While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs.
Dieses Buch bietet eine Untersuchung von Gershom Scholems frühen Schriften zur Frage der Sprache und entwickelt eine neue Methodologie, um Texte des modernen jüdischen Denkens in Bezug auf Gender-Fragen zu lesen.
Creativity and Conflict reexamines interwar Polish Jewish history through the author's collected essays and scholarly responses of leading academicians.
Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and change-within-continuity that epitomize these disciplines.
How the Jewish people went from farmers to merchantsIn 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia.
Das 'Tao Te King' von Laotse ist ein zentraler Text der chinesischen Philosophie und Mystik, der dem Leser tiefe Einblicke in das Konzept des Taoismus bietet.
Topics covered include: spousal withholding of conjugal relations; halakhic understandings of the parent-child relationship; corporal punishment of children; the prohibition against seeking a second ruling after something has been declared forbidden; the agent who carries out his mandate for his own benefit, not the principal's; mid-twentieth century London organizations for the advancement of Jewish law.
*; Presents the teachings of revered Ecuadorian Kichwa elder Taita Alberto Taxo as vivid, experiential journeys*; Details how to return to intimacy with Nature and the natural world through communicating with the elements*; Shares Andean shamanic practices and ceremonies for opening the heart, expanding consciousness, and shamanic journeyingIn this deep dive into South American shamanism, Martha Winona Travers shares the teachings and practices she learned during her 22 years as an apprentice to revered Ecuadorian Kichwa elder, Taita Alberto Taxo.
This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self.
The state of Israel is often spoken of as a haven for the Jewish people, a place rooted in the story of a nation dispersed, wandering the earth in search of their homeland.
Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit Konzeptionen des rituellen Schreibens der STaM (Sifrei Torah, Tefillin, Mezuzot) im pluralistischen Kontext der europäischen Kultur Frankreichs und Deutschlands vom 11.
Help your students build character throughout the year by finding new meaning in holiday stories and traditions pursuing hands-on activities and journaling their thoughts in theOoOJewish Holidays Jewish Values Journal.
