4. Infertility, IVF and Judaism
... "instructions for living." The Orthodox Jewish view is that life is so complex, challenging, and confusing, that without such a "handbook" so-tospeak, like an instruction manual, it would be impossible to know how to live life in the best possible way. That is why at the stage when humanity was read ...
... "instructions for living." The Orthodox Jewish view is that life is so complex, challenging, and confusing, that without such a "handbook" so-tospeak, like an instruction manual, it would be impossible to know how to live life in the best possible way. That is why at the stage when humanity was read ...
Our Covenant With Stones - The Rabbinical Assembly
... Holy People—without fully embracing the one over the other.” 41 A similar readjustment is reflected in a dispute between two tannaim over whether or not produce exported from the Land of Israel requires the taking of hallah. Rabbi Eliezer insists that it does, implying a single source of holi ness ...
... Holy People—without fully embracing the one over the other.” 41 A similar readjustment is reflected in a dispute between two tannaim over whether or not produce exported from the Land of Israel requires the taking of hallah. Rabbi Eliezer insists that it does, implying a single source of holi ness ...
Conservative Judaism - The Rabbinical Assembly
... the standards of the environmental movement rather than an internal Jewish assessment of how our tradition and our God would have us relate to the world. In fact, such an evaluation should emerge organically from the categories of Jewish civilization and its writings, rather than from any wholesale ...
... the standards of the environmental movement rather than an internal Jewish assessment of how our tradition and our God would have us relate to the world. In fact, such an evaluation should emerge organically from the categories of Jewish civilization and its writings, rather than from any wholesale ...
The Jew in the Modern World
... After trying in vain to secure a university lectureship in Jurisprudence and after being barred from practice as a notary in his native Hamburg because of his Judaism he devoted his life to the struggle for Jewish Emancipation ...
... After trying in vain to secure a university lectureship in Jurisprudence and after being barred from practice as a notary in his native Hamburg because of his Judaism he devoted his life to the struggle for Jewish Emancipation ...
English - Netzer Olami
... change and as such a great part of our activities are educational in nature. And yet, we also believe that education and ideological beliefs must be backed up by action. We believe it is both our right and our responsibility to take a stand on the key issues effecting our world and to actively work ...
... change and as such a great part of our activities are educational in nature. And yet, we also believe that education and ideological beliefs must be backed up by action. We believe it is both our right and our responsibility to take a stand on the key issues effecting our world and to actively work ...
Response to “Jewish History and the Deity of Yeshua” Rich
... fame. This story, if true (Shapiro wonders), would testify to a belief in God’s corporeality even in the 20th century. Steinsaltz relates: When I was a young man I met someone in Israel who was at the time a very important political personality. We were talking, and he asked me, ‘Where does God put ...
... fame. This story, if true (Shapiro wonders), would testify to a belief in God’s corporeality even in the 20th century. Steinsaltz relates: When I was a young man I met someone in Israel who was at the time a very important political personality. We were talking, and he asked me, ‘Where does God put ...
Lesson Plan: Are Science and Judaism
... Review the idea that God created man “in his own image” as the last act of creation. (Genesis, Chapter I, verse 26). Some scientists may well argue that man is NOT inherently different from the rest of the animal kingdom, just further evolved. But the first Chapter implies that men and women are sep ...
... Review the idea that God created man “in his own image” as the last act of creation. (Genesis, Chapter I, verse 26). Some scientists may well argue that man is NOT inherently different from the rest of the animal kingdom, just further evolved. But the first Chapter implies that men and women are sep ...
Community as Cornerstone - Jewish Reconstructionist Communities
... voices other than our own, but to add our own voices as well. Reconstructionist Judaism is respectful of traditional Jewish observances but also open to new interpretations and forms of religious expression. As Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), the founder of Reconstructionism, taught, tradition ...
... voices other than our own, but to add our own voices as well. Reconstructionist Judaism is respectful of traditional Jewish observances but also open to new interpretations and forms of religious expression. As Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), the founder of Reconstructionism, taught, tradition ...
Night - Plain Local Schools
... others in the town of Sighet) is deported in the spring of 1944 to Auschwitz. There, he and his father are separated from his mother and sisters. Elie had been drawn to Jewish mysticism, but was told by his father that he was not mature enough to study it; however, he was a very religious young man. ...
... others in the town of Sighet) is deported in the spring of 1944 to Auschwitz. There, he and his father are separated from his mother and sisters. Elie had been drawn to Jewish mysticism, but was told by his father that he was not mature enough to study it; however, he was a very religious young man. ...
why have thousands of young jews, otherwise
... congregations is spot-on, and will surely provoke lively and important conversations within and outside those congregations. Equally gripping is Kaunfer’s own story of initial resistance to encounters with the Divine, and his eventual immersion into a passionately religious path of Jewishness.” —Syl ...
... congregations is spot-on, and will surely provoke lively and important conversations within and outside those congregations. Equally gripping is Kaunfer’s own story of initial resistance to encounters with the Divine, and his eventual immersion into a passionately religious path of Jewishness.” —Syl ...
hasidim and lurianic kabbalah
... resemble the synonymous Protestant teachings in so far as they both assign the first place in religion not to religious dogma and ritual, but to the sentiment and the emotion of faith. In other words Pentecostalism and Hasidim have Pietism in common and are basically antinomian. Pietism is associate ...
... resemble the synonymous Protestant teachings in so far as they both assign the first place in religion not to religious dogma and ritual, but to the sentiment and the emotion of faith. In other words Pentecostalism and Hasidim have Pietism in common and are basically antinomian. Pietism is associate ...
Forward to the Book Jewish Science – Divine Healing in Judaism
... that God alone is the Healer of Sickness. But the belief in healing by faith is not merely a literary antique of Israel. In its zigzagging course, Judaism gave birth to a movement which was the historical expression of Jewish Science. In the eighteenth century, the Jews of Russia, Poland and Galicia ...
... that God alone is the Healer of Sickness. But the belief in healing by faith is not merely a literary antique of Israel. In its zigzagging course, Judaism gave birth to a movement which was the historical expression of Jewish Science. In the eighteenth century, the Jews of Russia, Poland and Galicia ...
Christianity-Judaism Group Trivia Quiz File
... The Western Wall or Temple Mount • The Western Wall or the Temple Mount is the only remaining part of the ancient Jewish temple that has survived. • It is located in Jerusalem. • Jews put prayers (on paper) in between the bricks. • Ironically the third holiest place in Islam (Dome of Rock) is built ...
... The Western Wall or Temple Mount • The Western Wall or the Temple Mount is the only remaining part of the ancient Jewish temple that has survived. • It is located in Jerusalem. • Jews put prayers (on paper) in between the bricks. • Ironically the third holiest place in Islam (Dome of Rock) is built ...
The Jewish People, the Holy Land, and the State of Israel
... the Roman Catholic perspective. He has chapters on “Church Teaching on Jews and Judaism,” “The Jewish People,” “The Holy Land,” and “The State of Israel.” Lux also offers a brief synopsis of Palestinian (Christian) perspectives on Israel. Much of the book is a crisp overview of material well-documen ...
... the Roman Catholic perspective. He has chapters on “Church Teaching on Jews and Judaism,” “The Jewish People,” “The Holy Land,” and “The State of Israel.” Lux also offers a brief synopsis of Palestinian (Christian) perspectives on Israel. Much of the book is a crisp overview of material well-documen ...
עסרים - HebrewBooks
... that the three basic dogmas can never be changed, because they are implied in the first two commandments spoken by God himself. The rest of the commands may be changed as a temporary measure. Rabbi Joseph Albo (1380-1444) systematized the fundamentals of the Jewish religion and influenced the study ...
... that the three basic dogmas can never be changed, because they are implied in the first two commandments spoken by God himself. The rest of the commands may be changed as a temporary measure. Rabbi Joseph Albo (1380-1444) systematized the fundamentals of the Jewish religion and influenced the study ...
Also "Theologie nach Auschwitz" ("Theology after Auschwitz"
... does God allow us more free will as history progresses and we assume greater responsibility to act justly? ...
... does God allow us more free will as history progresses and we assume greater responsibility to act justly? ...
Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought / D
... healing and protection, shaped a new form of divine worship, and left its mark on both secular and Jewish philosophy. The author leads us on a fascinating, scholarly study of the evolution of the MagicAstralic model in Jewish theology: its expression in the works of Yehuda Halevy and Ibn Ezra; the f ...
... healing and protection, shaped a new form of divine worship, and left its mark on both secular and Jewish philosophy. The author leads us on a fascinating, scholarly study of the evolution of the MagicAstralic model in Jewish theology: its expression in the works of Yehuda Halevy and Ibn Ezra; the f ...
NEIL GILLMAN
... Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He graduated from McGill University in 1954, was ordained at JTS in 1960, and received his PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1975. Rabbi Gillman is the author of several books and essays, including Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theolog ...
... Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He graduated from McGill University in 1954, was ordained at JTS in 1960, and received his PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1975. Rabbi Gillman is the author of several books and essays, including Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theolog ...
Judaism is one of the oldest religions still existing today
... among the only one of its kind. The central religious belief of Judaism is that there is only one God. Monotheism was uncommon at the time Judaism was born, but according to Jewish tradition, God himself revealed it to Abraham, the ancestor of the Jewish people and the “father” of the first Hebrew p ...
... among the only one of its kind. The central religious belief of Judaism is that there is only one God. Monotheism was uncommon at the time Judaism was born, but according to Jewish tradition, God himself revealed it to Abraham, the ancestor of the Jewish people and the “father” of the first Hebrew p ...
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... is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and heads the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. Dr. Gazzaniga, along with Roger Sperry, pioneered the study of the human split brain. He is a world renowned researcher in cognitive neuroscience and has been a leading c ...
... is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and heads the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. Dr. Gazzaniga, along with Roger Sperry, pioneered the study of the human split brain. He is a world renowned researcher in cognitive neuroscience and has been a leading c ...
Reform Judaism
... Liturgy in the local vernacular (German) Introduction of musical instruments Adoption of Christian traditions Nominal adherence to Sabbath regulations Diminished Nationalistic ideals Emphasis on social action ...
... Liturgy in the local vernacular (German) Introduction of musical instruments Adoption of Christian traditions Nominal adherence to Sabbath regulations Diminished Nationalistic ideals Emphasis on social action ...
Judaism - RE Weobley
... Jews believe that there is only one God. Jews believe they have a special agreement or covenant with God. In exchange for all the good that God has done for them, Jewish people keep God's laws and try to bring holiness into every aspect of their lives. Judaism is a faith of action and Jews believe p ...
... Jews believe that there is only one God. Jews believe they have a special agreement or covenant with God. In exchange for all the good that God has done for them, Jewish people keep God's laws and try to bring holiness into every aspect of their lives. Judaism is a faith of action and Jews believe p ...