Hasil untuk "Judaism"

Soo-Yeong Jeong , Moo-JinJeong, Jun-Ki Chung

This research aimed to explore the significance of home education within Jewish culture. This study involved existing well-documented data from online interviews with parents and children engaged in home education. The sample included families from various branches of Judaism. Data was collected through semi-structured online interviews. The research results identified the role of religious counselling in shaping children’s religious identity. Home education and religious upbringing remain vital aspects of developing children’s religious and cultural identity in Jewish families. The study determined that home education in eight Jewish families fostered a deeper understanding of religious texts and traditions, while also providing an individualised approach to the study of religion. Religious counselling is provided both formally through Torah lessons and informally through family discussions and participation in religious rituals. Home education is an effective means of transmitting religious faith and traditions in Jewish families. It provides flexibility and opportunities for deep immersion in religious learning, while simultaneously fostering strong intergenerational connections. An analysis of religious and educational documents revealed that Jewish families have a wide range of tools and resources to ensure the religious and general education of their children. To improve support for such families, it is recommended to develop specialised counselling programs and materials for parents who provide home education. The collected data confirmed the hypothesis about the positive impact of home education on the religious identity of children in Jewish families. The data also showed the importance of participation in family rituals and mentoring for the formation of religious beliefs.

Adriana M. Brodsky

Muhammet Zuhur

Maimonides (d. 1204) explained the thirteen faith principles of Judaism in his Commentary on Perek Helek. He presented these principles as mandatory criteria for attaining salvation and having a Jewish identity. Over time, the thirteen principles were accepted as the foundations of traditional Judaism. On the other hand, Maimonides reiterated the thirteen principles with the same content in another book called Sefer ha-Mada. However, Sefer ha-Mada was accused by Jewish scholars of having philosophical content contrary to traditional Judaism and was banned. Therefore, although Maimonides constructed the principles of faith with the same content in both works, one was accepted as the foundations of traditional Judaism, while the other was accused of being alien to traditional Judaism. This article attempts to show that the philosophical content that led to the prohibition of Sefer ha-Mada is also found in the thirteen principles in the Commentary on Perek Helek. It also explores why the thirteen principles have been embraced by the Jewish community despite their philosophical content.

Vibeke Kaiser-Hansen

Review of Thomas Harder & Lene Ewald Hesel: En sten for Eva (Gads Forlag, 2022). Hanne Foighel: Sten på sten. Mine 400 år gamle danskjødiske rødder (Dansk Jødisk Museum, 2022). 

Judith Cohen

Jesse Toufexis

The central preoccupation of Chava Rosenfarb’s “Edgia’s Revenge” is an escape from a perceived outward Jewishness. That Rosenfarb’s protagonist is never afforded this vital flight is one of the story’s key dramas that plays out in the form of a power dynamic between two Holocaust survivors, Rella and Edgia. On the surface, this failure can be attributed to Rella’s anxiety and guilt about her former role as a kapo in a concentration camp. This article argues, however, that Rella’s failure to rid herself of her Jewishness and her past is exemplified through the use of mountains as sacred zones in “Edgia’s Revenge.” La préoccupation centrale de « Edgia’s Revenge » de Chava Rosenfarb est d’échapper à une judéité perçue comme extérieure. Le fait que le protagoniste de Rosenfarb ne puisse jamais s’offrir ce vol vital est l’un des principaux drames de l’histoire qui se joue sous la forme d’une dynamique de pouvoir entre deux survivants de l’Holocauste, Rella et Edgia. À première vue, cet échec peut être attribué à l’anxiété et à la culpabilité de Rella concernant son ancien rôle de kapo dans un camp de concentration. Cet article soutient cependant que l’échec de Rella à se débarrasser de sa judéité et de son passé est illustré par l’utilisation des montagnes comme zones sacrées dans « Edgia’s Revenge ».

S. Deshen

M. Niehoff, A. Reed, Seth Schwartz

Mojalefa L.J. Koenane

Xenophobic attitudes and violence have become regular phenomena in South Africa and other parts of the world. Xenophobia is of great concern not only to South Africans, but also to most developed countries or countries that are considered economically and politically viable by their neighbours, and which offer a safe haven for people who, for whatever reason, are forced to seek refuge elsewhere. Although xenophobia is not unique to South Africa, its most worrying aspect in South Africa is the government’s inability to deal with this evil. The article seeks to challenge South Africa as a dominantly Ubuntu and Judeo-Christian influenced country to fight xenophobia through appealing to Ubuntu values and philoxenia. By Judeo-Christian, I mean religious beliefs and values that are common to both these religions, namely Judaism and Christianity. The article further suggests the ontology that perceives the ‘other’ as an extension of the self. It is argued that South African citizens are collectively responsible for acts of violence against foreign nationals and should thus look for a morally sustainable solution to this evil. The article relies heavily on the work of Kristeva, entitled Strangers to Ourselves, and on the work of Nussbaum, entitled Ubuntu: Reflections of a South African on Our Common Humanity, in Reflections, the Society for Organizational Learning and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Giuseppe M. Cuscito

Il medico e astronomo ebreo Šabbeṯay Donnolo visse nel X secolo nell’Italia meridionale, che all’epoca si trovava sotto la dominazione bizantina. Per lo studio della «scienza dei pianeti e delle costellazioni»,  si rivolse a fonti non solo ebraiche o greche, ma di varia provenienza. Come scrive nel suo Sefer Ḥakhmônî, usufruì inoltre degli insegnamenti di Bagdaṭ, un gentile proveniente da Babilonia, la cui identificazione è stata oggetto di discussione. Si propone una nuova ipotesi di ricerca in merito alle origini di quest’ultimo, al fine di contestualizzare anche gli elementi del pensiero cosmologico donnoliano che, più che provenire dall’ambiente bizantino in cui trascorse gran parte della sua vita, sembrano da porre in relazione con il movimento di traduzione, promosso dal califfato abbaside, che interessò l’area siro-mesopotamica prima e durante il corso della sua vita. Bagdaṭ and the Science of the Stars of Šabbeṯay Donnolo The Jewish medic and astronomer Šabbeṯay Donnolo lived in the 10th century in the areas of southern Italy at that time under Byzantine rule. In order to learn the «science of the planets and of the constellations», he used sources belonging to different cultures. In his Sefer Ḥaḵmônî, he writes that he benefitted from the teachings of Bagdaṭ, a «gentile hailing from Babylon», whose identification has been a matter of debate. A new research hypothesis about Bagdaṭ’s origins is presented here, in order to contextualize the original elements of Donnolo’s cosmological thought. It appears that his education in astronomy should be linked not so much to the Byzantine environment in which he spent most of his life, but more so to the “translation movement” active in the Syro-Mesopotamian area during his time.

David L. Weddle

Zrinka Podhraški Čizmek

This paper presents a small part of the pilgrimages undertaken by Croats during the 18th century across the Adriatic Sea to Loreto. The pilgrimages are described as a sui generis phenomenon of all human and religious societies. The history of the Catholic pilgrimage is analyzed through the perspective of common roots with Judaism and Islam, and the subsequent differentiation from other Christian confessions. Relations of the Croats with overseas territories since the 14th century are described, as well as their settlement in the hinterland of Ancona: Recanati and Loreto. The story of the Shrine of the Our Lady of Loreto is presented, the ties with the Croats settled there, and the foundation of a special seminary for Croats in 1580: the Illyrian College. During the review of the 4,890 documentary sources of volume I of the Croatian Maritime Regesta, a smaller segment of sources was found from the State Archive of Venice on the subject of pilgrimages. These sources list 44 pilgrimages from various locations on the Croatian coast. The types of ships they traveled on, the origin of the passengers, their number, organization in groups, the time of pilgrimage and the time of the year in which they occurred are analyzed. The most numerous pilgrims are from Lošinj (Lussino), followed by Cres (Cherso), Dugi Otok (Isola Lunga), Rovinj (Rovigno), Labin (Albona), Korčula (Curzola), Zadar (Zara) and Vis (Lissa).This work is a contribution to the study of the links between the two sides of the Adriatic in the 18th century, which requires further publication and analysis of documentary sources.

Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski

L. Almagor

Adam Afterman

Mansoureh Zarean, Khadijeh Barzegar

Emily A. Filler

Heidi A. Campbell