Rabbis of the Air
Author | : Philip Terman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781932870152 |
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Author | : Philip Terman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781932870152 |
The third full-length collection of poet Philip Terman.
Author | : Deborah A. Green |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2011-03-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271066237 |
In The Aroma of Righteousness, Deborah Green explores images of perfume and incense in late Roman and early Byzantine Jewish literature. Using literary methods to illuminate the rabbinic literature, Green demonstrates the ways in which the rabbis’ reading of biblical texts and their intimate experience with aromatics build and deepen their interpretations. The study uncovers the cultural associations that are evoked by perfume and incense in both the Hebrew Bible and midrashic texts and seeks to understand the cultural, theological, and experiential motivations and impulses that lie behind these interpretations. Green accomplishes this by examining the relationship between the textual traditions of the Hebrew Bible and Midrash, the surviving evidence from the material culture of Palestine in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods, and cultural evidence as described by the rabbis and other Roman authors.
Author | : Rabbi Simcha Shafran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780615598192 |
"Fire, Ice, Air" is a short memoir by Rabbi Simcha Shafran, who was born in a Polish shtetl, attended the Novardhok yeshiva in Bialystok as a teenager, spent the years of World War II in Siberia and served as a congregational rabbi in Baltimore for over half a century. Rabbi Shafran still serves as one in a smaller way (Sabbath services take place in his home weekly) and is the administrator of the Baltimore Bais Din, or religious court. He has inspired countless people who know him personally, and continues to do so today. His son, Rabbi Avi Shafran, persuaded him to put his memories into words, and assisted in that project. The result is "Fire, Ice, Air." Professor Jacob Neusner calls the book "elegantly written - Avi Shafran is a master of American prose" and writes that it could "serve as a reading in a course in basic Judaism, telling the story of authentic Judaism through the life and experiences and messages of this remarkable man. Elie Wiesel on a world stage and Simcha Shafran in private life... accomplish the same goal." Cynthia Ozick calls Rabbi Shafran's memoir "remarkable" and an "invaluable" story, and its publication a "mitzvah... to all the Jewish generations to come."
Author | : Nathan M. Landman |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2012-10-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1479717703 |
Rabbi Nathan M. Landman, born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1929, grew up in Kew Gardens, New York. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Hebrew Union College JIR, seminary for Reform rabbis in Cincinnati, Ohio, he entered the US Air Force in 1956, serving on active duty until 1981, except for a five-year hiatus in Southern California from 1958 to 1963. Recalled to active duty on the eve of the outbreak of the Vietnam War, he retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He received the prestigious B nai Brith Alexander Goode Ben Goldman Lodge Four Chaplains Award for Excellence in Interfaith Relations in 1974. He currently lives in North Andover, Massachusetts.
Author | : Jonathan Sacks |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007-02-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0375425195 |
One of the most respected religious thinkers of our time makes an impassioned plea for the return of religion to its true purpose—as a partnership with God in the work of ethical and moral living. What are our duties to others, to society, and to humanity? How do we live a meaningful life in an age of global uncertainty and instability? In To Heal a Fractured World, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks offers answers to these questions by looking at the ethics of responsibility. In his signature plainspoken, accessible style, Rabbi Sacks shares with us traditional interpretations of the Bible, Jewish law, and theology, as well as the works of philosophers and ethicists from other cultures, to examine what constitutes morality and moral behavior. “We are here to make a difference,” he writes, “a day at a time, an act at a time, for as long as it takes to make the world a place of justice and compassion.” He argues that in today’s religious and political climate, it is more important than ever to return to the essential understanding that “it is by our deeds that we express our faith and make it real in the lives of others and the world.” To Heal a Fractured World—inspirational and instructive, timely and timeless—will resonate with people of all faiths.
Author | : Tovia Singer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2014-03-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780996091329 |
Explore the Jewish and Christian Scriptures with the world renowned Bible scholar and expert on Jewish evangelism, Rabbi Tovia Singer. This new two-volume work, Let's Get Biblical! Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?, takes the reader on an eye-opening journey through timeless passages in Tanach, and answers a pressing question: Why doesn't Judaism accept the Christian messiah? Are the teachings conveyed in the New Testament compatible with ageless prophecies in the Jewish Scriptures? Rabbi Singer's fascinating new work clearly illustrates why the core doctrines of the Church are utterly incompatible with the cornerstone principles expressed by the Prophets of Israel, and are opposed by the most cherished tenets conveyed in the Jewish Scriptures. Moreover, this book demonstrates how the Church systematically and deliberately altered the Jewish Scriptures in order to persuade potential converts that Jesus is the promised Jewish messiah. To accomplish this feat, Christian "translators" manipulated, misquoted, mistranslated, and even fabricated verses in the Hebrew Scriptures so that these texts appear to be speaking about Jesus. This exhaustive book probes and illuminates this thought-provoking subject. Tragically, over the past two millennia, the church's faithful have been completely oblivious to this Bible-tampering because virtually no Christian can read or understand the Hebrew Scriptures in its original language. Since time immemorial, earnest parishioners blindly and utterly depended upon manmade Christian "translations" of the "Old Testament" in order to understand the "Word of God." Understandably, churchgoers are deeply puzzled by the Jewish rejection of their religion's claims. They wonder aloud why Jewish people, who are reared since childhood in the Holy Tongue, and are the bearers and protectors of the sacred Oracles of God, do not accept Jesus as their messiah. How can such an extraordinary people dismiss such an extraordinary claim? Are they just plain stubborn? Let's Get Biblical thoroughly answers these nagging, age-old questions.
Author | : Rabbi David Zaslow |
Publisher | : Paraclete Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 161261437X |
This bold, fresh look at the historical Jesus and the Jewish roots of Christianity challenges both Jews and Christians to re-examine their understanding of Jesus’ commitment to his Jewish faith. Instead of emphasizing the differences between the two religions, this groundbreaking text explains how the concepts of vicarious atonement, mediation, incarnation, and Trinity are actually rooted in classical Judaism. Using the cutting edge of scholarly research, Rabbi Zaslow dispels the myths of disparity between Christianity and Judaism without diluting the unique features of each faith. Jesus: First Century Rabbi is a breath of fresh air for Christians and Jews who want to strengthen and deepen their own faith traditions.
Author | : Jonathan Sacks |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1541675320 |
A distinguished religious leader's stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values. With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today's crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing us how to live. Sacks leads readers from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the present day to show that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that we all must play our part in rebuilding a common moral foundation. A major work of moral philosophy, Morality is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all find our place and face the future without fear.
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0761854371 |
This book shows how the Rabbis of late antiquity took over writings from what they recognized as ancient times and of divine origin and they re-presented selections of those writings in accord with their own project's requirements, glossing clauses of the prophetic Scriptures but not whole, propositional discourses.
Author | : Rabbi Lawrence Kushner |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2007-10-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0767924134 |
Sometime, somewhere, someone is searching for answers . . . . . . in a thirteenth-century castle . . . on a train to a concentration camp . . . in a New York city apartment Hidden within the binding of an ancient text that has been passed down through the ages lies the answer to one of the heart’s eternal questions. When the text falls into the hands of Rabbi Kalman Stern, he has no idea that his lonely life of intellectual pursuits is about to change once he opens the book. Soon afterward, he meets astronomer Isabel Benveniste, a woman of science who stirs his soul as no woman has for many years. But Kalman has much to learn before he can unlock his heart and let true love into his life. The key lies in the mysterious document he finds inside the Zohar, the master text of the Kabbalah.