Rabbi

Legal systems can be dated back to the ancient peoples. There are many different legal systems that have evolved in other parts of the world. There are two types of legal system, the secular and religious legal system. It is argued that the Australian legal system is radically different to other legal systems. This, however, is not the case through findings and comparison with the Madayin legal system and Talmudic Jewish legal system. There are many similarities found such as the outcome that…

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks claims that the commandment to not oppress a stranger “[leaps] off the page by [its] sheer moral power.” He grounds this commandment in its theological-historical context, quoting Baba Metsia 59B from the Bavli, which reminds us…

Conservatives tend to preserve the traditional elements of Judaism while making room for modern ideas such as the idea that a woman can be a rabbi. Frankel taught that Jewish law needed to be interpreted in a modern context. As a result, it is difficult to identify specific theological beliefs that separate them from Orthodox or Reform Jews. For instance, Conservative Jews obey the Sabbath but…

The holocaust is one of the most horrific events in history. Eliezer Wiesel”s Night describes the horrifying events Eliezer experiences in multiple concentration camps during the holocaust. Eliezer goes through the loss of his loved ones, the loss of his faith, and the thinning of his soul. Eliezer goes through many changes, some might be drastic, some might not, as he progresses as a character throughout the book. At first, Eliezer is faithful to Jewish culture. In the beginning of the book…

Rabbi Asher Wieder said he doesn't see the request as being unreasonable, given what Y members would normally look on to through the windows."Their windows are basically [on] a lane, where traffic is, during the day, and even at night, trucks, deliveries…

Forced out of their synagogues for several doctrinal disagreements, early Christians, who were predominately Jewish, began gathering in the only place they could for worship, each others homes. Although the exclusion from temple worship was meant to bring the new sect of Judaism known as Christianity to an end, the first century house church became an incubator for the infant faith. Communion being such an essential aspect of early Christian worship, breaking bread together was primarily their…

as the guards. One instance of dark humor being presented in the work comes when a character says “Let him rave. They’ll take him to the oven that much sooner” (Borowski 2252). Although to many this quote is seen as awful and demeaning towards the rabbi which they were addressing, the constant violence and awful sights that these prisoners experienced made early death seem like a common and unavoidable certainty leading to twisted…

The Song of Songs was first a carefully crafted collection of secular love poems celebrating the physical, sexual, and erotic love between man and woman. Later, Jewish and Christian custom transformed it into a beautiful manuscript of religious belief. This alteration was deemed necessary once the Song became part of the Bible because God is not cited in the book at all. In the often-quoted passage Song 8:6, one expression, in particular, can be translated as a reference to God or not: The last…

PREFACE As a someone who was born, raised, and currently practices Catholicism, I wanted to immerse myself in a different religion. Spiritual development played a role in my holistic development as an undergraduate student and I wanted to see this development within other students, in a completely different religion than mine. I have been surrounded by a majority of Christians my entire life. I grew up in a town of 1,500 people where I knew one family who practiced a religion other than…

keeps the Big 3: Shabbat, Kashrut, and Mikvah and if you’re single that you intend on following the laws of family purity upon marriage. I grew up in a Modern Orthodox, Zionistic home. My mother’s family has rabbis in our ancestry. My maternal grandmother has two ' grandfathers who were rabbis and her father was born in the Old City. My maternal grandfather grew up with a father who was a shochet. (A ritual slaughterer) My father’s family was not religiously observant. My father has told…