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This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework
the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case
studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of
Mishnah's evidence. The framework is one that takes full account of
the historical and literary-historical issues that impinge upon the
use of Mishnah for any scholarly purposes beyond philological
study, including social scientific approaches to the materials.
Based on the framework, each chapter undertakes, with appropriate
methodological caveats, an avenue of inquiry open to the social
scientist that brings to bear social scientific questions and modes
of inquiry to Mishnaic evidence.
We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers is a
super user-friendly Sing-Along prayer book for the Shabbat
(Saturday) Morning Synagogue Service with TRANSLITERATED ENGLISH
TEXT, translation and explanation of the service. Its primary
purpose is to make it beyond easy to learn the prayers when
listening and singing along to the 64 track music CD album set of
the same name; but it also stands, in its own right, as a learning
tool explaining the meaning of the words and the service. Our
Jewish prayers are beautiful love songs; full of goodness,
affection, adoration, hope, kindness and generosity. They are our
DNA, even if we do not know them, because these prayers, our
religion, have moulded the Jewish people; our way of thinking,
education, who we are, and what we represent. Judaism is all about
being good and positive for oneself, family, community, the wider
world - all out of respect and love for Hashem. It fills me with
gratitude, humility, and pride. Our heritage is an intellectual,
cultural, spiritual and religious blessing - but we need easy
access. I was never able to participate in, let alone enjoy, the
Shabbat Morning Service, but I loved those moments when the whole
community comes together and sings a few short prayers with moving
melodies. There just was not enough of it, we needed more singing,
much more! Community is all about family and friends, and we are
all friends, it is actually written in one of our prayers. Our
prayers are crying out to be sung with great happiness, clearly and
harmoniously. Communal prayers are all about belonging, sharing,
and that is only possible if we can all join in as equals; and for
that we need clearly articulated words that are easy to learn and
enjoyable to sing. I dedicate this project of melodizing the
Shabbat Morning Service prayers and writing a Sing-Along prayer
book to all who love and care for Jewish Continuity, Judaism,
Torah, and the Nation-State of the Jewish People, Israel; and so
also to all our wonderful friends, the righteous among the nations.
Remember to remember that when we sing together, we stay together.
AM ISRAEL CHAI - the people of Israel live. With love, and hope for
our children, Richard Collis
Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book
focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of
Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second World War.
Almost 86% of Greek Jews died in the Holocaust, leading many to
think this was because of Metaxas and his fascist ideology.
However, the situation in Greece was much more complicated; in
fact, Metaxas in his policies often attempted to quash
anti-Semitism. The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry,
1936-1941 explores how the Jews fit (and did not fit) into
Metaxas's vision for Greece. Drawing on unpublished archival
sources and Holocaust survivor testimonies, this book presents a
ground-breaking contribution to Greek history, the history of Greek
anti-Semitism, and sheds light on attitudes towards Jews during the
interwar period.
The Jewish-Greek tradition represents an arguably distinctive
strand of Judaism characterized by use of the Greek language and
interest in Hellenism. This volume traces the Jewish encounter with
Greek culture from the earliest points of contact in antiquity to
the end of the Byzantine Empire. It honors Nicholas de Lange, whose
distinguished work brought recognition to an undeservedly neglected
field, in part by dispelling the common belief that Jewish-Greek
culture largely disappeared after 100 CE. The authors examine
literature, archaeology, and biblical translations, such as the
Septuagint, in order to illustrate the substantial exchange of
language and ideas. The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the
Byzantine Empire demonstrates the enduring significance of the
tradition and will be an essential handbook for anyone interested
in Jewish studies, biblical studies, ancient and Byzantine history,
or the Greek language.
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The Kabbalah Unveiled
(Hardcover)
Christian Knorr Von Rosenroth; Translated by Samuel Liddell Mathers MacGregor
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers was a polyglot; among the
languages he had studied were English, French, Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, Gaelic and Coptic, though he had a greater command of some
languages than of others. His translations of such books as The
Book of Abramelin (14thC.), Christian Knorr von Rosenroth's The
Kabbalah Unveiled (1684), Key of Solomon, The Lesser Key of Solomon
are his most well known translations. Christian Knorr von Rosenroth
(July 15/16, 1636 - May 4, 1689) was a German Hebraist born at
Alt-Raudten, in Silesia. After having completed his studies in the
universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig, he traveled through
Holland, France, and England. On his return he devoted himself to
the study of Oriental languages, especially Hebrew, the rudiments
of which he had acquired while abroad. Later he became a diligent
student of the Kabbalah, in which he believed to find proofs of the
doctrines of Christianity. In his opinion the Adam Kadmon of the
cabalists is Jesus, and the three highest sefirot represent the
Trinity. Rosenroth intended to make a Latin translation of the
Zohar and the Ti unim, and he published as preliminary studies the
first two volumes of his Kabbala Denudata, sive Doctrina Hebr orum
Transcendentalis et Metaphysica Atque Theologia (Sulzbach,
1677-78). They contain a cabalistic nomenclature, the Idra Rabbah
and Idra Zu a and the Sifra di- eni'uta, cabalistic essays of
Naphtali Herz ben Jacob Elhanan.
This volume describes the attitudes towards Gentiles in both
ancient Judaism and the early Christian tradition. The Jewish
relationship with and views about the Gentiles played an important
part in Jewish self-definition, especially in the Diaspora where
Jews formed the minority among larger Gentile populations. Jewish
attitudes towards the Gentiles can be found in the writings of
prominent Jewish authors (Josephus and Philo), sectarian movements
and texts (the Qumran community, apocalyptic literature, Jesus) and
in Jewish institutions such as the Jerusalem Temple and the
synagogue. In the Christian tradition, which began as a Jewish
movement but developed quickly into a predominantly Gentile
tradition, the role and status of Gentile believers in Jesus was
always of crucial significance. Did Gentile believers need to
convert to Judaism as an essential component of their affiliation
with Jesus, or had the appearance of the messiah rendered such
distinctions invalid? This volume assesses the wide variety of
viewpoints in terms of attitudes towards Gentiles and the status
and expectations of Gentiles in the Christian church.
This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical
profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and
Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic
Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures
include Muhammad Ibn abd al-Wahhab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf,
Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel
Ba'al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive study of the
conflicted relationship between the "evangelical" movements in all
three Abrahamic religions and the ideas of the Enlightenment and
Counter-Enlightenment. Centered on the 18th century, the book
reaches back to the third century for precedents and context, and
forward to the 21st for the legacy of these movements. This text
appeals to students and researchers in many fields, including
Philosophy and Religion, their histories, and World History, while
also appealing to the interested lay reader.
This book presents an alternative reading of the respective works
of Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza. It argues that both
thinkers are primarily concerned with the singular perfection of
the complete human being rather than with attaining only rational
knowledge. Complete perfection of a human being expresses the
unique concord of concrete activities, such as ethics, politics,
and psychology, with reason. The necessity of concrete historical
activities in generating perfection entails that both thinkers are
not primarily concerned with an "escape" to a metaphysical realm of
transcendent or universal truths via cognition. Instead, both are
focused on developing and cultivating individuals' concrete desires
and activities to the potential benefit of all. This book argues
that rather than solely focusing on individual enlightenment, both
thinkers are primarily concerned with a political life and the
improvement of fellow citizens' capacities. A key theme throughout
the text is that both Maimonides and Spinoza realize that an
apolitical life undermines individual and social flourishing.
The present book is a sequel to Ephraim Chamiel's two previous
works The Middle Way and The Dual Truth-studies dedicated to the
"middle" trend in modern Jewish thought, that is, those positions
that sought to combine tradition and modernity, and offered a
variety of approaches for contending with the tension between
science and revelation and between reason and religion. The present
book explores contemporary Jewish thinkers who have adopted one of
these integrated approaches-namely the dialectical approach. Some
of these thinkers maintain that the aforementioned tension-the rift
within human consciousness between intellect and emotion, mind and
heart-can be mended. Others, however, think that the dialectic
between the two poles of this tension is inherently irresolvable, a
view reminiscent of the medieval "dual truth" approach. Some
thinkers are unclear on this point, and those who study them debate
whether or not they successfully resolved the tension and offered a
means of reconciliation. The author also offers his views on these
debates.This book explores the dialectical approaches of Rav Kook,
Rav Soloveitchik, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Samuel Hugo
Bergman, Leo Strauss, Ernst Simon, Emil Fackenheim, Rabbi Mordechai
Breuer, his uncle Isaac Breuer, Tamar Ross, Rabbi Shagar, Moshe
Meir, Micah Goodman and Elchanan Shilo. It also discusses the
interpretations of these thinkers offered by scholars such as
Michael Rosenak, Avinoam Rosenak, Eliezer Schweid, Aviezer
Ravitzky, Avi Sagi, Binyamin Ish-Shalom, Ehud Luz, Dov Schwartz,
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Lawrence Kaplan, and Haim Rechnitzer. The
author questions some of these approaches and offers ideas of his
own. This study concludes that many scholars bore witness to the
dialectical tension between reason and revelation; only some
believed that a solution was possible. That being said, and despite
the paradoxical nature of the dual truth approach (which maintains
that two contradictory truths exist and we must live with both of
them in this world until a utopian future or the advent of the
Messiah), increasing numbers of thinkers today are accepting it. In
doing so, they are eschewing delusional and apologetic views such
as the identicality and compartmental approaches that maintain that
tensions and contradictions are unacceptable.
In and Around Maimonides presents eight highly focused studies on
Moses Maimonides and those around him.
Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present is broad in
geographical scope exploring Jewish women's lives in what is now
Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa,
and North America. Editors Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn
Winer focus the volume on reconstructing the experiences of
ordinary women and situating those of the extraordinary and famous
within the gender systems of their times and places. The twenty-one
contributors analyze the history of Jewish women in the light of
gender as religious, cultural, and social construct. They apply new
methodologies in approaching rabbinic sources, prescriptive
literature, and musar (ethics), interrogating them about female
roles in the biblical and rabbinic imaginations, and in relation to
women's restrictions and quotidian actions on the ground. They
explore Jewish's women experiences of persecution, displacement,
immigration, integration, and social mobility from the medieval age
through the nineteenth century. And for the modern era, this volume
assesses women's spiritual developments; how they experienced
changes in religious and political societies, both Jewish and
non-Jewish; the history of women in the Holocaust, their struggle
through persecution and deportation; women's everyday concerns,
Jewish lesbian activism, and the spiritual sphere in the
contemporary era. Contributors reinterpret rabbinical responsa
through new lenses and study a plethora of unpublished and
previously unknown archival sources, such as community ordinances
and court records, alongside autobiographies, letters, poetry,
narrative prose, devotional objects, the built environment,
illuminated manuscripts, and early printed books. This publication
is significant within the field of Jewish studies and beyond; the
essays include comparative material and have the potential to reach
scholarly audiences in many related fields but are also written to
be accessible to all, with the introductions in every chapter aimed
at orienting the enthusiast from outside academia to each time and
place.
This book comprehensively discusses the topic of Jews fleeing the
Holocaust to China. It is divided into three parts: historical
facts; theories; and the Chinese model. The first part addresses
the formation, development and end of the Jewish refugee community
in China, offering a systematic review of the history of Jewish
Diaspora, including historical and recent events bringing European
Jews to China; Jewish refugees arriving in China: route, time,
number and settlement; the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai;
Jewish refugees in other Chinese cities; the "Final Solution" for
Jewish refugees in Shanghai and the "Designated Area for Stateless
Refugees"; friendship between the Jewish refugees and the local
Chinese people; the departure of Jews and the end of the Jewish
refugee community in China. The second part provides deeper
perspectives on the Jewish refugees in China and the relationship
between Jews and the Chinese. The third part explores the Chinese
model in the history of Jewish Diaspora, focusing on the Jews
fleeing the Holocaust to China and compares the Jewish refugees in
China with those in other parts of the world. It also introduces
the Chinese model concept and presents the five features of the
model.
Salomon Maimon was one of the most important and influential Jewish
intellectuals of the Enlightenment. This is the first English
translation of his principal work, first published in Berlin in
1790. "Essay on Transcendental Philosophy" presents the first
English translation of Salomon Maimon's principal work, originally
published in Berlin in 1790. This book expresses his response to
the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's "Critique of Pure
Reason". Kant himself was full of praise for the book and it went
on to exercise a decisive influence on the course of post-Kantian
German idealism. Yet, despite his importance for the work of such
key thinkers as Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, Maimon never achieved
the prominence he deserved. Today interest in Maimon's work is
increasing rapidly, thanks in large part to prominent acclaim by
Gilles Deleuze. This long-overdue translation brings Maimon's
seminal text to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
The text includes a comprehensive introduction, a glossary,
translator's notes and a full bibliography. It also includes
translations of correspondence between Maimon and Kant and a letter
Maimon wrote to a Berlin journal clarifying the philosophical
position of the Essay, all of which bring alive the context of the
book's publication for the modern reader.
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The Book of Jasher
(Hardcover)
J. Asher; Introduction by Fabio De Araujo; Translated by Moses Samuel
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Systematically reading Jewish exegesis in light of Homeric
scholarship, this book argues that more than 2000 years ago
Alexandrian Jews developed critical and literary methods of Bible
interpretation which are still extremely relevant today. Maren R.
Niehoff provides a detailed analysis of Alexandrian Bible
interpretation, from the second century BCE through newly
discovered fragments to the exegetical work done by Philo. Niehoff
shows that Alexandrian Jews responded in a great variety of ways to
the Homeric scholarship developed at the Museum. Some Jewish
scholars used the methods of their Greek colleagues to investigate
whether their Scripture contained myths shared by other nations,
while others insisted that significant differences existed between
Judaism and other cultures. This book is vital for any student of
ancient Judaism, early Christianity and Hellenistic culture.
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