with foreign Jewish organizations and began to act as a body taking responsibility for Soviet Jewish citizens' interests. The turning point in the JAFC's destiny was the 1943 trip of its top representatives, Solomon Mikhoels and Itsik Fefer, to the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Britain....
The Daniel text probably dates to the second century BCE, and at some point during the two centuries that followed, another afterlife idea entered Judaism: the immortality of the soul, the notion that the human soul lives on even after the death of the body. In the Middle Ages, Jewish mys...
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The hidden good in store for the righteous is, life in the World to Come, which is a life connected with no death and a kind of good connected with no evil; such as is described in the Torah: “That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest prolong thy days” (Deut. 22.7), wh...
Death is solemn, and even when it is expected, it can be a shock. People say stupid things when they are shocked. Having a script for the first few moments can be very helpful. 2. The statement acknowledges that I do not know the sum of that person’s life. I am not qualified to...
The use of tradition and rituals has been at the very core of its existence. Birth, adolescent, marriage and death rituals will be used to highlight how the Judaism way of life is not dependent on the written word but rather the actions of those who follow this historic Hebrew religion. ...
t recorded, but after each lecture I ran home and recorded a version that I could put on YouTube. The first is titled “Practical Jewish Monster Hunting”and the second is titled “Rolling to Jerusalem: Jewish Legends about Death and What Comes After.”Check them out. They’re really fun...
Even the statement that it became a custom in Israel “for the maidens of Israel to go every year, for four days in the year, and chant dirges for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite” (Judg. 11:40) finds no trace in later Jewish halakhic tradition. [1] The view that a nameless...
with foreign Jewish organizations and began to act as a body taking responsibility for Soviet Jewish citizens' interests. The turning point in the JAFC's destiny was the 1943 trip of its top representatives, Solomon Mikhoels and Itsik Fefer, to the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Britain....
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