Ezekiel and the Covenant of Friendship

The slippery idea of "spirituality" might, with care, be put to use by biblical exegetes. Spirituality is defined in this paper as the social enactment of religious ideas. Four categories are offered to analyze the biblical witness as a record of spirituality. These categories are, first, an ultimate end; second, an ideal self-image by which this end might be achieved; third, an encoding of teachings in Scripture by which the self-image can be realized or understood; and fourth, a proposal for a way of life that makes achievement of the ultimate end a practical possibility. Accordingly, Ezekiel's "spirituality" may be understood to have, on one hand, an ultimate end of a return of the people to the land with the presence of God; and on the other, an ideal self-image of conversion of the community toward this ultimate end. Then it encodes, in oracles of judgment and deliverance, teachings that enable adherents to form the ideal self-image, and finally, as a way of life that puts these teachings into practice, it proposes a "covenant of friendship" (Ezek 34:25 and 37:36) among the exiled people and between them and their captors.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66911/2/10.1177_014610799202200402.pd

Re-playing Maimonides’ Codes: Designing Games to Teach Religious Legal Systems

Lost & Found is a game series, created at the Initiative for Religion, Culture, and Policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology MAGIC Center.1 The series teaches medieval religious legal systems. This article uses the first two games of the series as a case study to explore a particular set of processes to conceive, design, and develop games for learning. It includes the background leading to the author\u27s work in games and teaching religion, and the specific context for the Lost & Found series. It discusses the rationale behind working to teach religious legal systems more broadly, then discuss the hermeneutics influencing the approach to understanding the legal systems being modeled, and closes with a discussion of the kind of teaching and learning involved in the design of the games and early stage data on the public play of the games

The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic text : a new translation with the aid of previous versions and with constant consultation of Jewish authorities

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Jewish Traditions A JPS Guide

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Language -- Life-Cycle Events -- The Stages of Life -- First 16 Years of Life -- Birth -- Circumcision -- Names -- Pidyon ha-Ben -- Adoption -- Bar Mitzvah -- Bat Mitzvah -- Confirmation -- Marriage -- Jewish Marriage -- Marriage Ceremony -- Harmonious Married Life -- Obligations and Rights of the Husband -- Prohibited Marriages -- Levirate Marriage/Halitzah -- Intermarriage -- Sex -- Divorce -- Death -- Death and Dying -- Angel of Death -- Preparation for Burial -- Funeral Service/Burial -- Mourning -- Suicide -- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide -- Cremation -- Modern Issues Concerning the Dead -- Afterlife and the World to Come -- Sabbath and Festivals -- Sabbath -- Overview -- Restrictions -- Observances -- Liturgy -- Havdalah -- Special Sabbaths -- Festivals and Fasts -- Overview -- Jewish Calendar -- Rosh Hodesh -- High Holy Days -- Repentance (Teshuvah) -- Selichot -- Elul -- Rosh Hashanah -- Ten Days of Repentance -- Yom Kippur -- Fall Festivals -- Sukkot -- Hoshana Rabbah -- Shemini Atzeret -- Simchat Torah -- Winter Festivals -- Hanukkah -- Tu b'Shevat -- Purim -- Spring Festivals -- Passover -- Omer Period -- Shavuot -- Fast Days and Summer Observances -- 17th of Tammuz -- The Three Weeks -- Tisha b'Av -- Tu b'Av -- Tzom Gedalyah -- 10th of Tevet -- Synagogue and Prayer -- Synagogue -- Overview -- Synagogue Architecture -- Torah Scrolls and Ornaments -- Ark -- Bimah -- Mechitzah -- Rabbi -- Hazzan -- Prayer -- Overview -- Major Themes of Prayer -- Language of Prayer -- Proper Forms of Prayer -- Answer to Prayer -- Congregational Prayer -- Prayer as Polemic -- Siddur -- Minyan -- Kippah -- Tallit -- Tefillin -- Blessings and Benedictions -- Amen -- Kaddish -- Daily and Sabbath Prayers -- Daily Order of Prayers -- Morning Blessings (Birchot ha-Shachar) -- Pesukei de-Zimra -- BarchuAhavah Rabbah/Ahavat Olam -- Shema -- Amidah -- Tachanun -- Torah Service -- Haftarah -- Av ha-Rachamim -- Yekum Purkan/Mi She Berakh -- Prayer for the Government -- U-va le-Zion Go'el -- Ein Keloheinu -- Aleinu -- Prayers Recited before Leaving the Synagogue -- Psalm of the Day -- Yigdal -- Adon Olam -- An'im Zemirot -- Personal Prayers -- Jewish Literature -- Bible -- Ten Commandments -- Masoretic Text -- Biblical Commentary -- Rabbinic Literature -- Mitzvot -- Overview -- Performance of the Mitzvot -- Obligation of Women to Perform the Commandments -- Proper Behavior and Ethical Living -- Gemilut Hasadim -- Tzedakah -- Hospitality (Hakhnasat Orchim) -- Visiting the Sick (Bikur Holim) -- Pikuach Nefesh -- Lashon ha-Ra -- Washing the Hands -- Mikveh (Ritual Bath) -- Niddah (Menstruating Woman) -- Sha'atnez (Mingling of Fabrics) -- Jewish Courts and Judges -- Business Ethics -- Prohibition against Lending at Interest -- Miscellany -- Symbols of Jews and of Israel -- Magic and Superstition -- Other Customs and Concepts -- Beards -- A Chosen People -- Conversion -- Dreams -- Excommunication -- Golem -- Heavenly Bodies -- Kissing Holy Objects -- Kitel -- The Messiah -- Mizrach -- Names of God -- Numbers -- Satan -- Shalom -- Food -- Overview -- Dietary Laws (Kashrut) -- Seven Species -- Specific Foods -- Plants and Animals -- Plants -- Trees -- Specific Plants -- Animals -- Specific Animals -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Weekly Torah and Haftarah Readings -- Torah Readings for Holidays and Special Sabbaths -- Orders of Mishnah and Tractates of the Talmud -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

Chapters on Jewish literature,

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Legends and tales in prose and verse,

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Rashi,

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