Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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The image of Christians in medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic literature
(NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)Recent scholarship has sought to characterize the way that Jews perceived Christians during the medieval period, focusing especially on polemical texts in which Jews shared their understanding of Christianity. 1 During ... -
The importance of leisure: Rabbinic and psychological perspectives
(The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • RIETS, 2019)The need to take care of ourselves before others applies here. Only when we are cared for in a basic way can we successfully care for our spouses and family. Think of this as a derivative of the mantra we hear on every ... -
In memory of Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm: Some personal reflections.
(The Lehrhaus, 2020)Indeed, this shechter has always had the utmost respect and affection for this lamm. Like his many admirers, I have appreciated how his “royal reach” has embraced those who have both “faith and doubt,” and how the ... -
Incomplete Circumcision in Egypt and Edom: Jeremiah (9:24-25) in the Light of Josephus and Jonckheere.
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The Institute for Jewish Studies on its eightieth anniversary
(Academic Studies Press, 2011)A lecture on the Institute for Jewish Studies and its place in the constellation of the academic study of the Jewish people and its faith in the past, present and future no doubt deserves to be listed among those matters ... -
Interpreting “The Resting Of The Shekhinah”: Exegetical Implications Of The Theological Debate Among Maimonides, Nahmanides, And Sefer Ha-Hinnukh.
(Brill, 2011)In this paper I would like to open a new aspect of this fertile division within Jewish learning by exploring its exegetical manifestations, i.e., how the opposing theological positions generated opposing interpretations ... -
Introduction
(New York : The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press, 2018)The intellectual and spiritual lives of Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik contain a series of seeming paradoxes. He was a great Torah giant whose views on Zionism did not accord with those of others of his stature; he was the ... -
Introduction [The Lord is righteous in all his ways]:
(Toras HoRav Foundation ; Ktav, 2006)It is my hope that the teachings of the Rav presented here will elucidate the Kinot as well as many of the themes central to Tish'ah be-Av as a whole. May this book be a worthy and appropriate memorial tribute for the ... -
Introduction [to Judaism's encounter with other cultures] (Goldberg ed.)
(Maggid Books, 2018)The first three parts of this volume, then, present a comprehensive and authoritative overview of a central theme in the millennial history of Jewish thought; the final part will become an instant primary source in a ... -
Introduction [to Luah Eresh]
([Ṭoronṭo?] : Otsrenu, 2001)*בשבח והודאה להשי״ת שמחים אנו להעלות על שלחן מלכים, מאן מלכי רבנן, שלשה ספרים חשובים שנדפסו סמוך לשנת ת״ק על נושאי מטבע התפלה וכללי דקדוק השייכים יקרי המציאות, ואלו □ לו. זח הרבה שנים אזלו מן השוק והיו כה נדירים עד שבימינו ... -
Introduction [to Mor U-Ketsiya]
(Machon Yerushalayim, 1996)(from Introduction)........רבינו יעקב בן רבי עבי אב״ד עמדין, הידוע לדורות בכינוי היעב״ץו, היה מגאוני ישראל הנודעים, מחבר גדול ורב אנפין בדור דעה. הוא נולד סביבות שנת תנ״ז באלטונא למשפחת רבנים ידועה. סבו מעד אמו היה הגאון ... -
Introduction [to New perspectives on Jewish-Christian relations]
(Brill, 2012)Collectively, the essays in this volume shine new light on the remarkably fertile field of Jewish-Christian relations from the distant past to the present. )e culture of each has been profoundly affected by the other ... -
Introduction to "Scholarly Man of Faith: Studies in the Thought and Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik"
(The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University, 2018)These parallel developments impelled us to organize a joint conference, under the auspices of both the Friedman Chair for Teaching the Thought of Rav Soloveitchik at Bar-Ilan University and Yeshiva University in New ... -
Introduction to Selihot: The power and significance of Selihot: From recitation to action
(Koren, 2022)The Hebrew Bible uses a form of the words seliĥa or seliḥot to refer to forgiveness in a number of verses: “I have forgiven in accordance with your words ( וַיּֽאֹמֶר יהוה, סָלַֽחְְְתִּי כִּדְְְבָרֶֽךָ )” (Numbers 14:20); ... -
Introduction to the reprint: E. L. Sukenik, ancient synagogues, and the birth of "Jewish Archaeology"
(Gorgias P, Published with the permission of The Hebrew University Magnes Press,, 2007)This brief survey of Sukenik's life as a scholar of synagogues is nothing less than the history of a scholarly discipline. Sukenik's overwhelming significance for synagogue studies is expressed in the fact that in 1979 ... -
Introduction. Jewish religious architecture : from biblical Israel to modern Judaism.
(Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2019)Jewish Religious Architecture' explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit. This volume stretches from the biblical Tabernacle to Roman Jerusalem, ... -
Is our neshamah at risk in an affluent society?
(NY: Orthodox Union (OU), 1991)Material wealth versus spiritual well-being. -
A Jewish Aramaic (Or Hebrew) 'Laissez‐Passer' from the Egyptian Port of Berenike
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The ‘Jewish Contribution’ to Christianity
(The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007)From the late nineteenth until the middle of the twentieth century, Jews and their sympathizers devoted considerable research, energy, and ingenuity to the documentation of signal Jewish contributions to Western ... -
Jewish Identity at the Limus: The Jews of Dura Europos between Rome and Persia.
(Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, 2011)Jewish identity in the Greco-Roman world has been a subject of sustained concern in recent years. The question of “Who was a Jew?” has interested both historians working within the traditions of Judaic studies struggling ...
