CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN[Israel believed in God after splitting of Red Sea. Belief in providence, power, and revelation are foundational beliefs of faith and religion. God redeems people in distress at the precise moment. Long excursus on Exodus 15 (Song of the Sea) This is my God and I will ...
The Torah’s sexual ethics are rooted in the belief that intimacy carries power—and with power comes responsibility. There is no blessing for “not doing” something wrong—but there is a blessing for doing something right. At a Jewish wedding, we recite the sheva berachot, and one of ...
as living beings on this earth, owe Palestine our radical imagination. We owe our steadfast belief that Palestine will be free. Palestine will be free, nation states will fall, families will flourish, and we will live in a world where everyone is fed, and everyone is housed, and children ...
The mourning period begins with the funeral. It is tradition for the burial to take place as soon as possible, even on the same day of the death, but no more than two nights after the death. Only under certain circumstances, the burial can be delayed. It is considered disrespectful to ...
Judaism is the belief in one God. Judaism is derived from the Torah, the first five books of the bible. The founders of this religion is Abraham and Moses. The God that they worship is Yahweh. This God chose the people of Israel and requires worship, and rituals and believes that if ...
31). In striking contrast with the other prophets, Ezekiel combines the belief in a complicated atoning ritual (as mapped out in Ezek. xl.-xlvi.) with the prophetic, hope in the redeeming power of God's spirit which shall cleanse the people from their impurities and endow them with "a ...
The second blessing of praise is calledGevurah(might), which describes those powers which are only within the purview of the Divine: “Your lovingkindness sustains the living, your great mercies give life to the dead.” Articulating a fundamental Rabbinic belief inresurrection, this blessing is a...
Hooked on a feeling: Temple B'Nai Shalom's rabbi hopes readers will reel in lessons from his fly-fishing book If you ask Rabbi Eric Eisenkramer, we are a society that has forgotten to stop and smell the roses. This belief has led him to co-write “Fly-Fishing — The Sacred Art,”...
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 ...
It was there, according to our literature, that we received the gift of Torah, our symbolic “tree of life.” And, however we describe the event –“metaphorical,”“mythical,” or “actual” – the Torah has come to serve us as a symbol of our covenant of faith and belief. It gives...