Sentences with phrase «from talmudic»

One of the participants from Israel recounted a story from Talmudic literature.

The book of Job has served as a philosophical Rorschach blot for its most outspoken interpreters, from the Talmudic rabbis and Church Fathers through their medieval philosophical successors and down to modern philosophers, theologians, and creative writers.

Not exact matches

This is not the place to review his contribution and his success in propagating the analytic rigor and intensity he had learned from his father - in - law and that had previously been associated with schools that eschewed any involvement in the world outside the hall of Talmudic study.

«My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire... Second, that all their books — their prayer books, their Talmudic writings, also the entire Bible — be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these be preserved for those who may be converted... Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly among us and in our country... Fourth, that they be forbidden to utter the name of God within our hearing.

The bit about the change of garments and the bathhouse is talmudic phraseology from tractate Eruvin (27b), indicating a matter....

The Galileans were loyal Jews, that is, loyal to the Torah — though the Talmudic evidence which Lohmeyer cites may refer mainly to conditions in the second century, after the Pharisaic schools had removed from the south and relocated here.

The bit about the change of garments and the bathhouse is talmudic phraseology from tractate Eruvin (27b), indicating a matter urgently in need of clarification.

The word «Jew» is also used anachronistically, given that all Jews today derive from the fifth - to sixth - century Talmudic expression of one strand of Israelite ideology and behavior.

Reading R. Shach, I can't help noticing how much his idea of honest politics draws from the standard of judicial impartiality that the Talmudic tradition insists upon.

Metzitzeh: (Mezzizza / Mizizah) The sucking of blood from the wound During the Talmudic period (500 - 625 A.D.), a third step was added to the Orthodox circumcision ritual.

Wells, who has the countenance of a boxer and the mind of a Talmudic scholar, had come with a group of scientists affiliated with the American Psychological Association, along with lawyers from the Innocence Project, for the appeal of a convicted New Hampshire burglar.

He quotes Rabbi Yaffe, Dean of the Institute of American and Talmudic Law, in a recent article saying: «from a Judaic ethics standpoint, this lawsuit is inappropriate.»

Weinstein includes small details, like the 24 - hour candles and portraits of famous rabbis intended to make a memorial dinner more proper, and he explores wrinkles that are far more significant, like Menashe's insistence that he doesn't really need a second wife because Talmudic law would prohibit her from ever touching Rieven anyway.

Socially awkward Michael Burry (Christian Bale) is nearly autistic but brilliant with numbers; angry - guy Mark Baum (Steve Carell) applies his Talmudic erudition to Wall Street and sees a house of cards waiting to tumble; Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) calmly lays plans to profit from the bubble once it bursts; and newbie investors Charlie Geller (John Magaro) and Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) get onboard, essentially betting that the housing market would fail.

His emigration from Russia to Portland, Oregon; his poor beginnings; his Hasidic, Talmudic upbringing, without which you simply can not understand his artistic path; his early work — expressionist, mythological, multiform; his two wives, Edith, and Mary Ellen «Mell» Beistle, his children; then unravel for you the political activism of his anarchist left wing sensitivity, with the unavoidable connection to Emma Goldman.