Sentences with phrase «on shalom»

Jewish teachings place a high value on shalom bayit, which is peace in the home.

Biblical Reflections on Shalom, 1976, p. 16) But, again, one must guard against making this definition a description of an ideal utopia.

There is ambiguity regarding war and peace in the prophets of the Old Testament, but they give a high value on shalom, and Yahweh is the Giver of that shalom.

They place a high value on shalom and rush to the defense of the Torah principles on which it rests.

Not exact matches

One such attack, on July 17, 2014, involved over a dozen Hamas fighters who crossed into Israel near the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza.

Most of our best - intentioned efforts seemed more like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic than like taking part in God's work of gradual bringing of Shalom.

«Shalom,» he says, showing a familiar face, holding up a wounded hand, and then he waits for the truth to sink in, for the disciples to let out their breath in one joyful gasp, for them to fall on him weeping, shouting, cheering.

I felt the Shalom of God, his unity on earth as it is in heaven, slip away as believers took sides, rallied together in disgust, and used «rights» and «amendments» as justification for ignoring the suffering of their African - American sisters and brothers in Christ.

But don't be deceived: anything that steals the very essence of God's calling on you, God's shalom, God's justice, God's way of life and living as a warrior, as a prophetess, as a mother, as a teacher, whatever - your - vocation - or - calling as a woman after God's own heart, is a liar.

She writes on her blog, «Shalom in City» and at the top of her bucket list is to dance in a flash mob — all the better if it's to Michael Jackson's, «Thriller».

While I can prove Phil Roberston's assessment wrong by opening up any book on the Jim Crow Era and the Civil Right Movement, I don't think that would create space for Shalom.

In reflection on the promise in Revelation that on the day of shalom «there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away,» Wolterstorff writes: «I shall try to keep the wound from healing, in recognition of our living still in the old order of things.

The issue is to see how shalom is tied into the fight against drug addiction, carnage on our highways due to alcoholism, ecology, commercial sex, oppression of women, racism and the whole range of evils that fills our news on the airwaves and in print.

2 Shalom: For the beginnings of such a theory, see my essays «On the Structure of the Person: Time and Consciousness» (in Dialectics and Humanism, Journal of the Polish Academy of Science, 1975) and, more particularly, «The Problem of the Person: Philosophy and the Neurologists» (to appear in Dialectics and Humanism, 1979).

We can not skip from cause to cause, but rather need to work for shalom patiently, step by step, on grounds of sound teaching about just peace.

Shalom's argument against the former relies on Grice's notion of «present total temporary states,» Shalom totally includes memory as an element in a «present total temporary state» and within this context charges that «what is called «memory» necessarily ceases to possess the property of «pastness» which is associated with memory» and required by Hartshorne's theory.

We long to experience the wholeness, or shalom, that Jesus unfurled on the earth.

To pray for God's reign to become more fully visible, to pray for God's perfect heavenly shalom to come into its own on earth as well, is to ask for the aftershocks of the fall to be quieted.

The wholeness (shalom) of human existence is already present as the promise of God's blessing on those who seek life.

Cf. Jürgen Moltmann, The Church in the Power of the Spirit (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), pp. 269 - 270: «The weekly Sabbath is not merely ritual and symbol but an anticipation of the shalom, even if it is on the «exceptional day.»

To fail to be one's true human self is to fail in maintaining on one's part the right relationship with God in the divine intention for mankind and at the same moment a failure in right relationships with other men and women and children, characterized as it should be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which is shalom or abundance of life.

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

Shalom is one angle of vision on opposing sexual violence, but it is not the only one.

To trust our security to the threat of nuclear war is to base our ultimate hope on chaos as a greater power than God's created possibility of shalom.

The move away from reliance on Yahweh as warrior toward state military institutions is often seen today as a step toward more civilized behavior, but in the biblical view it was clearly a move toward chaos and away from shalom.

«3 He goes on to point out three dimensions of shalom.

Frequently the noun shalom is translated by various verbal expressions centering on well - being or being well, Jacob sent Joseph «to see the shalom of his brothers and the shalom of the flock.»

He offers to trade land for it, or to pay cash, but Naboth refuses, because he understands that shalom depends on each family's keeping its own inheritance.

Yahweh is pledged, covenanted to bestow shalom on the people of Yahweh.

To the haves, on the other hand, shalom means «order, stability.»

Jesus felt that the principles of Torah on which shalom rests were summed up in Leviticus 19:18: «You shall love your neighbor as yourself.»

The false prophets were quick to promise shalom or announce its arrival, a cheap shalom, based on the favoritism of Yahweh.

Beginning with the agricultural note, this vision of peace goes on to include healing and justice — all parts of shalom.

The distinct shape that mystery takes in Israel's experience, we have seen, is that of a promise sacramentally mediated through images of shalom, that is, through vivid pictures of peace, righteousness, and abundance on the land.

This was especially disturbing to the Roman authorities who relied on steady production and the resultant taxes to support their regime.2 If this is correct, it is a striking example of Jesus» concern for the foundational principles of shalom.

The prophets, we remember, defended the Torah principles on which shalom rests, against rulers who sought to take advantage of the poor.

On the one hand, he teaches as they taught that God uses war as an instrument to punish and correct God's wayward, rebellious people who have breached the shalom that God intends.

♦ Shalom Carmy reflects on our responses to immigrants in his editor's column for the spring number of Tradition, the Orthodox Jewish journal published by the Rabbinical Council of America.

Hoekendijk challenged missionaries to identify and integrate with the suffering masses, seeking to realize God's shalom on earth.

Meanwhile, some students and alumni had embarked on a hunger fast until after the scheduled February 11 hearing, for the purpose of «lament, reconciliation, and shalom.»

«The biblical vision of Shalom functions always on a firm rejection of values and lifestyles that seek security and well - being in manipulative ways at the expense of another part of creation, another part of community, or brother or Sister» (Brueggemann).

Shalom is a political community based on justice.

The sighs of the Kingdom are the same as the experience of Shalom in the Old Testament — the life in all its fullness, the concern for community based on equality and mutual acceptance and freedom from self - seeking security.

I had this eggplant dip / spread that left a deeply vivid impression on me at Shalom Y ’ all (might have to recreate soon).

Meets on the first Monday of each month at Temple Shalom 175 Temple Street Newton.

In addition to a probable lack of information the reason is twofold and points to Israel: Gazans have been living in an open air prison since 2006 where Israel unilaterally locked them up; Gazans suffer constant shortages, a blockade on all kinds of goods monitored at checkpoints such as Kerem Shalom and are barred from accessing their own maritime enclave; frustration is a euphemism for six years of deprivation and economic meltdown.

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

She made the call when she joined the Shalom Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in the La - Dadekotopon constituency on Sunday to worship.

The incident, which happened at about 11:00 am on Wednesday at Adentan near the Shalom estate junction on the Adentan - Abokobi road, has left the community in a state of shock.

Chaim Motzen, Gigawatt Global's co-founder who led the development of the Agahozo - Shalom solar plant, said in an interview that OPIC's $ 400,000 grant came at «a critical time» for the project, which was conceived in 2012 but met hurdles as it neared closing on its financing agreements.