Sacred Writings
epub |eng | 1997-04-30 | Author:Aryeh Kaplan [Kaplan, Aryeh]

He made the letter Kaf () king over Life And He bound a crown to it And He combined one with another And with them He formed Venus in the ...
( Category: Talmud March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-12 | Author:Gabriella Samuel

mo-HEHL The individual who performs the BRIT MILAH of a Jewish baby boy on the eighth day after his birth is called a mohel. The Brit Milah is the Biblically ...
( Category: Religion March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 1997-03-12 | Author:Kugel, James L

THE RED SEA ♦ 345 founded (wayyahom): This word means a plague, as it says "And He will throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed" [Deut. 7'2.3] • ...
( Category: Old Testament March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:St. Augustine of Hippo [Hippo, St. Augustine of]

20. “Because my heart was delighted” (ver. 21). He is saying with what things he is tempted: “because my heart was delighted,” he saith, “my reins also were changed.” When ...
( Category: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) March 13,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Shaye J. D. Cohen

Sources Written in Hebrew: Qumran Scrolls The Works in the Qumran Library The scrolls discovered in the Judean desert (also known as the Dead Sea Scrolls) are at once the ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-12 | Author:William S. Morrow [Morrow, William S.]

CHAPTER 13 Gift Offerings: Commitment and Belonging Read: Exodus 12–13; Leviticus 1–7; 17; 23; Numbers 28–29 Traditional Jewish exegesis makes a distinction between “gift offerings” and “debt offerings.” Debt offerings ...
( Category: Torah March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Binyamin Lau

The account in the Tosefta is informative. It describes how a problem arose and how Hillel enlisted his intellectual abilities as well as received traditions in order to solve it. ...
( Category: Talmud March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-05 | Author:Eisenberg, Ronald L. [Eisenberg, Ronald L.]

Bowing Down to/Worshiping Idols (5-6) “You shall not bow down to them or worship [serve] them ” (Exod. 20:5) is the verse from which are derived the commandments forbidding (5 ...
( Category: Torah March 10,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Arthur Kurzweil

Honor and respect your elders The Torah teaches that you must honor people who are elderly and people who are wise. The Hebrew word for “honor” is kovod (kah-vode). But ...
( Category: Torah March 9,2020 )
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, ...
( Category: Jewish Life March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Barry Webb

Envoys from Babylon (39:1–8) Enter Merodach-Baladan (1), and with him a whole new chapter in Israel’s history. It may be difficult for us (knowing what subsequently happened) to think of ...
( Category: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) March 8,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-29 | Author:Bradley Artson [Artson, Bradley]

Hesed: A Traditional Value We live in an age of vigorous political debate, as liberals and conservatives present their views of the world and their prescriptions for how to redress ...
( Category: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 1981-09-01 | Author:William G. Gray [Gray, William G.]

Chapter Nine SEPHIRAH CHESED. MERCY, COMPASSION, 4. ASSIAH, World of Expression: Jupiter. Here we reach a stage of magnanimity and beneficence. Chesed means not only Mercy and Compassion, but goodwill, ...
( Category: Magic Studies March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Walter Brueggemann

Both God and humankind have their proper work. The drama of concealing and searching out is the main vocation of human persons. Human persons are recalled to power. Much power ...
( Category: Old Testament March 3,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-08-10 | Author:Michael Hoffman [Hoffman, Michael]

According to Popper, rabbinic books were unmolested from the pontificate of Leo X until 1550 and the election of Pope Julius III. “..at the beginning of the pontificate of Julius ...
( Category: Torah March 3,2020 )