Download or read book Midrash Sinim written by Yong Zhao and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old; That which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us, We will not hide from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength, and His wondrous works that He hath done. PSALM 78:24 Midrash Sinim: Hasidic Legend and Commentary on the Torah, author Yong Zhao explores the Scripture in light of Jewish tradition, archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, sociology, mathematics, geology, and so on. He offers thoughtful and intelligent commentaries, for example, Prior to creating the world, G-d kept the Sabbath. Adams first prayer was for a help meet for him and the tree of life was actually an atonement tree. By means of the flood, G-d destroyed the heaven and the earth, and re-created a new world. Compared with Joseph, Judah was the real hero. Genesis 38 has a narrative function within the wider Joseph narrative, but far more is involved. Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars (Prov. 9:1). The seven pillars refer to seven books (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Talmud and Zohar) and seven righteous men (Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Amram and Moses). In Exodus event the aliens converted to Judaism on a large scale. While many other works on the Scriptures exist solely to relay content to readers, Midrash Sinim is found provocative and intriguing, much interesting food for thought. It unveils numerical codes, deciphers long-term puzzles, solves controversial questions and provides gripping tales of Biblical figures, through which the profundity of the Torah and Jewish traditions shines with even greater brilliance.
Download or read book Midrash Sinim written by Yung Zhao and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every letter and every word of the Torah hides numerous mysteries." -Isaac Bashevis Singer Yung Zhao explores the scripture in light of Jewish tradition, archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, sociology, mathematics, geology, and so on. He offers thoughtful and intelligent commentaries. Examples are the following: The day before the beginning was Sabbath. Prior to the creation, God kept the Sabbath. Adam's first sentence was, "O God, Thou art my God" (Psalm 63:1a), and his first prayer was for a helper as his partner." The tree of life was actually an atonement tree, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil was an apricot tree. The fate of Jacob's family was changed by Judah (Genesis 37-50). The true hero was Judah rather than Joseph. "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars" (Proverb 9:1). The seven pillars refer to the seven books (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Talmud, and Zohar) and seven righteous men (Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Amram, and Moses). While other works on the scripture exist solely to relay content to readers, Midrash Sinim is found provocative and intriguing, much interesting food for thought. It unveils numerical codes, deciphers long-term puzzles, solves controversial questions, and provides gripping tales of biblical figures, through which the profundity of the Torah and Jewish tradition shines with even greater brilliance.
Download or read book The Ten Lost Tribes written by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ten Lost Tribes, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the extent to which the search for the lost tribes of Israel became, over two millennia, an engine for global exploration and a key mechanism for understanding the world.
Download or read book Jewish Merchant Adventures written by Louis Isaac Rabinowitz and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midrash VaYosha written by Rachel S. Mikva and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2012 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel S. Mikva undertakes a close examination of Midrash vaYosha, a medieval rabbinic text which explicates the Song at the Sea (Ex 15:1-18) and the events of the exodus from Egypt leading up to that climactic moment. Relatively short midrashim focusing on a brief biblical narrative or theme were composed in large numbers during the medieval period, and their extant manuscripts are sufficient in number to demonstrate the great popularity of the genre. Based on early manuscripts, two different recensions are transcribed and translated with significant annotation exploring variants, parallels, exegetical significance and literary style. A thorough historical analysis suggests that the midrash was performed as explication of the Torah reading at a certain point in its development - part of the gradual attenuation of live Targum. As Midrash vaYosha leaves the synagogue, its narrative dimension grows tremendously, yielding significant insight into the development of medieval Jewish exegesis.
Download or read book Mysticism in Rabbinic Judaism written by Ira Chernus and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.
Download or read book The Family Book of Midrash written by Barbara Diamond Goldin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection gives the reader a taste of the thousands of stories one can find in the treasure house of rabbinic literature. Some of these stories are humorous, some mysteriuos, some tense with drama or adventure, some filled with the joy of a miracle and the beauty of faith. All of these stories come from either the Talmud or the Midrash. This collection shows that these rabbinical stories are not old and outdated, but alive and timeless, for future generations to continue to enjoy.
Download or read book The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual written by Ishay Rosen-Zvi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the specific textual formation of Mishna Sotah. Diverging significantly from its origins in the book of Numbers, the Mishnaic ritual was traditionally read by scholars as an "ancient Mishna", narrating an actual ritual practiced in the second temple. In contrast to this generally accepted view, this book claims that while Sotah does contain some traditions, its overall composition has a clear ideological and academic form. Furthermore, comparisons with parallel Tannaitic sources reveal the ideological redaction, which carefully selected only those opinions which support its rewriting of the ritual as a public punitive ritual, while rejecting all reservations and opposition to its specific punitive character – even ignoring the possibility of innocence of the suspected adulteress. The author’s groundbreaking conclusion is that, regardless of the form the real ritual did or did not take at the temple, the specific Mishnaic ritual was (re)invented by the rabbis in the second century C.E. From its very inception, it was purely textual, reflecting rabbinic imagination rather than memory.
Download or read book Midrash written by Behrman House and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1985 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the modern-day conditions. a good selection to follow an introductory course on Jewish texts
Download or read book Midrash Mishnah and Gemara written by David Halivni and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The initial impetus for writing this book was the desire to understand more fully and completely the contribution of the redactors of the Talmud, the Stammaim. It was this desire to appreciate the redactors' innovations along with the indebtedness to their predecessors that made me reexamine the nature of both Midrashic and Mishnaic forms, place them in their proper historical perspective, and relate them to the source of all Jewish knowledge, the Bible.
Download or read book Midrash and Mishnah written by Jacob Zallel Lauterbach and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash written by Hermann Leberecht Strack and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Midrash and a Maaseh written by Hanoch Teller and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish Merchant Adventurers written by Louis Isaac Rabinowitz and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by Yaakov Yosef Reinman and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Midrash Rabbah HaMevo'ar, in the original Hebrew, opened the door to the world of Midrash to make this essential text on the Chumash and Megillos available to all. Now, the first volumes in this popular, groundbreaking work-Megillas Esther and Megillas Ruth-are available in English. The Midrash Rabbah HaMevo'ar offers levels of insight and meaning to these Megillos that will transform your understanding of the characters and events therein. Clearly written and beautifully bound, this innovative work contains the entire Midrash in Hebrew and English, together with a lucid, line-by-line explanation of the text-drawn from standard commentaries in the Vilna and Warsaw editions.
Download or read book The Legends of the Jews Notes to volumes 3 and 4 From Moses in the wilderness to Esther written by Louis Ginzberg and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legends of the Jews written by Louis Ginzberg and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
