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... who informs Ahasuerus of Haman’s evil plot not knowing how he might react; it is Esther who reveals her Jewish ethnicity to an unaware Ahasuerus; and it is Esther who persuades Ahasuerus to allow the innocent Jews to defend themselves (7-8). Yet, it is Mordecai who is rewarded with promotion to Prim ...
... who informs Ahasuerus of Haman’s evil plot not knowing how he might react; it is Esther who reveals her Jewish ethnicity to an unaware Ahasuerus; and it is Esther who persuades Ahasuerus to allow the innocent Jews to defend themselves (7-8). Yet, it is Mordecai who is rewarded with promotion to Prim ...
Yom Kippur Notes - Summer 08 - for PDF
... about the small stuff and take time to do the things that really matter. In the end, the characters find out that they are fine and are left feeling like the whole experience was a gift. ...
... about the small stuff and take time to do the things that really matter. In the end, the characters find out that they are fine and are left feeling like the whole experience was a gift. ...
The Day of At-One-Ment
... small stuff and take time to do the things that really matter. In the end, the characters find out that they are fine and are left feeling like the whole experience was a gift. The original scrooge ...
... small stuff and take time to do the things that really matter. In the end, the characters find out that they are fine and are left feeling like the whole experience was a gift. The original scrooge ...
The Role of Torah and of Jewish Tradition in the Messianic Jewish
... movement. Whether we prefer to describe ourselves as Messianic Jews or Jewish Christians, so long as we share the same faith, we belong to one another. We should, therefore, be eager to learn from each other, because that is how we grow. That is how we improve our ability to address both the world a ...
... movement. Whether we prefer to describe ourselves as Messianic Jews or Jewish Christians, so long as we share the same faith, we belong to one another. We should, therefore, be eager to learn from each other, because that is how we grow. That is how we improve our ability to address both the world a ...
The Centrality of Messiah and the Theological Direction of
... Judaism. I apologize in advance for being selective. A complete survey of everything written within the broad definition of what is known as Messianic Judaism would be more properly the purview of a doctoral dissertation than a conference paper. I have selected a few items published by those in the ...
... Judaism. I apologize in advance for being selective. A complete survey of everything written within the broad definition of what is known as Messianic Judaism would be more properly the purview of a doctoral dissertation than a conference paper. I have selected a few items published by those in the ...
Toward a Messianic Jewish Moral Vision
... sufficient condition of morality is not easily changed, for it also determines how we govern our social relations. Our society seems generally to think that to be moral, to act in a responsible way, is to pursue our desires fairly – that is, in a manner that does not impinge on anyone else’s freedom ...
... sufficient condition of morality is not easily changed, for it also determines how we govern our social relations. Our society seems generally to think that to be moral, to act in a responsible way, is to pursue our desires fairly – that is, in a manner that does not impinge on anyone else’s freedom ...
How to Witness to the Jewish People Manual by
... “Who is speaking here?” Let the person answer - God, of course! Only God was “in the beginning” of time and creation. So the speaker, “I” is eternal. Then complete the verse, “and now the Lord God, and His Spirit hath sent me.” There are three Eternal Beings in this verse! The speaker in this verse ...
... “Who is speaking here?” Let the person answer - God, of course! Only God was “in the beginning” of time and creation. So the speaker, “I” is eternal. Then complete the verse, “and now the Lord God, and His Spirit hath sent me.” There are three Eternal Beings in this verse! The speaker in this verse ...
Conservative Judaism Journal Volume 31 No. 1-2, Fall
... this only heightens his sense of alienation from the religious part of his Jewishness. He associates claims to revelation with the uneducated and the unbalanced, and so Judaism is diminished in stature for him to the extent that it relies on revelation. I too deny some parts of the traditional conce ...
... this only heightens his sense of alienation from the religious part of his Jewishness. He associates claims to revelation with the uneducated and the unbalanced, and so Judaism is diminished in stature for him to the extent that it relies on revelation. I too deny some parts of the traditional conce ...
First Thoughts on a Messianic Jewish Theology
... of existence.” As we have seen, “deed not creed” is an oversimplification which works best to place Judaism over against Christianity. One not only finds creedlike statements such as the Shema and the Thirteen Articles, but Judaism invokes both positive propositions (“all Israel has a share in the w ...
... of existence.” As we have seen, “deed not creed” is an oversimplification which works best to place Judaism over against Christianity. One not only finds creedlike statements such as the Shema and the Thirteen Articles, but Judaism invokes both positive propositions (“all Israel has a share in the w ...
The Status of Non-Jews in Jewish Law and Lore
... result has been discrimination and violence against non-Jews and destruction of Gentile houses of worship, both Christian and Muslim, when extremists take it upon themselves to translate what they perceive to be Jewish law into violent action. The situation has become even more complicated due to t ...
... result has been discrimination and violence against non-Jews and destruction of Gentile houses of worship, both Christian and Muslim, when extremists take it upon themselves to translate what they perceive to be Jewish law into violent action. The situation has become even more complicated due to t ...
The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical
... result has been discrimination and violence against non-Jews and destruction of Gentile houses of worship, both Christian and Muslim, when extremists take it upon themselves to translate what they perceive to be Jewish law into violent action. The situation has become even more complicated due to t ...
... result has been discrimination and violence against non-Jews and destruction of Gentile houses of worship, both Christian and Muslim, when extremists take it upon themselves to translate what they perceive to be Jewish law into violent action. The situation has become even more complicated due to t ...
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... On the contrary, another Jew born about a century later came far closer to fulfilling the messianic ideal than Jesus did. His name was Shimeon ben Kosiba, known as Bar Kokhba (son of a star), and he was a charismatic, brilliant, but brutal warlord. Rabbi Akiba, one of the greatest scholars in Jewish ...
... On the contrary, another Jew born about a century later came far closer to fulfilling the messianic ideal than Jesus did. His name was Shimeon ben Kosiba, known as Bar Kokhba (son of a star), and he was a charismatic, brilliant, but brutal warlord. Rabbi Akiba, one of the greatest scholars in Jewish ...
What`s Wrong with the Ten Commandments? Kenneth Harding 2000
... stealing, and adultery. These commandments are far too vague to be enforced, and require much more explanation and statements of conditions. What if you need to steal to eat? What if you steal something from someone who stole that item from a third person? Clearly, more clarification is needed. Plus ...
... stealing, and adultery. These commandments are far too vague to be enforced, and require much more explanation and statements of conditions. What if you need to steal to eat? What if you steal something from someone who stole that item from a third person? Clearly, more clarification is needed. Plus ...
Paul Didn`t Eat Pork: Reappraising Paul the Pharisee
... There is something very liberating about Galatians if we will read it correctly. I’ve heard some good sermons that got that point. I remember hearing a pastor say something to this effect, “When you understand that you are not under condemnation, when you grasp that God accepts you as you are and is ...
... There is something very liberating about Galatians if we will read it correctly. I’ve heard some good sermons that got that point. I remember hearing a pastor say something to this effect, “When you understand that you are not under condemnation, when you grasp that God accepts you as you are and is ...
Reconceptualizing the Culture Conflict among
... ible and even attractive. If individuals are all that count, and national identity no longer carries any authority, then the post-Zionist demand that Israel be "a state for all its citizens" is perfectly just. Almost all areas ofIsraeli life are effected by contemporary patterns of western consumeri ...
... ible and even attractive. If individuals are all that count, and national identity no longer carries any authority, then the post-Zionist demand that Israel be "a state for all its citizens" is perfectly just. Almost all areas ofIsraeli life are effected by contemporary patterns of western consumeri ...
do we need messianic synagogues?
... Baron concludes this section by offering that Paul also had in mind Je wish as well as Gentile believers in his strong warning against law-keeping in Galatians 4–5.14 One more significan t point tha t Baron makes lays the groundwork for something to be expressed later in this essay. He notes the cla ...
... Baron concludes this section by offering that Paul also had in mind Je wish as well as Gentile believers in his strong warning against law-keeping in Galatians 4–5.14 One more significan t point tha t Baron makes lays the groundwork for something to be expressed later in this essay. He notes the cla ...
How Green is Judaism? - Faculty Directory | Berkeley-Haas
... expressing anthropocentric values, many of its ideas and principles either explicitly or implicitly evoke themes that are consistent with eco - or biocentric understandings of the relationship between people and nature. 5 Indeed, the latter ethos, rather than representing a major new departure in or ...
... expressing anthropocentric values, many of its ideas and principles either explicitly or implicitly evoke themes that are consistent with eco - or biocentric understandings of the relationship between people and nature. 5 Indeed, the latter ethos, rather than representing a major new departure in or ...
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... spiritual calisthenics, designed to teach us to control the most basic instincts of our lives - hunger, sex, anger, acquisitiveness and so on. We are not directed to deny or stifle them, but to control them, to rule them rather than let them rule us...The freedom the Torah offers us is the freedom t ...
... spiritual calisthenics, designed to teach us to control the most basic instincts of our lives - hunger, sex, anger, acquisitiveness and so on. We are not directed to deny or stifle them, but to control them, to rule them rather than let them rule us...The freedom the Torah offers us is the freedom t ...
The Emergence of a Jewish-Feminist Spirituality
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... This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sacred Heart University Press Publications at [email protected]. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sacred Heart University Review by an authorized administrator of Digital[email protected]. For more information, please ...
Wikipedia entry on Reconstructionism
... "Judaism is the result of natural human development. There is no such thing as divine intervention; Judaism is an evolving religious civilization; Zionism and aliyah (immigration to Israel) are encouraged; Reconstructionist Judaism is based on a democratic community where the laity can make decision ...
... "Judaism is the result of natural human development. There is no such thing as divine intervention; Judaism is an evolving religious civilization; Zionism and aliyah (immigration to Israel) are encouraged; Reconstructionist Judaism is based on a democratic community where the laity can make decision ...
THE MESSIANIC IDEA IN HELLENISTIC JUDAISM by Dr. Yehoshua
... When Philo tells of the captors setting them free “for they were ashamed of ruling over their betters”, one has to see the ethic-pacifistic censuring with which he filters his sources, which probably told of military victories. The notion that political relationships need moral justification by the ...
... When Philo tells of the captors setting them free “for they were ashamed of ruling over their betters”, one has to see the ethic-pacifistic censuring with which he filters his sources, which probably told of military victories. The notion that political relationships need moral justification by the ...
christology in light of the jewish-christian dialogue
... faith-expression.10 Martini thus joins a growing list of Christian thinkers who are insisting that the theological restatement of the Christian-Jewish relationship launched by Nostra Aetate and similar Protestant documents" has profound significance for all of Christian theology (including ethical t ...
... faith-expression.10 Martini thus joins a growing list of Christian thinkers who are insisting that the theological restatement of the Christian-Jewish relationship launched by Nostra Aetate and similar Protestant documents" has profound significance for all of Christian theology (including ethical t ...
As American Jewish identity has become, less ethnic, the repair of
... God, Ha Rahaman (the Compassionate One). Remembering the dictum that a visit is not complete without prayer, we remind ourselves of the importance of addressing the spiritual dimension of the person before us: thorough prayer, conversation, tone, touch, and/or body language. The mitzvah of bikur hol ...
... God, Ha Rahaman (the Compassionate One). Remembering the dictum that a visit is not complete without prayer, we remind ourselves of the importance of addressing the spiritual dimension of the person before us: thorough prayer, conversation, tone, touch, and/or body language. The mitzvah of bikur hol ...
reconstructionism_and_spiritual_life2
... their own by finding in it joy, meaning, and ideas they can believe. We continue to turn to Jewish law and tradition for guidance, if not always for governance. We recognize that in the contemporary world, individuals and communities make their own choices with regard to religious practice and ritua ...
... their own by finding in it joy, meaning, and ideas they can believe. We continue to turn to Jewish law and tradition for guidance, if not always for governance. We recognize that in the contemporary world, individuals and communities make their own choices with regard to religious practice and ritua ...
LOUIS JACOBS` DOCTRINE OF REVELATION tainted
... Louis Jacobs' Doctrine of Revelation beautiful, intrinsically valuable, sig- ...
... Louis Jacobs' Doctrine of Revelation beautiful, intrinsically valuable, sig- ...