Judaism
epub |eng | 2015-10-16 | Author:Richard Seidman

Application Yud carries us fast, on a powerful wave of transformation, into the future, into the world to come. One writer describes Yud as “a cosmic messenger bringing movement and ...
( Category: Judaism July 24,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matityahu Glazerson

TEVET Capricorn (Goat) The month of Tevet was formed, according to the Sefer Yetzirah, by means of the letter Ayin. Its nature is anger; its sign is the mountain goat ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality July 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Doris Andrea Dirks

The rabbi said he thought that some rabbis might not have wanted to join the CCS because they questioned whether emotional health counts as threatening the life of the mother. ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael L. Brown

The original Hebrew-Aramaic name of Jesus is yeshu‘a, which is short for yehōshu‘a (Joshua), just as Mike is short for Michael. The name yeshu‘a occurs 27 times in the Hebrew ...
( Category: Religious Studies July 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-06 | Author:Judith Butler

HANNAH ARENDT AND THE END OF THE NATION-STATE? Hannah Arendt has never been easy to categorize and that probably has to do in part with her rather insistent critique of ...
( Category: Judaism July 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-03 | Author:Alfred L. Ivry [Ivry, Alfred L.]

( Category: Philosophy July 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-28 | Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

Let us search for the source of all these trials and sufferings, and we shall find that a state of dissolution prevails in the midst of us; that an evil ...
( Category: Judaism July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Biale [Biale, David]

The need for a new knowledge of the self prompted the profusion of autobiographies that constituted one of the main literary genres of the Haskalah. Virtually every maskil felt compelled ...
( Category: Judaism July 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Its Ministry & Services

Special Preparations The special preparations for the Passover commenced on the evening of the 13th of Nisan, with which, according to Jewish reckoning, the 14th began, the day being always ...
( Category: Judaism July 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Neumann

THE MIDRASH The Midrash is a literary category comprising homiletical rabbinic teachings—mostly from a similar era as the Talmud. They’re commentaries that build on nuances, ambiguities, discrepancies, and other textual ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-09 | Author:Oz, Amos & Oz-Salzberger, Fania [Oz, Amos]

Isaiah and Micah spoke of “the end of days.” Daniel mentioned the mysterious “end of wonders.” Note that these expressions denote time, not place. They are neither Paradise nor Elysium. ...
( Category: Anthropology June 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-02 | Author:Ezra Barany [Barany, Ezra]

Chapter 73 Lieutenant General Richard Stone hung up the phone and immediately picked it back up. “Get me a trace on this number.” He read off the number of the ...
( Category: Judaism June 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dennis Prager

GERMANY In Germany the situation was basically the same as in France. With the exception of the philo-semite Gotthold Lessing, leaders of the German Enlightenment were divided between those who ...
( Category: Judaism June 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Jonathan Kirsch [Kirsch, Jonathan]

—JUDGES 10.6-8 And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, saying: “We have sinned against Thee, in that we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.” —JUDGES ...
( Category: Bible Study & Reference June 5,2018 )