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Author : Yitzchok Adlerstein
Publisher : Maggid
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1592645356
Insights on the holidays and avoda based on the writings of the slonimer rebbe.
Author : Tzvi Rabinowicz
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0765760681
The book talks of the Hasidic movement, what it stands for, and what it includes.
Author : Benjamin Brown
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783111359212
Hasidic groups have myriad customs. While ordinary Jewish law (halakhah) denotes the “bar of holiness” mandated for the ordinary Jew, these customs represent the higher threshold expected of Hasidim, intended to justify their title as hasidim (“pious”). How did the hasidic masters perceive the enactment of these new norms at a time in which the halakhah had already been solidified? How did they explain the normative power of these customs over communities and individuals, and how did they justify customs that diverged from the positive halakhah? This book analyzes the answers given by nineteenth-century hasidic authors. It then examines a test case: kedushah (“holiness”), or sexual abstinence among married men, a particularly restrictive norm enacted by several twentieth-century hasidic groups. Through the use of theoretical tools and historical contextualization, the book elucidates the normative circles of hasidic life, their religious and social sources and their interrelations.
Author : Ayala Emmett
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0472089307
A groundbreaking study of the role of women as political actors—and peacemakers—in the Middle East
Author : Richard H. Schwartz
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781105336461
In the five decades since Richard Schwartz first became a religious Jew, he has watched the mainstream Jewish community shift more and more to the Right, often abandoning the very values that originally attracted him to Orthodox Judaism. In this soul-searching book, Schwartz examines the ways in which he believes his religion has been "stolen" by partisan politics, and offers practical suggestions for how to get Judaism back on track as a faith based on peace and compassion. Tackling such diverse issues as U.S. politics, Israeli peace issues, the misuse of the Holocaust, antisemitism, U.S. foreign policy, Islamophobia, socialism, vegetarianism, environmentalism, Schwartz goes where many Jews fear to go -- and challenges us to re-think current issues in the light of positive Jewish values. (With photos, notes, action ideas, resource lists, and annotated bibliography. Also includes appendix materials with Rabbi Yonassan Gershom.)
Author : Tamar S. Hermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139483445
This book discusses the predicament of the Israeli peace movement, which, paradoxically, following the launching of the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, experienced a prolonged, fatal decline in membership, activity, political significance, and media visibility. After presenting the regional and national background to the launching of the peace process and a short history of Israeli peace activism, the book focuses on external and internal processes and interactions experienced by the peace movement, after some basic postulates of its agenda were actually, although never explicitly, embraced by the Rabin government. The book concludes that, despite its organizational decline and the zero credit given to it by the policy makers, in retrospect it appears that the movement contributed significantly to the integration of new ideas for possible solutions to the Middle East conflict in the Israeli mainstream political discourse.
Author : Myron J. Arnoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351309868
This finely etched, on-site work examines the relationships between the changing political system and political culture in Israel, with particular focus on the decade of the 1980s. Written by a scholar equally at home in the United States and in Israel, and intellectually equally at home in political science and anthropology, Israeli Visions and Divisions is a fundamental contribution to a literature long on passion and short on reason, which perhaps is an academic reflection of social life in this deeply troubled land.Aronoff starts from the belief that the basic conflicting and even contradictory interpretations over what should be the exact character of Israel as a Jewish state continues to be the source of the most serious division among Jews within contemporary Israel. As a consequence, consensus politics yields to coalition politics; and prospects for a future consensus are dim. Conflict among Jewish political and religious groups, and between Jews and Arabs, is aggravated by the uses of Zionist symbolism in a fragmented political culture.This is a serious critique made from a sympathetic quarter. Aronoff suggests that the Israeli political system is undergoing a crisis of political legitimacy, exemplified by the rise of extraparliamentary movements. The parliamentary system accentuates' these divisions by making every minor tradition and vision part of the legislative and executive processes.Israeli Visions and Divisions is not a pessimistic reading. The author is convinced that the way is open for a move away from particularism and tribalism, and toward a new universalism and humanism. The old policies have proven bankrupt, and th,e old ideologies have lost their salience. The book is rich in detail and profound in outlook. It will be greeted by those interested in new policies as well as by students of the Middle East who hope to piece together what has gone awry in the land of milk and honey.
Author : Congregation Netivot Shalom (Berkeley, Calif.),Peter Strauss
Publisher : Netivot Shalom
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0615458858
Author : Richard Wagman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527522244
This volume is more about Jewish people than it is about Palestine, and it is, in turn, more about Palestine than it is about Israel, the latter only being mentioned in a secondary way. As such, this book isn’t addressed exclusively to readers of a single religious or cultural community. It’s addressed first and foremost to those who want to know more about the reasons behind the Israel-Palestine conflict and how to solve it. Although the violence with which the word “Palestine” is often associated remains a mystery for many people, it can be rationally explained. The book’s introduction reserves a few surprises and its conclusion offers readers contemporary perspectives in light of historical experience. This study starts out with a historical chronology of the Jewish-Arab conflict in Palestine, before examining political and ethical debates which accompanied the development of Palestinian nationalism and of Jewish nationalism (Zionism). These themes are taken up around specific centres of interest, without neglecting the portraits of certain key players in the Jewish community who have contributed to raising the debate on Palestine. The book doesn’t start nor end in the Middle East. It’s a world tour of Jewish communities and what they think of the Palestinian question, going back over a century and up to the present day.
Author : Mordechai Bar-On
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1878379534
When the Israeli prime minister and the PLO chairman shook hands on the White House lawn in 1993, Israeli peace activists had good reason to celebrate this major step on the long road to peace.This book tells the story of the Israeli peace movement and the role it played in that pursuit of peace. It is an eloquent, fascinating account of a remarkably diverse and determined cast of activists: from war-weary soldiers to hard-headed politicians, careful scholars to impassioned artists.Drawing on his experience in the peace movement, Bar-On provides intimate portraits of groups like Peace Now, Yesh Gvul, and the Women in Black, he also provides a sweeping historical synthesis of the course of the Israeli-Arab conflict, especially between 1967 and 1993.
Author : Joseph Isaac Lifshitz,Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig,Simha Goldin,Jean Baumgarten,Hasia Diner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110386653
Parallel to the Halakhic laws, the minhagim (customs) are dependent on local practices and the regional schools of sages and rabbis. The minhagim played a decisive role in the history of the Jewish communities and in the formation of traditions of religious rulings. They gave stability, continuity, and authority to the local institutions. The impact of Jewish custom on daily life cannot be overestimated. Evolving spontaneously as an ascending process, it presents undercurrents that emanate from the folk, gradually bringing about changes that eventually become part of the legislative code. It further reflects influences of social, cultural, and mythological tendencies and local historical elements of every-day life of the period. The aim of this volume is to examine the concept of minhag in the broadest sense of the word. Focusing on the relationship between various types of customs and their impact on every aspect of Jewish life, the volume studies the historical, anthropological, religious, and cultural development and function of rites and rituals in establishing the Jewish self-definition and the identity of the local communities that adhered to them. The volume’s articles cover the subject of custom from three perspectives: an analysis of the theoretical and legal definition of custom, an analysis of the social and historical aspects of custom, and an anecdotal study of several particular customs. Customs are a wonderful historical prism by which to examine fluctuations and changes in Jewish life.
Author : Shalom Noah Brazovski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:762513992
Author : Yitzchok Adlerstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1481891227
Nesivos Shalom has emerged as one of the most powerful and impactful works of the generation. Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein makes the thought of the Slonimer Rebbe accessible to the English speaking public throught this collection of essays organized around the weekly parshah. Rabbi Adlerstein, author of Artscroll's Be'er Ha-Golah of the Maharal and interpretive approaches to Netziv and Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, offers the thought of the Rebbe in an idiom suitable for Westerners.This volume contains an essay on each parshah, based on the five-volume work on Chumash by Rav Shalom Noach Berzovksi, the Slonimer Rebbe.
Author : Curtis Hutt,Halla Kim,Berel Dov Lerner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315385723
Twentieth century continental thinkers such as Bergson, Levinas and Jonas have brought fresh and renewed attentions to Jewish ethics, yet it still remains fairly low profile in the Anglophone academic world. This collection of critical essays brings together the work of established and up-and-coming scholars from Israel, the United States, and around the world on the topic of Jewish religious and philosophical ethics. The chapters are broken into three main sections – Rabbinics, Philosophy, and Contemporary Challenges. The authors address, using a variety of research strategies, the work of both major and lesser-known figures in historical Jewish religious and philosophical traditions. The book discusses a wide variety of topics related to Jewish ethics, including "ethics and the Mishnah," "Afro Jewish ethics," "Jewish historiographical ethics," as well as the conceptual/philosophical foundations of the law and virtues in the work of Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, and Baruch Spinoza.The volume closes with four contributions on present-day frontiers in Jewish ethics. As the first book to focus on the nature, scope and ramifications of the Jewish ethics at work in religious and philosophical contexts, this book will be of great interest to anyone studying Jewish Studies, Philosophy and Religion.
Author : Frederick Isaac
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738570338
From the time the Jewish people of Oakland first settled in that city, they have developed their own institutions and style. Starting with the purchase of land for a cemetery in the 1860s, they created a robust and unique lifestyle. Throughout the 20th century, Jews in Berkeley have contributed both cultural and intellectual elements that resonate through American Jewish life. Building on the work of the founders and expanding from a local society to a regional population, the Jews of the East Bay continue to serve as a model for Jewish life through their innovative programs and commitment to service.