This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases. Its central tenet is that the object-oriented and deductive paradigms for modeling, organizing, and processing data complement each other, rather than competing, and that problems involving massive volumes of complex data can best be solved by integrating the best of both approaches. Central questions in the area are: - How do we design a tool that presents the best of the object-oriented and declarative ideas? - How can the users of this tool express their problems in a combination of declarative and procedural features? The volume includes 29 papers that contribute towards answering these questions.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technology and Systems, NGITS'99, held in Zikhron-Yaakov, Israel in July 1999. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. Also included are five reviewed short papers and abstracts of two invited talks. The papers are organized in topical sections on exploring the World Wide Web; database technology; storage, meta-information, ontologies, and software engineering; agents and work flow management technology; and data warehousing and mining.
Life as Creation: A Jewish Way of Thinking about the World is a collection of aphorisms centered around the biblical concept of creation. It is a collection of provocative thoughts centered on themes such as Creation and Chosenness, Ultimate Limitations in Human Creative Powers, and Creation as Making One's Own Life in Freedom. It is a meditation intended to help the reader understand the purpose of life as a creative being.
Questions and answers on the weekly Torah reading designed for the entire family to enjoy. Includes the important lesson to be learned from each section of the Torah, a parsha puzzler, and Haftorah highlights.
What is faith above reason? There are three paths one can take: above reason, within reason and below reason. Reason is the self of man, his concepts, his mentality, and his education. Within reason means according to our understanding, according to the mind of a person of this world, one’s egoism. According to it, one understands, feels, makes decisions, and acts, which is called: “according to my opinion.” Yet, above my opinion is the opinion of the upper, and it means I must exchange my opinion for the opinion of the Creator. Faith above reason is a feeling that bestowal is above reception, the importance of the Creator is above the importance of the created being and the whole of reality. A person begins to feel that he has a new concern: to do something for the Creator’s sake and in such a way that the Creator will not even know about it, to bestow in concealment, humbly, without any intention to receive a reward.
There is an ancient Hebrew text that speaks of a Torah Kedumah, a "Primordial Teaching," that existed before the creation of the world. This is not the Torah as it is known in conventional terms; it something far more mysterious-something pre-existent and pre-creation. The Primordial Torah does not come from some ancient time, and is not based on any historical texts; it is a teaching more primordial than the creation of the world, and thus not bound to the dimensions of time and space. This book is based on the first public presentation of the Kedumah Teaching-the mystical path of the Primordial Torah. With clarity, humor, and erudition, Zvi Ish-Shalom guides us on an experiential journey back to our deepest nature, the non-conceptual ground of reality and primordial source of all wisdom teachings.
This book is in a category of its own. It is the authoritative handbook of Jewish meditation. This invaluable technique was nearly lost in the holocaust of European Jewry, but R' Sterne has brought it back from the edge of extinction by translating this seminal work from the Chasidic master, the Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch (1860-1920). Features a full English translation, many diagrams and tables to clarify spiritual levels, a full commentary bringing the esoteric material closer to our modern consciousness, and two appendices with extensive scholarly notes. A must for the serious Jewish English library, now for the first time available in softback format.
This novel is not about the rich, famous, or over privileged but rather the common everyday people of all ages and walks of life who are and have struggled with racism, broken hearts, lost loves, along with several other burdens that have destroyed many people. But by the hand of God and people with a persistent faith, they find a way to overcome tragedy not just to exist but to thrive, help others to have peace and joy beyond all human understanding. The title When Circles End was chosen to put a focus on the things that take place in people's lives by pure chance that are a repetition of a previous events, circumstances, or happenings, small or large, in a previous time. Some completed in days, some months, some years, some a century, or more. The things the readers of this have to decipher is: are the circles that are completed in this writing and in their own lives really just a coincidence, or was the hand of God involved? Just an example in my own life, my parents bought a farm the year I was born (1954). Within a year, we were in a bad car crash while my mother was pregnant with me and a new pickup truck was purchased. Twenty-five years later, my wife and I bought a small farm, were in a bad car crash while she was pregnant, and we bought a new pickup truck. In both crashes, the other drivers were at fault. Look back in your life and see if this type of thing took place in you or your family's life without you even spotting it. It may be something big or as small as a few spoken words that resurface at a later date. If you do or don't believe in God or his kingdom, hopefully after you see the circles that have been completed in your lives, your faith will be strengthened or you will start a walk of faith. The most important circle for mankind is nearing competition when Jesus returns as he said he would. What does the name Selah Shalom mean? Forever peace. When you get to the point in your life that you have true peace, I guarantee you will have a whole new outlook on your problems and struggles. Many of the material things, even money, will play a much smaller part in your security.
This book is a collection of interviews with twenty distinguished teachers of Judaism, with a special focus on the concept of Avodat Hashem (the service of God) and its meaning for the modern Jew today. These twenty teachers include rabbis, educators, philosophers, and authors who have dedicated their lives to inculcating the teachings of the Torah into the lives of modern Jews. Shalom Freedman, author of Life as Creation: A Jewish Way of Thinking about the World, conducted each interview in the inspiring climate of Jerusalem - the learning capital of the Jewish people - and the greater surrounding area, where he discovered a wealth of individuals and institutions who are cultivating the intellectual and spiritual growth of Judaism.
This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases. Its central tenet is that the object-oriented and deductive paradigms for modeling, organizing, and processing data complement each other, rather than competing, and that problems involving massive volumes of complex data can best be solved by integrating the best of both approaches. Central questions in the area are: - How do we design a tool that presents the best of the object-oriented and declarative ideas? - How can the users of this tool express their problems in a combination of declarative and procedural features? The volume includes 29 papers that contribute towards answering these questions.
Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis. Engaging a dozen-plus modern academic disciplines—from anthropology, biblical studies, Egyptology and semiotics, to linguistics, cognitive poetics and consciousness studies; from religious studies, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis and literary criticism, to mysticism studies, cognitive psychology, phenomenology and philosophy of mind—it wrests from the Pentateuch an outline of the heretofore undiscovered ancient Israelite mystical-initiatory tradition of the First Temple priests. The book effectively launches a new research area: Pentateuchal esoteric mysticism, akin to a "center" or "organizing principle" discussed in biblical theology. The recovered priestly system is discordant vis-à-vis the much-later rabbinical project. This volume appeals to a diverse academic community, from Biblical and Jewish studies to literary studies, religious studies, anthropology, and consciousness studies.
The present Chasidic discourse speaks of the great transformation that a person can bring about by way of his interactions with the physical; how mortal man can unleash tremendous divine energy through a seemingly simple and mundane activity such as eating, drinking, and business dealings, so that these can be carried out truly for the sake of heaven.
Rashi occupies a unique place in the Jewish world as he provides the Jewish people with the tools to understand and analyze the text of the Torah. Arranged according to an aleph-bet sequence, The Family Rashi Book is a series of questions whose answers are found within the text of Rashi. Its format systematically facilitates reviewing Rashi's commentary for the weekly Torah portions while customizing it for a variety of ages to enjoy.
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