Sefer ha-Bahir: The Book of Brilliance. In the following article, the author refers to the relationship between Kabbalah and Gnostic symbolism.
Gnosticism was an ancient theology that included mythological speculations into the nature of God. It posited the existence of two primary forces, one good and one evil. Gershom Scholem believed that Gnosticism greatly influenced the emergence of Jewish mysticism. The following is reprinted with permission from The Early Kabbalah, edited by Joseph Dan and published by Paulist Press. One of the earliest and most important discoveries of Gershom Scholem, the great and pioneering scholar of the field of Jewish mysticism, was the identification of the Sefer ha‑Bahir (Book of Brilliance) as the earliest disseminated text of Kabbalistic thought, the first to utilize the symbolism of the dynamic and emanated sefirot. Eruv row turns ugly in UK town. A small town outside London has seen angry accusations of a Jewish takeover over the town’s approval of an eruv.
Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign up! The eruv is a Jewish ritual boundary, often a wire tied between utility polls, that delineates a location for the purposes of Jewish law. For example, on the Sabbath one is allowed to carry objects within a location, but not between them. Wartime mystery on display with new portrait trove of Dutch Jews. In November 2012 Jacqueline Shelton-Miller of San Francisco received an email from Holland asking if she was prepared to look at a photo that was believed to be of her father in Amsterdam in 1943.
She knew that her father, a German Jew who survived the Holocaust, had been in Amsterdam at some point during WW II, but he had never mentioned sitting for a portrait. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign up! Shelton-Miller agreed to look at the photograph, and indeed, it was of her father, then a handsome, sandy-haired young man with a yellow star on his suit jacket. Bernice Tannenbaum, longtime Hadassah leader, dies aged 101. Bernice Tannenbaum, a former national president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, who earned the group’s highest honor for her legacy of contributions, has died.
Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign up! Tannenbaum, a former JTA vice president and national secretary, died Monday. She was 101. A suitcase unpacked – New exhibit at Yale reconstructs a Jewish family’s migration to America - Jewish Ledger. The Exodus. As the security situation of the Jews inside the Russian Empire worsened, they began to emigrate to other countries in record numbers.
Pobedonostsev, one of the major protagonists of anti-Jewish sentiment in Russia at the time, is said to have proposed that the solution to the Jewish problem was for a third to emigrate, a third to assimilate and a third to die (Wheatcroft). Naturally, most opted for the former. According to Prof. SEDER OLAM REVISITED - Chronology of the Jewish History. Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz was born in 1847 in Belarus from a rabbinical family.
He studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva. In his most known six volumes work, Dorot Harishonim (meaning "The First Generations"), published in 1906, he covered Jewish history from the end of the Mishna period (1st and 2nd century CE) until the end of the Gaonim period (ca. 1040 CE), which offers a continuity with the Seder Olam Zuttah.
He died in Hamburg in 1914. Rabbi Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz (source: Reichel, O. Korolenko Describes the Kishinev Pogrom of 1903. [Extracted from "Kishineff: The Medieval Outbreak Against the Jews" in The Great Events by Famous Historians, vol. 20 (n.p.: The National Alumni, 1914), pp. 35-49] I arrived at Kishineff two months after the massacres had taken place, when the echo of those horrors was still freshly thrilling and reverberating throughout the whole of Russia.
The Kishineff police had taken the most drastic measures, but in spite of their zeal it was difficult to efface all traces of the deeds of blood. Even in the principal streets broken doors and windows were still to be seen; while in the outskirts of the town there were still more traces of the same sort. ^ Spring and Slaughter ^ Kishinev 1903: The Birth of a Century.
Reconsidering the 49 Deaths That Galvanized a Generation and Changed Jewish History. by: J.J. Goldberg The Forward, April 4, 2003. Shochat Family. Surviving Passover in the Siberian Gulag - Passover. Foleh Kahan was serving a three-year sentence for the crime of "harmful acts against the State.
" This, however, was a libel. The truth was that he was a religious Jew who had committed the "crime" of keeping his Judaism in every possible way he could, and encouraging other Jews to practice it. When this was discovered, he was sent to a "Correctional Labor Camp" in Siberia, to be reeducated in the company of political offenders. Bar-Ilan University - Academia.edu. The Judaica Collection. The Judaica Collection in the National Library consists mainly of manuscripts and printed materials in Hebrew and Yiddish, and to a lesser extent of materials in Ladino, Judaeo-Arabic and other Jewish languages.
The collection covers primarily religion, history, culture and languages in their broadest sense. In addition, the collection also includes a smaller collection of pre-1950 publications (books and periodicals) in Western languages. All the collections are kept in closed stacks and pre-1950 publications can only be ordered for reading room use. Publications in Danish and the remaining post-1950 publications in Western languages belong in other collections within the library. All items in the Judaica Collection (Apr. 2010: app. 36,000 catalogue records) are registered in The Royal Library online cataloge REX, and are to be searched for and requested for use electronically. Shemittah at Sinai - Chabad.org. Iran militia chief: Destroying Israel is 'nonnegotiable' The commander of the Basij militia of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that “erasing Israel off the map” is “nonnegotiable,” according to an Israel Radio report Tuesday.
Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign up! Militia chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi also threatened Saudi Arabia, saying that the offensive it is leading in Yemen “will have a fate like the fate of Saddam Hussein.” From a walled compound in Sana'a, one of Yemen's last Jews confides his fears. In June 2012, Yahya Zandani’s father, Aharon, was stabbed to death at the main market in Sana’a. His body was brought to Israel for burial. Nevertheless, Yahya returned to Yemen, where his wife’s father and three brothers still live.
Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign up! Today, the family are among Yemen’s last 60 Jews — 40 of whom are huddled in a gated government compound in the heart of what is now the rebel-controlled capital, Sana’a. Chad Gadya - Vilna Gaon Interpretation. One little goat, one little goat that my father bought for two coins One little goat, one little goat Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign up!
The following paragraph is a different interpretation as to what the first stanza is referring to. (The goat is the firstborn that Yaakov bought from Esav with bread and lentils, which correlates to “my father bought for two coins”, and then gave it over to Yosef. Rambam for Wednesday, 8 Elul, 5727 - September 13, 1967. Jewish calendar 1967. Hayom-Yom for Tuesday, 14 Elul, 5727 - September 19, 1967. Hebrew Calendar. Jewish Calendar September 1967. My.Chabad.org - Personalized Tools and Features. Ki Tavo. Ki Tavo, Ki Thavo, Ki Tabo, Ki Thabo, or Ki Savo (כִּי-תָבוֹא — Hebrew for “when you enter,” the second and third words, and the first distinctive words, in the parashah) is the 50th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the book of Deuteronomy.
It constitutes Deuteronomy 26:1–29:8. The parashah is made up of 2,575 Hebrew letters, 657 Hebrew words, and 40 verses, and can occupy about 87 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah).[1] Jews generally read it in September or, rarely, in late August.[2] The parashah tells of the ceremony of the first fruits (בִּכּוּרִים, bikkurim), tithes, and the blessings from observance and curses from violation of the law. Offering of the First Fruits (בִּכּוּרִים, bikkurim) (illustration from a Bible card published between 1896 and 1913 by the Providence Lithograph Company) Readings[edit] Deuteronomy 26. Antisemitism. Meet Dr Jim West, Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies at the Quartz Hill School of Theology and Pastor of Petros Baptist Church, Petros, Tennessee: He is supportive of the Christ at the Checkpoint 2012 conference, which is likely to be full of antisemitism, racism and replacement theology.
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