Synagogue

Introduction Thesis: Biblical teachers should be focused on the needs of the vulnerable in their society rather than their appearance with the people in public settings. Two Types of Teachers: Scribes vs. Jesus (12:35-37; 41-44) Chapter 12:35-44 is a continuation of the previous events in chapter 12. One of the themes seen in the previous events is Jesus being questioned, specifically by the scribes. The goal of the Pharisees and Scribes was to catch Jesus in the offense in order for them to…

Before the expulsion of Jews and extreme Catholic ruling in Spain, Jews had always “followed the laws of the monarchy” (14). The Jewish community was unified and active. Jews held services in synagogues and had a sense of community. Although they were allowed to practice their religion, they may not have felt comfortable practicing in public. Despite there being no proclamations against Jews, they were always “slaughtered” (14) with the approval of the Church. The King of Spain would appoint…

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reading a memoir entitled Maus. Its author, Art Spiegelman, provides his readers with thorough glimpses into each means by which the Jewish people experienced systematic persecution within locations containing Germans as their main occupants. Deemed possessors of inferiority from a racial standpoint, the Jewish people experienced deprivation of fundamental humankind privileges. Nazis brought on infiltration of each thing where Jewish individual day-to-day…

the family lights the candles and says a prayer welcoming the Shabbat. It is customary in many homes to light a candle for each child although this is not a practice carried out entirely across the board. After the candles are lit the men go to synagogue to say the night prayers which vary depending on the day of the week. The women, who generally do not say these prayers, do so on the first night of Shabbat. They usually sing these Shabbat night prayers in whatever tune they were taught since…

Luke begins the book of Acts by recording Jesus ' ascension to heaven, after he has been resurrected from the dead and met with his disciples. Before Jesus left his apostles he told them that the Holy Spirt would come. Not long after the ascension, the Day of Pentecost came and the Holy Spirt came over the apostles, and gave them the ability to speak in tongues. A crowd of people heard the apostles speaking in tongues, because they did not know what this meant the people assumed that the…

Produced in 1939 by Edgar G. Ulmer, The Light Ahead highlights a transition away from past superstitious beliefs toward Jewish Enlightenment thinking. The film is set in a small village of Glupsk, which serves to portray Jewish shtetl life as a juxtaposition to big city life. In his film, Ulmer pushes for the furtherance of Jewish Enlightenment through underlining stark contrasts in opinion between religious leaders of the village and Mendele, a book peddler and Jewish Enlightenment thinker.…

Eliezer Wiesel is the author of the memoir “Night”, a book describing the Holocaust from the perspective of fifteen year old Wiesel. The story begins in Sighet, Transylvania as Wiesel is forced from his homeland by the Nazis to Auschwitz and later transferred to Buchwald. Here Wiesel, still an innocent, impressionable young man, undergoes a horrific journey in which his only goal is to survive. His experiences of hopelessness, inhumanity, human suffering, and death in the concentration camps…

“I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith” ( Rose Kennedy). Bereft of faith, one is merely an empty shell who strives for nothing in life. Elie Wiesel uses Night to comment on the effects of the Holocaust that cause the loss of his faith. Elie Wiesel, once a religiously dedicated child, endures anguish and suffering in the concentration camps, which leads to the wavering of his belief in God and ultimately the destruction of it, transforming him into a…

The Russians would not accept the Jewish culture. In fact the Jews would be killed if found teaching or preaching in a synagogue. The major reason for separating with Russia was to stop getting abused. The Jewish people had to witness their own daughters and wives get raped by the Russian people and then killed. Muller 2. The pogroms affected the Jews in many ways. It severely…

The Bible is filled with a great number of passages, many of which have a very similar messages. For example, the books of Matthew and Luke both relay accounts of Jesus’ birth. While these stories differ slightly in detail, their purposes are similar and they share very much the same message. The same can be said for Romans 12 and The Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew. While they are different in many ways, such as authorship, their form, and when they were shared, both scriptures have a lot…