Download or read book Ma aseh Book written by Moses Gaster and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ma asei Avos written by Daṿid Ḥadad and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ma aseh Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jacob H Schiff written by Jacob Henry Schiff and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1: ""Jacob H. Schiff: His Life and Letters V1"" is a biography written by Cyrus Adler about the life of Jacob H. Schiff, a prominent banker and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book is the first of two volumes and contains detailed accounts of Schiff's life, including his upbringing in Germany, his immigration to the United States, and his rise to become one of the most influential figures in American finance. The book also includes a collection of Schiff's personal letters, providing insight into his thoughts, motivations, and relationships with other prominent figures of his time." --
Download or read book Mystical Prayer in Ancient Judaism written by Michael D. Swartz and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes text of Maaseh merkavah in English translation.
Download or read book The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought written by Brian Ogren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, Brian Ogren deeply analyzes late fifteenth century Italian Jewish thought concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of time. Ogren examines uses of philosophy and Kabbalah in the thought of four important fifteenth century thinkers.
Download or read book Ma aseh Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maimonides written by Moshe Halbertal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of Jewish tradition. Moshe Halbertal vividly describes Maimonides's childhood in Muslim Spain, his family's flight to North Africa to escape persecution, and their eventual resettling in Egypt. He draws on Maimonides's letters and the testimonies of his contemporaries, both Muslims and Jews, to offer new insights into his personality and the circumstances that shaped his thinking. Halbertal then turns to Maimonides's legal and philosophical work, analyzing his three great books--Commentary on the Mishnah, the Mishneh Torah, and the Guide of the Perplexed. He discusses Maimonides's battle against all attempts to personify God, his conviction that God's presence in the world is mediated through the natural order rather than through miracles, and his locating of philosophy and science at the summit of the religious life of Torah. Halbertal examines Maimonides's philosophical positions on fundamental questions such as the nature and limits of religious language, creation and nature, prophecy, providence, the problem of evil, and the meaning of the commandments. A stunning achievement, Maimonides offers an unparalleled look at the life and thought of this important Jewish philosopher, scholar, and theologian.
Download or read book Etz Hayim written by David L. Lieber and published by Jewish Publication Society of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JPS is pleased to make available a new, more compact edition of the landmark publication, Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary. This book, a publication of the Conservative movement, was produced through a joint venture of the Rabbinical Assembly, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, and The Jewish Publication Society. This new, smaller edition is a convenient alternative to the standard hardcover edition and is ideal for personal study and travel. It contains all the material in the original, excerpt for the essays. The Bible text, translations, and commentaries as well as the blessings, artwork, maps, glossary and other reference tools for the worshiper and student of Torah reader are included. The sturdy, coated paper cover is designed to stand up well, even with heavy use.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions written by Raphael Patai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.
Download or read book The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus written by Maud Kozodoy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus explores late medieval Iberian Jewish culture through the figure of Profayt Duran, a rationalist Jewish scholar who was compelled during the riots of 1391 to become a Christian in name, and whose broad-ranging philosophical and scientific education was mustered in defense of his religious convictions.
Download or read book Medieval Midrash written by Bernard H. Mehlman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Midrash: The House for Inspired Innovation is the first treatment of this curious genre. Illuminating matters of historicity and origin with translations of six Solomon texts, Mehlman and Limmer address questions regarding Medieval Midrash and the need for creative religious expression.
Download or read book A Book of Life written by Michael Strassfeld and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts a path to a spiritually rich Judaism, explaining traditional rituals and offering new ones for modern life. Encourages daily spiritual awareness as we seek the two fundamental goals of Judaism: to become better humans and to be in God's presence.
Download or read book The Exempla of the Rabbis written by Moses Gaster and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of exempla, apologues and tales culled from Hebrew manuscripts and rare Hebrew books.
Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History written by Iris Idelson-Shein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture. Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked, with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism. Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters.
Download or read book Becoming the People of the Talmud written by Talya Fishman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman contends that these roles were not solidified until the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The inscription of Talmud—which Sefardi Jews understand to have occurred quite early, and Ashkenazi Jews only later—precipitated these developments. The encounter with Oral Torah as a written corpus was transformative for both subcultures, and it shaped the roles that Talmud came to play in Jewish life. What were the historical circumstances that led to the inscription of Oral Torah in medieval Europe? How did this body of ancient rabbinic traditions, replete with legal controversies and nonlegal material, come to be construed as a reference work and prescriptive guide to Jewish life? Connecting insights from geonica, medieval Jewish and Christian history, and orality-textuality studies, Becoming the People of the Talmud reconstructs the process of cultural transformation that occurred once medieval Jews encountered the Babylonian Talmud as a written text. According to Fishman, the ascription of greater authority to written text was accompanied by changes in reading habits, compositional predilections, classroom practices, approaches to adjudication, assessments of the past, and social hierarchies. She contends that certain medieval Jews were aware of these changes: some noted that books had replaced teachers; others protested the elevation of Talmud-centered erudition and casuistic virtuosity into standards of religious excellence, at the expense of spiritual refinement. The book concludes with a consideration of Rhineland Pietism's emergence in this context and suggests that two contemporaneous phenomena—the prominence of custom in medieval Ashkenazi culture and the novel Christian attack on Talmud—were indirectly linked to the new eminence of this written text in Jewish life.
Download or read book Zohar the Book of Enlightenment written by Daniel Chanan Matt and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.
