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The Crucifiable Jesus
The Crucifiable Jesus Steven Brian Pounds Peterhouse Faculty of Divinity University of Cambridge This dissertation is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy February 2019 This thesis is the result of my own work and includes nothing which is the outcome of work done in collaboration except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. It is not substantially the same as any that I have submitted, or, is being concurrently submitted for a degree or diploma or other qualification at the University of Cambridge or any other University or similar institution except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. I further state that no substantial part of my thesis has already been submitted, or, is being concurrently submitted for any such degree, diploma or other qualification at the University of Cambridge or any other University or similar institution except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. It does not exceed the prescribed word limit for the relevant Degree Committee Steven Brian Pounds “The Crucifiable Jesus” Abstract: In recent decades, scholars have both used Jesus’ crucifixion as a criterion of historicity and employed the rhetoric of a “crucifiable Jesus”– suggesting that some historical reconstructions of Jesus more plausibly explain his crucifixion than others. This dissertation tests the grounds of these proposals, whilst offering its own reconstruction of a crucifiable Jesus. It first investigates primary source depictions of Roman crucifixion and focuses upon the offences for which crucifixions were carried out. As a first level conclusion, it determines that, in a formal sense, a bare appeal to crucifiability or to a criterion of crucifixion does not yield what it purports to deliver because a wide range of offences were punishable by crucifixion. -
Halacha a Crash Course in Teruma and Maaser 1. Mishna Rosh Hashana 1:1 אַרְבָּעָּהרָּ אשֵׁ ישָּ נִיםהֵׁם
Why Tu Bishvat Matters: Halacha A Crash Course in Teruma and Maaser 1. Mishna Rosh Hashana 1:1 ַאְרָּבָּעה ָּראֵׁשי ָּשִנים ֵׁהם. ְבֶאָּחד ְבִניָּסן רֹאש ַהָּשָּנה ַלְמָּלִכים ְוָּלְרָּגִלים. ְבֶאָּחד ֶבֱאלּול רֹאש ַהָּשָּנה לְמַעְשַ רבְ הֵׁמָּ ה . ַרִבי ֶאְלָּעָּזר ְוַרִבי ִשְמעֹון אֹוְמִרים, ְבֶאָּחד ְבִתְשֵׁר י. ְבֶאָּחד ְבִתְשֵׁרי רֹאש ַהָּשָּנה ַלָּשִנים ְוַלְשִמִטין ְוַלּיֹוְבלֹות, ַלְנִטיָּעה ְוַלְיָּרקֹות. ְבֶאָּחד ִבְשָּבט, רֹאש ַהָּשָּנה ָּלִאיָּלן, ְכִדְבֵׁרי ֵׁבית ַשַמאי. בֵׁית הִ לֵׁל אֹוְמִרים, ַבֲחִמָּשה ָּעָּשר בֹו: There are four New Years: On the first of Nisan is the New Year for kings; And for the Festivals. On the first of Elul is the New Year for animal tithes; Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Shimon say: on the first of Tishrei. On the first of Tishrei is the New Year for years, for Sabbatical Years and Jubilee Years, for planting and for vegetables. On the first of Shevat is the New Year for the tree, in accordance with the statement of Beit Shammai. But Beit Hillel say: on the fifteenth. 2. Terumah and Maaser I have assigned to you as your share, you Terumah Gedola – Bemidbar 18:8-12 shall set aside from them one-tenth of the tithe as a gift to the LORD. This shall be ַוְיַדֵׁבר ה׳ ֶאלַ־אֲהֹרן ַוֲאִני ִהֵׁנה ָּנַתִתי ְלָך ֶאת־ִמְשֶמֶרת accounted to you as your gift. As with the ְתרּוֹמָּתי ְלָּכל־ָּקְדֵׁשי ְבֵׁני־ִיְשָּרֵׁאל ְלָך ְנַתִתים ְלָּמְשָּחה new grain from the threshing floor or the flow ּוְלָּבֶניָך ְלָּחק־עֹוָּל ם... ֹכל ֵׁחֶלב ִיְצָּהר ְוָּכֵׁל־חֶלב ִתירֹוש ְוָּדָּגן from the vat, so shall you on your part set ֵׁראִשָּיתֲם אֶשר־ִיְתנּו ַליהָּוה ְלָך ְנַתִתים׃ The LORD spoke to Aaron: I hereby give you aside a gift for the LORD from all the tithes charge of My gifts, all the sacred donations that you receive from the Israelites; and from of the Israelites; I grant them to you and to them you shall bring the gift for the LORD to your sons as a perquisite, a due for all time… Aaron the priest. -
It Is Advisable to Study the Pertinent Torah Laws Prior to the Performance of a Mitzvah in Order to Perform the Mitzvah Flawlessly
Rabbi Pinches Friedman Parshas Re'eh 5774 Translation by Dr. Baruch Fox “עשר תעשר“ “הענק תעניק“ “נתון תתן“ It Is Advisable to Study the Pertinent Torah Laws Prior to the Performance of a Mitzvah in order to Perform the Mitzvah Flawlessly In this week’s parsha, parshas Re’eh, we read (Devarim 14, “taryag mitzvos” of the Torah? Furthermore, while “milah and tithe, you — “עשר תעשר את כל תבואת זרעך היוצא השדה שנה שנה“ :(22 “הענק :shall tithe the entire crop of your planting, the produce of the Midrash compare these pairs to the words in the Torah priah” and “tzitzis and tefillin” are pairs of mitzvos, how does the The language is double, but ?תעניק, נתון תתן, פתוח תפתח, עשר תעשר“ .field, year by year following elucidation from Chazal: each pair of words only refers to a single mitzvah. In the Midrash Tanchuma (13), we find the “עשר תעשר, הדא הוא דכתיב )משלי לא-כא( לא תירא לביתה משלג כי כל ביתה to our passuk in the Midrash Tanchuma (Ki Savo 11). There the לבוש שנים, חזקיה אמר משפט רשעים בגיהנם י“ב חדשים, ששה חדשים בחמה וששה Additionally, we find another enigmatic statement related :(Midrash is elucidating the passuk (ibid. 26, 11 חדשים בצינה... יכול אף לישראל, תלמוד לומר כי כל ביתה לבוש שנים, שנים שנים, מילה ופריעה, ציצית תפילין, הענק תעניק, נתון תתן, פתוח תפתח, עשר תעשר, לפיכך “ושמחת בכל הטוב אשר נתן לך ה’ אלקיך, ואין טוב אלא תורה, שנאמר )משלי משה מזהיר את ישראל עשר תעשר“. ד-ב( כי לקח טוב נתתי לכם וגו’, לפיכך משה מזהיר את ישראל עשר תעשר“. -
Tzedakah As the Defining Social Marker of Jewish Identity
Tzedakah as the Defining Social Marker of Jewish Identity A. The Test of a True Jew: Check the Pocketbook B. Maimonides: Appealing to Jewish Genes – The Perfect “Pitch” “[God] has told you, human being, what is good and what Adonai requires of you: Nothing but to do justice (mishpat), to love kindness (hesed), and to walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8) הִ גִיד לְָך ָאדָ ם מַ ה-ּטוֹב ּומָ ה-יְהוָה ּדוֹרֵ ׁש מִמְ ָך כִ י אִ ם- עֲׂשוֹתמִׁשְ טפָ וְַאהֲבַת חֶסֶ ד וְהַצְ נֵעַ לֶכֶת עִ ם- אֱֹלהֶ יָך. Noam Zion, Hartman Institute, [email protected] – excerpted form from Jewish Giving in Comparative Perspectives: History and Story, Law and Theology, Anthropology and Psychology. Book One: From Each According to One’s Ability: Duties to Poor People from the Bible to the Welfare State and Tikkun Olam Previous Books: A DIFFERENT NIGHT: The Family Participation Haggadah By Noam Zion and David Dishon LEADER'S GUIDE to "A DIFFERENT NIGHT" By Noam Zion and David Dishon A DIFFERENT LIGHT: Hanukkah Seder and Anthology including Profiles in Contemporary Jewish Courage By Noam Zion A Day Apart: Shabbat at Home By Noam Zion and Shawn Fields-Meyer A Night to Remember: Haggadah of Contemporary Voices Mishael and Noam Zion www.haggadahsrus.com 1 Our teachers have said: "If all troubles were assembled on one side and poverty on the other, poverty would outweigh them all." - Midrash Shemot Rabbah 31:14 "The sea of a mighty population, held in galling fetters, heaves uneasily in the tenements.... The gap between the classes in which it surges, unseen, unsuspected by the thoughtless, is widening day by day. -
2006 V20 N2.Pdf
ADVENTISTS AFFIRM : Who Then Is That Wise and Faithful Servant? http://www.adventistsaffirm.org/article/173/previous-issues/volume-20-... Home > Previous Issues > Volume 20, Number 2 > EDITOR'S CORNER Who Then Is That Wise and Faithful Servant? JERRY A. STEVENS Retired General Conference Worker/Ponderer of Our Changing Times Before we could unite with the Seventh-day Adventists, Penny and I had to clear what at the time seemed one last but insurmountable hurdle. That patient pastoral couple from the little church in East Detroit, Michigan, Kenneth and Rosalie Haffner Lee, were just as thrilled as we were, in all the eagerness of our newfound faith, as we fairly breezed through a manual containing the basic beliefs held by the denomination. This baptism preparation manual bore the title “In His Steps . : A Summary of the Doctrinal Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists.” In the section called “Living the Christian Life,” we were suddenly confronted with a terrifying predicament. In devastatingly direct, uncompromising language a subsection read: “The Christian’s stewardship will include a faithful tithe and freewill offerings for the support of the church and its mission to the world.” The Bible itself indicated that withholding tithe was tantamount to robbing God Himself, and would bring a curse (Malachi 3:8, 9). Well, I don’t know about you, but I simply cannot conjure up a vision of some wretched miscreant so brazen, so cretinous, so brutish as to attempt to rob God! Needless to say, I was acutely uncomfortable with the thought that the God I had so recently come to know and love might yet look upon me as a thief, a petty pickpocket, and then place a curse upon me. -
Triage: Setting Tzedakah Priorities in a World of Scarcity
Triage: Setting Tzedakah Priorities in a World of Scarcity Noam Zion Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel The Principle of Scarcity versus Faith in God Gender Discrimination: Comparative Shame and Relative Vulnerability Lfi kevdo – “According to one's Individualized Social Status or Honor” – excerpted from: Jewish Giving in Comparative Perspectives: History and Story, Law and Theology, Anthropology and Psychology Book Two: To Each according to one’s Social Needs: The Dignity of the Needy from Talmudic Tzedakah to Human Rights Previous Books: A DIFFERENT NIGHT: The Family Participation Haggadah By Noam Zion and David Dishon LEADER'S GUIDE to "A DIFFERENT NIGHT" By Noam Zion and David Dishon A DIFFERENT LIGHT: Hanukkah Seder and Anthology including Profiles in Contemporary Jewish Courage By Noam Zion A Day Apart: Shabbat at Home By Noam Zion and Shawn Fields-Meyer A Night to Remember: Haggadah of Contemporary Voices Mishael and Noam Zion [email protected] www.haggadahsrus.com 1 Triage: Setting Priorities (TB Ketubot 67a-b) Definition: tri·age Etymology: French, sorting, sifting, from trier to sort, from Old French — 1 a: the sorting of and allocation of treatment to patients and especially battle and disaster victims according to a system of priorities designed to maximize the number of survivors 1b: the sorting of patients (as in an emergency room) according to the urgency of their need for care 2: the assigning of priority order to projects on the basis of where funds and other resources can be best used, are most needed, or are most likely to achieve success. IF AN ORPHAN IS GIVEN IN MARRIAGE SHE MUST BE GIVEN NOT LESS THAN FIFTY ZUZ. -
Abraham, Prince Mastema, and the Paschal Offering in Jubilees* CANA
Narrative in the Service of Halakha Abraham, Prince Mastema, and the Paschal Offering in Jubilees* CANA WERMAN The interest aroused by the book of Jubilees – the second written Torah narrated by the Angel of Presence to Moses on Mount Sinai1 – has in recent years placed this late second century BCE Qumranic rewriting of Genesis and Exodus at the center of scholarly investigation.2 One method- ology employed in the scholarly attempt to explicate Jubilees’ perplexing passages is to find evidence of literary layers.3 Two passages to which this methodology is applied are Jub. 17–18, where the seven-day festival cele- brated by Abraham is seen as a later Qumranic addition to the main subject of the chapters – the Aqedah – and Jub. 32, where the shift from the first to the second tithe in the process of retelling Jacob‟s payment of his vow is similarly attributed to a later Qumranic hand. The present paper suggests a different approach to these enigmatic passages, proposing that they can be elucidated by viewing them within the framework of the Second Temple priestly halakha to which Jubilees adheres. Analysis of these episodes exemplifies the major part that halakha plays in the formation of Jubilees’ narrative. * I would like to thank Avi Aronsky for translating the first draft and Dena Ordan for helping me to modify the present paper. 1 WERMAN, The Torah and Teudah, 75–103. 2 For a discussion of the book‟s date of composition and origin, see WERMAN, Attitude towards Gentiles, 11–34; IDEM, Jubilees and the Qumran Community, 37–55. -
Shabbos Hagadol Drasha 5777
The Moral Challenge of Our Most Expensive Holiday Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky Shabbos HaGadol 5777 Once again and as usual, I am indebted to my dear friend Rabbi Ben Skydell of Congregation Orach Chaim of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Rabbi Skydell and I have been preparing Shabbat Hagadol and Shabbat Shuva Derashot together for several years now; he always does the lion’s share of the work and his incisive readings and excellent research always help refine and expand our ideas. May we go from strength to strength! I also want to acknowledge my parents, for whom this is the first time hearing me deliver a Shabbos HaGadol Derasha. I look forward to many more opportunities in the future to share Torah with you, in their presence. Two simple words. The headstone of the great Rav Chaim Soloveitchik says nothing about his illustrious career as Rosh Yeshiva in the Volozhin Yeshiva, as the author of a remarkable work on the Rambam or as the originator of a brand new analytical system of Talmud study. Instead, his epitaph pays tribute to a man who was known as much for his personal refinement and elevated character as he was for his brilliant mind. The two words are Rav Chessed- a pun, as it can be translated both as “a man of great kindness” or “A Rabbi of kindness.” An example of both Rav Chaim’s brilliance and compassion can be found in the story of a woman who came to him before Pesach with a halachic question. Is it permissible, she asked, to use milk instead of wine for 1 the four cups at the Seder? Rav Chaim explained to her that it is not; it is a biblical obligation to drink four cups of wine at the Seder, interspersed at strategic intervals throughout the journey of the Haggadah. -
KI TAVO – “When You Come”
KI TAVO – “When You Come” DEUTERONOMY (D‟VARIM 26:1 – 29:8) INTRODUCTION: 1. In this portion Moses begins to conclude his address that details commands given to Israel as they prepare to enter the land. 2. The sidrah begins with presentation of bikkurim (first-fruits) and tithe at Sanctuary. CHAPTER 26: FIRST FRUITS & TITHES 1. Verse 1: “When you come (ki tavo) into the land” – indicating a law that is binding when in the land. a. That is not to say, the principle doesn‟t apply outside the land. 2. Verse 2: “Shall take the first fruit of the ground” – and bring it to the Sanctuary. a. Rabbis conclude not every fruit but seven mentioned in Deut. 8. 1. Wheat 2. Barley 3. Vines 4. Figs 5. Pomegranates 6. Olives 7. Dates 3. The individual is to bring it to “the place” where the LORD causes His name to dwell. a. His name is His “authority” and it inhabits that place. b. The person proclaims he has come into the land, evidence of God‟s faithfulness. c. His thank offering is evidence Israel is in possession of the land. 4. Verse 5: “A wandering Aramean was my father who went down into Egypt…” a. “A nomadic Aramean” referring to Jacob. b. Hosea 12:12 says that Jacob “fled to Syria” or Aram. 5. The word translated as “wandering” is from root abad and denote “straying” or “lost.” a. It also means “to destroy.” 6. Some translators render this “An Aramean sought to destroy my father.” a. The Aramean would be Laban who sought to prevent Jacob from returning to Canaan. -
A Study of the Biblical Basis for Tithing
Digital Commons @ George Fox University Western Evangelical Seminary Theses Western Evangelical Seminary 5-1957 A Study of the Biblical Basis for Tithing John W. Anderson Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/wes_theses Part of the Christianity Commons APPROVED BY Major Professor: Co-operative Reader: Professor of Thesis Form: A STUDY OF THE BIBLICAL BASIS FOR TITHING by John W. Anderson A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Western Evangelical Seminary In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Divinity Portland 22, Oregon May, 1957 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. INTRODUC'riON 1 The Problem 1 Justification of the Study • • 1 Sources of Data 1 Basic Assumptions 2 Limitations of the Study . 2 Definitions . 2 Statement of Organization 3 II. TITHING PRIOR TO THE GIVING OF THE LAW 4 Offerings of Cain and Abel • 4 Abram . 5 Jacob . .. 7 The Law of the Nations 8 Summary 9 III. TITHING DURING THE PERIOD OF 'rHE LAW 10 Mosaic References to Tithing • 10 Leviticus 10 Numbers • o • • • • • • e 11 Deuteronomy 12 Comparisons of the Jl1osaic References • 15 Later Old •restament References • 16 Amos • . 17 Second Chronicles . 17 Nehemiah • . 19 Malachi • 20 Summary • 21 Extra-Biblical References • 21 Apocrypha • 21 Talmud • 22 Some Teachings on Tithing During the Period of the Law • 23 Tithing and Worship • 23 The Method of Paying Tithes 24 Uses of the Tithes 25 Tithing and God's Promises 26 Summary • . ..: 28 IV. TITHING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 29 Jesus and the Tithe 30 Teachings by Jesus 30 Jesus and Stewardship • 32 Jesus and the Law • 34 Paul and Tithing 35 The Epistle to the Hebrews 37 Summary • • 39 V. -
Kashrus Kurrentsvolume 26 NO
STAR-K KOSHER CERTIFICATION rtnhyktcs ,urafv sgu Kashrus KurrentsVOLUME 26 NO. 3 Winter 5766-2006 Mehadrin Hechsherim in Israel: THE INSIDE SCOOP RABBI DOVID STEIN, STAR-K ISRAEL REPRESENTATIVE Of the many supervisions that are found in Eretz Yisrael, Eretz Yisrael's Mehadrin supervision is amongst the least understood. What exactly are the differences between Mehadrin and non-Mehadrin hechsherim? Is it true that the Rabbonim who supervise the non- Mehadrin products in Eretz Yisrael do not even eat from their own hashgacha? How does the Mehadrin slaughtering process for kosher meat vary from the non-Mehadrin process? What differences are there between Mehadrin and non-Mehadrin milk and dairy products? Let's begin at the beginning… Terumos Ma'asros In Eretz Yisrael there are two types of hechsherim-Mehadrin and non-Mehadrin. The non-Mehadrin supervision is usually performed by the local Rabbanut, the official local RABBI MOSHE HEINEMANN and regional government offices of the Israeli Rabbinate. The Rabbonim who give this type STAR-K RABBINIC& ADMINISTRATOR of hechsher often do not eat from this certification, themselves. They certify these products because they feel it is important that there should be a complete, inexpensive variety of As a result of the State of Israel's blossoming kosher products available, so the consumer will not be tempted to buy non-kosher agricultural advances and innovative marketing products. Therefore, the Rabbanut is willing to bend over backwards with kulos, lenient strategies, Israeli food exports to foreign markets in all halachic positions, to make sure that all food products have a hechsher. -
Bikkurim from Nishmat
Bikkurim From Nishmat In Honor of JEANIE AND JAY SCHOTTENSTEIN And in Celebration of Nishmat's 25th Anniversary Jerusalem 2015 In this volume, all Tanach translations are either from Machon Mamre or Soncino (D. Mandel); the Talmud translations are from Soncino (I. Epstein). Slight modifications have been made for style and nuance. Design and Pagination: Studio HaMaabada Table of Contents 1. Laws of Shavuot 5 Rabbi Da'vid Sperling Part I – Receiving the Torah 2. Women and Shavuot 9 Rabbanit Chana Henkin, Dean 3. Na'aseh v'Nishma, We Will Do and We Will Understand 11 Rabbi Yehuda Henkin 4. I Was There, Standing at Sinai 14 Rabbanit Noa Lau 5. Thoughts for Shavout 17 Rachelle Sprecher Fraenkel 6. Is There a Mitzvah to Remember Matan Torah? 20 Rabbanit Gilla Rosen 7. In the Beginning There was Prophecy 23 Rabbi Shay Nave 8. “Hear O Israel”: What Must We Hear? 26 Michal Efrati 9. Strengthening our Relationship with Hashemh 30 Dr. Karen Kirshenbaum 10. The Chosen People 33 Rabbi Re'em HaCohen 11. Ingesting Torah 36 Adi Bitter Part II – Megillat Ruth 12. The Megillah of Hesed 39 Rabbi Chaim Navon 13. Betrothal and Marriage in the Book of Ruth 42 Dr. Tova Ganzel 14. The Book of Ruth Needs Manoah: The Death of Arrogance, The Birth of Compassion 45 Ayala Friedman 15. Between the Festival of Shavuot and Megillat Ruth 51 Rabbi David Sabato 16. Acceptance of the Yoke of Heaven and Acceptance of the “Other” 56 Rabbanit Chana Henkin, Dean 17. Shavuot – An Agricultural Festival with Dual Significance and the Book of Ruth 62 Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun 18.