Hasil untuk "Judaism"

René Bloch, Uri Kaufmann

Carson Bay

Yitzhak Ben Yair, Sarel Ohayon, Natti Ronel et al.

Education serves as the primary line of defense against crime and other psychological difficulties. Children exposed to adversity and emotional challenges may be susceptible to various risks, potentially leading to criminal activities. Forgiveness has been demonstrated as a healing influence in the lives of individuals who have experienced hurt and accumulated negative emotions due to life events. Understanding forgiveness from a young age, in both theory and practice, may facilitate improved relationships and psychological well-being. This article underscores the significance of forgiveness education, advocating for a culturally and theologically sensitive approach. In this article we will offer an example of integrating forgiveness education principles with insights from Judaic sources. The aim is to generate insights regarding theologically sensitive forgiveness in general by focusing on Judaism. As we demonstrate, the implications of this approach extend beyond the Jewish context, and our conclusions and recommendations are applicable to diverse cultures and religions worldwide.

Evin Ismail

Book review of Antisemitic Discourse and Historical Amnesia in Bosnia: The Case of Mustafa Busuladžić. Kjell Magnusson. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala Jewish Studies, 2024.

Glen Segell

This article examines the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lens of eschatology, a religious belief concerning end-of-age expectations, which often incites violent reactions. Despite extensive research on the Israel-Palestine conflict, there is a lack of comprehensive studies exploring the role of eschatology in this context. The Middle East, including Israel and Palestine, is a turbulent war zone with religion significantly fueling extreme hatred and violence. The focus is on the impact of religious traditions, particularly eschatology, which is prone to provoke violent reactions. The study analyzes this through five sections: eschatology prophecy, daily religion, Jerusalem’s role, expansion beyond Jerusalem, and the conveyed message. The article concludes that eschatology significantly influences this conflict, with violent apocalyptic prophecies exacerbating the situation. Resolving this conflict necessitates diverse interpretations of eschatology and apocalyptic prophecies and understanding religion’s role in the conflict.

Giuseppe M. Cuscito

Negli ultimi decenni, sono stati attribuiti a Šabbeṯay Donnolo tre testi astronomici e astrologici: la Barayta de-mazzalôṯ, il Sefer ha-mazzalôṯ e un brano che è stato intitolato Il mondo fu creato a Nissan. A un attento esame, però, tali attribuzioni non sembrano essere suffragate da sufficienti prove. In questo articolo si parte dalle opere certamente attribuibili all’autore e, comparandole con i tre testi qui presi in esame, si presentano degli indizi, sia stilistici sia contenutistici, che lascerebbero invece supporre che questi ultimi non siano attribuibili con certezza al sapiente oritano.

David Koffman, Simon-Pierre Lacasse, and Elizabeth Moorhouse-Stein

Agata Jończyk

In the issue of abortion throughout the history, philosophers have spoken about trying to answer the fundamental questions when life begins and what is the moment, it is necessary to protect it. Culture and law, and to a large extent religion and religious beliefs, as also subscribed philosophical systems have influenced throughout the history to protect the unborn life. Judaism on this issue follows the Old Testament and the Catholic Church speaks about the holiness of life derived from the Gospel. The Catholic Church has also in that scope the internal regulations – the 1983 Code of Canon Law – which in the subject and present scope includes all Catholics. In the issue of protection of the unborn life, other religions have also taken a stand, among others: Orthodox Church, Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism. Axiological assumptions have a dominant influence on the development of the system of conceived life protection, and therefore they are so important.

Joshua Furnal

Although Nostra Aetate is only comprised of five short paragraphs, this document represents a turning point, not just for Catholic-Jewish relations, but also sketches the fundamental aims of embodying the Christian faith in a pluralistic age. There is a complex but important narrative that needs to be revisited so that we do not forget the ways in which Catholic learning has developed, and how this development has often been prompted by non-Catholics. In this article, I will re-examine some crucial details in the back-story of the formulation of Nostra Aetate and offer some observations about the potential consequences of omitting these details. My argument is that some recent events and scholarship suffer from a form of amnesia about the role that Jewish people have played in the development of Catholic learning—a form of amnesia that manifests in explicit proselytizing tendencies. In particular, I want to highlight the role that Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel played during the Second Vatican Council as an instructive example for Catholic-Jewish dialogue today.

Melissa Raphael

Contemporary commentators are well aware that the Jewish tradition is not an aniconic one. Far from suppressing art, the Second Commandment produces it. And not just abstract art; it also uses halakhically mandated idoloclastic techniques to produce figurative images that at once cancel and restore the glory (kavod) of the human. This article suggests that Jewish art’s observance of the Second Commandment’s proscription of idolatrous images (a commandment that belongs indivisibly with the First) is ever more relevant to a contemporary image-saturated mass culture whose consumption induces feelings of both hubris and self-disgust or shame. The article revisits Steven Schwarzschild’s interpretation of the halakhic requirement that artists should deliberately misdraw or distort the human form and Anthony Julius’s account of Jewish art as one that that mobilizes idol breaking. As an aesthetic consequence of the rabbinic permission to mock idols – and thereby render the ideological cults for which they are visual propaganda merely laughable or absurd – distortive, auto-destructive and other related forms of Jewish art are not intended to alienate the sanctity of the human. On the contrary, by honouring the transcendence of the human, especially the face, idoloclastic art knows the human figure as sublime, always exceeding any representation of its form. Idoloclastic anti-images thereby belong to a messianic aesthetic of incompletion that knows the world as it ought to be but is not yet; that remains open to its own futurity: the restoration of dignity, in love.

D. Carr

Jimmy Sudario Cabral

<p>The article affirms, from Paul Ricoeur and Michel de Certeau’s perspective, that the rising Jewish-Christian religious experience in the first century resulted from a historical drama. That is to say, it provided the setting of a crisis of mentality which went beyond the literary elaboration of symbols and mythos of the early  Christianity. Moreover, we seek to assess which sort of mental structure was being generating in the historical, political and religious setting of Christianity in the first century, so that it has been possible the creation of values and truths that has spread allover the Western culture, causing, as a result the German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s visceral and aristocratic rebelion. <br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>:  Religious Experience; Christian Judaism; Ethico-religious Pathos; Values, Truth. <br /><br /></p>

L. Francis, Yaacov B. Yablon, M. Robbins

Katja Vehlow

Dr Husain Farooq

Religion has played a significant role in human's individual, social, spiritual and material uplift. The exponents of various religions and their true followers have struggled in all ages to strengthen the thoughts and actions of the individual so as to put the society on the path of development. Therefore, the followers of every religion not only adopt sacred books and writings as their constitution but also hold the lives of pious people as their role model. A great portion of every religion pertains to the guidelines which help in guiding practical actions. Human history also shows that people infused with religious fervor have a significant contribution not-only in character building but-also in the activities of social welfare. In the present era of globalism, humans are notonly confronted by spiritual and material conflicts but also poverty, scarcity of resources, and natural calamities. Consequently a greater majority of people live without basic necessities. Globalism makes a serious demand on the part of religious circles to minimize hatred and focus on the comprehension and teaching of those concepts which promote happiness and welfare. The present study presents a brief picture of the concept of social welfare and development in the light of the world's major religions.

Kenia Maria de Almeida Pereira

O poema “Ahasverus e o gênio”, de Castro Alves dá relevo à lenda do Judeu Errante. Este artigo analisará esse poema e outros textos que apresentem temas judaicos. Levaremos também em consideração alguns estudos anteriores que retomam as questões românticas relacionadas ao poeta gênio e vate de um povo.

J. Astley, L. Francis, M. Robbins

J. Jacobs

Franz Rosenzweig, W. Hallo

Thomas F. X. Noble, J. M. Wallace-hadrill