Talmud

When he was a child, Wiesel was extremely religious, studying “Torah, Talmud, and Kabbalah” (Henry 1) everyday. Wiesel invited God into his speech by claiming “we”, being all of the Jews, felt as if they were being abandoned by God. However, they kept their faith, believing it was better to suffer with Christ than against…

Unlike Rabbinic Jews, the Karaite Jews believed that the oral portions of the Talmud are invalid due to conflicting messages.[10] Ultimately, the Romans responded to these foreign values with demands that the Jews submit to Roman rule and convert to Roman faith, as previously stated, and I found no evidence or research regarding preferential…

Have you ever pictured yourself living in the middle of WWII or even being in the brutal war? Markus Zusak wrote a fiction novel called The Book Thief , the book was about a German girl during WWII, she lived with her foster parents on a very poor street near Munich, Germany. Elie Wiesel was one of the many Jews that was affected by WWII. Elie was a young Jewish boy when the war first broke out, he was separated from everyone in his family, besides his father. Elie faced many years of…

According to Rabbi Boras, Judaism is “the personal struggle to manifest oneself in the face of god while keeping one’s feet planted on the ground”. Similarly, Ehud Baron described religion in general as “an effort to connect what the universe is like to how people should live.” In fact Israel- which represents a culture, a faith, a place and the responsibility of the people- means to struggle with god. Jewish scholarship, history and practice define a particularly optimistic but always…

a Jewish day school so I am exposed to and involved in cultural Judaism there. While I am do not consider myself that good at actually speaking Hebrew, I am in the highest Hebrew class and I do aspire to get better at it. I am also in the highest Talmud class at my school and I do enjoy studying it. Furthermore, I appreciate a lot of Jewish values and try to keep them as best I can. I honor my parents and I am self-conscious about speaking Lashon Hara. One of the big values I struggle with is…

Judaism, Islam and Christianity all have one main belief in common: There is one God and He is the creator of the world. In Judaism, Shema is the essential confession of believing in one God. “This confession is completed by reminding the people to love this God with all their heart, soul and strength; to pray the Shema on arising and retiring; and to bind its words on their hands, foreheads, and doorposts to ensure that the awareness of the one true God might permeate their every thought and…

group accounted for only 1.4%. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_14806.html https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_04235.html; D. Bezworodka Jews in Czenstochow, Russia industry played a significant role in developing manufacturing. Entrepreneurs would sometimes visit a German factory replicate the equipment and methods of production. Several workers from Werder's gold factory, from Jerzy Landau's celluloid factory, from…

Cannabis & Culture With origins dating back 10,000 years, the psychoactive Cannabis plant, or commonly known as marijuana, has swept the globe as one of the oldest agricultural plants. Stemming from Eastern Asia, using exportation of goods and exploration as a tool to travel the world, it has left roots scattered across every continent (excluding Antarctica). Its use has varied from helping to reach a state of euphoria, to being used in textiles, which has helped countries such as China and…

HOW DOES JUDAISM ACHIEVE PEACE AND INTER-FAITH UNDERSTANDING? Judaism is the 5th most popular religion in the world, with a population of approximately 14,000,000 followers (Berman Jewish Database, 2014). Judaism is an Abrahamic religion that promotes the seven dimensions of religion in everyday life. Through study of sacred texts, it becomes apparent that people of the Jewish faith are strong believers of peace, tolerance and inter-faith understanding. It is through the legal and ethical,…

Kevyn Aucoin once said, “Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it, ” Humanity is about choices and being able to make mistakes as well as successes. The Jews during the Holocaust, however, had no opportunity and any revolt against orders resulted in death. The lack of will the Jews…