Torah

1. Omens are the signals that will guide Santiago during his travel to the pyramids in Egypt. The first omen are the two stones that king Melchizedek gives Santiago the stones will help him make a decision when he gets confused. Santiago was a good omen to the crystal merchant with his idea of serving tea in the crystal glass help him make lots of money. Going to the desert was also an omen because it allows Santiago the opportunity to meet Fatima the love of his life. The hawk killing each…

The Jewish people recite prayers to God in order to individually show their appreciation and obedience to the Lord. The Shema is possibly the most integral prayer in Judaism. Recited once a day, hung inside the doorway of the entrance to a Jewish home and kept inside tefilla, prayer binding, the Shema is supposed to be remembered and kept sacred. (Fishbane 146) Most Jews, myself included, at one time or another had the Shema memorized. The importance of this prayer in Judaism come from words;…

A relation to diasporas and exilic experience is also exhibited by them. Some novels draw geographic and territorial borderlines show the movements of immigration, and talk of strangers at home and homelessness as a state of existence. Some writers showed the attempts and failures to become a national subject and are deeply imprinted with racial, gender and cultural differences and haunted by the Jewish figure of Diaspora. The novels thus become a medium of performance, self-reflection and role…

The Seder is a seasonal ritual meal that has been celebrated for many years once a year by Jewish people. It helps them remember how God gave them back their freedom from the Egyptians. Although Moses played a major role in the famous Exodus story he is not mentioned in the Seder. Instead they focus mostly on the Jewish people, and Adonai, who they consider Lord. A ritual can be classified a number of different ways, and can fit the description of more than one category. The Seder in my opinion…

A little history and the differences according to Molloy, on Reform and Orthodox Judaism. Traditional Judaism started off as every religion did congregating together worshiping their religion. Then came the Reform Judaism religion that veered off the traditional path. “An early influence on this movement was Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), a major thinker and writer. Mendelssohn although he was not a Reform Jew, helped shape Reform and Orthodox Judaism” (Molloy, 2010. P. 335). The bases of…

The Holy Bible depicts many different symbolic meanings. Amongst the various interpretations of the Bible, the numerology within the book holds high significance. Many numbers are repeated throughout the bible and each of them are strategically placed. Numbers are so frequent in scripture that you can find a number in about one in five spiritual verses (Biblestudy.org). The numbers one, three, six, seven, twelve, and forty, are some of the most symbolic in the Old Testament. When reading the…

My prophet project is Habakkuk. Habakkuk “complains” to God about the injustices being committed by the Babylonians. Habakkuk was a prophet in the Old Testament. He is the author of the Book of Habakkuk. Almost nothing is known about Habakkuk, aside from what few facts are stated in the book Habakkuk within the Old Testament, or those inferences that may be drawn from that book.His name appears in the Bible only in Habakkuk 1:1 and 3:1, with no biographical details provided other than his…

Hasidic Judaism is a Jewish religious group in the 18th century. Although, this was more modern times; there was history within this religious group. Hasidism first began in the 12th century. A person may wonder, “What is the modern version of Hasidism?” First, Modern Hasidism was established in Poland by a master named Israel Ben Eliezer. One may recognize him known as “Master of the Good Name.” Throughout centuries, Hasidism has spread throughout parts of the world. Hasidic Judaism may seem…

Jonathan Cahn’s book The Harbinger constantly draws parallels and makes similarities between the United States and the Kingdom of Israel. The book tells us that Founding Fathers envisioned a country based on the rules of God and a “Light Unto the Nations”. The book also portrays that America was founded similar to ancient Israel. Jonathan Cahn constantly lists a series of signs and warnings, that were the cause of ancient Israel's destruction. The way Cahn does this is by portraying harbingers…

The eastern sources are not strong contenders for direct sources as they lack specifics in similarity. There are, , present visual likenesses from which an author could draw to color a story. Conversely, the western sources show an inversion trait. Portier-Young and Roark argue the author of the Watcher narrative wrote against Prometheus Bound, pitting the loving God of Israel against capricious Zeus. The Tradition of Seven Lean Years also carries inversions: a flood from which God delivers Noah…