Sentences with phrase «of talmudic»

What seemed like a light - hearted caper turns into a slightly uncomfortable evaluation of the American Dream itself, with a dash of Talmudic philosophy about the nature of happiness.

All this sounds like the plot of Tyler Perry's first movie for a Jewish audience, and yet the movie chooses to examine these titillations with the furrowed - brow sobriety of a Talmudic scholar.

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.

Instinctively I became a pupil, almost with a sense of being in a school of the rabbis, learning the concentration of Talmudic exposition.

His descriptions of the talmudic passages wherein certain people are explicitly condemned to hell are certainly consistent with what C. S. Lewis calls the maledictory Psalms that, for example, bless those who dash out the brains of Babylonian babies (Psalm 9).

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.

In his scrupulous hands, the disputing voices of the Talmudic house of study, however cacophonous to the untrained ear, revealed their multiple strands of meaning and invited his students to become participants in this dialogue of the generations.

controversial separdic jews meet with ahmedinejad and call for the dismantiling of the jewish state of talmudic jews.

The second - generation Jewish intellectual with his background of Talmudic dialectic is mentally predisposed to Marxism to a degree which he himself rarely appreciates.

Not exact matches

Perhaps it's Talmudic wisdom but, selling stocks before the eight - day span of the high holidays has avoided many declines, especially during uncertain times.

Born and bred in Lithuania, where he devoted himself to Talmudic study with some of the....

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.

In addition to his Talmudic studies and his eight volumes of lectures, all in Hebrew, R. Lichtenstein's thinking is represented in the two volumes called Leaves of Faith and Varieties of Jewish Experience.

It's a Midrashic way of reading scripture — a Talmudic form of reasoning — that was dominant in rabbinic times, but interrupted by modernity.»

The junior fellows reflect on George Herbert's prose and the meaning of the term «talmudic.»

Submission of chosen targets (American Indians, Muslims, blacks, gay, females of every race, mexicans, etc.) are gradual as they adopt the Talmudic concepts as being Christian, thus producing a Jewish society.

And according to Talmudic law, the child of a Jewish mother is always a Jew.

Based on earlier talmudic sources, Maimonides ruled that if there are any Amalekites to be found, even they may eschew their evil heritage and adopt the Noahide laws (which can be interpreted as the talmudic version of natural law).

Meanwhile, a plethora of sources — biblical, mishnaic, talmudic, midrashic — indicate that while we do deeply desire the repentance of most, there are a few figures whom we are entitled, and obligated, to hate.

Now Jesus is put into an apparently difficult position of insulting Judaism or Caesar, and gives a truly Talmudic answer: «And they offered him a denarius.

Since Talmudic times Judaism has upheld the idea of individual salvation.

[1] Later talmudic texts affirm belief in a G - d - given oral tradition [2], as do the writings of medieval and post-medieval Orthodox scholars.

An ancient Talmudic story tells of a king who sent two of his servants out with very interesting instructions.

It is in this understanding of imagery that the Talmudic doctrine of the two «urges» originated.

and in the Gospels where, among other tributes, Elijah, Moses, and Christ are the three transfigured images on the Mount; of course also in Talmudic and Midrashic sources; and in the fact of Elijah's annual dramatic «reappearance» during Judaism's celebration of the Seder.

This statement is made in complete awareness of the fact that, as Klausner says, «throughout the Gospels there is not one item of ethical teaching which can not be paralleled either in the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, or in the talmudic and midrashic literature of the period near to the time of Jesus.»

Ok, let's forget about scientific explanations for a minute and turn to those people who REALLY know and understand the text of the Hebrew Bible - Orthodox Jews or, at the very least, Talmudic scholars.

«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....

Later, the Talmudic theology represented the mouth of hell as being in this valley, and drew the picture with vivid detail: «There are two palm - trees in the valley of Hinnom, between which a smoke arises....

There was a Talmudic - era rabbi by the name of Akiva ben Joseph (who argued plenty with another rabbi, Simeon ben Azzai) who argued that the greatest commandment in all of the Torah was to love your neighbor as yourself (to which ben Azzai objected primarily due to neighbor not being clear enough and then said that the greatest commandment was within Genesis 5:1 — that man was created in G - d's image and thus if you hate any person, you are hating G - d).

The literary, scriptural and talmudic sources of Kabbalah include Genesis, Ezekiel, the Mishna Tract Hagiga, and ancient treatises with names like «The Extended Description of Genesis,» «The Sword of Moses,» and «The Book of Secrets.»

But with regard to halakhah, resistance to change is not only due to the need for legal stability, but is also based on a most powerful religious dogma, that the Word of God is unchanging and His Law immutable, this Word and this Law being mediated through the Talmudic Sages and through no others.

In the talmudic sources, the deaf - mute is considered to be mentally incompetent and thus in the category of persons who, as Bleich puts it, «can not be held responsible for their actions and who lack the requisite intelligence for the performance of various ritual and civil acts.»

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.

One of these is the Jewish law as expressed in the Talmudic Halakhah; the second is the Jewish legend and saying as expressed in the Talmudic Haggadah and in later Jewish mythology; and the third is the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical «tradition.»

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.

I prefer a more primitive conception of heaven, a heaven that is concrete, peopled, concatenated, hierarchical and symphonic; as lush as the pure land of the celestial Buddha Amitabha, as visceral as the Islamic garden of the houris, as engrossing to an academic like me as the rabbinic vision of heaven as a Talmudic house of study, and as immediate as the paradise that Christ promised to the good thief dying at his side.

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.

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

R. Shach's home was the Talmudic study hall, not the corridors of power.

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.

The structure he has chosen for the book interpolates a «running Talmudic commentary» concerning the wider meaning of the concepts, as well as their implications.

Depending on what we find most pleasing, some of us become blues guitarists, others Talmudic scholars.

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.»

, shines as a frazzled producer with two exes and a pair of celluloid nightmares — a pretentious Sean Penn flick whose» edgy» ending features a dog getting shot, and a big - budget headache starring Bruce Willis, who refuses to shave his bushy, Talmudic beard.

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.

The occasion is the passing of her father, an influential leader and Talmudic scholar — the Rav of the community — who drops dead, portentously, at the beginning of the film after delivering a tract on human beings and free will.

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.

These movies sometimes deal with the notion of identity, legacy, history, hatred and love, discrimination, geopolitics, sensitivity, rituals and also sometimes about talmudic philosophy, which can be very deep and soulsearching.