judaism essays

On the identity of the pre-Sinai Hebrews. By Yehuda Shurpin. G‑d did not choose Abraham. It was his inherent superiority, and the fact that he was ready to give everything up for the sake of G‑d, that compelled G‑d to choose him. 137 Comments. I was born Jewish but I was baptized.

A collection of essays about Jewish cultures around the world opens with the phrase, "culture is the practice of everyday life."[2] Judaism is a way of life that honors the cycle of days, weeks, months, years, and lives. Shabbat, the Sabbath, serves as the ultimate reminder of the Jewish cycle of time.

This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early ...

Essays on Jewish History. Insights on Jewish history, our nation's survival, and the lessons we can glean from our nation's storied past. When a Dead Man in Syria Was Taxed. By Yossi Ives and Mendel Hurwitz. A Safed resident moved to Syria and died, but not before the community tried taxing him in absentia. The city's rabbi ruled on the case. 2 ...

As they delineate the meaning of Judaism in the modern world, the thinkers discussed in this essay remake Jewish self-understanding. This is the case for the expressly modern liberal philosophies of Moses Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen, whom I discuss in the early sections of this essay. It is also true for Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, who ...

Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime 'other' of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging the social and political issues at stake in every reconstruction.

Topics. This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have ...

For those interested in diaspora Judaism beyond Hellenistic Alexandria, or ancient Judaism in general, the essays in part 4 will be of great interest. Bloch's familiarity with German scholarship makes the analysis particularly insightful, and English readers will appreciate his engagement with (and translation of long quotations from) both ...

These essays honor Bruce Chilton, recognizing his seminal contribution to the study of earliest Christianity in its Judaic setting. Chilton's scholarship has established innovative approaches to reconstructing the life of Jesus, a Jew whose religious ideology developed and therefore must be understood within the Judaism of the first centuries.

Books. Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Essays. Martin Goodman. BRILL, 2007 - Religion - 275 pages. "Judaism in the Roman World" deals with the religious lives of Jews in the Roman world from late Second Temple times to the Later Roman Empire. *** The studies collected here analyse a series of issues important in the development of Judaism ...

On Jews and Judaism in Crisis presents Gershom Scholem confronting, studying, and judging the important ideas, events, and figures of twentieth-century Judaism. It includes essays on Martin Buber, S. Y. Agnon, and Scholem's friend Walter Benjamin; also his famous 1964 letter to Hannah Arendt. In a 1975 interview, Scholem provides fascinating ...

Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime Other of modernity. Gillian Rose continues to develop a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging the social and political issues at stake in every reconstruction. The chapters cover ...

The seventieth anniversary of the Hebrew Union College was observed in 1945. As a feature of this celebration, Rabbi Samuel Wohl suggested the publication of a volume of essays on Reform Judaism. The Alumni of the College undertook to produce such a book; and Rabbi Jacob Singer, then President... In July, 1846 a young Bohemian rabbi named Isaac ...

Hardcover. 9780814328743. Publication Date: August 2001. $38.99. BUY. Description. Authors. Praise. Judaism within Modernity explores Jewish historiography and the problems of periodization in modern Jewish history, with a focus on Jews of Germ...

This essay about the major branches of Judaism—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist—explores how each interprets Jewish law, tradition, and identity differently. Orthodox Judaism adheres closely to traditional Jewish law, with subdivisions like Ultra-Orthodox and Modern Orthodox Jews balancing religious observance with ...

Judaism is a monotheistic religion which was developed amongst the ancient Hebrews. It was characterized by the belief of a transcendent God whom had been revealed to Abraham, Moses and Hebrew prophets also by the religious life they led which was in accordance to the scriptures and the traditions of the rabbinic (Graham, 2005).

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University. Any generalization about Judaism and ecology should take into consideration the ambiguity of the term "Judaism" and the fact that the Jewish experience encompasses both religious and secular forms. Indeed, the various conceptualizations of "nature" or "environment" illustrate the ...

Judaism and Ecology. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, ed. ... Jewish theology of nature the volume moves to consider the Bible and rabbinic literature, the foundation documents of Judaism. The essays of the second section advance this conversation in interesting, new directions. Evan Eisenberg presents a comparative reading of the biblical narrative of ...

The Sages of the Talmud on Food and Eating. "The world can live without wine, but it cannot live without water; the world can live without peppers, but it cannot live without salt" and other sayings from the midrash and talmud on food and eating. 2 Comments.

Furthermore, in this essay, I will examine each religious belief and dig deeper in an act to pursue the mutual understandings of these beliefs. To begin with, the practice of Judaism originated in the Middle East about where the modern day Israel is located around 2,000 B.C.E. Judaism was founded by Abraham,a Hebrew patriarch.

Nature is, in other words, a place we visit or something that visits us. But in every case, Nature is "out there.". We gaze upon it; we go into—and then come out of—it; we run from it. We ...

Das Judenthum in der Musik. Title page of the second edition of Das Judenthum in der Musik, published in 1869. " Das Judenthum in der Musik " ( German for Judaism in Music, but perhaps more accurately understood in contemporary language as Jewishness in Music ), [1] is an essay by composer Richard Wagner which criticizes the influence of Jews ...

Judaism and Islam, one of the world's dominant religions, share many common features in their birth rituals such as circumcision, naming of a child and the first haircut. Thus, the focus of this essay is to discuss the similarities and differences related to the birth rituals among Jews and Islam.

The essays in Women Remaking American Judaism offer a paradoxical understanding of Jewish feminism as both radical, in the transformational sense, and accomodationist, in the sense that it was thoroughly compatible with liberal Judaism. Essays in the first section, Reenvisioning Judaism, investigate the feminist challenges to traditional ...

Guest Essay. A Chill Has Fallen Over Jews in Publishing. May 27, 2024. ... said that caring about Israel is an important or essential part of their Judaism) are Zionists, ...