“In the small Galilee town in which I lived for close to 20 years, an Orthodox group that followed the teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the Breslovim, slowly grew in numbers over the years and steadily outgrew the secular Zionists. What distinguished the two groups from each other ...
One issue of growing significance is related to persons who hold multiple residences in different countries. Based on available evidence, we make efforts to avoid double counting. Wherever possible, we strive to assign people to their country of permanent residence, ignoring the effect of part-year...
To the Neo-Pythagoreans, who had grown in importance during the century before Philo, he was particularly indebted for his views on the mystic significance of numbers, especially the number seven, and the scheme of a peculiar, self-disciplined way of life as a preparation for immortality. The...
Researchers also found that denial of significance of the Holocaust is on the rise globally Hostage Negotiations Member of Netanyahu’s coalition urges Trump to reject current hostage deal Ohad Tal, who chairs the Religious Zionism Party's Knesset faction lobbied the president-elect at Mar a Lago...
Its significance for the future Jewish community; its tragic consequences for the scapegoat? Did it weigh on him heavily? Was he ever able to embrace life for himself, his family, and his community? We will never know. Yet I suspect that even if leading the scapegoat was the hardest thing...
the Supreme Judge. A distinctive feature of the liturgy is the blowing of the ram’s horn (shofar) as prescribed in Numbers 29:1; the notes of the shofar call the Jewish people to a spiritual awakening associated with the revelation toMosesonMount Sinai. During themusaf, or additional servic...
There is only scant information of a precise character concerning the numerical significance of these diverse Jewish conglomerations; and this must be used with caution. After Palestine and Babylonia, it was in Syria, according to Josephus, that the Jewish population was densest; particularly in An...
variant of American upper-crust social sensibilities simply says nothing sufficiently significant to merit survival. Indeed, Roth then predicts quite convincingly, “For my grandchildren, the fact that some of their ancestors were Jewish will have no more significance than the fact that others were ...
The meal-offering, the sacrifice of the poor, has the same significance. Although this does not contain any blood, the poor person who sets it aside from his own food is regarded as if he had sacrificed himself (Men. 104b).Prayer and Study Replace Sacrifice. The view that the sacrifice...
A year later, many of us have lost those we shared so many glorious Purims together over our lifetimes. Whether a beloved parent, a spouse, a cherished Rebbe, or a dear friend who are now just memories of happier times. Our lives have been disrupted in a way never experienced before. ...