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Groundbreaking interpretations of classical rabbinic texts lead the
reader through an exploration of ""attuned learning"" an emerging
paradigm of mindfulness that emphasizes alertness to ones own
mental, emotional, and physical workings as well as awareness of
others within the complexities of learning interactions. The
pedagogical is integrated with the ethical in transformative
teaching and learning; repair of educational disruptions; the role
of the human visage; and the dynamics of argumentative and
collaborative learning. Textual analyses reveal how deliberate
self-cultivation not only infuses ethics and spirituality into the
growth of teachers, learners, and co-learners, but also offers a
potential corrective for calculative modalities in contemporary
educational thinking. The author speaks to the existential,
humanizing art of education, enabling readers to examine, expand,
or revisit their beliefs and practices.
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary is one of the great biblical
exegeses produced by medieval Jewry. His commentary accompanies
almost every version of the Rabbinic Bible, and his influence on
biblical studies continues to this very day. Ibn Ezra sought to
provide the literal meaning of the biblical text. However, he did
more than that. His commentary is saturated with insights into
Hebrew grammar, medieval philosophy, and astrology. Rabbi Abraham
ibn Ezra's Commentary on Books 3-5 of Psalms: Chapters 73-150
completes the publication of the translation and annotation of Ibn
Ezra's commentary to Psalms, making it available to both scholars
and general readers.
Zen Buddhism is often said to be a practice of "mind-to-mind
transmission" without reliance on texts -- in fact, some great
teachers forbid their students to read or write. But Buddhism has
also inspired some of the greatest philosophical writings of any
religion, and two such works lie at the center of Zen: The Heart
Sutra, which monks recite all over the world, and The Diamond
Sutra, said to contain answers to all questions of delusion and
dualism. This is the Buddhist teaching on the "perfection of
wisdom" and cuts through all obstacles on the path of practice.
As Red Pine explains: "The Diamond Sutra may look like a book,
but it's really the body of the Buddha. It's also your body, my
body, all possible bodies. But it's a body with nothing inside and
nothing outside. It doesn't exist in space or time. Nor is it a
construct of the mind. It's no mind. And yet because it's no mind,
it has room for compassion. This book is the offering of no mind,
born of compassion for all suffering beings. Of all the sutras that
teach this teaching, this is the diamond."
This classic work analyzes and embraces the tension between Torah
study and secular learning by exploring the philosophies of Moses
Maimonides, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Abraham Isaac Kook and other
influential Jewish thinkers. Challenging, illuminating and
synthesizing, it offers a seminal mission statement for modern
Orthodoxy. This special, 20th anniversary edition includes a new
preface by the author and an afterword by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
The Talmud is a unique repository of debate among generations of
Jewish sages. While we may be familiar with the names Hillel,
Shammai, Ben Zakkai and other Talmudic sages, and we may understand
the schools of thought they represent, we are less likely to know
much about their individual personalities, their inner lives, the
historical contexts in which they lived. Talmudic Images presents
intimate portraits of thirteen, key Talmudic sages. It offers
glimpses into their very human lives, enabling us to better
understand and more fully appreciate their remarkable contributions
to the body of Jewish wisdom. Includes a glossary, annotated
bibliography and timeline.
Rabbi Dr. Binyamin Lau examines the sages' unique contributions and
lasting philosophical messages in this three-volume series. Based
on Rabbi Lau's popular weekly Jerusalem shiurim and translated into
English for the first time, The Sages offers fresh perspectives on
the sages' individual characters, the historical contexts in which
they lived, and the creativity they brought to the pursuit of
Jewish wisdom.
This multi-volume series offers fresh perspectives on the
individual characters of the sages (Hazal), the historical contexts
in which they lived, and the creativity they brought to the pursuit
of Jewish wisdom. Volume II covers the period from Yavne to the Bar
Kokhba Revolt. Published in cooperation with Beit Morasha.
The characters of the Bible are some of the best known in all of
history, art and literature. Yet the heroes and heroines of the
BibleAbraham, Jacob, Joseph, Eve, Sarah, Deborah and the
othersremain elusive and enigmatic. Biblical Images, a collection
of twenty-five portraits of biblical figures, explores what is
hinted at in the biblical text to help us understand these
characters from within, to analyze their motives, and to appreciate
their spiritual experiences and aspirations. It is a subtle yet
penetrating study of the men and women of the Bible, who personify
profound truths about the human experience.
For Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Torah is at once the oldest and the most
contemporary document directing human lives. In this highly
acclaimed, five-volume parashat hashavua series, Rabbi Riskin helps
each reader extract deeply personal, contemporary lessons from the
traditional biblical biblical accounts. As Rabbi Riskin writes in
the introduction to Torah Lights, "The struggle with Torah reflects
the struggle with life itself. The ability of the Torah to speak to
every generation and every individual at the same time is the
greatest testimony to its divinity."
The depiction of Christ as divine is often assumed to be the
categorical difference between early Jewish messianism and New
Testament Christology. Despite the prolific accomplishments of
recent scholarship on Second Temple messianism and on the origin
and development of "high" Christology, research has largely treated
these as two separate lines of inquiry. As an unintended result,
earliest Christianity appears not as an organic outgrowth of
ancient Judaism, but as something of an anomaly. Ruben A. Buhner
calls this line of thinking into question in Messianic High
Christology. Through a curated set of exegetical comparisons, each
between a christological text and one or two messianic texts,
Buhner reveals to what extent Second Temple messianism is indeed
the primary context for the high Christologies of the New
Testament: most New Testament concepts of Christ's divinity are to
be understood precisely as part of contemporary discourse within
early Jewish messianism. While early understandings of Christ are
not simply identical with some other Jewish messianic expectations,
they should be understood as deliberate developments in acceptance
of and in dialogue with the wider Jewish discourse produced by some
Jewish subgroups. As Buhner argues, it was not until the second and
subsequent centuries that Jews as well as non-Jewish followers of
Christ began to consider the divinity of the messiah as the
decisive criterion by which to distinguish between what later would
develop into two separate religions. With Messianic High
Christology, Buhner brings the New Testament Christologies closer
to their first-century Jewish context. In doing so, he augments our
understanding of the correlation between early devotion to Christ
and early Jewish thought and practice more broadly, and challenges
current historical reconstructions.
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The Upanishads
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Valerie J. Roebuck; Edited by Valerie J. Roebuck
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The Upanisads is the Hindu equivalent of the Christian New
Testament. It is a collection of spritual treatises written in
Sanskirt between 800 and 400 BCE. Typically an Upanisad recounts
one or more sessions of teaching, often setting each within the
story of how it came to be taught. These 13 texts, the principal
Upanisads, are devoted to understanding the inner meaning of the
religion: they explicate its crucial doctrines - rebirth, the law
of karma, the means of conquering death and of achieving
detachment, equilibrium and spiritual bliss. They emphasise the
perennial search for true knowledge. This translation and selection
offers a full and comprehensive text.
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