Talmud

Section A 1. A) Define the term religion in such a way that your definition includes the following characteristics: deity, community/congregation, morality, ritual. B) Some people argue that the world would be better off without religion. Others think that religion is very useful to society. Which view do you agree with and why? Religion is a system of beliefs driven by the feeling that some questions can only be answered by faith; for instances, questions such as where did we come from? and…

It didn 't matter how difficult the times were, he always had an inkling of faith left in his mind, whether he wanted to believe it or not. Wiesel was years, even decades ahead of his time when it came to religion. When he was 13, he focused on the Talmud during the day and prayer at night; religion was his whole life (3). At the age of 15, Wiesel wanted to begin to study the Kabbalah, which is Jewish mysticism, that was also known as Zohar, a 13th century commentary on the Oral Torah. Normally,…

Albert Einstein, born on March 19th of 1879, was thought to have had a mental disorder as a child. Little did everyone know he would grow up to be known as the most influential physicist of the 21st century. He was born into a Jewish family and spent most of his childhood in Munich, Germany, before moving to Pavia, Italy with his family. His parents worried about him throughout his infant and toddler years, mainly because he looked odd after birth, having a large, misshapen head and he did not…

son in his jewish family of four that had strict morals to the Jewish traditions and laws. In the family there were his father, mother, and his three young sisters named Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora. Elie interest was in studying the Jewish oral law, Talmud, Kabbalah, and also Jewish mystical texts. Important Quote: “He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin.” By Elie’s Father Question: “Why did…

Two courses of action, it was argued, were required. First, crypto-Judaism could only be overcome by the introduction of an Inquisition; second, Jewish influence over the conversos could only be overcome by their expulsion. These ideas, adumbrated in works such as Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium Fidei, continued to gain ground, and on 27 September 1480 the Catholic Monarchs appointed Inquisitors in Castile who began their work in Seville shortly after (1481). Conversos, often subjected to torture…

Many people believe the Holocaust was a single man 's beliefs, in the right place, at the right time. Those people, however, would be wrong. The Holocaust wasn 't just a single man 's belief; instead, there were many men throughout the years who contributed to the culmination of the vehement hatred of the Jewish people. By examining various time frames, such as the Middle Ages, more modern times, and even Hitler’s Germany, it is evident that there was a clear buildup of the anti-Semitic…

I asked several people the question “what is money?” and the responses I got were all very different. Several people gave the obligatory “cash” answer I was expecting, but some answers were more insightful than others. My waiter at a local restaurant, Michael Sovik, eloquently answered, “Money is paper currency with value backed by the U.S. government”. He then went on to say that he didn’t really understand how we are able to do that, and when asked about the derivative market he stated he had…

of her age…”that is, one that is arrived to years of maturity, is ripe for marriage. The minimum age for marriage under Jewish law is 13 for boys, 12 for girls; however, the kiddushin can take place before that, and often did in medieval times. The Talmud recommends that a man marry at age 18, or somewhere between 16 and 24. Paul is making the idea clear to let parents marry their children when this is the case; let the young men and young women marry who are dealing with desires, or passions…

Zoroastrianism, and its effect on Christianity Zoroastrianism is one of the world’s oldest religions, and is, in fact, the world’s oldest known monotheistic religion, generally believed to be created by Zarathustra around 1000 BCE (Bryan S. Rennie, Zoroastrianism: the Iranian roots of Christianity?, Council of Societies For the Study of Religion Bulletin 36.1, 4). Being the oldest known monotheistic religion, Zoroastrianism has, most likely, influenced, in some way or another, most modern…

While Jews certainly did prosper in medieval western Christendom - in Spain, England, France and the Holy Roman Empire - it is arguable whether this occurred during times of true Christian persecution, for this phrase implies a coherent, general and importantly, state-backed, form of oppression, which did not exist until late in the period. Indeed, even though anti-semitism did exist, the two distinct phases of Jewish prosperity during the Middle Ages were marked rather with tolerance and…