Download or read book Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good written by Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to would-be hasidic kabbalists on how to live a holy life, this work conveys the full flavour of the hasidic approach to kabbalism. Comprehensive and accessible scholarly annotations elucidate the kabbalistic ideas and imagery and clarify the sources to which the author refers. This masterpiece will be of interest to anyone interested in hasidism and Jewish mysticism or the religious way of life and its social history.
Download or read book Religion and the Individual written by Louis Jacobs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a careful analysis of the primary texts, Jacobs conducts a thorough survey of some of the most important instances where the individual is discussed in the Jewish religious tradition.
Download or read book Morality and Religion written by Avi Sagi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphro’s dilemma: Is an act right because God commanded it or did God command it because it is right. In Morality and Religion: The Jewish Story, renowned scholar Avi Sagi marshals the breadth of philosophical and hermeneutical tools to examine this relationship in Judaism from two perspectives. The first considers whether Judaism adopted a thesis widespread in other monotheistic religions known as 'divine command morality,' making morality contingent on God’s command. The second deals with the ways Jewish tradition grapples with conflicts between religious and moral obligations. After examining a broad spectrum of Jewish sources—including Talmudic literature, Halakhah, Aggadah, Jewish philosophy, and liturgy—Sagi concludes that mainstream Jewish tradition consistently refrains from attempts to endorse divine command morality or resolve conflicts by invoking a divine command. Rather, the central strand in Judaism perceives God and humans as inhabiting the same moral community and bound by the same moral obligations. When conflicts emerge between moral and religious instructions, Jewish tradition interprets religious norms so that they ultimately pass the moral test. This mainstream voice is anchored in the meaning of Jewish law, which is founded on human autonomy and rationality, and in the relationship with God that is assumed in this tradition.
Download or read book An Understanding of Judaism written by John D. Rayner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two volumes of edited sermons spanning the greater part of the second half of the twentieth century, and the first major collection of sermons from a Liberal Jewish point ofview produced in Britain since Claude G. Montefiore's Truth in Religion of 1906. It combines forthrightly radical thinking with spirituality, love of Jewish tradition, and an abundance of carefully documented quotations from classical Jewish sources. This combination yields many fresh insights into the interpretation of Scripture, as examined in Part I, and the significance ofthe Jewish festivals dealt with in Part II, and brings out the relevance of both to present-day intellectual and social issues. Both Parts will be found to contain many original ideas, novel formulations, and occasional touches of humour.
Download or read book written by Judah Aryeh Leib Alter and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1998 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading scholars of Hasidism and modern Jewish theology has brought together and translated a wide selection of the Torah teachings of the Sefat Emet—one of the last great masters of Polish Hasidism. Green’s personal insightful commentary on the words of the Sefat Emet create a remarkable work of Jewish scholarship, bringing the teaching of this insightful master to a wide audience.
Download or read book The Heart of the Matter written by Arthur Green and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Judaism, like all the great religions, has a strand within it that sees inward devotion as an opening of the human heart to God's presence. This voice is not always easy to hear in a tradition where so much attention is devoted to the how rather than the why of religious living. The devotional claim, certainly a key part of Judaism's biblical heritage, has reasserted itself in the teachings of individual mystics and in the emergence of religious movements over the long course of Jewish history. This volume represents Rabbi Arthur Green's own quest for such a Judaism, both as a scholar and as a contemporary seeker. This collection of essays brings together Green's scholarly writings, centered on the history of early Hasidism, and his highly personal approach to a rebirth of Jewish spirituality in our own day. In choosing to present them in this way, he asserts a claim that they are all of a piece. They represent one man's attempt to wade through history and text, language and symbol, an array of voices both past and present, while always focusing on the essential question "What does it mean to be a religious human being, and what does Judaism teach us about it?" This, the author considers to be the heart of the matter." -- Publisher's description.
Download or read book Focusing on Aspects and Experiences of Religion written by Antony Polonsky and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Established in 1986 by the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, 'Polin : Studies in Polish Jewry' has acquired a well-deserved reputation for publishing authoritative material on all aspects of Polish Jewry. Contributions are drawn from many disciplines -- history, politics, religious studies, literature, linguistics, sociology, art, and architecture -- and from a wide variety of viewpoints. Under an editorial collegium headed by Antony Polonsky and François Guesnet, volumes are published annually with each volume devoted to a different theme."--
Download or read book Contemporary Orthodox Judaism s Response to Modernity written by Barry Freundel and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Freundel in 31 essays summarizes Orthodox Jewish teaching on a variety of issues.
Download or read book Besmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside written by Ephraim Nissan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion Text and Society in Medieval Spain and Northern Europe written by J. N. Hillgarth and published by PIMS. This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unbroken Chain written by Neil Rosenstein and published by New York : Shengold Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Judaism written by Norman Solomon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Judaism covers the history of the Jewish religion, ranging from its biblical roots, through its formulation in the era of the Talmud, to the present day. This collection covers the development of Judaism in the medieval Christian and Islamic worlds, its varied responses to Enlightenment and modernity, the creation of new philosophies of Judaism in the wake of the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel, and contemporary issues such as feminism, secularism, and the ethics of war and medicine. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities in Jewish religious history, including biblical personalities with an emphasis on how they are understood in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Judaism.
Download or read book Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Sources of Wonder written by Michael Marmur and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Sources of Wonder is the first book to demonstrate how Heschel's political, intellectual, and spiritual commitments were embedded in his reading of Jewish tradition.
Download or read book For Signs and for Seasons written by Eliezer Segal and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Signs and for Seasons is a natural sequel to its companion volumes, Holidays, History and Halakhah, In Those Days, At This Time and Sanctified Seasons. Like those earlier books, this volume brings together a diverse collection of essays related to the cycle of Jewish holy days. Each chapter illustrates in a different way the interplay between the received teachings of the Torah and the vital impact of interpretations by diverse types of personalities, ideologies, historical events and communal dynamics. The articles are written from a sympathetic, but non-dogmatic perspective by an expert in the academic study of the Jewish religion. They were originally published as newspaper columns, and are designed to entertain as much as to educate the intelligent non-specialist.
Download or read book Dictionary of Kabbalah and Kabbalists written by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and published by Impress Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a reference work for the student and general reader, this Kabbalistic dictionary is a concise and handy guide to the history and treasures of the Jewish mystical tradition. It is the first dictionary of Kabbalah to provide an overview of the major themes of Jewish Kabbalistic thought as it developed over the centuries and also contains brief introductions to its major practitioners. In addition to the dictionary itself, the book contains a chronology of Kabbalah, a history of Kabbalah from ancient times to the present, maps, illustrations and an insight into the emergence of the Kabbalah Centre in California, where many celebrities, including Madonna, worship.
Download or read book Everyman s Judaica written by Geoffrey Wigoder and published by New York : L. Amiel. This book was released on 1974 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sabbath written by Abraham Joshua Heschel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2005-08-17 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication--and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life. In this brief yet profound meditation on the meaning of the Seventh Day, Heschel, one of the most widely respected religious leaders of the twentieth century, introduced the influential idea of an 'architecture of holiness" that appears not in space but in time. Judaism, he argues, is a religion of time: it finds meaning not in space and the materials things that fill it but in time and the eternity that imbues it, so that 'the Sabbaths are our great catherdrals.' Featuring black-and-white illustrations by Ilya Schor
