Synopsis: How Jewish Tradition Became (Philosophy of) ReligionGiuseppe Veltri
Numerology, the art of reading the power in numbers, was often practiced in Jewish tradition and among Greek mathematicians. Today, many of those who still practise numerology use the Hebrew system which gives each letter the alphabet one of the number 1 through 8. Here is an example of how...
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There are many ways in which Jewish thinking has influenced science. Through the ages, rabbis made allowances for educating poor children even though their parents couldn’t pay for it. This is the essence of what I call democratization of learning: It has the potential to create the next ...
This section from Chronicles to Ezra-Nehemiah is known in Jewish tradition as the Writings [Ketuvim]. It is the third major section of the Hebrew Bible. The first is the Torah, the Pentateuch. The second is the Prophets (Nevi’im), which in Jewish tradition includes the Former Prophets ...
Yeshiva University is a private college rooted in the Jewish tradition with four campuses located in the heart of New York City. While Yeshiva is synonymous with NYC, more than 600 incoming undergraduates begin their college experience with a year of Torah study in Israel at the university’s ...
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is this whole concept of debt forgiveness is formalized in Hammurabi’s Code in any number of places in Mesopotamian Bronze Age society. It eventually found its way into the Jewish tradition, the Jewish literature that now we think of as the Old Testament or the Pentateuch. Could you describ...
Jewish tradition also observes a seven-day week. The book of Genesis (and hence the seven-day account of creation) was likely written around 500 B.C. during the Jewish exile to Babylon. Assyriologists such as Friedrich Delitzsch and Marcello Craveri have suggested that the Jews inherited the...
But while the Seder is a holiday feast, it is also the holiday that recalls that time in history when we got the gift of the Ten Commandments. How sad it is that to many today, these laws have become irrelevant. How sad that even judges must remove them from public courtrooms; and th...