Bereavement in Judaism

Anti-Semitism prevailed post WWI leaving the Jewish population desperate for safety in search of a Jewish state. The League of Nations entrusted Great Britain with the Mandate for Palestine after defeating the Ottoman Empire. Britain broadly carved Palestine and Jordan into separate entities and with the Balfour Declaration declared Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Even though the majority of the land was divided in sanjaks—Arab tenant farmers under Turk sultans, with the growing anti-Semitism in…

stories and ideas of the sacred texts are evident in a lot of Israel’s modern culture today, which draws on the inheritances of the past even as it gives voice to the issues and concerns of the present. The Judaism religion started around 4000 years with many Hebrews living in the middle east. Judaism is a religion that has special and unique rituals, ways of celebrating and beliefs that are very important to their culture and day to day life. People apart of the Jewish religion, believe that…

During the fall of the Roman Empire, the government would hold events in the famous colosseum where they would throw in peasants, men, families, and children, strip them naked, and have them fight lions or fight each other to the death. The audience would be given bread and wine to enjoy during the entertainment. For many years, this was how the Roman Empire would distract its inhabitants from the crumbling empire around them. Presently when we describe forcing humans to fight each other to…

Bruno is the main character in ‘The Boy and The Striped Pajamas’ we first meet him on page one, chapter one, but we start to learn about Bruno's personality more on page four of the book. Bruno is also is quite naive at times in the book in general and on what is going at Out-With. This is a shock to me as his father is a powerful Commandant so I would think Bruno would have a lot of tuition on what was the Fury’s (Hitler’s) plan for the future of Germany, or at least at child friendly version.…

Furthermore, the topic of ‘planning and budgeting’ can be compared to the story of Moses and the Second Census of Israel in The Book of Numbers, Chapter 26:1-7. The story states that “the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saying, Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel…and they that were numbered were forty and three thousand and…

Jewish Holidays Jewish holidays are filled with tradition and go back hundreds of years. Some are about solemn occasions but some are more lively and festive. Jews have their own calendar, The Hebrew Calendar. Their calendar is based upon lunar orbits which one cycle is 29.5 days. A lunar year is 354 days which is 11 days less than the solar year which is 365.25 days. The Jewish society add an extra month to the Hebrew calendar seven times out of every 19 years. If they did not do this their…

the Assyrian Empire invaded ancient Israel, the Hebrew people were surrounded by mostly polytheistic traditions (Perry, Marvin et al., 2016, 34). As a result, the Hebrews had to modify their culture to accommodate their circumstances. Even though Judaism is an old monotheistic religion that is comprised of Jews who exclusively worships one God, the early Hebrew people, however, did not observe monotheism. Instead, the Hebrews most likely developed a distinct form of monolatrism. The fact of the…

In Chapter three and four of Exodus, Moses has an encounter with God. God appears before Moses in the form of a burning bush to give him a mission; he is to go to Egypt to talk to Pharaoh about releasing the Israelites from slavery in the land. This passage is significant, because it establishes the employing of Moses to speak for God to both the Pharaoh and the Israelites. The commission that Moses is given in this passage is what leads to the Exodus, the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai, and the…

In the beginning the Hebrews were divided into 12 different tribes. They each had their own leader and a single leader that was over all of the tribes. These tribes were eventually united under King Saul. He helped solve conflicts between the tribes that were caused by them being separated. Israel was the first ever united kingdom. King Saul’s reign was unsuccessful, but then soon came King David. Jerusalem was united under King David. He united all tribes of Israel under complete monarchy.…

Introduction The book of Psalms was a compilation of poems that were sung in worship sessions. Singing Psalms was one way that helped the reader to understand the message being spoken. The scriptures are the witnesses of people of the Old Testament. Among others, David was one of the authors of the Psalms. This book is identified as the wisdom book. We will all need wisdom at some point in our life’s journey and Psalms, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes can assist us with knowledge and understanding…