The Religious Parties During the Second Temple Period
... Concerning the “oral law,” Russell wrote: “It was a body of ‘decisions’ or ‘judgements’ in oral form, explanatory of the written Law and developing alongside it. It is generally referred to as ‘the tradition of the elders’ or . . . ‘the oral tradition’. It is possible that part of this tradition is ...
... Concerning the “oral law,” Russell wrote: “It was a body of ‘decisions’ or ‘judgements’ in oral form, explanatory of the written Law and developing alongside it. It is generally referred to as ‘the tradition of the elders’ or . . . ‘the oral tradition’. It is possible that part of this tradition is ...
1 Source Sheet Class 5-“2000 Years of Jewish History
... and all, singing, accompany him to his house. After that the exilarch rarely goes beyond the gate of his house, where services for the community are held on the Sabbaths and feast days. When it becomes necessary for him to leave his house, he does so only in a carriage of state, accompanied by a lar ...
... and all, singing, accompany him to his house. After that the exilarch rarely goes beyond the gate of his house, where services for the community are held on the Sabbaths and feast days. When it becomes necessary for him to leave his house, he does so only in a carriage of state, accompanied by a lar ...
Tracing Judaism in China
... to China. They ended up in China simply because they did not have any other choices. Though they survived the Holocaust, China was not the place they wanted to settle permanently. Countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and many others became their choices of destination if visa could ...
... to China. They ended up in China simply because they did not have any other choices. Though they survived the Holocaust, China was not the place they wanted to settle permanently. Countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and many others became their choices of destination if visa could ...
The Philosophy of Maimonides
... correct? Does Scripture teach that God is incorporeal? In this connection, Maimonides – like Abraham ibn Daud – stressed that no positive attributes can be predicated of God since the Divine is an absolute unity. Do you agree? Or do you think there no contradiction in believing that God is one and t ...
... correct? Does Scripture teach that God is incorporeal? In this connection, Maimonides – like Abraham ibn Daud – stressed that no positive attributes can be predicated of God since the Divine is an absolute unity. Do you agree? Or do you think there no contradiction in believing that God is one and t ...
Law and Hermeneutics in Rabbinic Jurisprudence
... n48 and a Jewish king, who was summoned to appear in court and hear charges, just like any other person. n49 The rabbinic doctrine of malkhut shamayyim (kingdom of heaven), n50 usually understood in theological terms, is really a political concept meaning that the sovereignty (the kingdom) of the la ...
... n48 and a Jewish king, who was summoned to appear in court and hear charges, just like any other person. n49 The rabbinic doctrine of malkhut shamayyim (kingdom of heaven), n50 usually understood in theological terms, is really a political concept meaning that the sovereignty (the kingdom) of the la ...
The Role of Talmud Study Today
... even throughout the year. While there are lectures by the leading teachers in the yeshiva, the key feature of the yeshiva methodology of study is the “havrutah” or study partner system. Pairs of students accordingly seek to dissect, analyze and comprehend the text together – assisting, cajoling and ...
... even throughout the year. While there are lectures by the leading teachers in the yeshiva, the key feature of the yeshiva methodology of study is the “havrutah” or study partner system. Pairs of students accordingly seek to dissect, analyze and comprehend the text together – assisting, cajoling and ...
here - Congregation Or Ami
... It was the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS), a committee of the Rabbinical Assembly instituted to deliberate over questions of Jewish law, that has made this change. The CJLS examined the Ashkenazic minhag (custom) of refraining from kitnityot during Pesah and concluded that there was ab ...
... It was the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS), a committee of the Rabbinical Assembly instituted to deliberate over questions of Jewish law, that has made this change. The CJLS examined the Ashkenazic minhag (custom) of refraining from kitnityot during Pesah and concluded that there was ab ...
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 ...
The Jew(s), the Yahudi and the Israelites?
... maintain and control the land captured from the exiled Israelites. The Sepharvaim of Assyria is one of these people groups, along with some Cuthahites, and Arrahites, 2 Kings 17:24. These people miscegenated and inter- racial mingled with each other along with Edomite people who had migrated Northwa ...
... maintain and control the land captured from the exiled Israelites. The Sepharvaim of Assyria is one of these people groups, along with some Cuthahites, and Arrahites, 2 Kings 17:24. These people miscegenated and inter- racial mingled with each other along with Edomite people who had migrated Northwa ...
The Jew(s), the Yahudi and the Israelites?
... maintain and control the land captured from the exiled Israelites. The Sepharvaim of Assyria is one of these people groups, along with some Cuthahites, and Arrahites, 2 Kings 17:24. These people miscegenated and inter- racial mingled with each other along with Edomite people who had migrated Northwa ...
... maintain and control the land captured from the exiled Israelites. The Sepharvaim of Assyria is one of these people groups, along with some Cuthahites, and Arrahites, 2 Kings 17:24. These people miscegenated and inter- racial mingled with each other along with Edomite people who had migrated Northwa ...
The Talmud and Its Authors DOC
... the time it was compiled until modern times and still regarded so by religious Jews. 1 In the words of Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner, it is “the foundation-document of Judaism” 2 Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds There are two versions of the Talmud. The Anti-Defamation League states, “There are two edit ...
... the time it was compiled until modern times and still regarded so by religious Jews. 1 In the words of Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner, it is “the foundation-document of Judaism” 2 Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds There are two versions of the Talmud. The Anti-Defamation League states, “There are two edit ...
The Talmud and Its Authors PDF
... the time it was compiled until modern times and still regarded so by religious Jews. 1 In the words of Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner, it is “the foundation-document of Judaism” 2 Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds There are two versions of the Talmud. The Anti-Defamation League states, “There are two edit ...
... the time it was compiled until modern times and still regarded so by religious Jews. 1 In the words of Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner, it is “the foundation-document of Judaism” 2 Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds There are two versions of the Talmud. The Anti-Defamation League states, “There are two edit ...
Synagogue Service II
... hence regard appropriate prayer times as matters of personal spiritual decision rather than a matter of religious requirement. ...
... hence regard appropriate prayer times as matters of personal spiritual decision rather than a matter of religious requirement. ...
The uses of the synagogue
... opportunities are provided through daily communal prayer services at the synagogue. The synagogue can therefore also be designated as a bet tefillah (house of prayer). On each day a Jew is able to attend one of three services that offer an opportunity for communal prayer. There is arvit (evening pra ...
... opportunities are provided through daily communal prayer services at the synagogue. The synagogue can therefore also be designated as a bet tefillah (house of prayer). On each day a Jew is able to attend one of three services that offer an opportunity for communal prayer. There is arvit (evening pra ...
Economic Morality and Jewish Law. Judaism, Law
... (p.15). Thus, Jewish law would be a deontological ethical system, not a consequentialist one. This is the main issue in the book, but Jewish ODZ LV QRW D XQL¿HG V\VWHP ZKLFK JLYHV RQH SHUVSHFWLYH RQ DOO LVVXHV Throughout history, there have been several attempts to unify Jewish law, ...
... (p.15). Thus, Jewish law would be a deontological ethical system, not a consequentialist one. This is the main issue in the book, but Jewish ODZ LV QRW D XQL¿HG V\VWHP ZKLFK JLYHV RQH SHUVSHFWLYH RQ DOO LVVXHV Throughout history, there have been several attempts to unify Jewish law, ...
The Role of Religion in Government
... that theocracy has given rise to many abuses, where men without scruples used the name of religion to rule for their own ends. Power can corrupt, and much more so when power is fortified by religion. Does this danger exist under the Jewish system of government? We shall see how the Jewish ideal of g ...
... that theocracy has given rise to many abuses, where men without scruples used the name of religion to rule for their own ends. Power can corrupt, and much more so when power is fortified by religion. Does this danger exist under the Jewish system of government? We shall see how the Jewish ideal of g ...
The Role of Religion in Government
... The essence of the Jewish religion is that it embraces all areas of life. It contains commandments and prohibitions between man and his fellow, along with those between man and G-d. Its directives are not limited to ritual matters. The social order, including public and private law, is set down in t ...
... The essence of the Jewish religion is that it embraces all areas of life. It contains commandments and prohibitions between man and his fellow, along with those between man and G-d. Its directives are not limited to ritual matters. The social order, including public and private law, is set down in t ...
The Authority of the Talmud in Judaism PDF
... services in the Israeli state. It is the natural consequence of Jewish belief of considering the Talmud superior to the Torah. The Talmud states, Erubin 21b (Soncino edition): “My son, be more careful in the observance of the words of the Scribes than in the words of the Torah.” Rabbi Adin Even Isr ...
... services in the Israeli state. It is the natural consequence of Jewish belief of considering the Talmud superior to the Torah. The Talmud states, Erubin 21b (Soncino edition): “My son, be more careful in the observance of the words of the Scribes than in the words of the Torah.” Rabbi Adin Even Isr ...
The Authority of the Talmud in Judaism DOC
... services in the Israeli state. It is the natural consequence of Jewish belief of considering the Talmud superior to the Torah. The Talmud states, Erubin 21b (Soncino edition): “My son, be more careful in the observance of the words of the Scribes than in the words of the Torah.” Rabbi Adin Even Isr ...
... services in the Israeli state. It is the natural consequence of Jewish belief of considering the Talmud superior to the Torah. The Talmud states, Erubin 21b (Soncino edition): “My son, be more careful in the observance of the words of the Scribes than in the words of the Torah.” Rabbi Adin Even Isr ...
book review
... Prior to Maimonides, Judaism had little by way of dogma. Jews were expected to believe in one God and to follow the Torah's commandments, but no list of beliefs defined Judaism. But Maimonides' quest to delineate Jewish belief, as Mr. Halbertal explains, wasn't some philosophical exercise but a hist ...
... Prior to Maimonides, Judaism had little by way of dogma. Jews were expected to believe in one God and to follow the Torah's commandments, but no list of beliefs defined Judaism. But Maimonides' quest to delineate Jewish belief, as Mr. Halbertal explains, wasn't some philosophical exercise but a hist ...
JC Relations - Jewish
... how far they could go in their teaching – as the Flavians did with all other academies. The most important head of the academy in its Galilee period was a friend of the ruling Emperors, Judah Ha-Nasi, or Judah the Prince ('ruled' 135-217). He was also called 'Rabbi' or 'Teacher', because of his grea ...
... how far they could go in their teaching – as the Flavians did with all other academies. The most important head of the academy in its Galilee period was a friend of the ruling Emperors, Judah Ha-Nasi, or Judah the Prince ('ruled' 135-217). He was also called 'Rabbi' or 'Teacher', because of his grea ...
Jewish Religious Life - Wirtualny Spacer – POLIN
... way or another from the written Torah. The handwritten Torah scroll is the most sacred object in Judaism. Tsadik (Yiddish: rebe) – literally “righteous person,” refers to a charismatic leader associated with Hasidism. Tsadikim are considered by their followers to be intermediaries between God and Hi ...
... way or another from the written Torah. The handwritten Torah scroll is the most sacred object in Judaism. Tsadik (Yiddish: rebe) – literally “righteous person,” refers to a charismatic leader associated with Hasidism. Tsadikim are considered by their followers to be intermediaries between God and Hi ...
Jewish Faith Glossary - Jewish Online Museum
... Modern Hebrew alphabet. “Aleph” and “Bet” are the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The Aleph-Bet is also the alphabet of ancient Hebrew (Lashon Hakodesh*) as well as Yiddish*. Aliyah (lit. “Asscension”). (1) Term used when one is called to say a blessing before and after the Torah Scroll is ...
... Modern Hebrew alphabet. “Aleph” and “Bet” are the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The Aleph-Bet is also the alphabet of ancient Hebrew (Lashon Hakodesh*) as well as Yiddish*. Aliyah (lit. “Asscension”). (1) Term used when one is called to say a blessing before and after the Torah Scroll is ...
Moses Maimonides - Year 11-12 Studies of Religion 2Unit 2013-4
... “When I have a difficult statement before me… and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand foods. I prefer to address myself to one man and take no notice whatsoever of the condemnation of the multitude.”! He took t ...
... “When I have a difficult statement before me… and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand foods. I prefer to address myself to one man and take no notice whatsoever of the condemnation of the multitude.”! He took t ...
The Jewish Influence On Early Christian Liturgy Christianity began
... Some scholars associate the ejection of Christians from the synagogue with the period of Yabneh and the twelfth benediction, the so-called Benediction of the Minim (heretics). Passages in John (9:22, 12:42, and 16:2) have been interpreted as pointing to the expulsion of Christians from the synagogu ...
... Some scholars associate the ejection of Christians from the synagogue with the period of Yabneh and the twelfth benediction, the so-called Benediction of the Minim (heretics). Passages in John (9:22, 12:42, and 16:2) have been interpreted as pointing to the expulsion of Christians from the synagogu ...
Sephardic law and customs
Sephardic law and customs means the practice of Judaism as observed by the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, so far as it is peculiar to themselves and not shared with other Jewish groups such as the Ashkenazim. Sephardim do not constitute a separate denomination within Judaism, but rather a distinct cultural, juridical and philosophical tradition.Sephardim are, primarily, the descendants of Jews from the Iberian peninsula. They may be divided into the families that left in the Expulsion of 1492 and those that remained as crypto-Jews and left in the following few centuries.In religious parlance, and by many in modern Israel, the term is used in a broader sense to include all Jews of Ottoman or other Asian or North African backgrounds, whether or not they have any historic link to Spain, though some prefer to distinguish between Sephardim proper and Mizraḥi Jews.For the purposes of this article there is no need to distinguish the two groups, as their religious practices are basically similar: whether or not they are ""Spanish Jews"" they are all ""Jews of the Spanish rite"". There are three reasons for this convergence, which are explored in more detail below:Both groups follow general Jewish law without those customs specific to the Ashkenazic tradition.The Spanish rite was an offshoot of the Babylonian-Arabic family of Jewish rites and retained a family resemblance to the other rites of that family.Following the expulsion the Spanish exiles took a leading role in the Jewish communities of Asia and Africa, who modified their rites to bring them still nearer to the Spanish rite, which by then was regarded as the standard.