Olam He Zeh V Olam Ha Ba

Author : Leonard J. Greenspoon
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781612495149

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olam he-zeh v'olam ha-ba by Leonard J. Greenspoon Pdf

Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and structured their lives in this world accordingly. Some authorities portrayed the afterlife as an endless round of feasting and drinking of chazerie that would put the fanciest Las Vegas buffets to shame. There were visionaries who mapped out otherworldly climes populated by monstrous creatures. Others, decidedly more staid, saw the world to come as a location where neither food nor wine would be consumed; instead, it would offer the opportunity to bring moral certitude to questionable practices that could not be eradicated in this world. More down to earth are comparisons between Rabbi Akiva and Socrates, and analyses of influential thinkers like Moses Mendelssohn and Emmanuel Levinas. And more practical are discussions of how concepts of the afterlife serve to determine mourning practices, or more broadly, how humans should fashion their lives in the here and now. The chronological range of these chapters also is impressive. The earliest documents discussed are from Apocryphal literature, including apocalypses, that were composed from 400 BCE to 200 CE. There are creative analyses of rabbinic material and documents from the medieval period through the twentieth century. Evolving ritual and liturgical practices bring readers up to the early twenty-first century. Each of the thirteen authors whose works are brought together in this volume shows historical, cultural, and religious sensitivity both to the unique features of these differing manifestations and to the elements that unite them. For the readers of this volume, which is equally rewarding for general audiences and for specialists, the result is a carefully nuanced, creatively balanced exploration of the breadth of Jewish thought and practice concerning some of the most profound and perplexing issues humans face.

Author : Leonard Jay Greenspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Eschatology, Jewish
ISBN : 1557537925

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Olam Ha-zeh V'olam Ha-ba by Leonard Jay Greenspoon Pdf

Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and structured their lives in this world accordingly. Some authorities portrayed the afterlife as an endless round of feasting and drinking of chazerie that would put the fanciest Las Vegas buffets to shame. There were visionaries who mapped out otherworldly climes populated by monstrous creatures. Others, decidedly more staid, saw the world to come as a location where neither food nor wine would be consumed; instead, it would offer the opportunity to bring moral certitude to questionable practices that could not be eradicated in this world. More down to earth are comparisons between Rabbi Akiva and Socrates, and analyses of influential thinkers like Moses Mendelssohn and Emmanuel Levinas. And more practical are discussions of how concepts of the afterlife serve to determine mourning practices, or more broadly, how humans should fashion their lives in the here and now. The chronological range of these chapters also is impressive. The earliest documents discussed are from Apocryphal literature, including apocalypses, that were composed from 400 BCE to 200 CE. There are creative analyses of rabbinic material and documents from the medieval period through the 20th Century. Evolving ritual and liturgical practices bring readers up to the early 21st Century. Each of the 13 authors whose works are brought together in this volume shows historical, cultural, and religious sensitivity both to the unique features of these differing manifestations and to the elements that unite them. For the readers of this volume, which is equally rewarding for general audiences and for specialists, the result is a carefully nuanced, creatively balanced exploration of the breadth of Jewish thought and practice concerning some of the most profound and perplexing issues humans face.

Author : Behrman House
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 087441699X

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Mikdash M'at, Small Sanctuary by Behrman House Pdf

In a stunning manifestation of hiddur mitzvah--beautification of the commandment--this new siddur brings a heightened level of personal meaning to Shabbat morning prayer, in a strikingly attractive visual form. Mikdash M'at will be a magnet for the learning worshipper, while engaging those more experienced at their own levels. Mikdash M'at has been designed especially for small groups: minyanim, havurot, and learners. Accessible commentary accompanies each prayer, allowing worshippers to explore the meaning of the prayer and its place in the service. At the same time, Mikdash M'at retains the siddur canon so that the prayer service can be experienced by all worshippers. Its liturgy offers many opportunities for both the spirited interactions of public prayer, and the quiet graces of meditation and reflection. The inclusiveness of the commentary, translation, and transliteration invites those who have felt at the margins of worship to explore and understand it further. The artistry of the design appeals to the visual and aesthetic senses of worshippers, providing a new window into the prayer experience for all, especially those who learn and remember best visually. And the visual presentation of objects in several alternative ways validates the notion that the same thing, be it tangible, or a prayer, can be experienced by different individuals in different ways.

Author : Thorsten Wilhelm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000171082

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Holocaust Narratives by Thorsten Wilhelm Pdf

Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust – and in the process add meaning to what is inherently an event that annihilates meaning – but also construct the trauma as a connector to a past that needs to be continued in the present? Meaningless or not, unspeakable or not, unknowable or not, the trauma, in all its impossibilities and intractabilities, spawns literary and scholarly engagement on a large scale. Narrative is the key connector that structures trauma for both individual and collective.

Author : Debra Caplan,Rachel Merrill Moss
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472903856

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The Dybbuk Century by Debra Caplan,Rachel Merrill Moss Pdf

A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, opened in Warsaw. In the century that followed, The Dybbuk became a theatrical conduit for a wide range of discourses about Jews, belonging, and modernity. This timeless Yiddish play about spiritual possession beyond the grave would go on to exert a remarkable and unforgettable impact on modern theater, film, literature, music, and culture. The Dybbuk Century collects essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the play’s original Yiddish and Hebrew productions and offer critical reflections on the play’s enduring influence. The collection will appeal to scholars, students, and theater practitioners, as well as general readers.

Author : Gregg E. Gardner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520386907

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Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity by Gregg E. Gardner Pdf

Charity is central to the Jewish tradition. In this formative study, Gregg E. Gardner takes on this concept to examine the beginnings of Jewish thought on care for the poor. Focusing on writings of the earliest rabbis from the third century c.e., Gardner shows how the ancient rabbis saw the problem of poverty primarily as questions related to wealth—how it is gained and lost, how it distinguishes rich from poor, and how to convince people to part with their wealth. Contributing to our understanding of the history of religions, Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity demonstrates that a focus on wealth can provide us with a fuller understanding of charity in Jewish thought and the larger world from which Judaism and Christianity emerged.

Author : Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781915672124

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The Exhausted of the Earth by Ajay Singh Chaudhary Pdf

Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done? To answer this question, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and the politics of climate change. He shows how a new politics particular to the climate catastrophe demands a bitter struggle between those attached to the power, wealth, and security of "business-as-usual" and all of us, those exhausted, in every sense of the word, by the status quo. Replacing Promethean, romantic, and apocalyptic fairytales with a new story for every exhausted inhabitant of this exhausted world, The Exhausted of the Earth outlines the politics and the power needed to alter the course of our burning world far beyond, far better than, mere survival.

Author : Simcha Paull Raphael
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538103463

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Jewish Views of the Afterlife by Simcha Paull Raphael Pdf

In the third edition of Jewish Views of the Afterlife, Rabbi Simcha Paull Raphael walks readers through the Jewish tradition of the afterlife while providing insights into spiritual care with dying and grieving individuals and families.

Author : Morris M. Faierstein
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438497976

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The Dybbuk by Morris M. Faierstein Pdf

The Dybbuk is the first comprehensive study of the historical and kabbalistic sources of the dybbuk phenomenon, from the first recorded case of dybbuk possession in Safed in 1571 onward. Dybbuk possession differs from possession by demons or Satan. Its origin is in the Kabbalistic concept of gilgul (transmigration) for sins that are so grievous that Gehenna is not sufficient punishment, and the soul must therefore wander until expiation is found. The dybbuk can temporarily find refuge in animals or people and can only be exorcised by a Baal Shem, a great kabbalist or expert in Jewish magic. In addition to describing the history and evolution of this concept, The Dybbuk includes English translations of all dybbuk stories discussed in the book, many translated for the first time.

Author : Naftali Rothenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319581422

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Rabbi Akiva's Philosophy of Love by Naftali Rothenberg Pdf

This book explores the philosophy of love through the thought and life of Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph. Readers of the Talmud are introduced to Rabbi Akiva through the iconic story of his love for his wife Rachel. From this starting point, Naftali Rothenberg conducts a thorough examination of the harmonious approach to love in the obstacle-laden context of human reality. Discussing the deterioration of passion into simple lust, the ability to contend with suffering and death, and so forth, Rothenberg addresses the deepest and most pressing questions about human love. The readings and observations offered here allow readers to acquire the wisdom of love—not merely as an assemblage of theoretical arguments and abstract statements, but as an analysis of the internal contradictions and difficulties revealed in the context of attempts to realize and implement harmonious love.

Author : Peter J. Howland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000802672

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Wine and The Gift by Peter J. Howland Pdf

Wine as commodity has received enormous academic attention, while wine as gift has largely eluded significant dedicated research and analysis. This book addresses this lacuna with insights from leading scholars from a range of disciplines exploring wine as gift in different moments of history, across a variety of production to consumption contexts, and across societies and cultures. The book draws on examples from Australia, China, Croatia, France, Italy, Moldova, United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand. Through the analysis of wine as gift, indeed often as a commodity-gift hybrid, this book significantly enhances understandings of the intertwined economic, societal, political and moral aspects of wine and its production, exchange, and consumption. Wine and the Gift: From Production to Consumption will appeal to researchers and undergraduates from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, geography, marketing, and business studies.

Author : Naomi Vogelman
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881250880

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מאמר תחית המתים by Naomi Vogelman Pdf

Author : Gerbern S. Oegema
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190689643

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The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha by Gerbern S. Oegema Pdf

The Apocrypha : an introduction / Gerbern S. Oegema -- The Apocrypha in the context of early Judaism / Gerbern S. Oegema -- The Apocrypha, the Septuagint, and other Greek witnesses / Kristin de Troyer -- A canonical history of the Old Testament apocryphay / Lee Martin MacDonald -- The Apocrypha in the history of Christianity / Tobias Nicklas -- The Protestant reception of the Apocrypha / Matthew Korpman -- Apocrypha, genre, and historicity / Gerbern S. Oegema -- 1 Esdras/Greek Ezra / Lester L. Grabbe -- Baruch/Karina Martin Hogan -- Book of Judith / Deborah Levine Gera -- 1 Maccabees' ethics, etiquette, political theology, and structure / Doron Mendels -- 2 Maccabees / Michael Duggan -- 3 Maccabees / Brian R. Dyer -- 4 Maccabees / Jan Willem van Henten -- The Apocrypha and apocalypticism / Lorenzo DiTommaso -- 2 Esdras / Shayna Sheinfeld -- Wisdom literature of the Apocrypha and related compositions of the Second Temple era / John Kampen -- Sirach / Jeremy Corley -- Tobit / Beate Ego -- The Wisdom of Solomon / Jason M. Zurawski -- The Additions to Daniel / Lorenzo DiTommaso -- The Additions of the Greek book(s) of Esther / Tyler Smith, Kristin de Troyer -- Epistle of Jeremiah / Susan Docherty -- Prayer of Manasseh / Ariel Gutman -- Psalm 151-155 / Mika S. Pajunen -- Jewish religion in the Apocrypha : between biblical precepts and early rabbinic thought / Carla Sulzbach -- Women and gender in the Apocrypha / Sara Parks -- Theology and ethics in the Apocrypha / Gerbern S. Oegema -- Sexuality in the Apocrypha / William Loader -- Biblical theology and the Apocrypha / David A. deSilva.

Author : Brian E. Crim
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978801622

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Planet Auschwitz by Brian E. Crim Pdf

Planet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years. The supernatural and extraterrestrial are rich and complex spaces with which to examine important Holocaust themes - trauma, guilt, grief, ideological fervor and perversion, industrialized killing, and the dangerous afterlife of Nazism after World War II. Planet Auschwitz explores why the Holocaust continues to set the standard for horror in the modern era and asks if the Holocaust is imaginable here on Earth, at least by those who perpetrated it, why not in a galaxy far, far away? The pervasive use of Holocaust imagery and plotlines in horror and science fiction reflects both our preoccupation with its enduring trauma and our persistent need to “work through” its many legacies. Planet Auschwitz website (https://planetauschwitz.com)

Author : Leonard J. Greenspoon
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781612495545

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Is Judaism Democratic? by Leonard J. Greenspoon Pdf

As government by the people, democracy has always had its proponents as well as opponents. What forms of government have Jewish leaders, both with and without actual political power, favored? Not surprisingly, many options have been offered theoretically and in practice. Perhaps more surprisingly, democracy has been at the heart of most systems of governance. Biblical Israel was largely a monarchy, but many writers of the Bible were critical of the excesses that almost always arise when human kings take charge: the general populace loses its freedom. In rabbinic Judaism, the majority ruled, and many principles that support modern democratic institutions have their basis in interpretations offered by the classical rabbis. This is true even though rabbinic Jews did not govern democratically. When Jews did have some degree of self-governance, democratic principles and institutions were often upheld. At the same time, so most communal leaders insisted, God-the ultimate judge-ultimately judges everything and everyone. Modern Israel provides the first instance of an independent Jewish nation since the Hasmonean monarchy of the second and first centuries BCE. On an almost daily basis, common features uniting democracy and Judaism, as well as flash point of controversy, are highlighted there. The fourteen scholars whose work is collected here are mindful of all of these circumstances-and many more. In a style that is accessible, clear, and balanced, they allow readers to assess these issues based on the most current thinking. This volume is required reading for anyone interested in how religion and politics have interacted, and continue to interact, in Judaism and among Jews.