The Book of the Name is the last part of Sodei Razaya, The Secrets of Raziel, by Eleazar of Worms (c. 1176-1238). It appears as a textbook containing all the sources that Eleazar used in the other sections of his work. Eleazar, also known as Eleazar Rokeach, or Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus, devotes this text to a systematic exegesis of the Names of God
Eleazar's Commentary on the Book of Formation (Sefer Yetzirah) is one of the best known and referenced texts dealing with the formation of a Golem - a living being created from inanimate matter. The author gives an extensive explanation of the correct permutations and their sequences
The Book of the Name is the last part of Sodei Razaya, The Secrets of Raziel, by Eleazar of Worms (c. 1176-1238). It appears as a textbook containing all the sources that Eleazar used in the other sections of his work, focused on the systematic exegesis of the Names of God.
Burning Center, Porous Borders articulates what the church is and is called to be about in the world, a world now globalized to the point that the local is lived globally and the global is lived locally. The church must respond creatively and prophetically to the challenges-economic disparity, war and terrorism, diaspora, ecological threat, health crisis, religious diversity, and so on-posed by our highly globalized world. It can do so only if the church's spiritual center burns mightily. Conversely, it can burn mightily in the spirit of Christ only if its borders are porous and allows the fresh air/spirit of change to blow in and out. While there is much rhetoric about change, the most common response to change is to continue doing business as usual. This is particularly the case in the face of perceived global threats. In spite of the hoopla and euphoria of the global village, walls of division and exclusion are rising, hearts are constricting, and moral imagination shrinking. In response to this context, Burning Center, Porous Borders proposes alternative ways or images of being a church: burning center and porous borders, wall-buster and bridge-builder, translocal (glocal), mending-healer, radical hospitality, community of the earth-spirit, household of life abundant, dialogians of life, and community of hope. In Burning Center, Porous Borders congregational vitality and progressive praxis kiss and embrace!
This book delves into the nature of our existential reality to empower us with the tools that we can use to create the life that we want in this particular dimension. It helps us to know who we are, what is our purpose in life and how we can navigate our lives without the usual struggles that confront our day to day living. It awakens a realization that happiness is a self-created process totally independent of the external trappings of wealth and fame, of blissful relationships, and many more external dependences that make us forget our reality within. The dissertations of Matias de Stefano on life gives the reader a wider understanding of why our human concepts evolved to what they are today and by understanding their origins, the roles they played in our evolution, one can start to hinge ones knowledge on life based on the nature of the three aspects of our consciousness, spirit, soul and body. The understanding of the twelve patterns of our lives as part of the planetary network through the individual’s astrological sign and the role of the constellation’s influences in our lives, enhances our ability to understand ourselves resulting in our better comprehension of our fellowmen and our world.
Salomo A. Birnbaum (1891-1989) ist unbestrittener Pionier auf zwei großen, eng aufeinander bezogenen Forschungsgebieten, nämlich der historischen jiddischen Sprachwissenschaft sowie der Paläographie des Hebräischen und aller jüdischen Nachfolgesprachen: 1918 veröffentlichte er die erste wissenschaftliche Grammatik des Jiddischen (vier weitere Auflagen ab 1966); in den 20er Jahren begann er - ausgehend von dem Bedürfnis, mittelalterliche jiddische Manuskripte zu datieren und zu lokalisieren - mit seinen paläographischen Studien, die in dem Standardwerk The Hebrew Scripts (1954/57-1971) gipfelten und ihm zugleich ein weiteres Forschungsgebiet, die Vergleichung jüdischer Sprachen, eröffneten. Die vorliegende Aufsatzsammlung (teils Wiederabdrucke, teils nach bisher ungedruckten Manuskripten ediert) bildet nach Birnbaums eigenen Vorstellungen einen Querschnitt durch sein Lebenswerk. Bd. I enthält Beiträge zur jiddischen Philologie: Entstehung und Alter der Sprache, orthographische und lautliche Entwicklungen, Probleme der Umsetzung in Lateinschrift, Dialektologie, Etymologie u.a., ferner einen Überblick über die weiteren jüdischen Sprachen sowie umfangreiche Einzeluntersuchungen insbesondere zum Dzudezmo ('Jüdischspanischen') und zum Bucharischen ('Jüdischpersischen'). Die Beiträge in Bd. II dokumentieren die Entwicklung der sich etablierenden hebräischen Paläographie in den 30er bis 60er Jahren, wo Birnbaums quantitative und vergleichende Methoden sich vor allem seit 1947 an den damals aufgefundenen Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer, aber auch an Neufunden mittelalterlicher jiddischer Handschriften glänzend bewährten. Birnbaum lehrte von 1922 bis 1933 Jiddisch an der Universität Hamburg, von 1936 bis 1957 Jiddisch und hebräische Paläographie an Londoner universitären Instituten.
Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto includes many early copies, from the 6th century A.H. / 12th century C.E. onwards. They cover a wide range of subjects. The catalogue gives detailed descriptions of 66 Arabic and 34 Persian works, arranged by subject. Author and title indexes provide easy access, and photographs of selected pages enhance the descriptions. The manuscripts were acquired individually over many decades.
The Book of Unity is part of The Book of the Secrets of Raziel (Sefer Sodei Razaya) by Eleazar of Worms, also known as Eleazar of Germiza. The text represents the second level of kabbalistic study, the Work of the Chariot, and is particularly useful for those who wish to walk the path of God
There are over 275 Ottoman Turkish and Çaĝatay manuscripts in Canada, including more than 200 in the collection of Professor Eleazar Birnbaum. These are remarkable in terms of age (mostly 15th to 17th century) and subject range. The descriptions in this catalogue are unusually detailed: they include author, title, subject, contents, first and last words, date of manuscript, calligraphy, foliation, dimensions, and the location of similar manuscripts elsewhere. Among other special features are details of watermark designs in the paper (useful for dating undated manuscripts), descriptions of seals and notes of previous owners, and many colour illustrations. The catalogue also describes all Turkish manuscripts in the three other small Canadian collections: at the University of Toronto, McGill University (Montreal), and the Royal Ontario Museum.
There is a tradition that whoever knows the seventy six names of the angel Metatron can express any wish and see it fulfilled. The Book of Desire means just this: It teaches how to express a desire and call the related appropriate name of Metatron. Eleazar includes this small treatise after the two tomes concerning the Work of Creation and the Work of the Chariot in his Sodei Razia (lit. Secrets of Secrets, also called The Book of Raziel), which represent the two first kabbalistic levels. After a ritual purification, the apprentice can engage in the mystical meditations and call the proper name of Metatron. A proper preparation leads to the appearance of a Maggid, who is a messenger angel. This envoy, as Eleazar says, will appear "according to your will and as often as you desire". He will mediate between us and the superior worlds, taking care of fulfilling our wish through the power of Metatron
The Book of the Alphabet is the first part of The Book of the Secrets of Raziel (Sefer Sodei Razya) by Eleazar of Worms also known as Eleazar of Germiza. The text deals with the Work of Creation, the first level of kabbalistic study
The Haggadah - the text of the Seder ceremony of the Jewish Passover, with its evocation of the Jews' escape from Egypt - is in yearly use all over the world. During the Middle Ages, in the centres of Jewish culture in Europe, many illuminated Haggadot were produced. One considered to be amongst the finest and held at the British Library in London, is the 15th-century manuscript by Joel ben Simeon, who lived in medieval Germany. The majority of its 98 pages of Ashkenazi script are illuminated with initials and other ornaments and there are miniatures illustrating the Passover story and the Seder feast itself. It is reproduced in this volume, together with a transcript and a translation, so that the book may be used, as intended, at Passover ceremonies. The medieval commentary in the margins of the text is often inscribed in the form of domestic objects, animals and creatures of all kinds and is also translated here.
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