“The penalty shall be life for life”(Exod. 21:23)—this means that you must compensate life for a life, but you may not compensate a life with money.Rabbi (Judah the Patriarch) says: “The penalty shall be life for life”—this implies monetary compensation!You claim this implies mone...
Undergirded by a resolute belief in ‘American Exceptionalism’ and steered by neoconservative ideologues working in concert with the interests of the Military Industry, successive administrations have waged a form of hybrid warfare against the Russian Federation, the successor state to the dismantled So...
Unrest in South Africa has claimed 212 lives, the government said on Friday, a sharp jump from the 117 deaths announced the previous day. Government minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told a news conference most of the new deaths had been recorded in the southeastern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, ...
Schwartz begins his review by saying that contemporary theologians do not offer an adequate thesis squaring the circle of Torah, biblical scholarship, and revelation. What I offered inThe Book of Revolutionsis a notion of Torah as the many-layered human attempt to translate into law prophetic teach...
The rapid growth of the youth movements was a result of the Jewish crisis in interwar Eastern Europe—increasing economic misery, increasing antisemitism, the feeling that there was no future, and the belief that one’s parents were at a loss to map out the path to a satisfying life. This...
As it is the concern of Jewish theology to collect the data scattered throughout this vast literature, and construe therefrom the underlying system of belief and thought, so it is that of Jewish ethics to extract from the life of the Jews and the literature of Judaism the principles ...
3. Ms 183 as a Source for Islamic Belief and Local Practice One way of establishing Cochini Jewish interest in a Hebrew Qur’an is to look at differences between Ms 183 and Glazemaker’s Dutch Qur’an translation. There are, however, several problems with this approach, and these are als...
Jewish law does not share the belief common among abortion opponents that life begins at conception, nor does it legally consider the fetus to be a full person deserving of protections equal those accorded to human beings. In Jewish law, a fetus attains the status of a full person only at ...
It must be noted in their favor that they laid great emphasis on a pure life, philanthropy, brotherly love toward all, and friendship. The belief that such actions would hasten the Messianic time grew until it took concrete form in the appearance of Shabbethai Ẓebi, about 1665. Shabbe...
The importance of God for us is not a particular belief, but an inspiration to act a certain way. Yes, there are commands from God in the Torah, but there are actions and attitudes we should be inspired to make part of our life. Starting in Shemot, when Moses meets God for the ...