epub |eng | | Author:Jordan D. Rosenblum

HOW TO OFFER A RABBINIC TOAST A fascinating final case study of the theme of symbolic inversion and illicit religious practice is the curious rabbinic category of “the ways of ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:salomo baal-shem, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

azw3 |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Juan Bejarano-Gutierrez

In the case of someone who has eaten a dairy item and then intends to eat meat, there is usually a requirement for a person to cleanse their mouth first. ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-06-25 | Author:Juan Bejarano-Gutierrez

CHAPTER 5 key prayers of the siddur There are dozens and dozens of prayers in the siddur. I have chosen to discuss four major prayers or sections of the prayer ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:David Sears

epub |eng | 2019-09-03 | Author:Sarah Hurwitz [Hurwitz, Sarah]

BLESSING PRACTICE Jewish prayer isn’t limited to certain places, like a synagogue, or done only at certain times. It’s supposed to be more of an all-the-time/anytime activity—a way of life ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Mark Wildes

What can I do differently? I believe we also need to ask this question when it comes to our religious lives. Ours is a generation that feels spiritually disconnected. We ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-07 | Author:Lopes Cardozo, Nathan

* * * 1. Mishna Chagiga 2:1. 2. See Maharsha, Chiddushei Aggadot on Chagiga 11b, s.v. “ba-arayot.” 3. Vayikra 18:9, 18. 4. See Shulchan Aruch, Even ha-Ezer 1:9-10. 5. Vayikra ...

epub |eng | | Author:Estelle Frankel

The white fire of Torah A CLOSING TALE: COMMUNICATING THE INEFFABLE Reb Yitzhak of Vorki and Reb Avremele of Trisk were the best of friends in their youth, spending all ...

epub |eng | 1996-03-14 | Author:Ivan G. Marcus

Second Initiations: Delayed Confirmation-Eucharist and Jewish School Initiation In the Christian tradition, the new emphasis on infant baptism presented a further problem. In the East, a bishop performed the rite ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-07 | Author:Peninnah Schram

epub |eng | 2018-10-31 | Author:Azriela Jaffe

6. Why are women “exempt” from fulfilling time-bound commandments in the Torah, such as putting on tefillin? What if they want to do them anyway? In traditional Jewish law and ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:Jon D. Levenson

6 Now it is true that the Hebrew Bible generally portrays its God as unwilling to allow other powers to retain control, but if, as Anderson thinks, those “rival power[s]” ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-13 | Author:Andrew Vogel Ettin [Andrew Vogel Ettin]

O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-17 | Author:Yehoshua C. Grunstein

Notes 1 The additions referred to above are not a violation of the biblical edict to refrain from adding or subtracting from the biblical commandments (Devarim 13:1), as the rabbis ...