...
... the law of our sacred Torah to participate with them either as an individual or as an organized communal body. May the Almighty have mercy on His people and close the breaches [in Torah life] and may we be worthy of the elevation of the glory of our sacred Torah and our people Israel. 7 The specifi ...
The Greco-roman World
... Origins: Group of priests & levites left temple in Jerusalem to protest abuses under Hasmonean high priests Early Judaism ...
... Origins: Group of priests & levites left temple in Jerusalem to protest abuses under Hasmonean high priests Early Judaism ...
(2014) Conservative Judaism_Vol 1_pg 577 to 587
... Judaism had taken hold in the United States among the second and third generations of eastern European Jewish immigrants, especially in suburbs of big cities. The movement continues to have a worldwide membership but is still overwhelmingly American in numbers and character. According to a 2013 Pew ...
... Judaism had taken hold in the United States among the second and third generations of eastern European Jewish immigrants, especially in suburbs of big cities. The movement continues to have a worldwide membership but is still overwhelmingly American in numbers and character. According to a 2013 Pew ...
One who greets his teacher . . . causes the Shekhinah to
... When Moses ascends to the Heavens he finds God preparing for the giving of the Torah to the Jewish People but Moses does not greet Him and God reproaches him for this. In this theological Agaddah, God treats Moses as a colleague,13 perhaps an equal, but Moses the humblest of all men reduces himself ...
... When Moses ascends to the Heavens he finds God preparing for the giving of the Torah to the Jewish People but Moses does not greet Him and God reproaches him for this. In this theological Agaddah, God treats Moses as a colleague,13 perhaps an equal, but Moses the humblest of all men reduces himself ...
The New Reform Judaism - DigitalCommons@University of
... navigates this journey wisely and astutely. He recognizes the vibrant, dynamic character of Reform but is never an apologist, and he lays out weaknesses and challenges with an admirable forthrightness. Rabbi Kaplan is at his best in describing the difficult task of defining boundaries for modern Re ...
... navigates this journey wisely and astutely. He recognizes the vibrant, dynamic character of Reform but is never an apologist, and he lays out weaknesses and challenges with an admirable forthrightness. Rabbi Kaplan is at his best in describing the difficult task of defining boundaries for modern Re ...
in the talmud and the midrash
... cal trauma. A classic example of this concern is the talmudic story of the great righteous Sage Honi the Circle-Drawer who slept for seventy years. When he awoke and identified himself, no one would believe him. When he came to the house of study and told the rabbinic scholars who he was, they did n ...
... cal trauma. A classic example of this concern is the talmudic story of the great righteous Sage Honi the Circle-Drawer who slept for seventy years. When he awoke and identified himself, no one would believe him. When he came to the house of study and told the rabbinic scholars who he was, they did n ...
Lader Reform Judaism
... paved the way for Reform Judaism. Haskalah, a term that refers to the Jewish Enlightenment, advocated adopting values that Jewish communities up until that point had previously avoided, such as secular education and better assimilation into European society. The majority of Jews lived in metropolit ...
... paved the way for Reform Judaism. Haskalah, a term that refers to the Jewish Enlightenment, advocated adopting values that Jewish communities up until that point had previously avoided, such as secular education and better assimilation into European society. The majority of Jews lived in metropolit ...
Reform Judaism: Unity Among Diversity
... Saturday, with Shabbat beginning on Friday evening. The amount of rules are contained in the Torah regarding Shabbat but of course can be interpreted differently by each movement. Ward(2000) accurately stated they often prefer the traditions to be upheld by the Orthodox, who can be trusted to conser ...
... Saturday, with Shabbat beginning on Friday evening. The amount of rules are contained in the Torah regarding Shabbat but of course can be interpreted differently by each movement. Ward(2000) accurately stated they often prefer the traditions to be upheld by the Orthodox, who can be trusted to conser ...
Spring 2014 - Society for Classical Reform Judaism
... for individuals and congregations throughout the country, and the significant impact we are making on a new generation of rabbinic students at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, both here in America and in Israel, have all been spectacularly successful. Classical Reform is now on ...
... for individuals and congregations throughout the country, and the significant impact we are making on a new generation of rabbinic students at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, both here in America and in Israel, have all been spectacularly successful. Classical Reform is now on ...
Passover Day 7 - Congregation Or Shalom London Ontario
... makes halachic decisions for the Conservative Movement, approved a teshuvah allowing Jews of Ashkenazi descent to eat kitniyot on Passover. It’s been a big topic of conversation around the shul the past week or two. Who knew that rice and legumes could be such a window into important aspects of our ...
... makes halachic decisions for the Conservative Movement, approved a teshuvah allowing Jews of Ashkenazi descent to eat kitniyot on Passover. It’s been a big topic of conversation around the shul the past week or two. Who knew that rice and legumes could be such a window into important aspects of our ...
I Am a Reform Jew Because - Westchester Reform Temple
... and Israel (Jacobson) played essential roles in giving birth to a new religious community, a Judaism that insisted and continues to insist on responding to the questions and challenges of the day with openness and the willingness to adapt. In the words of Michael Meyer, the leading historian of Refo ...
... and Israel (Jacobson) played essential roles in giving birth to a new religious community, a Judaism that insisted and continues to insist on responding to the questions and challenges of the day with openness and the willingness to adapt. In the words of Michael Meyer, the leading historian of Refo ...
part ii - Parsha Pages
... discovered and many people started to come to ask him shailos he realized he would not be able to accomplish what he had set out to do in Berlin under these circumstances. He therefore pretended not to understand anything often asking the litigants before him to explain him over and over again the a ...
... discovered and many people started to come to ask him shailos he realized he would not be able to accomplish what he had set out to do in Berlin under these circumstances. He therefore pretended not to understand anything often asking the litigants before him to explain him over and over again the a ...
Two Responsa of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
... States in 1938. This group, to cite Gurock once more, was critical of what it regarded as"the old-time American rabbis'non-adherence to uncompromising principle^."^ Rabbi Feinstein gave expression to these principles in 1956 when he, with a number of other authorities in the world of the American ye ...
... States in 1938. This group, to cite Gurock once more, was critical of what it regarded as"the old-time American rabbis'non-adherence to uncompromising principle^."^ Rabbi Feinstein gave expression to these principles in 1956 when he, with a number of other authorities in the world of the American ye ...
An Inclusive and Empathetic Halakhic Approach to Feminism and
... full personhood of LGBTs just as it has grown toward the acceptance of the full personhood of women, halakhah must acknowledge that gay men and women have the same desire for love and relationships as straight men and women. Furthermore, these postulates demand that LGBTs be offered a role in halak ...
... full personhood of LGBTs just as it has grown toward the acceptance of the full personhood of women, halakhah must acknowledge that gay men and women have the same desire for love and relationships as straight men and women. Furthermore, these postulates demand that LGBTs be offered a role in halak ...
The Making of Haredim
... II. Authority of Roshei Yeshivah over Community Rabbis Related to the rising prominence of the yeshivah was the changing nature of rabbinic authority. Traditionally, it was community rabbis that were the rabbinic leaders; and even roshei yeshivah had typically also served in such communal positions, ...
... II. Authority of Roshei Yeshivah over Community Rabbis Related to the rising prominence of the yeshivah was the changing nature of rabbinic authority. Traditionally, it was community rabbis that were the rabbinic leaders; and even roshei yeshivah had typically also served in such communal positions, ...
why advocacy is central to reform judaism
... The Commission on Social Action (CSA) of Reform Judaism provides guidance to the Movement as it wrestles with the challenge of applying our progressive Jewish values to the public affairs agenda. The CSA is a joint commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union for Reform Juda ...
... The Commission on Social Action (CSA) of Reform Judaism provides guidance to the Movement as it wrestles with the challenge of applying our progressive Jewish values to the public affairs agenda. The CSA is a joint commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union for Reform Juda ...
Guide for Jewish Burial and Mourning
... your family Rabbi before finalizing any burial plans is very important. Aside from aiding you with adhering to Conservative Jewish law, your Rabbi has experience with bereaved families and can discuss with you final wishes of the departed, and other special situations that you may have to consider i ...
... your family Rabbi before finalizing any burial plans is very important. Aside from aiding you with adhering to Conservative Jewish law, your Rabbi has experience with bereaved families and can discuss with you final wishes of the departed, and other special situations that you may have to consider i ...
Practical Judaism
... lau on amazon com free shipping on qualifying offers a gateway to the world of jewish law and belief this book by the, practical judaism by israel meir lau reviews discussion - practical judaism has 17 ratings and 0 reviews a gateway to the world of jewish law and belief this book by the chief rabbi ...
... lau on amazon com free shipping on qualifying offers a gateway to the world of jewish law and belief this book by the, practical judaism by israel meir lau reviews discussion - practical judaism has 17 ratings and 0 reviews a gateway to the world of jewish law and belief this book by the chief rabbi ...