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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran

This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the people – the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism and the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East and with contemporary archaeology. The middle section discusses the extensive involvement of educated Jews in the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, which it treats as a typological event. The last section describes at length various aspects of the key status assigned to the Bible in the new Jewish culture in Europe, and particularly in modern Jewish Palestine, as a “guide to life” in education, culture and politics, as well as part of the attempt to create a new Jewish man, and as a source of inspiration for various creative arts.

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3110200937

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Beyond the Glory: Community Rabbis in Eastern Europe

By: Mordechai Zalkin

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Beyond the Glory: Community Rabbis in Eastern Europe

By: Mordechai Zalkin

The heroes of Beyond the Glory are not the famous rabbis, the heads of the yeshivas, or Hasidic righteous, but rather the "second circle" rabbis - the community rabbis in 19th century Eastern Europe, the backbone of the rabbinical world of the time,those who knew the world of their community members closely and were required to answer a wide range of questions, both daily and existential. Who were these rabbis? What were their training processes? How did they win their positions? Did they win "tenure," or was the threat of dismissal constantly hovering above their heads? How were their working conditions and their financial situation? Were they considered as spiritual shepherds and social leaders of the community? What was their relationship with the local rabbinic scholars and the economic elite? How did they navigate between their duties as halachic rulers and their desire to engage in studying and teaching? This book attempts to answer these questions, and many others, based on examining the world of over a thousand community rabbis.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110711729

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9783110711721

Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe

The School as the Shrine of the Jewish Enlightenment

By: Mordechai Zalkin

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Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe

The School as the Shrine of the Jewish Enlightenment

By: Mordechai Zalkin

In Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe Mordechai Zalkin offers a new path through which the Eastern European traditional Jewish society underwent a rapid and significant process of modernization - the Maskilic system of education. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century a few local Jews, affected by the values and the principles of the European Enlightenment, established new private modern schools all around The Pale of Settlement, in which thousands Jewish boys and girls were exposed to different disciplines such as sciences and humanities, a process which changed the entire cultural structure of contemporary Jewish society.

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9004307516

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Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor

From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi

By: Mordechai Z. Cohen

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Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor

From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi

By: Mordechai Z. Cohen

This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated their methodologies with the midrashic creativity and sensitivity to nuance typical of his native Provence to create a new literary interpretive system that highlights the expressiveness of metaphor. This study is important for readers interested in metaphor, the Bible as literature, the history of biblical interpretation and the inter-relation between Arabic and Hebrew learning.

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9004493816

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Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Journey – Exodus and Return

By: Mordechai (Motti) Friedman

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Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Journey – Exodus and Return

By: Mordechai (Motti) Friedman

This book provides in-depth investigation into the secret of Theodor Herzl’s success in changing the fate of the Jewish People. More than a biography, the book delves deep into Herzl’s personality and physique, which left a deep impression on his followers and opposers alike. The book traces Herzl’s transformation from a newspaper editor and playwright into a man of vision and action, the star in a drama he could never write for the stage.

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3110729377

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The Rule of Peshat

Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270

By: Mordechai Z. Cohen

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The Rule of Peshat

Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270

By: Mordechai Z. Cohen

An exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of the philological method of Jewish Bible interpretation known as peshat Within the rich tradition of Jewish biblical interpretation, few concepts are as vital as peshat, often rendered as the "plain sense" of Scripture. Generally contrasted with midrash—the creative and at times fanciful mode of reading put forth by the rabbis of Late Antiquity—peshat came to connote the systematic, philological-contextual, and historically sensitive analysis of the Hebrew Bible, coupled with an appreciation of the text's literary quality. In The Rule of "Peshat," Mordechai Z. Cohen explores the historical, geographical, and theoretical underpinnings of peshat as it emerged between 900 and 1270. Adopting a comparative approach that explores Jewish interactions with Muslim and Christian learning, Cohen sheds new light on the key turns in the vibrant medieval tradition of Jewish Bible interpretation. Beginning in the tenth century, Jews in the Middle East drew upon Arabic linguistics and Qur'anic study to open new avenues of philological-literary exegesis. This Judeo-Arabic school later moved westward, flourishing in al-Andalus in the eleventh century. At the same time, a revolutionary peshat school was pioneered in northern France by the Ashkenazic scholar Rashi and his circle of students, whose methods are illuminated by contemporaneous trends in Latinate learning in the Cathedral Schools of France. Cohen goes on to explore the heretofore little-known Byzantine Jewish exegetical tradition, basing his examination on recently discovered eleventh-century commentaries and their offshoots in southern Italy in the twelfth century. Lastly, this study focuses on three pivotal figures who represent the culmination of the medieval Jewish exegetical tradition: Abraham Ibn Ezra, Moses Maimonides, and Moses Nahmanides. Cohen weaves together disparate Jewish disciplines and external cultural influences through chapters that trace the increasing force acquired by the peshat model until it could be characterized, finally, as the "rule of peshat": the central, defining feature of Jewish hermeneutics into the modern period.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812252128

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After the Return

Maintaining Good Family Relations and Adjusting to Your New Lifestyle--a Practical Halachic Guide for the Newly Observant

By: Mordechai Becher

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After the Return

Maintaining Good Family Relations and Adjusting to Your New Lifestyle--a Practical Halachic Guide for the Newly Observant

By: Mordechai Becher

An essential work for the newly observant on how to ease into a religious lifestyle and maintain good family relations. This practical halachic guide discusses real-life situations, such as dealing with parental requests that are contrary to Jewish law, attending family ceremonies in non-Orthodox settings, and how to solve kashruth dilemmas.

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Feldheim Publishers

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087306688X

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Opening the Gates of Interpretation

Maimonides' Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of His Geonic-Andalusian Heritage and Muslim Milieu

By: Mordechai Z. Cohen

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Opening the Gates of Interpretation

Maimonides' Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of His Geonic-Andalusian Heritage and Muslim Milieu

By: Mordechai Z. Cohen

This study highlights the contributions of the great philosopher-talmudist Moses Maimonides to the rationalist, “plain sense” (peshat) tradition of Jewish Bible exegesis, assessing his place in the Geonic-Andalusian school and showing how he harnessed Greco-Arabic learning to open new hermeneutical possibilities.

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9004189327

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Understanding Judaism

A Basic Guide to Jewish Faith, History, and Practice

By: Mordechai Katz

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Understanding Judaism

A Basic Guide to Jewish Faith, History, and Practice

By: Mordechai Katz

What does the Torah say that makes it relevant to today? How can we understand the mitzvos? Why should I believe? Why be Jewish? What does a Jew have to do? Is science an enemy of Judaism?JEP has answers. For decades, the Jewish Education Prog

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Mesorah Publications

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1578195179

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German-Jewish History in Modern Times: Emancipation and acculturation, 1780-1871

By: Mordechai Breuer

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German-Jewish History in Modern Times: Emancipation and acculturation, 1780-1871

By: Mordechai Breuer

This four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars offers a vivid portrait of Jewish history in German-speaking countries over nearly four centuries. This series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in German-speaking lands.

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Columbia University Press

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German-Jewish History in Modern Times

Renewal and Destruction, 1918-1945

By: Mordechai Breuer

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German-Jewish History in Modern Times

Renewal and Destruction, 1918-1945

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a History of Biblical Culture and the Battles Over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaʻaḳov Shaviṭ,Mordechai Eran

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a History of Biblical Culture and the Battles Over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaʻaḳov Shaviṭ,Mordechai Eran

This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the people - the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism and the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East and with contemporary archaeology. The middle section discusses the extensive involvement of educated Jews in the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, which it treats as a typological event. The last section describes at length various aspects of the key status assigned to the Bible in the new Jewish culture in Europe, and particularly in modern Jewish Palestine, as a "guide to life" in education, culture and politics, as well as part of the attempt to create a new Jewish man, and as a source of inspiration for various creative arts.

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German-Jewish History in Modern Times: Emancipation and acculturation, 1780-1871

By: Mordechai Breuer

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German-Jewish History in Modern Times: Emancipation and acculturation, 1780-1871

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Between Rationality and Irrationality

The Jewish Psychotherapeutic System

By: Mordechai Rotenberg

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Between Rationality and Irrationality

The Jewish Psychotherapeutic System

By: Mordechai Rotenberg

Jewish Scriptural interpretation entails a potential therapeutic bridge between the rational-material and the irrational-mystic in the world of psychotherapy. PaRDeS, as this system is known, is derived from the following concepts. "P" denotes peshat, the plain interpretation of the text, which translates into a rational interpretation of life. "R" symbolizes remez, hinting at a related religious concept, which becomes a symbolic view of life. "D" stands for derash, the homiletic way of interpreting a text, or a narrative reading of life. And "S" represents sod, or the mystery behind an idea, which in psychological terms becomes a mystic understanding of life. Mordechai Rotenberg believes that it is by engaging readings in a "dialogue" with each other, as in the Jewish hermeneutic tradition, the psychology underlying one's existence may be more readily understood. While Rotenberg acknowledges that it is legitimate to focus on one cognitive-rational or one narrative-storytelling therapeutic method in the course of therapy, he argues that a comprehensive theory of psychotherapy should include treatment possibilities for both rational and irrational manifestations of behavior, thereby engulfing all aspects of human behavior. For Rotenberg, a person's life becomes the "text," subject to being read and interpreted. If that person wishes to change his or her behavior via psychotherapy, then a hermeneutic system must be employed to understand that person's life. However, many systems interpret a person's life according to the particular theory espoused by the therapist. Rotenberg, in contrast, introduces a balanced theory bridging the rational and the irrational. Between Rationality and Irrationality emphasizes that it is more important for a therapist to learn his client's own "language" than to impose his own doctrinaire interpretation. This edition includes a new introduction by the author, as well as an appendix explicating an original psychological interpretation of PaRDeS

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1351314033

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Rewriting the Self

Psychotherapy and Midrash

By: Mordechai Rotenberg

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Rewriting the Self

Psychotherapy and Midrash

By: Mordechai Rotenberg

While the term midrash--from the Hebrew darash, searched or interpreted--can refer to both legal and extralegal scriptural exegesis, it most commonly refers to symbolic legends, stories, and parables used to make moral or ethical concepts accessible to the layman. As such, midrash encompasses an open-ended method of exposition that often allows for the coexistence of seemingly contradictory interpretations of holy writ in a kind of dialogue with each other. In Rewriting the Self, Mordechai Rotenberg illustrates how "midrashic" dialogue between a person's past and present may assist in the reorganization of ostensibly contrasting conditions or positions, so that by reinterpreting a failing past according to future aspirations, cognitive discord may be reduced and one may begin to rehabilitate and enhance one's life. Rotenberg argues that the foundations of what he calls a "dialogic" psychology of progress, as well as a pluralistic, free choice approach to psychotherapy, may be identified in Judaism's midrashic "metacode." From a practical, therapeutic perspective, a teacher or therapist would no longer be an elite interpreter of a student or client's past, authorized to give the only authentic analysis of that person's problems. Rather, he would be able to offer a variety of options, both rational and emotional. In Rewriting the Self, Rotenberg demonstrates his theory with several case studies of "rewriting" oneself from both the Midrash and Talmud. He contrasts this method with other psychotherapies. This volume is the third in a trilogy (the previous two, Damnation and Deviance and Hasidic Psychology, are also published by Transaction) that seeks to present a "dialogistic" psychology as an alternative framework to the perspective that predominates in Western social sciences. It is an original work that will be welcomed by psychotherapists, social scientists, and students of theology.

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1351307266

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The Majesty of Rosh Hashana

Understanding Malchuyos, Zichronos and Shofrose

By: Shimon Mordechai Cohen

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The Majesty of Rosh Hashana

Understanding Malchuyos, Zichronos and Shofrose

By: Shimon Mordechai Cohen

Musaf of Rosh Hashanah. The shofar's call has been heard. We are now standing in prayer before God, our Father and King. We reach Malchuyos, declaring His Kingship. In Zichronos, God recalls His covenant and Shofaros is about the majesty of the shofar itself. In each of these three blessings, we recite ten verses from Tanach. What is their meaning? How do they affect our New Year - and our lives? In this inspirational work, Rabbi Shimon Mordechai Cohen explores the significance of Machuyos, Zichronos and Shofaros. Each idea is presented with an easy-to-read yet comprehensive commentary compiled from the Talmud, Midrashim and other Rabbinic sources. Understand these prayers and allow them to change your life.

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Mosaica Press

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1937887189

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9781937887186

Menuḥah Ve-simḥah (Romanized Form )

A Guide to Basic Laws and Themes of Shabbos and Yom Tov and Their Applications in Theory and in Practice

By: Mordechai Katz

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Menuḥah Ve-simḥah (Romanized Form )

A Guide to Basic Laws and Themes of Shabbos and Yom Tov and Their Applications in Theory and in Practice

By: Mordechai Katz

A guide to basic laws and themes of Shabbos and Yom Tov and their applications in theory and in practice. A JEP book.

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Feldheim Publishers

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0873069773

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9780873069779

Parsha Parables

By: Mordechai Kamenetzky

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Parsha Parables

By: Mordechai Kamenetzky

Illuminating, thought-provoking discourses, each illustrated by a succinct story, on the weekly Torah portion. Originally distributed via fax and e-mail to thousands around the world and now available in book form, to read and re-read.

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