Posts Tagged: Talmud
New Findings About Jews and Judaism Revealed in the New Testament (INTERVIEW)
It is well known that Christianity sprang from a Jewish context. While there may be controversy about Jesus' Judaism vs. the traditional Judaism of the...
Prophets of the Jews
According to the Talmud, the Jewish people produced 48 prophets and seven prophetesses (Tractate Megillah 14a). In the Middle Ages, Rabbenu Hananel ben Hushiel (990-1053 CE)...
Return the Talmud’s Confrontational Voice to Judaism
JNS.org - The very idea of identifying religious faithfulness with a commitment to critically engaging and bravely confronting one's religion's sources of authority runs afoul...
Jewish Warfare: A Traditional Perspective
In the timely hour of battle between Israel and its neighbors, it is helpful to recall the timeless principles of warfare set out in the...
Followership
There is a fascinating sequence of commands in the great "holiness code" with which our parsha begins, that sheds light on the nature not just...
The Path to Spiritual Self Improvement
The Talmud makes the seemingly outlandish claim that Israel generated 1.2 million prophets over the roughly 900-year period that the two Temples stood. At that...
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Talmud to be Auctioned
JNS.org - When Rabbi Ovadia Yosef died last October, the former Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel and spiritual leader of the Shas political party...
Authors Examine Education’s Impact on Jewish History (REVIEW)
JNS.org - Why has education been so important to the Jewish people? Author Maristella Botticini says a unique religious norm enacted within Judaism two millennia...
Christmas With Britain’s Jews
For many British Jews, Christmas is a special and even surreal experience. As Santa Claus tried to find his way amid gale-force winds and ice storms...
How to Succeed? Fail, Get Up, and Try Again
At first, Moses' mission seemed to be successful. He had feared that the people would not believe in him, but God had given him signs...
UAE Newspaper Clams Israeli Schools Teach Kids to Murder Non-Jews (UPDATE)
Emirati News writes about a supposed investigation into Israeli schools and how they teach kids to kill Arabs as part of the curriculum. According to this...
Why Judaism and Superstition Don’t Mix
Dr. Narendra Dabholkar was a doughty activist against superstition and black magic. A gentle man but fiercely rational, he would travel throughout India exposing frauds,...
Gaza Public School Education to Include Courses Promoting ‘Resistance to Israel’
Terror group Hamas, which controls the Gaza strip, announced Tuesday it has added studies to encourage "resistance to Israel" to the territory's public schools...
Greatness is Humility
A sequence of verses in this week's sedra gave rise to a beautiful Talmudic passage - one that has found a place in the siddur....
