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 | | Author:Elie Wiesel

Rabbi Gamaliel would say, “Whoever does not discuss the meaning of the following three symbols of the Seder on Passover evening has not fulfilled his duty”: PESACH, MATZAH, AND MAROR ...

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 | 1983-07-15 | Author:Blu Greenberg

CHAPTER · 12 BAR MITZVAH—BAT MITZVAH With or without fanfare, when a boy reaches thirteen, and a girl reaches twelve, he/she becomes Bar or Bat Mitzvah, an adult in the ...

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 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter Cole

Creatures Four-Square About the Throne Text: Goldschmidt, Mahzor for the Days of Awe [Heb], vol. 1, pp. 216–17. See also Bar Ilan, Sitrei Tefilah veHeikhalot, p. 45. An alphabetical acrostic ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Yael Neeman [NEEMAN, YAEL]

11 Sometimes we were so happy that we would freeze in the air for a second, and glide. The gliding happened suddenly, as we moved. We glided every day at ...

epub | | | Author:Margaret Barker

Dionysius, too, the influential and undatable theologian with whom we began this chapter, said that Isaiah was taught the song of the angels in order to learn the heavenly knowledge. ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Baumol, Rabbi Avi [Baumol, Rabbi Avi]

CHAPTER 21 Sunday, Psalm 24: The Beginning... Who will stand in His holy place? PSALM 24 1. A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, ...

epub |eng | 2007-03-07 | Author:Anita Diamant [Anita Diamant and Howard Cooper]

The Yontif Seder The word seder, which means “order,” is most closely associated with Passover. The Passover seder is made up by the order of the readings, blessings, and rituals ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-05 | Author:Bradshaw, Paul F.; Hoffman, Lawrence A.; & Lawrence A. Hoffman

PART 2 Medieval Developments Passover in the Middle Ages ISRAEL J. YUVAL My earlier essay dealt with the similarity of the narratives that came to mark the Jewish Passover and ...

mobi |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Joseph Telushkin

SOURCE AND FUTHER READING: Hedva Ben-Israel, “Munich Conference,” in Israel Gutman, ed., Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, vol. 3, pp. 1081–1086. 188 KRISTALLNACHT (NOVEMBER 9–10, 1938) DURING HITLER’S FIRST FIVE YEARS ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Richard D. Bank & James B. Wiggins

— 53 — ROSH HASHANAH : T HE JEWISH NEW YEAR Rosh Hashanah (head of the year) is commonly known as the Jewish New Year. This Jewish holiday which commences ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alan Morinis

Another way that Mussar helps us to identify soul-traits we need to work on is by directing us to reflect systematically on the actual choices we make in our daily ...