Download or read book Let s Ask the Rabbi written by Raymond Apple and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listed from A to Z, this book looks at a broad range of issues arising out of modern and postmodern human and Jewish experience. Beginning with the first page, readers will want to read more - and ask more.

Download or read book written by Zelig Pliskin and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Socrates and the Fat Rabbis written by Daniel Boyarin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond these structural similarities, arguing also for a cultural relationship.In Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, Boyarin suggests that both the Platonic and the talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. Using Michael Bakhtin’s notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, Boyarin demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually much closer to a monologue in spirit. At the same time, he shows that there is a dialogism in both texts on a deeper structural level between a voice of philosophical or religious dead seriousness and a voice from within that mocks that very high solemnity at the same time. Boyarin ultimately singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity.An innovative advancement in rabbinic studies, as well as a bold and controversial new way of reading Plato, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis makes a major contribution to scholarship on thought and culture of the ancient Mediterranean.

Download or read book Saints written by Françoise Meltzer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma. Addressing such problems as how saints are made, the use of saints by political and secular orders, and how holiness is personified, Saints takes us on a photo tour of Graceland and the cult of Elvis and explores the changing political takes on Joan of Arc in France. It shows us the self-fashioning of culture through the reevaluation of saints in late-antique Judaism and Counter-Reformation Rome, and it questions the political intent of underlying claims to spiritual attainment of a Muslim sheikh in Morocco and of Sephardism in Israel. Populated with the likes of Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Padre Pio, this book is a fascinating inquiry into the status of saints in the modern world.

Download or read book The Talmud A Personal Take written by Daniel Boyarin and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Daniel Boyarin's previously uncollected essays on the Talmud represents the different methods and lines of inquiry that have animated his work on that text over the last four decades. Ranging and changing from linguistic work to work on sex and gender to the relations between formative Judaism and Christianity to the literary genres of the Talmud in the Hellenistic context, he gives an account of multiple questions and provocations to which that prodigious book gives stimulation, showing how the Talmud can contribute to all of these fields. The book opens up possibilities for study of the Talmud using historical, classical, philological, anthropological, cultural studies, gender, and literary theory and criticism. As a kind of intellectual autobiography, it is a record of the alarums and excursions of a life in the Talmud.

Download or read book Rabbis of Ancient Times written by Bear Leib Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis written by Central Conference of American Rabbis and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing the proceedings of the convention...

Download or read book Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chelm Stories My Saba Sent Me written by Yoni Elkins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this paperback bathroom reader received over the years many Chelm stories written by his grandfather and sent to him by email. He decided to compile these stories into a book and send it as a gift to his grandfather as a token of his appreciation to him. while putting it together he realized it could actually be a book fit for a bathroom reader that others could enjoy. A highly recommended bathroom reader which should be in every home that appreciates Jewish humor.

Download or read book Texts and Traditions written by Lawrence H. Schiffman and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An indispensible companion text, Texts and Traditions includes the essential documents of the various religious trends of the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods as well as Josephus, Greek and Aramaic inscriptions, classical historians and talmudic sources." --Book Jacket.

Download or read book Let s Talk Jewish written by Joseph Rubinstein and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's Talk Jewish is nothing more than an attempt to present ideas and teachings that are dear to all Jews and Christians. We feel the greatest blessing will come, if after reading one page, you the reader can sit back and say, "I never really looked at it that way". When that happens our goal will have been accomplished. This book is meant to be used, marked up, studied, not admired.

Download or read book written by Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Divine regulation of the world. With Rabbi Yosef Begun's marginal notes. Vowelized, facing Hebrew and English texts.

Download or read book Gabriel s Palace written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 150 tales from the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore.

Download or read book Let s Learn about Kosher Food written by Zeʼev Grinṿald and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through illustrations, this book explains the laws of kashrus, including buying kosher food, kosher animals and fish, utensils, and Terumos, Ma'asros, and Orlah.

Download or read book Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis written by Central Conference of American Rabbis and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing the proceedings of the convention...

Download or read book I Have Grown in His Love written by Ibrahim Michail Hefzallah and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One method of enjoying reading the Bible is to live the events as one reads them by becoming an observer or a participant in those events. In this novel, the author became "James," the lad who was carrying five loaves of bread and two fish which Jesus blessed to feed over five thousand people. From that perspective, he followed James's growth in love of Jesus Christ. Through listening to Jesus' teachings, observing His miraculous deeds, following Him on the way to the cross, and hearing the news of His resurrection from the dead, James developed his understanding of who Jesus is. First, he thought of Him as a prophet, the Messiah, and finally he believed that He is the Son of God. At a mature age, James wrote his memoirs, from the first time he met Jesus, to the time he was preparing to leave on his first missionary trip to preach the Way. Although the miracle of feeding the crowd happened almost one year before Jesus was crucified and resurrected, the novel is developed to present to the reader other important events that happened prior to that miracle. Prophecies of the Old Testament were incorporated in the body of the story as they were being fulfilled. The Bible events in the novel are real. James is an imaginary figure whom the authorfollowed in his growth in the love and knowledge of Jesus Christ.