Download or read book From The Guardian s Vineyard on Sefer B reshith the Book of Genesis written by Dov Abraham Ben-Shorr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Guardian's Vineyard is a multi-level commentary on the Hebrew Bible. It is a glimpse into the treasure faithfully transmitted from the ancient Jewish sages, the "Guardians," of the Holy One's "Vineyard," Israel. Bridging the Oral and the Written Tradition, the simple and the esoteric as well as explaining many rituals and practices harvested from the "vineyard," both the newcomer and the seasoned student of the Bible will find an appetizing taste of that "which is contained within." This volume is an extensive commentary on the first book of the Torah (Bible), the book of Genesis. Included are detailed explanations, and descriptions of ritual and practices connected with the various verses, as well as many deep Qabalistic insights.
Download or read book From The Guardian s Vineyard written by Dov Avraham Ben Shorr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Turn it and turn it again (delve deeply into it) for all is found within," teach our Sages of Blessed Memory, concerning the Torah (Pirqe Avoth 5:26). The Torah we are taught, is the blueprint for the entire universe, therefore its study connects one both with the Builder (God) and His Creation. As a blueprint, all can be found within - given enough study. The Guardians of the Vineyard is a multi-dimensional commentary on the Hebrew Bible, bringing complex concept in clear simple language. This volume explores the Sefer B'reshith - the Book of Genesis, offering exegesis that range from the simple to the more esoteric. This volume also contains an important essay on the virtue of burial in the Holy Land, and a study of holiday of Hanukah, "Turn it, and turn it again, for all is found within." The Guardians of the Vineyard offers new ideas and explorations of some old concepts. It is hoped the vineyard will provide fruit for the seasoned student, as well as the newcomer to the Biblical text. The Guardian's Vineyard offers a taste, a glimpse, into the fruits of God's Holy Vineyard. May its fruit satiate all who venture within. Come and explore the Vineyard.
Download or read book The Bahir written by Aryeh Kaplan and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bahir is one of the oldest and most influential of all classical Kabbalah texts. Until the publication of the Zohar, the Bahir was the most widely quoted primary source of Kabbalistic teachings. The Bahir is quoted in every major book on Kabbalah, the earliest being the Raavad's commentary on Sefer Yetzirah, and it is cited numerous times by Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban) in his commentary on the Torah. It is also quoted many times in the Zohar. It was first published around 1176 by the Provence school of Kabbalists; the first printed edition appeared in Amsterdam in 1651. The name Bahir is derived from the first verse quoted in the text (Job 37:21), "And now they do not see light, it is brilliant (Bahir) in the skies." It is also called the "Midrash of Rabbi Nehuniah ben HaKana," particularly by the Ramban. The reason might be that Rabbi Nehuniah's name is at the very beginning of the book, but most Kabbalists actually attribute the Bahir to him and his school. Some consider it the oldest kabbalistic text ever written. Although the Bahir is a fairly small book, some 12,000 words in all, it was very highly esteemed among those who probed its mysteries. Rabbi Judah Chayit, a prominent fifteenth-century Kabbalist, writes, "Make this book a crown for your head." Much of the text is very difficult to understand, and Rabbi Moshe Cordevero (1522-1570), head of the Safed school of Kabbalah, says, "The words of this text are bright (Bahir) and sparkling, but their brilliance can blind the eye." One of the most important concepts revealed in the Bahir is that of the Ten Sefirot, and careful analysis of these discussions yields much of what will be found in later kabbalistic works, as well as their relation to anthropomorphism and the reason for the commandments. Also included is a discussion of reincarnation, or Gilgul, an interpretation of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, the Thirty-two Paths of Wisdom, and the concept of Tzimtzum.
Download or read book The Jewish Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death in Jewish Life written by Stefan C. Reif and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.
Download or read book The Sepher Ha Zohar Or The Book of Light Bereshith to Lekh Lekha written by Nurho de Manhar and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan written by and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English translation of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, one of the richest depositories of rabbinic reflections on the study of the Torah. It is the earliest commentary on Abot, the only tractate of the Mishnah that does not deal with legal matters but exclusively with "agada," an unlimited variety of religious, ethical, and edifying subjects.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Judaism Volume 2 The Hellenistic Age written by William David Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.
Download or read book A Journey Through Jewish Worlds written by Elka Deitsch and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique edition shows highlights from one of the world's foremost private collections of Hebrew manuscripts and printed books belonging to the Swiss collector Reneacute; Braginsky, who has spent more than three decades building this amazing collection. Eac
Download or read book Wordplay in Ancient Near Eastern Texts written by Scott B. Noegel and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book from Scott B. Noegel offers a comparative, in-depth study of "wordplay" in ancient Near Eastern texts. Noegel establishes comprehensive taxonomies for the many kinds of devices that scholars label as wordplay and for their proposed functions. The consistent terminology proposed offers students and scholars of Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Ugaritic, Hebrew, and Aramaic a useful template for documenting and understanding the devices they discover and for comparing them across languages for a rich interdisciplinary dialogue.
Download or read book The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy written by David Werner Amram and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Way written by Dvora Bregman and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Messianic Speculation in Israel written by Abba Hillel Silver and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A prominent American religious leader and renowned Hebrew scholar traces seventeen centuries of Messianic dreams and pretenders among the Jewish people. A new preface to the Beacon edition brings up to date his views since the original publication of the book, and includes his comments on the creation of the state of Israel, seen by many as the fulfillment of the Messianic dream."-Publisher.
Download or read book Beginning again written by Aryeh Cohen and published by Chatham House Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Eight essays address the relation of any specific beginningof a text, a book, an argument, a narrativeto the originary moment of Jewish textual tradition. The two fundamental approaches are attending to the quotidian and obvious notion that any textual work claims a beginning, and the connection between rhetorical and cultural moves. No credentials are noted for the contributors. There is no index. Distributed in the US by Stylus. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Myths Legends of Babylonia Assyria written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Babylonian and Assyrian myths and legends, including various analogues of the biblical flood story and discussions of the history of Babylon and Assyria, and descriptions of various forms of Babylonian worship, Assyrian cults, and archaeological excavation of Babylonian and Assyrian sites.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Targumim the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi and the Midrashic Literature Lamed Taf Index of scriptural quotations written by Marcus Jastrow and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sefer Yetzirah written by Akiba Ben Joseph and published by Parker Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sefer Yetzirah, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation is the title of the earliest extant book on Jewish esotericism, although some early commentators treated it as a treatise on mathematical and linguistic theory as opposed to Kabbalah. Yetzirah is more literally translated as "Formation"; the word Briah is used for "Creation". The book is traditionally ascribed to the patriarch Abraham, although others attribute its writing to Rabbi Akiva. Modern scholars have not reached consensus on the question of its origins. According to Rabbi Saadia Gaon, the objective of the book's author was to convey in writing from a Jewish perspective how the things of our universe came into existence. Translated from the Hebrew, with annotations by Knut Stenring. Includes the 32 paths of wisdom, their correspondence with the Hebrew alphabet and the Tarot symbols and with an introduction by Arthur Edward Waite., Book of Formation, or Book of Creation is the title of the earliest extant book on Jewish esotericism, although some early commentators treated it as a treatise on mathematical and linguistic theory as opposed to Kabbalah. Yetzirah is more literally translated as "Formation"; the word Briah is used for "Creation". The book is traditionally ascribed to the patriarch Abraham, although others attribute its writing to Rabbi Akiva. Modern scholars have not reached consensus on the question of its origins. According to Rabbi Saadia Gaon, the objective of the book's author was to convey in writing from a Jewish perspective how the things of our universe came into existence. Translated from the Hebrew, with annotations by Knut Stenring. Includes the 32 paths of wisdom, their correspondence with the Hebrew alphabet and the Tarot symbols and with an introduction by Arthur Edward Waite.
