Download or read book Sod Ha ibur written by Richard Fiedler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of the Hebrew CalendarRethinking the Conflict between Rabban Gamliel and Rabb Yehoshua

Download or read book Hachibur Book One written by Warren Cyr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study in Jewish Concepts and Beliefs. Book of Terms and Definitions. THE COMPILATION (R) RegisteredSTUDY IN JEWISH CONCEPTS AND BELIEFS. THE COMBINING AND JOINING OF HEBREW TERMS THAT IN ESSENCE SYMBOLIZE THE CONCEPT OF PRAYER, JOINING US WITH G-DAUTHOR: WARREN J CYR (aharon ben yosef), THE "aby"EDITOR: DANIEL J CYRPROGRAMMER: SAUL SCHON/SCHOU - i.e. PAUL ANDERSON

Download or read book Li u e Moharan Lessons 58 64 written by Naḥman (of Bratslav) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Jewish Gynaecological Texts in the Middle Ages written by Rôn Barqây and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study fills a major gap in the history of medicine, namely the history of medieval Hebrew medicine, in particular of Jewish women's medicine. A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th centuries is followed by a survey and analysis of the 15 extant medieval Jewish gynaecological texts (including translations from Greek, Latin and Arabic as well as original Hebrew treatises) and a comparison of the particular characteristics of Jewish gynaecology to the Latin and Arabic traditions. In the second part of the work the author presents critical editions with translations of six medieval Jewish gynaecological texts.

Download or read book Jewish History and Thought written by Menahem Mansoor and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of Jewish history and thought spans biblical times through the twentieth century and the establishment of the State of Israel, covering developments that have shaped Judaism, Jewish learning, Jewish experience, and the Jewish people. Based on the author's experience teaching Jewish history, this survey is presented in an outline form and contains charts and other learning aids.

Download or read book The Book Of Women s Love written by Carmen Caballero-Navas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. The first part of this book is an historical study of the Hebrew written production on women's healthcare and of Jewish women's lives and experiences regarding the care of their bodies during the late Middle Ages in the Mediterranean West. The aim is to restore value to feminine knowledge and practices that were significant then and remain so today. The second part presents an edition translated into English with commentary of the Hebrew compilation Sefer Ahavat Nashim, the Book of Women's Love. This was compiled in the late Middle Ages and is preserved in a single manuscript from Catalonia-Provence. Its contents are concerned with magic, sexuality, cosmetics, and gynecology - areas of knowledge essentially, though not exclusively, related to women. The author focuses on the relation between women and health care and examines both women's knowledge and knowledge about women. This pioneering work makes a valuable contribution to the history of Jewish culture and Jewish women during the Middle Ages, and also makes a substantial contribution to the history of medicine.

Download or read book Problems and Parables of Law written by Josef Stern and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central topic in medieval Jewish philosophy and thought was the explanation of the Mosaic commandments. From Philo and Saadiah on, thinkers sought to uncover "reasons for the commandments" (ta'amei ha-mitzvot) both to demonstrate the rationality of divine legislation and to motivate performance of the commandments. Like many received topics, this enterprise was radically transformed in the hands of Maimonides. In this first book-length treatment of a subject that has been relatively overlooked by scholars since Isaac Heinemann's classic work in the 1950s, Josef Stern offers an original analysis of two major themes in Maimonides' explanation of the Law and its impact on Nahmanides. The first theme is Maimonides' reconceptualization of the huqqim, those commandments that were traditionally asserted either to have no reason or a reason that is unknown or unknowable. The second theme is Maimonides' application of his method of multi-leveled interpretation that treats texts as parables with "external" and "internal" meaning to the explanation of commandments with multiple reasons. Both of these innovative modes of explanation are adopted by Nahmanides, who refined and adapted Maimonides' structures of interpretation to express diametrically opposed contents. From this perspective there emerges a picture of the relation between these two seminal figures of medieval Judaism that is much more subtle than the received opinion that bluntly opposes them, the radical arch rationalist against the mystical traditionalist. Inquiry into ta'amei ha-mitzvot served as a locus for discussion of a broad range of philosophical topics: the attributes of God, the grounds of law and legal obligation, the structure of explanation and interpretation, idolatry, friendship and love, the status of astrology and magic, and attitudes toward the body. Stern demonstrates both the philosophical importance of these topics in Maimonides' and Nahmanides' thought and the relevance of their writings to contemporary philosophical discussions.

Download or read book Celebrating the New Moon written by Susan Berrin and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Download or read book Alphanumeric Cosmology From Greek into Arabic written by Juan Acevedo and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juan Acevedo embarks on a semantic journey to track the origin and adventures of the Greek term stoicheion, which for at least eighteen centuries, from Pythagoras to Fibonacci, simultaneously meant "element", "letter", and "numeral". Focusing on this triple meaning and on how it was translated and interpreted in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic - especially in key texts of the Abrahamic faiths- a metaphysical study takes shape. With touches of alchemy and theology, it reveals how a shared fundamental alphanumeric cosmology underlay many basic paradigms of science and faith around the Mediterranean until the advent of the Indo-Arabic numerals broke the "marriage" of letter and numeral. Careful readings of Plato, Philolaos, Nicomachus and Philo, of Genesis and the Sefer Yetsira, of the Qur'an, the Ikhwan al-Safa', and Ibn 'Arabi are all woven together into a synthesis full of implications for many disciplines.

Download or read book Concealment and Revelation written by Moshe Halbertal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their particular understanding revealed the actual secret of the Torah. They presented their own readings in a coded fashion that has come to be regarded by many as the very essence of esotericism. Concealment and Revelation takes us on a fascinating journey to the depths of the esoteric imagination. Carefully tracing the rise of esotericism and its function in medieval Jewish thought, Moshe Halbertal's richly detailed historical and cultural analysis gradually builds conceptual-philosophical force to culminate in a masterful phenomenological taxonomy of esotericism and its paradoxes. Among the questions addressed: What are the internal justifications that esoteric traditions provide for their own existence, especially in the Jewish world, in which the spread of knowledge was of great importance? How do esoteric teachings coexist with the revealed tradition, and what is the relationship between the various esoteric teachings that compete with that revealed tradition? Halbertal concludes that, through the medium of the concealed, Jewish thinkers integrated into the heart of the Jewish tradition diverse cultural influences such as Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism, and Hermeticisims. And the creation of an added concealed layer, unregulated and open-ended, became the source of the most daring and radical interpretations of the tradition.

Download or read book Yom Tov Lipmann Heller written by Joseph Davis and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a major rabbinic figure, author of the famed Tosafot yom tov, whose life spanned several countries and an important transitional period in the history of European Jewry—a time of social and economic development, intellectual ferment, wars and pogroms. Davis narrates Heller's life in its individuality and detail, places him in the context of his time, and shows his vision of Judaism, of the world around him, and of the events he lived through.

Download or read book Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem 1896 1948 written by Jonatan Meir and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book endeavors to fill a lacuna in the literature on early twentieth-century kabbalah, namely the lack of a comprehensive account of the traditional kabbalah seminaries (Yeshivot) in Jerusalem from 1896 to 1948 as well as the various manifestations of kabbalah within traditional Jewish society. The foundations that were laid in the early twentieth century also paved the way for the contemporary blossoming of kabbalah in many and manifold circles. In this sense, retracing the pertinent developments in Palestine at the outset of the twentieth century is imperative not only for repairing the distorted picture of the past, but for understanding the ongoing surge in kabbalah study.

Download or read book Biblical Interpretation in Judaism and Christianity written by Isaac Kalimi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises fifteen essays classified in three major sections. Some of these essays raise theoretical and methodological issues while others focus on specific topics. The time span ranges from late biblical period to the present. The volume reflects the current thought of some of the major scholars in the field in various shapes and contexts as well as from a variety of perspectives: inner-biblical, qumranic, New Testament, various rabbinic literature (targumic, midrashic, halachic, and Medieval kabalistic), and some modern interpretation. The essays reflects the contemporary thought of some of the foremost scholars in the field of biblical exegesis from a variety of standpoints, move the biblical exegesis well beyond its conventional limits, and enrich the knowledge and deeper the understanding of the readers.

Download or read book The Jewish Book of Why written by Alfred J. Kolatch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-03-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Jews eat gefilte fish? Why is a glass broken at the end of a Jewish wedding ceremony? Why must the chapter of curses in the Torah be read quickly in a low voice? Why are shrimp and lobster not kosher? Why do Jews fast on Yom Kippur? Why are some Matzot square while others are round? If you've ever asked or been asked any of these questions, The Jewish Book of Why has all the answers. In this complete, concise, fascinating, and thoroughly informative guide to Jewish life and tradition, Rabbi Alfred J. Kolatch clearly explains both the significance and the origin of nearly every symbol, custom, and practice known to Jewish culture-from Afikomon to Yarmulkes, and from Passover to Purim. Kolatch also dispels many of the prevalent misconceptions and misunderstandings that surround Jewish observance and provides a full and unfettered look at the biblical, historical, and sometimes superstitious reasons and rituals that helped develop Jewish law and custom and make Judaism not just a religion, but a way of life. L'chaim!

Download or read book Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 3 2024 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies. Contributions to the Review place special thematic emphasis on scepticism within Jewish thought and its links to other religious traditions and secular worldviews. The Review is interested in the tension at the heart of matters of reason and faith, rationalism and mysticism, theory and practice, narrativity and normativity, doubt and dogma.

Download or read book The Age of Haskalah written by Pelli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1979-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jewish Art in Late Antiquity written by Dr Shulamit Laderman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of ancient Jewish art traces Tabernacle implements and their iconographic development from the Second Temple period until late sixth century CE. It examines appearances of seven-branch menorah, Torah ark, and other motifs found in archeological discoveries of burial art synagogue decorations.