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The Jewish Intellectual Tradition

A History of Learning and Achievement

By: Alan Kadish,Michael A. Shmidman,Simcha Fishbane

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The Jewish Intellectual Tradition

A History of Learning and Achievement

By: Alan Kadish,Michael A. Shmidman,Simcha Fishbane

The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this book, the authors suggest that there is a series of common principles that can be extracted from the Jewish intellectual tradition that have broad, even life-changing, implications for individual and societal achievement. These principles include respect for tradition while encouraging independent, often disruptive thinking; a precise system of logical reasoning in pursuit of the truth; universal education continuing through adulthood; and living a purposeful life. The main objective of this book is to understand the historical development of these principles and to demonstrate how applying them judiciously can lead to greater intellectual productivity, a more fulfilling existence, and a more advanced society.

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328

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Academic Studies PRess

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ISBN 10

1644695367

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9781644695364

Exploring Mishnah's World(s)

Social Scientific Approaches

By: Simcha Fishbane,Calvin Goldscheider,Jack N. Lightstone

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Exploring Mishnah's World(s)

Social Scientific Approaches

By: Simcha Fishbane,Calvin Goldscheider,Jack N. Lightstone

This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of Mishnah's evidence. The framework is one that takes full account of the historical and literary-historical issues that impinge upon the use of Mishnah for any scholarly purposes beyond philological study, including social scientific approaches to the materials. Based on the framework, each chapter undertakes, with appropriate methodological caveats, an avenue of inquiry open to the social scientist that brings to bear social scientific questions and modes of inquiry to Mishnaic evidence.

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345

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Springer Nature

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3030535711

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9783030535711

Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature

A Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays

By: Simcha Fishbane

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Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature

A Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays

By: Simcha Fishbane

This study of early Rabbinic texts provides fresh and fascinating insights into the attitudes of the Rabbis towards "outsiders.

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246

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BRILL

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9004158332

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9789004158337

Ritual and Ethnic Identity

A Comparative Study of the Social Meaning of Liturgical Ritual in Synagogues

By: Jack N. Lightstone,Frederick B. Bird,Simcha Fishbane,Marc P. Lalonde,Victor Levin,Louise Mayer,Madeleine Mcbrearty

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Ritual and Ethnic Identity

A Comparative Study of the Social Meaning of Liturgical Ritual in Synagogues

By: Jack N. Lightstone,Frederick B. Bird,Simcha Fishbane,Marc P. Lalonde,Victor Levin,Louise Mayer,Madeleine Mcbrearty

In this innovative and comprehensive collection of essays Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird document and interpret ritual practice among contemporary Canadian Jews. They particularly focus on the character and meaning of the public performance of the Sabbath liturgy in six urban Canadian synagogues, ranging from Orthodox to Reform, and from large congregations to a small house synagogue-yeshiva (rabbinic academy). Their examination of synagogue ritual is complemented with accounts of the ritual life of contemporary Canadian Jews outside the synagogue — amongst their families, within their homes and beyond. In contrast with other studies of Jewish observance, Lightstone and Bird document not simply which rituals are practised and how often; rather they stress the meaning, including the social meaning, of these rituals and treat them as complex symbolic systems. Their multidisciplinary approach together with their openness to include a wide variety of phenomena in their study (for example, the organization of the physical setting of the Sabbath, dress codes and patterns of greeting and handshaking) place this work at the very forefront of current research. Ritual and Ethnic Identity will be of great value to historians and sociologists of religion, anthropologists and all those concerned with religion, ritual and Canadian Jewish and ethnic studies.

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233

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889207283

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9780889207288

Beyond a Code of Jewish Law

Rabbi Avraham Danzig’s Ḥayei Adam

By: Simcha Fishbane

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Beyond a Code of Jewish Law

Rabbi Avraham Danzig’s Ḥayei Adam

By: Simcha Fishbane

The Ḥayei Adam, an abridged code of Jewish law, was written by Rabbi Avraham Danzig (1748-1820) and was first published in 1810. This code spread quickly throughout Europe, and the demand for it required a second publishing which the author printed in 1818. Beyond a Code of Jewish Law attempts to understand the implicit message of its author and discuss various approaches of its writer to both Judaism and Jewish law. While the Ḥayei Adam without any doubt unveils Rabbi Danzig to be a brilliant rabbinic scholar, with a comprehensive knowledge of Jewish law as well as a coherent and concise system of presentation, it also expresses his great concern for the Jewish community and each individual Jew. Aspects of this concern such as Hasidism, musar, kabbalah, are explored.

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