SUMMARYThis article examines deafness in Jewish antiquity as expressed in the Mishnah, the foundation document of rabbinic Judaism. Ancient Greek and Roman attitudes towards disability and deafness are surveyed
In the religion of Judaism, the Torah is one of the most significant holy texts. Consisting of five primary texts, this is the basis of the Jewish faith. However, it's not the only sacred text in Judaism. Rabbinic Judaism also draws heavily from the Talmud, the main book of Jewish law...
While the subject of religion is not in itself indoctrination, there have been numerous eras and frameworks in which the teaching of religions in gen- eral—including Judaism—has seemed indoctrinatory. Jewish education, 5 WHAT IS "INDOCTRINATION"? 39 like other forms of religious education...
it is instead in the books First and Second Maccabees, which are not considered canonical in Judaism but are deuterocanonical in the Orthodox and Catholic churches. It is also mentioned in rabbinic sources.
Jewish prayer is the prayer recitation that forms part of the observance of Rabbinic Judaism. These prayers, often with instructions and commentary, are found in the Siddur, the traditional Jewish prayer book. Prayer, as a "service of the heart", is in principle a Torah-based commandment. ...
While gematria was used periodically in theTalmudandMidrash, it was not central to rabbinic literature. The rabbis occasionally employed gematria to help support biblical exegesis, but did not rely on it heavily. They were much more invested in the use of logical reasoning and argumentation to su...
One question I often get when we open the Torah is “how many letters are there in the scroll?” There is a rabbinic teaching that there are 600,000 letters in the Torah, one for each of the Israelites who stood at Sinai to receive it. This may be a lovely image, but it doesn’...
. Luzzatto thought that rabbinic students should be taught to focus more on their own personal conduct, and less on the minutia of Talmud. Cheshbon Ha-Nefesh(An Accounting of the Soul, 1812 Ukraine) By Rabbi Menachem Mendel Levin, this was the first Mussar book with a systematic program ...
attempting to re-ground traditional rabbinic Judaism in philosophical and hermeneutic terms that would be credible at the time (again, this is the mid-19th century); and finally with Conservative Judaism, which broke away from Reform Judaism, asserting that, rather than being rendered suddenly inval...
If doing so were somehow valuable or important, maybe I would, but I do not believe it is. In fact, I feel just the opposite, which leads to my second point. Many of us consider the continuity of Judaism, Jewish tradition, and the Jewish people to be important. This is, admittedly,...