Ḥakirah

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Jewish law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123821527

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Ḥakirah by Anonim Pdf

Author : Heshey Zelcer,Mark Zelcer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000368772

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The Philosophy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik by Heshey Zelcer,Mark Zelcer Pdf

Providing a concise but comprehensive overview of Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s larger philosophical program, this book studies one of the most important modern Orthodox Jewish thinkers. It incorporates much relevant biographical, philosophical, religious, legal, and historical background so that the content and difficult philosophical concepts are easily accessible. The volume describes his view of Jewish law (Halakhah) and how he takes the view to answer the fundamental question of Jewish philosophy, the question of the "reasons" for the commandments. It shows how numerous of his disparate books, essays, and lectures on law, specific commandments, and Jewish religious phenomenology, can be woven together to form an elegant philosophical program. It also provides an analysis and summary of Soloveitchik’s views on Zionism and on interreligious dialogue and the contexts for Soloveitchik’s respective stances on two issues that were pressing in his role as a leader of a major branch of post-war Orthodox Judaism. The book provides a synoptic overview of the philosophical works of Joseph B. Soloveitchik. It will be of interest to historians and scholars studying neo-Kantian philosophy, Jewish thought and philosophy of religion.

Author : Zalman Schacter-Shalomi,Netanel Miles-Yepez
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781939681621

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A Heart Afire by Zalman Schacter-Shalomi,Netanel Miles-Yepez Pdf

A Heart Afire is an intimate, guided tour of many of the lesser-known and previously unpublished stories and teachings of the first three generations of Hasidism, especially those of the Ba'al Shem Tov, his heirs (male and female) and the students of his successor, the Maggid of Mezritch.

Author : Anat Helman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190493592

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Jews and Their Foodways by Anat Helman Pdf

Food is not just a physical necessity but also a composite commodity. It is part of a communication system, a nonverbal medium for expression, and a marker of special events. Bringing together contributions from fourteen historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics, Volume XXVIII of Studies in Contemporary Jewry presents various viewpoints on the subtle and intricate relations between Jews and their foodways. The ancient Jewish community ritualized and codified the sphere of food; by regulating specific and detailed culinary laws, Judaism extended and accentuated food's cultural meanings. Modern Jewry is no longer defined exclusively in religious terms, yet a decrease in the role of religion, including kashrut observance, does not necessarily entail any diminishment of the role of food. On the contrary, as shown by the essays in this volume, choices of food take on special importance when Jewish individuals and communities face the challenges of modernity. Following an introduction by Sidney Mintz and concluding with an overview by Richard Wilk, the symposium essays lead the reader from the 20th century to the 21st, across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. Through periods of war and peace, voluntary immigrations and forced deportations, want and abundance, contemporary Jews use food both for demarcating new borders in rapidly changing circumstances and for remembering a diverse heritage. Despite a tendency in traditional Jewish studies to focus on "high" culture and to marginalize "low" culture, Jews and Their Foodways demonstrates how an examination of people's eating habits helps to explain human life and its diversity through no less than the study of great events, the deeds of famous people, and the writings of distinguished rabbis.

Author : Cecil Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39076005096933

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Encyclopaedia Judaica by Cecil Roth Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0976566508

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Hakirah, the Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought, Volume 1, Fall 2004 by Anonim Pdf

Ḥakirah, The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought, was established to promote intellectual and spiritual growth within the Jewish community. To accomplish this, Ḥakirah is offering a platform to enable those who have been studying in depth to: A. disseminate the results of their study for review, B. encourage others to join in this type of study, and, C. create a forum for the discussion of issues of hashkafah and halakhah relevant to the community from a perspective of careful analysis of the primary Torah sources.Members of the community are encouraged to submit articles for the next issue of this journal and to comment on the articles that they have read. Subsequent issues will allow considerable space for readers? comments and authors? responses. This first issue of Ḥakirah contains contributions from both rabbonim and laymen, representing a wide spectrum of opinions. Our community is learned and diverse, steeped in traditional values and learning, and knowledgeable about the secular arts and sciences. This broad grasp is reflected in the articles presented herein.Some articles contain insights into halakhah and Talmudic sources: The nature of a seudah eaten erev Shabbos is analyzed (דף כז), and the validity of making Shabbos early is challenged (p. 11). A discussion of the sin of Nadav and Avihu leads to a deeper understanding of the nature of ketores in Avodas Yom Kippur (דף ה). In other articles, matters of hashkafah affecting attitudes toward Torah study and the performance of mitzvos are examined: Two local rabbonim question, respectively, whether Chumash is being taught properly (p. 81), and whether chumros are always desirable (p. 45). Chazal's attitude towards analyzing the events of their day is examined (p. 31), the Torah?s imperative of Yedias Hashem is analyzed (p. 59), and the importance of studying the Talmud Yerushalmi is explored in our book review (p. 105). It is our hope that the articles in this journal will stimulate thought, study, and discussion, and that they will inspire other members of the public to contribute their own insights on topics that are close to their hearts.

Author : Jonathan Garb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004694231

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Does God Doubt? R. Gershon Henoch Leiner’s Thought in Its Contexts by Jonathan Garb Pdf

Does God Doubt? shows that Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzin considered God to be revealed as doubt. Thus, according to this profound and important nineteenth-century Hasidic leader, doubt is an essential aspect of the human condition, and especially of religious life. His position is shown to be remarkably bold and unique compared to kabbalistic writing, and especially to the Hasidic worlds to which he belonged. At the same time, the roots of his thought are located in earlier discussions of doubt as one of the highest parts of the divine world. Doubt about, in, and of God is part of the Hasidic contribution to modernity.

Author : Naftali Loewenthal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226490459

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Communicating the Infinite by Naftali Loewenthal Pdf

At the end of the eighteenth century the hasidic movement was facing an internal crisis: to what extent should the teachings of Baal Shem Tov and Maggid of Mezritch, with their implicit spiritual demands, be transmitted to the rank-and-file of the movement? Previously these teachings had been reserved for a small elite. It was at this point that the Habad school emerged with a communication ethos encouraging the transmission of esoteric to the broad reaches of the Jewish world. Communicating the Infinite explores the first two generations of the Habad school under R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi and his son R. Dov Ber and examines its early opponents. Beginning with the different levels of communication in the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid and his disciples, Naftali Loewenthal traces the unfolding of the dialectic between the urge to transmit esoteric ideas and a powerful inner restraint. Gradually R. Shneur Zalman came to the fore as the prime exponent of the communication ethos. Loewenthal follows the development of his discourses up to the time of his death, when R. Dov Ber and R. Aaron Halevi Horowitz formed their respective "Lubavitch" and "Staroselye" schools. The author continues with a detailed examination of the teachings of R. Dov Ber, an inspired mystic. Central in his thought was the esoteric concept of self-abnegation, bitul, yet this combined with the quest to communicate hasidic teachings to every level of society, including women. From the late eighteenth century onwards, the main problem for the Jewish world was posed by the fall of the walls of the social and political ghetto. Generally, the response was either to secularize, or abandon altogether, traditional Judaism or to retreat from the threatening modern world into enclave religiosity; by stressing communication, the Habad school opened the way for a middle range response that was neither a retreat into elitism nor an abandonment of tradition. Based on years of research from Hebrew and Yiddish primary source materials, Communicating the Infinite is a work of importance not only to specialists of Judaic studies but also to historians and sociologists.

Author : Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Publisher : Urim Publications
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789655243383

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Jewish Law as Rebellion by Nathan Lopes Cardozo Pdf

Jewish Law as Rebellion is unconventional and controversial in its approach to the world of Jewish Law and its response to religious crises. The book delves into the contemporary application and development of halacha and pointedly protests many accepted methods and ideals, offering new solutions to existing halachic dilemmas. Rabbi Cardozo discusses hot topics such as same-sex marriage, conversion, and religion in the State of Israel and presents a critical analysis and explanation of the application of halacha.

Author : John J. Fitzgerald,Ashley John Moyse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351050852

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Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion by John J. Fitzgerald,Ashley John Moyse Pdf

Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human body. However, much of the focus of this medical research has been on the physical, often reducing the human being to a biological machine to be examined, understood, and controlled. This book begins by asking whether the modern medical milieu has overly objectified the body, unwittingly or not, and whether current studies in bioethics are up to the task of restoring a fuller understanding of the human person. In response, various authors here suggest that a more theological/religious approach would be helpful, or perhaps even necessary. Presenting specific perspectives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the book is divided into three parts: "Understanding the Body," "Respecting the Body," and "The Body at the End of Life." A panel of expert contributors—including philosophers, physicians, and theologians and scholars of religion— answer key questions such as: What is the relationship between body and soul? What are our obligations toward human bodies? How should medicine respond to suffering and death? The resulting text is an interdisciplinary treatise on how medicine can best function in our societies. Offering a new way to approach the medical humanities, this book will be of keen interest to any scholars with an interest in contemporary religious perspectives on medicine and the body.

Author : Yehuda Halper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004468764

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Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato by Yehuda Halper Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Goldstein-Goren Book Award from the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and North African Jews of the 12th-15th centuries. Without direct access to Plato, their understanding of Socrates is indirect, based on legendary material, on fragmentary quotations from Plato, or on Aristotle. Out of these sources, Jewish authors of this period formed two distinct views of Socrates: one as a wise, ascetic, monotheist, and the other as a vocal skeptic. The latter view has its roots in Plato's Apology where Socrates describes his divine mandate to question all knowledge, including knowledge of the divine. After exploring how this and similar questions arise in the works of Judah Halevi and the Hebrew Averroes, Halper traces how such open-questioning of the divine arises in the works of Maimonides, Jacob Anatoli, Gersonides, and Abraham Bibago.

Author : Eric Lawee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190937850

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Rashi's Commentary on the Torah by Eric Lawee Pdf

Winner of the Jewish Book Council Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award in Scholarship This book explores the reception history of the most important Jewish Bible commentary ever composed, the Commentary on the Torah of Rashi (Shlomo Yitzhaki; 1040-1105). Though the Commentary has benefited from enormous scholarly attention, analysis of diverse reactions to it has been surprisingly scant. Viewing its path to preeminence through a diverse array of religious, intellectual, literary, and sociocultural lenses, Eric Lawee focuses on processes of the Commentary's canonization and on a hitherto unexamined--and wholly unexpected--feature of its reception: critical, and at times astonishingly harsh, resistance to it. Lawee shows how and why, despite such resistance, Rashi's interpretation of the Torah became an exegetical classic, a staple in the curriculum, a source of shared religious vocabulary for Jews across time and place, and a foundational text that shaped the Jewish nation's collective identity. The book takes as its larger integrating perspective processes of canonicity as they shape how traditions flourish, disintegrate, or evolve. Rashi's scriptural magnum opus, the foremost work of Franco-German (Ashkenazic) biblical scholarship, faced stiff competition for canonical supremacy in the form of rationalist reconfigurations of Judaism as they developed in Mediterranean seats of learning. It nevertheless emerged triumphant in an intense battle for Judaism's future that unfolded in late medieval and early modern times. Investigation of the reception of the Commentary throws light on issues in Jewish scholarship and spirituality that continue to stir reflection, and even passionate debate, in the Jewish world today.

Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004449343

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Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Ḥasidic Reflections on Temporality by Elliot R. Wolfson Pdf

No one theory of time is pursued in the essays of this volume, but a major theme that threads them together is Wolfson’s signature idea of the timeswerve as a linear circularity or a circular linearity, expressions that are meant to avoid the conventional split between the two temporal modalities of the line and the circle.

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson,Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004381216

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The Future of Jewish Philosophy by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson,Aaron W. Hughes Pdf

This anthology reflects on the future of Jewish philosophy in light of the Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers (Brill, 2013-2018). The essays assess the academic contribution and cultural importance of Jewish philosophy and offer paths for its future growth.

Author : Ethan B. Katz,Sergey Dolgopolski,Elisha Ancselovits
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000969566

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When Jews Argue by Ethan B. Katz,Sergey Dolgopolski,Elisha Ancselovits Pdf

This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they attempt to do so? If not, what could two methods of study seen as diametrically opposed possibly learn from one another? How might they help each other reconceive their interrelationship, themselves, and the broader study of Jews and Judaism? This book begins with three distinct approaches to these challenges. The chapters then follow the approaches through an interdisciplinary series of pioneering case studies that reassess a range of topics including religion and pluralism in Jewish education; pain, sexual consent, and ethics in the Talmud; the place of reason and devotion among Jewish thinkers as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Jacob Taubes, Sarah Schenirer, Ibn Chiquitilla, Yair Ḥayim Bacharach, and the Rav Shagar; and Jewish law as a response to the post-Holocaust landscape. The authors are scholars of rabbinics, history, linguistics, philosophy, law, and education, many of whom also have traditional religious training or ordination. The result is a book designed for learned scholars, non-specialists, and students of varying backgrounds, and one that is sure to spark debate in the university, the Beit Midrash, and far beyond.