Although Idol worship is not allowed under Judaism, the Jews still have some symbols with religious values. The hidden power of the symbols is that they unify the thinking of the believers in Judaism. The literature shows that the symbols were not merely designed. They are really the symbols ...
Conversion to Orthodoxy works because it alters the BTs' relationships to the symbols and meanings of Judaism by transforming their experience and understanding of Judaism from primarily a cultural and ethnic one to fundamentally a religious one. Through becoming Orthodox, ethnic- (or biological/...
Throughout generations, various prayers have been composed to express religious and cultural experiences of the Jewish community, such as holidays life-cycle and national tragedies. However, some social issues, such as sexual assault, have been excluded
In the Israeli context, Russian-speaking Jewish migrants are also exposed to additional commercialized nationalistic nostalgia – for example, the six-pointed Star of David, use of a blue-and-white color scheme (similar to the Israeli flag), or Jewish religious symbols such as the menorah, ...
Philo's transcendental conception of the idea of God precluded the Creation as well as any activity of God in the world; it entirely separated God from man; and it deprived ethics of all religious basis. But Philo, who was a pious Jew, could not accept the un-Jewish, pagan conception of...
and common-sense interpretation.Again, it must be remembered that the Midrash exegesis was largely in the nature of homiletics, expounding the Bible not in order to investigate its actual meaning and to understand the documents of the past, but in order to find religious edification, moral ...
Geertz (1973), consists not only of symbols through which people express themselves (language, deeds, objects , etc.), but of the meanings that people grant to these symbols. Accordingly, it could be claimed that Judaism is a culture that finds expression in a framework of symbols to which...
The Jewish customs were strange to outsiders, and their religious observances provoked the derision of the Greeks, who gave expression to their views in satiric allusions to Jewish history, or even in malicious fabrications. It was especially in Egypt that the Jews found many enemies in Greek-...
Jewish experience: The Bible, midrash, the Jewish prayer book and rabbinic literature teach us that mysticism is not something we do but is an attitude toward how we approach our daily lives, an important way of understanding, organizing and enriching Jewish religious life today--and every day...
The meanings of Jewish music in Europe also result from religious and aesthetic perspectives on embodied practice. The role of the body as a vessel for music has its origins in biblical and diasporic distinctions between vocal and instrumental practices. Whereas the invention of musical instruments ...