Peter Schweitzer The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism emphasizes that many rabbis are taking additional duties as community organizer and fundraiser. Shefa Gold of C-DEEP: Center for Devotional Energy and Ecstatic Practice stresses that he sees the role of rabbi as a spiritual calling....
As Emma told her congregation: on the day we arrived, we tripled the population of female rabbis in the nation of South Africa, and probably on the entire African continent. This was primarily meant to be a fun adventure, but we had several “missions” while we were there: to deliver ...
Who Is a Jew? Who is a Jew, According to the Torah? Is being Jewish passed along by the father or the mother? Has that ever changed? What made our ancestors Jewish? Where in the Torah does it say what makes a person Jewish? Did the Rabbis change this Law?
2010. Families, Rabbis, and Education: Traditional Jewish Society in 19th Century Eastern Europe. (Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization). Tillich, Paul. 2011. Dynamics of Faith. (New York: HarperCollins). Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative ...
1 :of or relating to rabbis or their writings. 2 : of or preparing for the rabbinate. 3 : comprising or belonging to any of several sets of Hebrew characters simpler than the square Hebrew letters. Why is the Talmud so important to rabbinic Judaism?
I think we have all seen and experienced enough of religion to be totally disillusioned with it. What it has contributed to the societies of the world, is war and violence, hate for one another, degrading of women, abuse of children, and a total misunderstanding of the true nature of life...
There are two major themes in the story of Hanukkah. Some rabbis emphasize the celebration of the Miracle of the Oil and how, according to the Talmud, because of the faith of the community, the oil lasted for 8 days when there was only one day of oil. ...
The rabbis interpret this verse as a command to listen to what the rabbis say (the circularity of this reading should be apparent), yet this is a post hoc abstraction. The real reason this practice began, I believe, is because people experienced these acts as mitzvot. In short, we ...
The objective of the whole affair of religion belongs exclusively to God is to free humans from servitude to any other humans; and realization of servitude only to God. (8) Jews and Christians are mentioned in the Quran as, The Jews take their rabbis (teachers of law), and the Christians...
and theShabbat.The rabbis expandedthe rangeofpractices to cover all aspects of ordinarylife, actionsthatcan be performed by anyindividual, notjust priests, in anyplace,not onlyinthe Temple.But for all their differences, bothIsraelite biblical religionandrabbinicJudaism are primarilyfocused on howtoact...