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Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

By: Mordechai Schechter,Robert C. Lucas

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Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

By: Mordechai Schechter,Robert C. Lucas

First Published in 2011. This book describes the application of an advanced analytical technique, simulation modeling, (WUSM) to a significant problem in resources management. It includes ideas which have grown out of practical resource management problems that have progressed through conceptual models to operational tools and finally to application in actual public land management settings. It is similarly rewarding to see the work being adapted for use by the National Park Service and other agencies at home and abroad.

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1135991138

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9781135991135

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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Walter de Gruyter

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3110200937

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India Traders of the Middle Ages

Documents from the Cairo Geniza 'India Book'

By: Shelomo Dov Goitein,Mordechai Friedman

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India Traders of the Middle Ages

Documents from the Cairo Geniza 'India Book'

By: Shelomo Dov Goitein,Mordechai Friedman

The India trade in Oriental spices, pharmaceutical, dyeing and other materials was the backbone of medieval economy, especially in the Islamic world. A unique source of documentation is now available in 11th-12th century Geniza letters, written in Judeo-Arabic (Middle Arabic in Hebrew characters), by participants in this activity. The documents are presented in translation with an introduction and notes. They deal with economic history and material, social, and spiritual civilization. Besides illuminating the activities of the Jewish traders of the Indian Ocean and their families in the territories from the Far East to southern Arabia and Egypt, the letters contain valuable information on Jewish and Islamic culture, relations between Jews and Arabs, Mediterranean culture, and Judeo-Arabic.

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BRILL

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9047423070

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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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3110729288

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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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9780812252125

Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe

A New Perspective on an Exegetical Revolution

By: Mordechai Z. Cohen

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Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe

A New Perspective on an Exegetical Revolution

By: Mordechai Z. Cohen

In this volume, Mordechai Z. Cohen explores the interpretive methods of Rashi of Troyes (1040–1105), the most influential Jewish Bible commentator of all time. By elucidating the 'plain sense' (peshat) of Scripture, together with critically selected midrashic interpretations, Rashi created an approach that was revolutionary in the talmudically-oriented Ashkenazic milieu. Cohen contextualizes Rashi's commentaries by examining influences from other centers of Jewish learning in Muslim Spain and Byzantine lands. He also opens new scholarly paths by comparing Rashi's methods with trends in Latin learning reflected in the Psalms commentary of his older contemporary, Saint Bruno the Carthusian (1030–1101). Drawing upon the Latin tradition of enarratio poetarum ('interpreting the poets'), Bruno applied a grammatical interpretive method and incorporated patristic commentary selectively, a parallel that Cohen uses to illuminate Rashi's exegetical values. Cohen thereby brings to light the novel literary conceptions manifested by Rashi and his key students, Josef Qara and Rashbam.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108609023

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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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Damnation and Deviance

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Failure

By: Mordechai Rotenberg

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Damnation and Deviance

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Failure

By: Mordechai Rotenberg

The Calvinist view that man is predestined to be among the elect or the damned has profoundly influenced not only our views of criminals and deviants, but also the theoretical basis of correctional methods and psychotherapeutic techniques. In this provocative and original volume, Mordechai Rotenberg examines the impact of Protestant doctrine on Western theories of deviance. He explores the inherent contradiction between Protestant ethics, with its view of human nature as predestinated, and the "people-changing" sciences.Rotenberg presents empirical studies that show how people's tendency to label themselves and others as deviant can be predicted on the basis of their exposure to Western socialization. He contrasts alienating individuals, the result of competitiveness and exaggerated independence fostered by socialization in Protestant societies, to the reciprocal individualism of Hassidic, Japanese, and other non-Western cultures. Examining the Protestant "bias" of Western behavioral sciences, Rotenberg examines modern theories of deviance and proposes alternative models. He compares traditional past-oriented insight therapy, grounded in Calvinist methods of introspection, self-torment, and conversion, with Hassidic notions of redemption and salvation."Rotenberg provides important historical and sociological insights into the intellectual origins of modern theories of deviance. His argument that Western behavioral science retains a Calvinist view of humanity will force most scholars to examine anew the assumptions and foundations of their own theories."--Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers University"A highly original work, which should be of great interest to anyone concerned with relevant behavior. It shows how macro-definitions in a society tend to lead people to think about themselves and their ills in certain ways--and thus to deviate in certain ways."--Richard A. Cloward, co-author, Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare

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1351312863

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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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3110711621

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Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

By: Mordechai Schechter,Robert C. Lucas

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Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

By: Mordechai Schechter,Robert C. Lucas

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1135991065

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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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0965769739

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Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

The Hebrew Bible Reborn

The Hebrew Bible Reborn

India Traders of the Middle Ages

India Traders of the Middle Ages

Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Journey – Exodus and Return

Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Journey – Exodus and Return

The Rule of Peshat

The Rule of Peshat

Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe

Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe

Opening the Gates of Interpretation

Opening the Gates of Interpretation

Damnation and Deviance

Damnation and Deviance

Beyond the Glory: Community Rabbis in Eastern Europe

Beyond the Glory: Community Rabbis in Eastern Europe

Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

Between Rationality and Irrationality

Between Rationality and Irrationality

Rewriting the Self

Rewriting the Self

The Majesty of Rosh Hashana

The Majesty of Rosh Hashana

Menuḥah Ve-simḥah (Romanized Form )

Menuḥah Ve-simḥah (Romanized Form )

Parsha Parables

Parsha Parables

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