Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh, and explored in later texts such as the Talmud. Jews consider Judaism to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God developed with the Children of Israel - originally a group of tw...
and also the new era of its promulgation through the Chasidic movement. It also gives special attention to the teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, who first elucidated Kabbalistic concepts in a systematic manner and made them accessible to the average people. Jewish mysticism has long ...
And in view of the fact that nearly everyone who opens the scriptures all equally throw away the Key of Knowledge, they all remain blind to the true meaning. (2) Secondly, the scriptures are composed by mystics who would be deemed heretics if they spoke openly about what they knew and ...
They will be forced to give up their suppression of the role of Astrology in the Scrolls making up the essence of all religions. Special censors and mental snobs of the academic world; as you turn the page to all courageous men’s exposing the truth like I do, you may begin to shake ...
“an unbaptized person is in danger of death, baptism, which we regard as of primary importance for salvation, should, if possible, be conferred.” Day argued that the Mortara family had “broken the law in having a Catholic servant in their household, and so to some extent they brought ...
In 1977, conjoined twins were born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Lakewood, New Jersey; they were treated at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. Fo
The notions of justice and of good, as conceived by humans, are binding even on God himself. Indeed, the ethical cognitions of humans are the same as those of the Deity. Saʿadia also addressed the issue of the function of religious law. Of central importance in traditional Judaism and ...
Of these, Dan 2 is of decisive importance for later pieces in the collection and also for other works written in the Jewish diaspora. Prophecies appear in these chapters in a new form as interpretations of visions and texts. In Daniel 2, a great statue appears in King Nebuchanezzar’s ...
This type of discipline is carried out through the internalization of rules and conduct by the subject themselves. Gorski emphasized the importance of “disciplining from below” in a disciplinary revolution led mainly by church representatives, and less by agents of the state. These distinctions are...