Download or read book Rashi Rambam and Ramalamadingdong written by Mark D. Zimmerman and published by Zimco Creative Arts. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RASHI, RAMBAM and RAMALAMADINGDONG contains over 200 challenging, humorous, and entertaining questions and answers covering topics of Jewish Law, Tradition, History, and Popular Culture.
Download or read book All Things At Once written by Mika Brzezinski and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the co-host of MSNBC's popular show Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski has established herself as a leading political news journalist and beloved television personality. But success hasn't always come easy for Mika. Growing up the only daughter of former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, she struggled to find an identity in a family of overachievers. She worked her way up the ranks of network television to surpass even her own ambitions, reaching the very top of the ladder, only to get canned less than a year later. After an unsuccessful stint as a stay-at-home mom, Mika went back to the workplace with encouragement from her eight-year-old daughter. She decided to start all over again with a beginner's job at age forty, a step back that proved to be a brilliant career move. Mika stumbled into Morning Joe and the rest is history. Now, in a time when many women are losing their jobs or struggling to find the perfect balance between work and home, Mika guides women of all ages to a place where they can find peace and fulfillment in their lives. In the tradition of Gail Sheehy's classic Passages, this illuminating book shows women how to reach their full potential in all areas of life and at every stage of their journey. Blending the personal with the prescriptive, Brzezinski's book will address the perpetual question of how to “have it all” when it comes to work and family; the importance of remaining equally humble in the face of great success and seemingly devastating setbacks; as well as the necessity of knowing and embracing our limitations so that we may transcend them.
Download or read book Elsewhere Perhaps written by Amos Oz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1973 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel of the microcosmic world of a kibbutz community located near the Jordanian frontier.
Download or read book Anonymous Soldiers written by Bruce Hoffman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Winner of the Washington Institute Book Prize One of the Best Books of the Year St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Kirkus Reviews In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel. One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East.
Download or read book Hebraic Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of Jewish sacred texts as well as descriptions of religious festivals and holidays and translations of proverbs. The introduction by Harris discusses the literary and historical context of the Talmud's creation and the misuse of selective translations from it by Christians.
Download or read book Chapters on Jewish Literature written by Israel Abrahams and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fair Labor Lawyer written by Marlene Trestman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin (1909‒1996) molded modern American labor policy while creating a space for female lawyers in the nation’s high courts. In this comprehensive biography, Marlene Trestman reveals the forces that shaped Margolin’s remarkable journey—beginning in a New Orleans Jewish orphanage—and illuminates the public and private life of this trailblazing woman. Margolin launched her career in the early 1930s, when only 2 percent of America’s attorneys were female and far fewer were Jewish or from the South. Among other numerous accomplishments, she defended the constitutionality of the New Deal’s Tennessee Valley Authority, drafted rules establishing American military tribunals for Nazi war crimes, and shepherded through the courts the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Margolin culminated her government service as a champion of the Equal Pay Act of 1963. Her passion for her work and meticulous preparation resulted in an outstanding record in appellate advocacy: she prevailed in cases associated with twenty-one of her twenty-four Supreme Court arguments. Margolin shares an elite company of individuals who attained such high standing as Supreme Court advocates, and she did so when the legal world was almost entirely male.
Download or read book 5th Enoch Letter of Enoch written by Scriptural Research Institute and published by Scriptural Research Institute. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letter of Enoch is the fifth and final book of the five books that have survived in the Ge'ez language. Fragments of it have been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, along with fragments of the Book of the Watchers, Book of Parables, and Dream Visions, proving it has circulated with them since at least the 3rd-century BC. It is very unlikely that the Letter of Enoch predates the 3rd-century BC, as it includes Greek philosophical ideas that unlikely to have been adopted before Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, and Greeks began ruling Judea. One of these ideas is the concept of the 'Word,' the 'first-born of God' who was accepted by Hellenistic Jews as being the 'Angel of the Lord' from the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew scriptures. The general message of the Letter is very Zoroastrian in its message of good-versus-bad, light-versus-dark, and righteous-versus-dishonest. The author was clearly an outcast from the power-structure of the time, and constantly attacks against the 'wealthy' and 'powerful,' accusing them of being sinful. Whoever the author was, there are very few of the indicators from the Book of the Watchers and the Book of Parables which point to Canaanite and Babylonian origins for the text, and the little present can be explained as copying from the earlier texts. The identical description of the sky becoming seven times brighter when the end of the world comes is identical to the description found in the Book of Parables, which is otherwise anachronistic in the Book of Parables, as all other indicators point to a Jewish reworking of a Babylonian text, likely during the Babylonian era. This idea that the world would end in light when good/light conquered evil/darkness, is the central theme of Zoroastrianism, the official religion of the Persian Empire that ruled Judea between 525 and 333 BC. The identical description of the end of the world in the Book of Parables and the Letter of Enoch, suggests strongly that the author of the Letter was the same person that added the description of the end-of-the-world to the Book of Parables, likely at the same time that the 'Testament of Noah' was redacted into the surviving Book of Parables.
Download or read book A Torah Commentary for Our Times Exodus and Leviticus written by Harvey J. Fields and published by Urj Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Three-Volume commentary includes a summary of the Torah portions as well as interesting interpretations and insights. questions for study and Discission are included for each portion.
Download or read book All Who Go Do Not Return written by Shulem Deen and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world—only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression—turning on the radio—is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.
Download or read book The Best Love of the Child written by Timothy P. Jackson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the rights owed to children: the right to live, the right to be nurtured and cared for, the right to an ample measure of health and happiness and, especially, the right to be loved. Here, twenty scholars from across sociological, psychological, historical, philosophical, theological, and legal disciplines argue that the right of children to be loved can best be fulfilled by teaching them how to love others. The Best Love of the Child explores and celebrates many aspects of family, culture, religion, and society and fosters a more nuanced understanding of that love which is truly at the heart of a child s best interest: love that flows freely not only to children but also from children.
Download or read book Septuagint Odes written by Scriptural Research Institute and published by Scriptural Research Institute. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-3rd century BC, King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt ordered a translation of the ancient Hebrew scriptures for the Library of Alexandria. The creation of the Septuagint resulted from this order. It is generally accepted that there were several versions of the ancient Hebrew and Samaritan scriptures before the translation of the Septuagint. The Book of Odes is not believed to have been added until the 3rd-century AD, and is the only specifically Christian book to be added to the Septuagint. It includes the older Prayer of Manasseh, which was found in some copies of the Septuagint, but not all. The Prayer of Manasseh is believed to have been added in the 2nd-century BC, which is why it is not found in all copies. The current scholarly view is that it was likely written in Greek, and is not the original Prayer of Manasseh mentioned in the Septuagint's 2nd Paraleipomenon. Fragments of a different Prayer of Manasseh have been discovered among the dead sea scrolls, written in Hebrew, which could be the original, however, it is more likely that the original would have been written in Canaanite (Samaritan, Paleo-Hebrew) than Hebrew, and therefore it is still not clear which, if either, is the original Prayer of Manasseh. Most of the other songs and prayers in the Book of Odes are copied from other books found in the Septuagint, although not exactly word for word. These songs and prayers include works attributed to Moses, Hannah the mother of Samuel, King Hezekiah, the prophets Habakkuk, Isaiah, Jonah, Azariah, Hananiah, and Mishael. Additionally, the Odes includes specifically Christian prayers copied from either the Gospel of Luke, by Zechariah the father of John the Baptist, Simeon, and in some manuscripts Mary the God-Bearer.
Download or read book Septuagint Wisdom written by Scriptural Research Institute and published by Scriptural Research Institute. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-3rd century BC, King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt ordered a translation of the ancient Hebrew scriptures for the Library of Alexandria. The creation of the Septuagint resulted from this order. It is generally accepted that there were several versions of the ancient Hebrew and Samaritan scriptures before the translation of the Septuagint. The final version of the Septuagint was published in 132 BC, which included most of the Wisdom Section. Psalms of Solomon was most-likely added in the 1st-century BC, while Odes, were likely added in the 2nd century AD. Neither of these two books was universally found in the surviving manuscripts, and Odes appears to have originally been an appendix. In the 3rd-century AD, the entire Septuagint was redacted into the 'Christian' version, in which Jesus created Adam and Eve in Genesis, and the name Iaw was removed from the Septuagint, replaced with kýrios (κύριος), which is generally translated as 'Lord.' This version is compiled from the earliest surviving full copies of the Septuagint: the Codex Alexandrinus, and Codex Vaticanus, as well as the partially surviving Codex Sinaiticus, all of which are Christian copies dating to the 4th and 5th-centuries AD. When possible the pre-Christian versions have been reconstructed through comparison to the fragments of the older versions of the Septuagint, such as Rahlfs nos. 801, 802, 803, 805, 819, 848, 942, 943, and 957. This version is not intended as a critical edition, comparing the different surviving versions, but rather an easy-to-read version that restores the Septuagint as much as possible to the original Greek translation created at the Library of Alexandria between 300 and 132 BC. Psalms of Solomon is an exception, as it does not survive in these manuscripts, and therefore alternative sources have been used.
Download or read book Revelation of Moses written by Alexander Roberts and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Adam and Eve, also known, in its Greek version, as the Apocalypse of Moses, is a Jewish pseudepigraphical group of writings. It recounts the lives of Adam and Eve from after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden to their deaths. It provides more detail about the Fall of Man, including Eve's version of the story. Satan explains that he rebelled when God commanded him to bow down to Adam. After Adam dies, he and all his descendants are promised a resurrection.
