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The article contends that there is an underutilized potential resource for Jewish teachers that Judaica scholarship about classic texts may offer to pedagogy. The article examines, as a model, the Rabbinic tale—stories found in Rabbinic literature about the Rabbis themselves—homing in on the ways...
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Both are essential; one without the other creates an unbalanced Jewish personality, a distortion of Jewish history and values.” Rabbis HaLevi applies this concept to how we understand and respond to the situation in Israel. He asks us to balance, as the majority of Israelis do, the existenti...
Jewish law requires that one immerse in a mikveh as part of the process ofconversionto Judaism. It also requires women to immerse beforegetting marriedand when observing the laws ofniddah(menstrual purity). There are also various other reasons — both traditional and modern — that women, as ...
” Jews worship in a temple or synagogue, and their spiritual leaders are called rabbis. Pre-dating the Torah, the first five books of the Christian Bible, much of Jewish law was passed down through oral tradition. The laws and traditions of Judaism are found in written form in the Torah...
Tom would come to the Jewish services and people who I didn't get, you can't really give me a hard time I punched you in the face or stab you, but people kind of like, Dre, what are you doing with the rabbi? You're not Jewish, but it wasn't about me being Jewish and him...
Infertility in Jewish couples, biblical and rabbinic law However, Progressive and Conservative rabbis place more emphasis on the social attributes of parents and frequently approve of gamete donation. The Jewish status of children resulting from surrogacy or adoption can be settled by religious ... Hi...
an associate professor of library science at Purdue University and author of a 2015Biblical Archaeology Review articleon the extra-biblical evidence of Jesus, notes that there was no debate about the issue in ancient times either. “Jewish rabbis who did not like Jesus or his followers accused ...
And the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount are, on most points, very similar to those of the rabbis. Books like The Jewish Sources of the Sermon on the Mount, by Gerald Friedlander, show just how many teachings of the NT, particularly those found in the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark,...