Modern Orthodox Judaism

Throughout the novel Night, Elie Wiesel stated three poignant and relevant quotes during his survival of the Holocaust. Firstly, he claims that the torture he endured and observing his people walking into their own deaths will forever change the way he views God and the world. Secondly, he loses his faith towards mankind because he feels sympathetic towards a child receiving misfortune in the concentration camp rather than adult. Lastly, Wiesel learns that Hitler is the only person throughout…

from New York University and taught Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Religion. In addition, he taught classics, philosophy, urbanism, Middle Eastern history, and Islamic Studies. E.F. Peters is a knowledgeable man and leader in the field of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Peters book Jesus and Muhammad, takes place in ancient history. Jesus lived during the first century, and Muhammad lived about 600 years after him during the seventh century. Peter’s illustrates the similarities of…

The book of Hebrews is a letter written by an anonymous author offering guidance in God’s ways. Similar to the letter’s of Paul, such as that to the Galatians where he offered explanation to God’s ways, therefore delineating their flaws, this letter serves to delineate not only guidance but also to point out flaws and the results of inequity. As distinction can be made between these to letters as the letter to the Galatians is directed to group of people residing in one same city; in the…

The conflict between the laws of the state and the laws of indivdual consciene is a hard decision to face. However, both characters in, Antigone by Sophocles and Sarah’s Key by Tatiana DeRosnay come face to face with this difficult desicion. The charcters experience similar situations of facing against injustices. Similar to Antigone, Sarah is forbidden to see her brother, but is wiling to do anything to see him and goes against unfair laws put in place. These similar concpets connects the two…

During Elie Wiesel’s time in the Holocaust, from time to time he started to change as a person and started to question the God he praised so much. When the reader first realizes that Elie starts to lose his faith was on the very first night of his time at the camp, “Never shall I forget these moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes”(34). The quote explains when Elie first starts to lose his faith in God when it says that his God was murdered. After that event Elie…

Circumcision: The Thought Behind the Procedure The practice of circumcision is as old as 4000 years ago. It’s a surgical procedure that removes the forskin of the penis. It is most known for its spiritual and cultural meaning, however it also has some medical benefits. Many people vary on the views of this practice. As popular as it is in the United States to do days after birth, many religions, cultures and countries have their own way to carry out this practice. No matter which way the…

What an honor it must have been to be chosen by God to lead God's chosen people out of bondage, and into the Promised Land. Moses must have been very brave, and commanding in order to carry out such an enourmeous task as that. What a priveledge! If God were not the Great and powerful Being that He is. He would have needed someone very brave and commanding, but since He is; He chose Moses. Moses; a middle-aged shephard, slow in speech, and a runaway from Egypt because of a murder he commited…

The best way to begin the book called Paul the Missionary is to define the term “mission.” According to the book, the word “mission” as “intentionality and movement” (22). Moreover, Schnabel uses Jesus and Paul’s ministry as the examples of missions. Paul describes Jesus’ mission as “movement from God into the world and in terms of the intentionality of Jesus’ mission in Galatians 4:4-5” (26). Furthermore, in Galatians 1:1 and 15-16 describes Paul’s mission as movement and intentionality.…

There are alot of similarites between the the first, Elohist source, and fourth, Deuteronomist source, printed versions of the Ten Commandments with the fourth version being a little more descriptive. However, with the exception of three verses in Exodus 34 by the Jahwist source, the third version is quite different from the other versions with several scriptures that are similar if not exactly alike the scriptures found later on in the Book of the Covenant. The story of Moses receiving the…

The Prophet Zechariah prophesied during the reign of the Persian King Darius, who ruled the Persian Empire from 522 BC – 486 BC. Zechariah was not only a prophet, but a priest as well (Hays, 2010, p. 345). He ministered about the promises of Yahweh, and encouraged the people that salvation and restoration were on their way, if the people would repent and obey Yahweh (Hays, 2010, pp. 345-346). Zechariah’s purpose was to attempt to rekindle a spiritual fire in the hearts of the nation (Jackson…