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En el Adviento y en la Navidad nos ponemos en contacto con Jesus de
Nazaret, quien supo de movimiento y de caminos aun desde antes de
nacer. Ya en el seno de su madre viaja rumbo hacia Belen. Huye,
exiliado, junto con Jose y Maria, a Egipto. Desde entonces, sus
discipulos tambien habremos de alistar las sandalias y el baston La
vida es un viaje y la libertad no tiene precio. Nuestro mejor pan
para darle sentido a nuestro peregrinar y para satisfacer nuestra
hambre es la Palabra. Estas paginas son una fraterna invitacion a
dejar que el Senor del tiempo toque nuestra jornada diaria, ponga
su mano en nuestra historia, para que entonces, nuestro tiempo sea
divino y humano. Se convierta en... tiempo para Dios. The true
meaning of Advent and Christmas finds its voice in "Tiempo Para
Dios" for Every Day of Advent and the 12 Days of Christmas. From
the First Sunday of Advent through Christmas and Epiphany for each
liturgical year (A, B, and C), this book will help prepare for and
deepen our experience this holy season.
Enrich your spiritual practice with a deeper understanding of
Hebrew blessing.
A Hebrew blessing is a powerful thing a short, deeply meditative
exercise exploring the nature of God and the dynamic relationship
between God, human consciousness and the unfolding universe.
Written in clear, illuminating prose, this book will guide you
through the opening words of a Hebrew blessing six words which
embody the depth of Jewish spirituality revealing how the letters
and words combine to promote joy and appreciation, wonder and
thankfulness, amazement and praise. Each word becomes an invitation
to discover the Presence of God flowing through even the smallest
actions of our lives.
Examine the deeper meaning behind: Barukh Ata Adonay Eloheynu
Melekh Ha Olam
In the ancient language of the Jewish mystical tradition and
the modern language of hasidism, creation theology and psychology,
"The Path of Blessing "brings the words of the Hebrew invocation
dramatically alive.
This volume offers a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya,
"The Connected Discourses of the Buddha," the third of the four
great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. The
Samyutta Nikaya consists of fifty-six chapters, each governed by a
unifying theme that binds together the Buddha's suttas or
discourses. The chapters are organized into five major parts.
The first, The Book with Verses, is a compilation of suttas
composed largely in verse. This book ranks as one of the most
inspiring compilations in the Buddhist canon, showing the Buddha in
his full grandeur as the peerless "teacher of gods and humans." The
other four books deal in depth with the philosophical principles
and meditative structures of early Buddhism. They combine into
orderly chapters all the important short discourses of the Buddha
on such major topics as dependent origination, the five aggregates,
the six sense bases, the seven factors of enlightenment, the Noble
Eightfold Path, and the Four Noble Truths.
Among the four large Nikayas belonging to the Pali Canon, the
Samyutta Nikaya serves as the repository for the many shorter
suttas of the Buddha where he discloses his radical insights into
the nature of reality and his unique path to spiritual
emancipation. This collection, it seems, was directed mainly at
those disciples who were capable of grasping the deepest dimensions
of wisdom and of clarifying them for others, and also provided
guidance to meditators intent on consummating their efforts with
the direct realization of the ultimate truth.
The present work begins with an insightful general introduction to
the Samyutta Nikaya as a whole. Each of the five parts is also
provided with its own introduction, intended to guide the reader
through this vast, ocean-like collection of suttas.
To further assist the reader, the translator has provided an
extensive body of notes clarifying various problems concerning both
the language and the meaning of the texts.
Distinguished by its lucidity and technical precision, this new
translation makes this ancient collection of the Buddha's
discourses accessible and comprehensible to the thoughtful reader
of today. Like its two predecessors in this series,
"The Connected Discourses of the Buddha" is sure to merit a place
of honour in the library of every serious student of Buddhism.
The Bhagavad Gita opens with a crisis - Prince Arjuna despairs on
the battlefield, unsure if he should fight his kinsmen in a
dreadful war. For Easwaran, the Gita's epic battle represents the
war in our own hearts and Arjuna's anguish reflects the human
condition: torn between opposing forces, confused about how to
live. Sri Krishna's timeless guidance, Easwaran argues, can shed
light on our dilemmas today. Placing the Gita's teachings in a
modern context, Easwaran explores the nature of reality, the
illusion of separateness, the search for identity, the meaning of
yoga, and how to heal the unconscious. The key message of the Gita
is how to resolve our conflicts and live in harmony with the deep
unity of life, through the practice of meditation and spiritual
disciplines. Sri Krishna doesn't tell Arjuna what to do. He points
out the prince's choices, and then leaves it to Arjuna to decide.
Easwaran shows us clearly how these teachings still apply - and
how, like Arjuna, we must take courage and act wisely if we want
our world to thrive.
The Rigveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world
literature, yet outside a small band of specialists it is little
known. Composed in the latter half of the second millennium BCE, it
stands as the foundational text of what would later be called
Hinduism. The text consists of over a thousand hymns dedicated to
various divinities, composed in sophisticated and often enigmatic
verse. This concise guide from two of the Rigveda's leading
English-language scholars introduces the text and breaks down its
large range of topics-from meditations on cosmic enigmas to
penetrating reflections on the ability of mortals to make contact
with and affect the divine and cosmic realms through sacrifice and
praise-for a wider audience.
This book reveals- for the first time ever - the extraordinary
impact of Huldah the prophet on our Bible. She was both a leader of
exilic Jews and a principal author of Hebrew Scripture. She penned
the Shema: the ardent, prayerful praise that millions of worshipers
repeat twice daily. Moreover, Jesus quoted as his own last words
the ones that Huldah had written centuries before - "Into your hand
I commit my spirit". Huldah was an extraordinary writer - arguably
she ranks among the best in Hebrew Scripture. As such, she added to
God's Word a feminine aspect that has inspired numberless believers
- men and women alike. This book's new techniques reveal that
though subjected to extreme verbal abuse, Huldah surmounted her
era's high barriers to women. As elder, queen mother, and war
leader during the sixth century BCE, she helped shape Israel's
history. And what, then, can this book mean to scholars - both
women and men? Feminists need a rallying point and a heroine, and
Huldah makes a superb one. In years ahead, experts might well place
Huldah alongside the very greatest women of antiquity; indeed, they
may even conclude that she is among the most influential people in
human history.
In this book we deal with combinations of concepts defining
individuals in the Talmud. Consider for example Yom Kippur and
Shabbat. Each concept has its own body of laws. Reality forces us
to combine them when they occur on the same day. This is a case of
"Identity Merging." As the combined body of laws may be
inconsistent, we need a belief revision mechanism to reconcile the
conflicting norms. The Talmud offers three options: 1 Take the
union of the sets of the rules side by side 2. Resolve the
conflicts using further meta-level Talmudic principles (which are
new and of value to present day Artificial Intelligence) 3. Regard
the new combined concept as a new entity with its own Halachic
norms and create new norms for it out of the existing ones. This
book offers a clear and precise logical model showing how the
Talmud deals with these options.
The study discusses the Old Testament's parable of Nathan and the
subsequent condemnation of King David. The intriguing episode of
the Prophet Nathan pronouncing judgment on the erring King David
has always attracted the interest of the exegete and various
researchers have used different methods to separate the
condemnation of King David from the ancient author. This study
presents a synchronic reading of the canonical text that reveals
the episode as the mirror image of the oracle of eternal dynasty
pronounced to David by the same prophet in the Second Book of
Samuel 7. It is indeed the work of the deuteronomistic writer who
has adapted an oracle against the dynasty of David and trimmed it
to the advantage of his hero in the unfolding of history.
This book demonstrates that the Gospels originated from a
sequential hypertextual reworking of the contents of Paul's letters
and, in the case of Matthew and John, of the Acts of the Apostles.
Consequently, the new quest for the historical Jesus, which takes
this discovery into serious consideration, results in a rather
limited reconstruction of Jesus' life. However, since such a
reconstruction includes, among others, Jesus' messiahship, behaving
in a way which was later interpreted as pointing to him as the Son
of God, instituting the Lord's Supper, being conscious of the
religious significance of his imminent death, dying on the cross,
and appearing as risen from the dead to Cephas and numerous other
Jewish believers, it can be reconciled with the principles of the
Christian faith.
Gerard Manley Hopkins's extant religious prose, compiled in its
entirety for the first time, and with material not seen since
Hopkins's death, is of value to theologians, church historians, and
Victorianists scholars and critics. The Sermons and Spiritual
Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins features the thirty-two sermons
and fragments Hopkins preached between the 1870s and 1880s,
personal meditations on biblical passages and religious occasions,
undergraduate notes on Henry Parry Liddon's Sunday evening
lectures, marginalia in the authorized version of the Bible, vows
made in the Society of Jesus, private meditations written during
his Dublin years, and the Commentary on the Spiritual Exercises of
St. Ignatius. The sermons represent the only texts Hopkins prepared
for public performance, and show his creative engagement with
classical oratory, patristic scholarship, pastoral theology, and
the social and religious controversies of his day. The spiritual
writings, stylistically similar to his diary entries, reveal the
spiritual consolations and inner struggles of a Victorian Jesuit
with remarkable sensibilities. A sometimes vexed and invariably
complex spiritual life emerges from the volume, one that
encompassed both the 'grandeur of God' and the 'forepangs' of
suffering. The new introductions and notes provide expanded
historical and theological commentary. The edition also includes
new annotations, complete translations of Latin and Greek texts,
definitions of Jesuit customs and terminology, a biographical
register, and a selected bibliography of key studies on Hopkins
sermons, religious writings, and spirituality.
The author states in his preface: For a thousand years, from its
earliest documents of the second century to the High Middle Ages,
Rabbinic Judaism preferred to compose and collect anecdotes, not to
construct of them sustained and connected biographies. This is a
study of the inclusion of biographical narratives about sages in
some of the components of the unfolding canon of Rabbinic Judaism
in the formative age, the documents of the first six centuries
C.E., exclusive of the two Talmuds. A sage here is defined as a man
who embodies the Rabbinic system. A sage-story, then, is an
anecdote about the life and deeds of a Rabbinic sage. A
biographical narrative in general is the record of things done on a
concrete and specific past-tense occasion by named individuals. The
stories are not told as part of a sustained biographical account of
those individuals' lives, birth to death. I am able in this way to
correlate the unfolding of the authorized biography in the
counterpart-Christian one. The documentary hypothesis yields the
correlation between the advent of the Christian authorized
biography and the advent of the sage-story in the later documents
of the Rabbinic canon.
From disagreement over an Islamic Center in New York to clashes
between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, tension between the three
Abrahamic faiths often runs high. Yet for all their differences,
these three traditions Judaism, Islam, and Christianity share much
in common. Three Testaments brings together for the first time the
text of the Torah, the New Testament, and the Quran, so that
readers can explore for themselves the connections, as well as the
points of departure, between the three faiths. Notable religion
scholars provide accessible introductions to each tradition, and
commentary from editor Brian Arthur Brown explores how the three
faiths may draw similarities from the ancient Zoroastrian
tradition. This powerful book provides a much-needed interfaith
perspective on key sacred texts.
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This volume, the second of a five-volume edition of the third order
of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals in part I (Sotah) with the ordeal of
the wife suspected of adultery (Num 5) and the role of Hebrew in
the Jewish ritual. Part II (Nedarim) is concerned with Korban and
similar expressions, vows and their consequences, and vows of women
(Num 30).
The work of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the Neziv, ranks
amongst the most widely read rabbinic literature of the nineteenth
century. His breadth of learning, unabashed creativity, and
penchant for walking against the stream of the rabbinic
commentarial establishment has made his commentaries a favorite
amongst rabbinic scholars and scholars of rabbinics alike. Yet, to
date, there has been no comprehensive and systematic attempt to
place his intellectual oeuvre into its historical context - until
now. In the Pillar of Volozhin, Gil Perl traces the influences
which helped mold and shape the Neziv's thinking while also opening
new doors into the world of early nineteenth-century Lithuanian
Torah scholarship, an area heretofore almost completely untouched
by academic research.
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