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Author: Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno
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Published: 2023
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ISBN-13: 9781422639061
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Author: Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781422639061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shimon Finkelman
Publisher: Mesorah Publications, Limited
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 512
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Isaac Landman
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 720
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ivan G. Marcus
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 030015674X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher's lap. He was then asked to recite the Hebrew alphabet and lick honey from the slate on which it was written, to eat magically inscribed cooked peeled eggs and cakes, to recite an incantation against a demon of forgetfulness, and then to go down to the riverbank with the teacher, where he was told that his future study of the Torah, like the rushing river, would never end. This book--Ivan Marcus's erudite and novel interpretation of this rite of passage--presents a new anthropological historical approach to Jewish culture and acculturation in medieval Christian Europe. Marcus traces ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman elements in the rite and then analyzes it from different perspectives, making use of narrative, legal, poetic, ethnographic, and pictorial sources, as well as firsthand accounts. He then describes contemporary medieval Christian images and initiation rites--including the eucharist and the Madonna and child--as contexts within which to understand the ceremony. He is the first to investigate how medieval Jews were aware of, drew upon, and polemically transformed Christian religious symbols into Jewish counterimages in order to affirm the truth of Judaism and to make sense of living as Jews in an intensely Christian culture.
Author: Neil Winkler
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-04-15
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781093925104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Bringing the Prophets to Life, Rabbi Neil Winkler offers us a masterful source of inspiration and insight into the early prophets. He shows us that in order to understand the vital messages of the stories, we must go beyond a simple translation of the text and identify the themes of the stories, as well as the struggles and challenges that faced the outstanding personalities of each era: the warriors and the women, the prophets and the kings.
Author: Eishes Chayil
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-09-14
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0802722709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInside the closed community of Borough Park, where most Chassidim live, the rules of life are very clear, determined by an ancient script written thousands of years before down to the last detail-and abuse has never been a part of it. But when thirteen-year-old Gittel learns of the abuse her best friend has suffered at the hands of her own family member, the adults in her community try to persuade Gittel, and themselves, that nothing happened. Forced to remain silent, Gittel begins to question everything she was raised to believe. A richly detailed and nuanced book, one of both humor and depth, understanding and horror, this story explains a complex world that remains an echo of its past, and illuminates the conflict between yesterday's traditions and today's reality.
Author: Moishe Dovid Lebovits
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Avrohom Pam
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTorah thoughts based on and adapted from the teaching of Rabbi Abraham Pam.
Author: Solomon Schechter
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Seymour Fox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-07-07
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521528993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the philosophical consideration of Jewish existence in our time, as reflected in Jewish education, its alternative visions, its purposes and instrumentalities, the values it should serve, and the personal and social character it ought to foster. Prevalent conceptions and practices of Jewish education are neither sufficiently reflective nor thoroughgoing enough to meet the multiple challenges that the world now poses to Jewish existence and continuity. New efforts are needed to develop an education of the future that will honor the riches of the Jewish past and grasp the opportunities of fruitful interactions with the general culture of the present. To promote such efforts, six leading scholars in this book formulate their variant visions of an ideal Jewish education for the contemporary world. This book also translates these visions into educational practice and, finally, articulates a vision abstracted from a case study of a school's ongoing practice.