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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Do Jews believe in the hereafter such as life after death? THE AISH RABBI REPLIES: The afterlife is a fundamental of Jewish belief. The creation of man testifies to the eternal life of the soul. The Torah says, “And the Almighty formed the man of dust from the ground, and He blew in...
In rabbinic literature, the soul goes through three stages after death. Which of these is not one of those stages? The dwelling of the soul in heaven The Messianic age on Earth The resurrection of the dead A "time delay" between physical death and what comes next ...
98.“Either a hevruta Partner or Death”: A Critical View on the Interpersonal Dimensions of hevruta Learning 机译:“无论是伴侣还是死亡”:关于人类学习的人际维度的批判性观点 作者:Elie Holzer (Show Biography) 期刊名称:《Journal of Jewish Education》|2009年第2期 ...
Instead, she flees death by becoming a recluse, this “sacrifice” being depicted as “wedding her fate/ not to another man’s fortune/ but to the Angel of Death!” (stanza 8). By staying at home, she fulfils her womanhood: “Like the women I was raised to become,/ my home is ...
I learned of this from the death-of-God theologian, Thomas JJ Altizer, who related to me that he himself had heard it from Hillis Miller on the occasion of his introducing Altizer to Derrida himself. Whether apocryphal or true, the story seemed to confirm something I had suspected for ...
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...
Maimonides composed theMishneh Torah(literally, a “repetition” or “second” Torah) over a 10-year period, continuing to edit it until his death. Comprising 14 books and nearly 1,000 chapters, it was the first ever comprehensive code ofhalakha(Jewish law). In writing the MT, Maimonides dr...