Talmud

Having faith is something that many learn in the early stages of their lives. It is a trait that everyone should acquire as it helps shape one's personality and the way they act towards others. After reading Wiesel’s Night and Stienbeck’s Of Mice and Men and watching The Wave, the idea of obtaining the good of faith and about believing in your surrounding people is the most important message to be acquired because faith is an important quality that can teach people how to act better in general…

Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel tells the story of the days he had spent in concentration camps among other Jewish people in his 1956 memoir, Night. He narrates first hand what he and his family experienced and their journey throughout this very horrific time. He shares how the Wiesel family was moved from their home in Sighet, Transylvania to a ghetto, and later on to Auschwitz in which they are seperated from one another. Elie loses everything he has once known and loved except for his father. As the…

Faded faith Elie Wiesel was one of the persons that survived the Holocaust. He was an author and wrote totally 57 books. Among them, the trilogy, Night, Dawn and Day, which were about his own experiences of the Holocaust. Wiesel achieved the Nobel peace prize 1986 and he unfortunately died this summer. He became 87 years old. I think the book, Night, is a very special book to Wiesel. He even wrote that if only got to write one book, this would have been the one. I think that is because there…

“God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.” quoted Simon Wiesenthal. Simon Wiesenthal was a survivor of the Holocaust, which gives him a great amount of ethos in his quote. Another survivor of the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel, had the same thoughts. Eliezer, Elie as he is referred to, published a novel titled Night, which showed his struggles throughout the Holocaust. Elie was a Jewish boy who had wished to study Kabbalah prior to the Holocaust. According to Oxford Dictionaries, Kabbalah is…

hours after eating meat before eating dairy, as well as the restrictions on how the meat is slaughtered, as well as how dairy products are farmed and produced. All these things, in addition to the rich knowledge offered by Jewish texts such as the Talmud,…

True Friends Friendship is more than what the world believes it to be. Friends remain together through strenuous times. A few demonstrate this in The Chosen by Chiem Potok. These individuals convey love toward one another, they instruct each other in new things, and they stay close when life becomes burdensome. They build each other up, they give generously, and they exemplify love in any way they can. Their friendship stands forever and will never fall apart. Danny, Reuven, and Mr. Malter, all…

Upon completing Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir, a book detailing Solzhenitsyn’s account of the terrors of the Soviet Gulag, I picked up my copy of Krauthammer’s article At Last Zion and read through its seven pages. I am uncertain which text is more terrifying. Grandiose fatalistic vaticinations abound in Krauthammer’s piece. American Jewry, we are told, will decline and ultimately disappear. Later on we read that Israel, the renascent Jewish homeland, is “the last hope.” Though we are afforded…

According to Jewish history, the first Yom Kippur occurred after Moses returned from his second trip to Mt. Sinai with the replacement set of tablets containing the Ten Commandments. Moses had broken the first set when he discovered that the Israelite children were not worshipping God, but rather a golden calf. While Moses was making his second trip, the followers fasted from sunrise to sunset hoping that God would provide them forgiveness. Moses descended the mountain on the tenth of Tishri…

studies and search for knowledge. Solomon described Jews who were called Hasidim as "those who are distinguished by the exercise of the strictest piety." He describes these Jews as not being able to learn about science that does not come out of the Talmud or other sacred writings. This can be problematic because some Jews such as Maimon wanted to learn more about science and philosophy. Although he, along with others, desperately wanted to know more there was no scientific work being…

The division into two books appears to have come from the Christian tradition beginning with Origen in the second century A.D. Jerome also divided them into two books in his Latin translation, the Vulgate in the fourth century. According to the Talmud, Ezra was the author of both 1 & 2 Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah. Some scholars believe that these four books were written by the same author, but that this person was not Ezra and is sometimes identified as the “Chronicler.” Still others hold…