Download or read book Crafting the 613 Commandments written by Albert D. Friedberg and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegemenon to the Mishneh Torah, his monumental code of law. This book explores the surprising way Maimonides put this tradition to use and his possible rationale for using such a tradition. It also explores many of the philosophical and ethical ideas animating the composition of such a list. In the book's second half, Friedberg examines the manner by which Maimonides formulated positive commandments in the Mishneh Torah, leading him to suggest new dimensions in Maimonides' legal theory.
Download or read book Crafting the 613 Commandments written by Albert Friedberg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism written by Jeremy P. Brown and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period, correlating the diverse domains of jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah.
Download or read book Handbook for the Christian Faith written by James M. Dawsey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is religion disappearing from American life? Less than 50 percent of Americans now hold membership in any religious institution, and even fewer attend worship services. The decline in Christian churches is especially pronounced among the young and cuts across all denominations. But for Methodists and like-minded Protestants, concerns are deeper than shrinking denominational membership. Polls show disconcerting ignorance about religious and spiritual matters even among churchgoers. Our values as a society are in large measure molded by religion. What shape will Protestant Christianity take in the twenty-first century? And of Methodism? And beyond that, what kind of community will we be? Dawsey proposes returning to the roots of Christianity. And with anecdotes and stories and a sweeping grasp of church history, he examines those essential practices and beliefs necessary to revitalize American churches. Key, he argues, is rediscovering Christianity as a philosophy of living. John Wesley characterized the practice of religion as first, doing no harm; second, doing good; and third, keeping the ordinances of faith. Loving God and God’s creation—the doing of Christianity—marks the path for becoming the churches and individuals Christians were called to be.
Download or read book Re forming Judaism written by Stanley Davids and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Jewish history, revolutionary events and subversive ideas have burst forth, repeatedly transforming Jewish experience. Re-forming Judaism seeks to explore these ideas---and the individuals behind them---by delving into historical disruptions that led to lasting change in Jewish thought. A distinguished array of scholars take us on a journey from the disruptive prophets of ancient times, through rational, mystical, and extremist medievalists, to the impact of Haskalah and early Reform thought in modernity. Contemporary innovations such as changes in liturgy and music, feminism, and post-Holocaust theology are included, as are insights into Sephardic and North African experiences. By showing how Judaism forms---then re-forms, and re-forms again---the contributors demonstrate that tensions between continuity and change have always been part of Jewish life, helping us to both understand the past and contemplate the future. The excellent chapters in this exciting and provocative book provide an illuminating journey through the grand sweep of Jewish history, seen through the lens of crises that generated radical transformations. The volume is perfect for all who seek to explore the resilience that undergirds Jewish survival and to benefit from first-rate scholarship and engaging style. -- Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, PhD, Effie Wise Ochs Professor of Biblical Literature and History, Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion An accessible introduction to the long history of disruption in Jewish life from antiquity to the present. To paraphrase a famous slogan, "You don't need to be Reform to enjoy Re-Forming Judaism." You just need to be curious as to how change happens. -- Jonathan D. Sarna, PhD, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University There is a piece of every Jew that relishes thinking of oneself as standing at Sinai and being part of a people and tradition that extends from then to now. The Jewish tradition, though, is ours now only because it had the wisdom to change over the centuries. This book graphically demonstrates how tradition and change together have kept Judaism instructive and relevant over time so that Jews now can enjoy and benefit from both its continuity and its ever-refreshing and challenging nature. -- Rabbi Elliot Dorff, PhD, Rector and Sol & Anne Dorff Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, American Jewish University
Download or read book From Something to Nothing written by Harry Fox and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish mysticism approaches God as no-thing or nothing, reflecting Judaism’s traditional identification of God as incorporeal. Whereas technical philosophical language often employed to discuss Jewish mysticism has a tendency to ward off otherwise interested readers, this study sufficiently breaks down the technical language of Jewish mysticism in its various expressions to allow a beginner to benefit from what may otherwise be indescribable and only approached by consideration of what is not rather than what is. Integral to the title, From Something to Nothing, is the concept that God cannot be something, because that would be restricting, so God is simply no-thing. Ironically, the conventional religious expression for the biblical notion of creation is “something from nothing”, whereas the title of this volume is its precise opposite, which may at first seem to be illogical – creation in reverse. However, in a volume dedicated to various deliberations on magic and mysticism, the ultimate reality may receive expression as nothingness, that is, no-thingness, no quality associated with things. What adds to our difficulty today is that nothingness is inextricably linked with silence. Is silence also an element or indication of an ultimate reality or its absence? Or is it merely the reflection of nothing whatsoever? This is at the heart of modern debates between atheists and believers. Believers feel that even this silence speaks to this ultimate reality, whereas atheists claim that if you cannot show it, then you do not know it. In other words, believers are victims of their own wishful thinking. From Something to Nothing memorializes Canadian mystic and scholar Zalman Schachter Shalomi, z”l, engaging in particular aspects that he addressed at some phase of his colourful and erudite life, providing the reader with a broad spectrum of both phenomenological and intellectual topics.
Download or read book An Introduction to Jewish Law written by François-Xavier Licari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to present a systematic and synthetic introduction to Jewish law.
Download or read book Maimonides the Universalist written by Menachem Kellner and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maimonides’ Mishneh torah presents not only a system of Jewish law, but also a system of values. This study focuses on the moral and philosophical meditations that close each volume of his code. The authors analyse these concluding passages to uncover the universalist outlook underlying Maimonides’ halakhic thought.
Download or read book Reading Maimonides Mishneh Torah written by David Gillis and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Gillis’s highly original study of Maimonides’ Mishneh torah demonstrates that its form reflects a belief that observance of the divine commandments of the Torah brings the individual and society into line with the cosmic order. He shows that the Mishneh torah is intended to be an object of contemplation as well as a prescription for action, with the study of it in itself bringing the reader closer to knowledge of God.
Download or read book Messages of Hope written by Sheila Harvey and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-04-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, we need messages of hope. My book delivers weekly messages of hope for peace and justice for all through love letters preached to a racially, economically, and culturally diverse congregation during the COVID-19 pandemic and at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement. This book is unique because it offers messages of hope in the wake of an ongoing viral pandemic and heartbreaking global unrest. Yet, even in times of despair, this book calls upon all people of faith to remain hopeful that peace and justice will be possible for everyone, everywhere. In a world filled with hopelessness, consider reading my book to fill your heart and mind with messages of hope.
Download or read book The 613 Commandments written by Dr. Robert H. Schram and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author Dr. ROBERT H. SCHRAM has degrees in Political Science (BA) and Personnel/Counseling (MA) with a Doctorate in Public Administration and is Executive Director Emeritus of BARC Developmental Services (1977-2020). The 613 Commandments is his fourteenth published book that puts the Commandments into Thirty-four Categories to make their comprehension more accessible: Prophecy, Clothing, Prayer and Blessings, Injuries and Damages, The Firstborn, Lepers and Leprosy, Signs and Symbols, Torah, Treatment of Gentiles, Vows Oaths and Swearing, Criminal Laws, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, The King, God, Nazarites, Property and Property Rights, The Poor and the Unfortunate, Love and Brotherhood, Business Practices, Ritual Purity and Impurity, Wars, The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years, Employees Servants and Slaves, Marriage Divorce and Family, Punishment and Restitution, T'rumah Tithes and Taxes, Forbidden Sexual Relations, Dietary Laws, Kohanim and Levites, The Temple the Sanctuary, Sacred Objects, Times and Seasons, Court Judicial System, Idolatry Idolaters and Idolatrous Practices, Sacrifices and Offerings
Download or read book The Guide to the Perplexed written by Moses Maimonides and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought. Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential living texts in Jewish philosophy, a masterwork navigating the straits between religion and science, logic and revelation. The author, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides or as Rambam, was a Sephardi Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician. He wrote his Guide in the form of a letter to a disciple. But the perplexity it aimed to cure might strike anyone who sought to square logic, mathematics, and the sciences with biblical and rabbinic traditions. In this new translation by philosopher Lenn E. Goodman and historian Phillip I. Lieberman, Maimonides' warm, conversational voice and clear explanatory language come through as never before in English. Maimonides knew well the challenges facing serious inquirers at the confluence of the two great streams of thought and learning that Arabic writers labeled 'aql and naql, reason and tradition. The aim of the Guide, he wrote, is to probe the mysteries of physics and metaphysics. But mysteries, to Maimonides, were not conundrums to be celebrated for their obscurity. They were problems to be solved. Maimonides' methods and insights resonate throughout the work of later Jewish thinkers, rationalists, and mystics, and in the work of philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Newton. The Guide continues to inspire inquiry, discovery, and vigorous debate among philosophers, theologians, and lay readers today. Goodman and Lieberman's extensive and detailed commentary provides readers with historical context and philosophical enlightenment, giving generous access to the nuances, complexities, and profundities of what is widely agreed to be the most significant textual monument of medieval Jewish thought, a work that still offers a key to those who hope to harmonize religious commitments and scientific understanding.
Download or read book New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies written by Glenn Dynner and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Elliot R. Wolfson has profoundly influenced the fields of Jewish studies as well as philosophy and religion more broadly. His radically new approaches have created pioneering ways of analyzing texts and thinking about religion through the lens of gender, sexuality, and feminist theory. The contributors to New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson, many of whom are internationally renowned scholars, hearken from diverse fields. Each has learned from and collaborated with Wolfson as student or colleague, and each has expanded the new scholarly directions initiated by Wolfson’s groundbreaking work. Wolfson’s scholarship gives us innovative ways to think about Judaism and a fresh understanding of religion. Not only a scholar, Wolfson is one of the most important Jewish thinkers of our day. Chapters are grouped according to the categories of religion, Jewish thought and philosophy, and a focused section on Kabbalah, Wolfson’s primary specialization. The volume concludes with a bibliography of Wolfson’s published work and a selection of his poetry.
Download or read book Mitzvot written by Ronald H. Isaacs and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Download or read book The 613 Commandments of God written by Scott Meade and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Testament lists not 10 Commandments, but 613. This book makes it easy to find them all in the Holy Bible. Whether or not you believe that all of God's Laws are still relevant, this book is a great resource tool for finding the 613 Commandments within the Holy Bible.
Download or read book The 613 Commandments of God Explained written by Lord Sg Vanwells and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will learn each and every law of God and become aware of what true sin is to Him. Through this deep understanding, readers will come to know God in a more profound way. There were 613 commandments given to Moses by God in the Torah, not just ten, There has never been a book like this one. People will finally learn each and every law of God and become aware of what true sin is to God. People will also understand Christ better since he followed each law.
Download or read book The 613 Commandments written by Robert H. Schram and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author Dr. ROBERT H. SCHRAM has degrees in Political Science (BA) and Personnel/Counseling (MA) with a Doctorate in Public Administration and is Executive Director Emeritus of BARC Developmental Services (1977-2020). The 613 Commandments is his fourteenth published book that puts the Commandments into Thirty-four Categories to make their comprehension more accessible: Prophecy, Clothing, Prayer and Blessings, Injuries and Damages, The Firstborn, Lepers and Leprosy, Signs and Symbols, Torah, Treatment of Gentiles, Vows Oaths and Swearing, Criminal Laws, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, The King, God, Nazarites, Property and Property Rights, The Poor and the Unfortunate, Love and Brotherhood, Business Practices, Ritual Purity and Impurity, Wars, The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years, Employees Servants and Slaves, Marriage Divorce and Family, Punishment and Restitution, T'rumah Tithes and Taxes, Forbidden Sexual Relations, Dietary Laws, Kohanim and Levites, The Temple the Sanctuary, Sacred Objects, Times and Seasons, Court Judicial System, Idolatry Idolaters and Idolatrous Practices, Sacrifices and Offerings
