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El Libro de Jaser es una antigua obra que ha capturado la atención a lo largo de los siglos, vinculando relatos bíblicos conocidos con detalles adicionales y relatos extendidos. Aunque la autenticidad del texto ha sido objeto de debate, su presencia en las referencias biblicas sugiere una antiguedad significativa.Esta obra proporciona una perspectiva ampliada de eventos biblicos clave, desde la creacion del mundo hasta eventos posteriores al Exodo, presentando relatos adicionales y detalles intrigantes que no se encuentran en las Escrituras canonicas. El Libro de Jaser a menudo se destaca por sus narrativas detalladas sobre figuras biblicas, aportando capas de contexto y profundidad a las historias familiares.Aunque su estatus como obra canonica es discutido, el Libro de Jaser continua siendo objeto de interes tanto para estudiosos religiosos como para aquellos fascinados por las historias biblicas. Su sinopsis revela un compendio de relatos que expanden y enriquecen las narrativas conocidas, proporcionando a los lectores una ventana intrigante a la antiguedad y a la forma en que las historias sagradas han evolucionado y resonado a lo largo del tiempo.

He aquí una obra clave para todas aquellas personas que deseen iniciarse en el camino de búsqueda del conocimiento infinito de la Cábala. De forma didáctica, amena y gradual, el texto nos permitirá ir descubriendo una realidad que permanece oculta y que esta esperando a ser revelada. El misterio de la Cabala es una guia basica de conceptos cabalisticos donde descubrir cada uno de los misterios que encierran nuestras almas. Una magistral guia para la sabiduria que nos acerca a una conciencia universal y a la interpretacion secreta de la Ley Divina. Gracias a la Cabala podremos tomar las riendas de nuestras vidas y avanzar hacia la felicidad, la plenitud y la paz interior, sin olvidar que esta espiritualidad tiene asimismo que ver con dejar el mundo mejor de como lo hemos encontrado.

Si Occidente es impensable sin el judaísmo, este volumen indaga los pasos y temas judíos que han dejado su rastro en el contexto iberoamericano: la emigración judía a tierras americanas, no exenta de episodios antisemitas, la literatura que el judaismo ha generado en America Latina, el antisemitismo español, el marranismo como clave de la Modernidad, o la diaspora y el sionismo como respuesta a los interrogantes ligados con la identidad judia. Tambien se abordan cuestiones como el misticismo judio en su relacion con la escritura, la filosofia judia medieval hispana, la cuestion de la existencia de un pensamiento judio o la filosofia iberoamericana despues de Auschwitz.

La mañana del 7 de octubre de 2023, el sur de Israel fue el escenario de una cacería humana despiadada. El movimiento fundamentalista islámico Hamás, que desde 2007 gobierna de facto la Franja de Gaza, invadio el territorio israeli con un operativo coordinado por tierra, aire y mar. Su objetivo era claro: matar a la mayor cantidad de gente posible, pero tambien mutilar cuerpos, torturar, violar a mujeres y niñas, tomar rehenes y llevarlos cautivos a Gaza. En unas pocas horas, mas de 1.200 muertos, cientos de heridos, 240 rehenes y una nacion entera sumida en el terror atestiguaban la dimension de la barbarie.El gobierno de Israel declaro formalmente el estado de guerra. Emprendio una incursion militar con el objeto de recuperar a los secuestrados y destruir la capacidad armamentista y operativa del movimiento terrorista, que se esconde entre los civiles gazaties. Pero ¿cual fue la reaccion de amplios sectores de la poblacion mundial? ¿Que hay detras de la escasa solidaridad y la poca empatia recibidas por el pueblo de Israel y los judios en general luego de la masacre? ¿Por que el mundo acepta con naturalidad que haya organizaciones terroristas e incluso paises que abiertamente declaran que anhelan la desaparicion de Israel y que estan dispuestos a llevarla a cabo? ¿Es Israel el culpable de que no haya paz en Medio Oriente? ¿Cual es el rol de Iran? ¿Que significa que miles y miles de manifestantes alrededor del mundo, en ciudades como Nueva York, Paris, Londres, Madrid, Sidney o Bogota, canten por un nuevo genocidio de los judios, reivindicando la matanza de Hamas?En este libro, Miguel Bronfman ensaya respuestas para estos y otros interrogantes. Con agudeza, recurriendo a la historia y al derecho, analiza como la masacre del 7 de octubre reactivo algo oscuro y siniestro. Es un viejo conocido: el odio a los judios.

Este libro es un estudio crítico del sionismo, ideología política ultranacionalista que ha causado un gran sufrimiento al pueblo palestino y que cada día pone en serio peligro la seguridad de los ciudadanos del Estado de Israel. Aquel que vea en este texto un ataque contra el pueblo judio, contra la poblacion israeli o contra el derecho de estos a vivir en paz en Israel, dentro de sus fronteras reconocidas legalmente, estara completamente equivocado.La colaboracion del sionismo con el nazismo es, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los temas mas llamativos de la historia del Estado de Israel. El sionismo politico ha manipulado la historia de forma cinica, para justificar la existencia de un Estado judio en Oriente Medio sin fronteras establecidas, y ha explotado hasta la saciedad el Holocausto nazi, a pesar de que importantes instituciones sionistas colaboraron activamente con el nazismo mediante pactos, como el Acuerdo Haavara.

El Zohar de Moisés de León es una obra maestra mística que nos sumerge en las profundidades del pensamiento esotérico y la Cábala. Atribuido a Moisés de León, este texto sagrado es una exploración fascinante de los misterios divinos y la naturaleza de la realidad. A lo largo de sus paginas, el Zohar desentraña los secretos del universo, revelando enseñanzas profundas sobre la creacion, la conexion divina y el proposito espiritual. El autor guia al lector a traves de interpretaciones simbolicas de la Tora, proporcionando una perspectiva unica sobre la relacion entre lo visible y lo invisible. El Zohar no solo es un texto religioso, sino una obra que ha inspirado a buscadores espirituales y eruditos a lo largo de los siglos. Su riqueza simbolica y su enfoque en la iluminacion espiritual lo convierten en una herramienta esencial para aquellos que buscan una comprension mas profunda de la existencia y la conexion con lo divino. Sumergete en este viaje mistico y descubre las enseñanzas transformadoras del Zohar que han influido en la espiritualidad judia y mas alla.

Before the Enlightenment, before Spinoza had rejected traditional beliefs about the Bible, came the humanistic skeptics of the Renaissance. Alongside oft-cited Christian thinkers, Eliezer Eilburg now takes his rightful place. Comparable in view to Christopher Marlowe or Noel Journet, Eilburg perhaps uniquely represents the possibilities of Jewish skepticism in his day. Eliezer Eilburg: The Ten Questions and Memoir of a Renaissance Jewish Skeptic makes available for the first time a bilingual edition of two key works by the Jewish rationalist skeptic, kabbalist, and memoirist, Eliezer Eilburg. The Ten Questions-addressed to the Maharal of Prague and two of his colleagues-is one of the most radical statements of Jewish skepticism authored during the sixteenth century. Published here in its entirety, this text is especially remarkable for its critical approach to the Bible, foreshadowing later intellectual trends. Although many of his opinions were considered heretical by Jewish authorities, Eilburg argued that his doubts were innocent, and that there was room within Judaism for his skepticism. He presented himself as a penitent whose eyes had been opened through the study of medicine and philosophy and who had merited angelic visions and kabbalistic dreams. The second text, Eilburgs experimental memoir, is one of the very first modern Jewish efforts at autobiography. Put together from many smaller pieces, this patchwork of brag and bile is a unique document of sixteenth-century Jewish life. It is a testimony, if not to the "emergence of the individual" in this period, then at least to the emergence of new Jewish ways of imagining and writing about the self. Eilburg was an enigmatic man, a unique and as yet mostly unstudied Jewish thinker. Though his works are directed to audiences of Jews, and argue for the improvement of Judaism, this volume will appeal to historians and scholars of intellectual traditions both in and outside of Jewish studies. /Interview with Joseph Davis- Ten Questions of Eliezer Eilburg

In this volume of essays, eminent Jewish scholars from around the world present introductions to the different parts of the Bible for the wider public. The essays encompass a general introduction to the Torah in Jewish life, and include specific essays on each of the Five Books of Moses, as well as on the Haftarot, Neviim, and Ketuvim. The contributions provide an overview of the core content of each book as well as highlight central themes and the reception and relevance of these themes in Jewish life and culture past and present. These essays, informed by and based on the profound academic research of their authors, together provide an invaluable bridge between high-level academic insight and the study of the Bible both in synagogues and in homes.

O Brasil é mesmo um país de práticas religiosas híbridas. Ninguém escapa disso. Este brilhante livro da jovem pesquisadora Andréa Kogan revela, a partir de um percurso teórico e empírico, o encontro entre o judaismo e o espiritismo na cidade de So Paulo. Esses judeus espiritas so ashkenazim e provenientes, prioritariamente, do Leste Europeu. Chegam ao Brasil a partir da Segunda Guerra Mundial e, ento, iniciam suas praticas de "evangelhos no lar", que se constituem em estudo e pratica da tradiço espirita kardecista. A pesquisadora frequentou muitas dessas reunies a fim de construir sua fundamentaço empirica. A obra se ocupa tambem de uma solida discusso acerca do que seriam essas duas identidades, a judaica e a espirita, a partir do que ha de mais contemporaneo e consistente na fortuna critica sobre ambas as religies. Trata-se, assim, de um exemplo do que ha de melhor em estudos de religio no Brasil nos ultimos anos.Luiz Felipe Ponde

Si Occidente es impensable sin el judaísmo, este volumen indaga los pasos y temas judíos que han dejado su rastro en el contexto iberoamericano: la emigración judía a tierras americanas, no exenta de episodios antisemitas, la literatura que el judaismo ha generado en America Latina, el antisemitismo español, el marranismo como clave de la Modernidad, o la diaspora y el sionismo como respuesta a los interrogantes ligados con la identidad judia. Tambien se abordan cuestiones como el misticismo judio en su relacion con la escritura, la filosofia judia medieval hispana, la cuestion de la existencia de un pensamiento judio o la filosofia iberoamericana despues de Auschwitz.

A educação é ferramenta indispensável para formar a criança e prepará-la para a vida, mas também arma potente para reduzir desigualdades e mudar o mundo. É assim que se compreendem os pioneiros chega

In the 2002 edition of From Ideology to Liturgy, Eric Caplan examined Reconstructionisms interpretation and adaptation of the traditional Jewish liturgy and its creation of new prayer texts to convey and express the movements changing ideology. Further insight into Reconstructionist liturgy was gained through comparing these prayerbooks to the contemporaneous liturgies of Reform and Conservative Judaism and to the work of Jewish Renewal. In this new supplemented reprint edition, Caplan offers an expansive study of liberal Jewish prayerbooks published in the decades since From Ideology to Liturgy first appeared and revisits his earlier conclusions in light of more recent expanded access to Mordecai Kaplans diaries and archives.

In this volume, students and colleagues of beloved teacher Mark Washofsky honor his erudition, superb pedagogy, kindness, humor, and flare with a collection of essays that reflect Washofskys incisive thought and expertise. Rabbi Mark Washofsky, Ph.D., Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Jewish Law and Practice and distinguished ethicist of the Reform Movement, specializes in the literature of the Talmud and Jewish law. Dr. Washofsky focuses on how Jewish tradition responds to contemporary issues. His book, Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice, serves as a desk reference for many congregational leaders and professionals. His extensive publications include Reform Responsa for the Twenty-First Century as well as essays and articles on medieval halakhic literature, the application of legal theory to the study of Jewish law, Jewish bioethics, outreach and conversion.

Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990) was one of Americas most distinguished, influential, and beloved rabbis. Ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1915, he was of the generation of rabbis from east European immigrant backgrounds who moved Reform Judaism away from its classical form toward a renewed appreciation of traditional practices. Freehof himself was less interested in restoring discarded rituals than in demonstrating how the Reform approach to Jewish religious practice was rooted in the Jewish legal tradition (halakhah). Opposed to any attempt to create a code of Reform practice, he nevertheless called for Reform Judaism to turn to the halakhah, not in order to adhere to codified law, but to be guided in ritual and in all areas of life by its values and its ethical insights. For Reform Jews, Jewish law was to offer "guidance, not governance," and this guidance was to be provided through the writing of responsa, individual rulings based on legal precedent, written by an organized rabbinic authority in response to questions about real-life situations. After World War II, the earlier consensus about what constituted proper observance in a Reform context vanished as the children of east European immigrants flocked to new Reform synagogues in new suburbs, bringing with them a more traditional sensibility. Even before Freehof was named chairman of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Responsa Committee in 1956, his colleagues began turning to him for guidance, especially in the situations Freehof recognized as inevitably arising from living in an open society where the boundaries between what was Jewish and what was not were ambiguous or blurred. Over nearly five decades, he answered several thousand inquiries regarding Jewish practice, the plurality of which concerned the tensions Jews experienced in navigating this open society-questions concerning mixed marriage, Jewish status, non-Jewish participation in the synagogue, conversion, and so on-and published several hundred of these in eight volumes of Reform responsa. In her pioneering study, Friedman analyzes Freehofs responsa on a select number of crucial issues that illustrate the evolution of American Reform Judaism. She also discusses the deeper issues with which the movement struggled, and continues to struggle, in its attempt to meet the ever-changing challenges of the present while preserving both individual autonomy and faithfulness to the Jewish tradition.

It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of happiness was a central concern of Jewish thinkers. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century. These claims make sense if one understands happiness as human flourishing on the basis of Aristotles thought in the Nichomachean Ethics. Linking virtue, knowledge, and well-being, Aristotles analysis of happiness can be traced in Jewish understanding of human flourishing as early as the Greco-Roman world, but the fusion of Greek and Judaic perspectives on happiness reached its zenith in in the Middle Ages in the thought of Moses Maimonides and his followers. Even the controversies about Maimonides ideas could be viewed as discussions about the meaning of happiness and the way to attain it within Judaism. Much of this book, then, concerns the reception of Aristotles Ethics in medieval Jewish philosophy. This book shows how a certain notion of happiness reflects the intellectual culture of a given period, including cultural exchanges among Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Demonstrating the discourse on happiness as a dramatic interplay between Wisdom and Torah, between philosophy and religion, between reason and faith, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson presents, to specialists and non-specialists alike, a fascinating tour of Jewish intellectual history.

This anthology provides in-depth insights into Hebraic Literature and its main foundations. In the Talmud is contained the very life of the Jewish race. The Midrashim are expositions of Jewish legends and the Kabbala is the foundation of Jewish Metaphysics. In addition the reader will learn a lot about proverbial sayings, traditions, feasts and festivals.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala is a book by Various authors. It delves into nearly all major Jewish texts and provides historical and religious insights.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala is a profound compilation that presents English translations of seminal Jewish texts, focusing on the Talmud, Midrashim, and Kabbalistic writings. This anthology serves both as a critical resource and a literary exploration, revealing the intricate dynamics of Jewish thought and theology through accessible translations. The work reflects a rich tapestry of rabbinic discourse and mysticism, merging narrative style with theological depth, providing readers with insight into the moral, spiritual, and philosophical dimensions of Hebraic literature within its historical context. The editors and contributors behind this anthology come from diverse academic and cultural backgrounds, deeply invested in preserving and celebrating Jewish heritage. Their collaborative efforts to render these ancient texts into modern English arise from a commitment to bridge cultural and temporal divides, allowing contemporary audiences to engage with the complexities of Jewish intellectual tradition. By contextualizing these texts, the editors invite readers to experience the depth of Jewish scholarship through a modern lens. Hebraic Literature is highly recommended for scholars, students, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Jewish spirituality and ethics. Whether approached for academic study or personal enrichment, this anthology is an invaluable resource that illuminates the richness of Hebraic literary traditions, inviting readers into a dialogue that spans centuries.

The bare outline of the story of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is well known both to scholars and in the popular imagination. The precise details--the sequence and causal interplay of events, even some of the key players behind the scenes--are less well known and sometimes completely forgotten or misconstrued. The recovery of this history in all its complexity is vital for understanding how and why scholarly work on the Scrolls developed as it did over the six decades during which the texts were slowly published. Jason Kalman recovers the fascinating story of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religions involvement with the Dead Sea Scrolls from their discovery in 1948 until the early 1990s when they were first made accessible to all scholars and to the public. Scholars at HUC-JIR actively participated in efforts to acquire and preserve the manuscripts and played a significant part in breaking the monopoly of scholars initially assigned to publish them. Despite these activities, a number of HUC-JIRs influential teachers took a negative view of the scrolls. As a consequence, rabbinical students either did not encounter the material or left the institution with a view of it that was far from the mainstream. This book traces the activities of HUC-JIRs administration and faculty over five decades, the contribution they made to the new academic field, and their influence on how knowledge of the Dead Sea Scrolls was shared with the community at large. Many details about security negatives stored at HUC and about the bootleg reconstruction are revealed for the first time.