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Happiness in Premodern Judaism

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 087820105X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Happiness in Premodern Judaism written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of happiness was a central concern of Jewish thinkers. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century. These claims make sense if one understands happiness as human flourishing on the basis of Aristotle's thought in the Nichomachean Ethics. Linking virtue, knowledge, and well-being, Aristotle's analysis of happiness can be traced in Jewish understanding of human flourishing as early as the Greco-Roman world, but the fusion of Greek and Judaic perspectives on happiness reached its zenith in in the Middle Ages in the thought of Moses Maimonides and his followers. Even the controversies about Maimonides' ideas could be viewed as discussions about the meaning of happiness and the way to attain it within Judaism. Much of this book, then, concerns the reception of Aristotle's Ethics in medieval Jewish philosophy. This book shows how a certain notion of happiness reflects the intellectual culture of a given period, including cultural exchanges among Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Demonstrating the discourse on happiness as a dramatic interplay between Wisdom and Torah, between philosophy and religion, between reason and faith, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson presents, to specialists and non-specialists alike, a fascinating tour of Jewish intellectual history.

Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity

Author : Gideon Reuveni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107011302
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity written by Gideon Reuveni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.

Varieties Of Jewish Happiness

Author : Joseph Heartland
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 109800910X
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Varieties Of Jewish Happiness written by Joseph Heartland and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varieties of Jewish Happiness uses an ancient Jewish wedding blessing and biblical sources as the vehicles to understand what kindles feelings of Happiness in us and how these feelings can be experienced within marriage. The task can be compared to holding a gemstone up to the light and examining it from various angles; neuroscience, history, and language are just some of the observational tools used to examine these complex subjects. Marriage is a doubly "complex" phenomenon because it intertwines two already very complex entities""the marriage partners. But as described in Varieties of Jewish Happiness, among its advantages, marriage can provide individuals with relative stability in a world that is anything but stable. If we are smart and lucky, we can gain not only stability, but a partner who can provide a lifetime of insights, smiles, eye contact, humor, backrubs, and safety. The most common alternative to marriage-like arrangements is living alone, which requires far less energy expenditure, but produces unwanted and even strange mental states that strongly suggest that we were not designed to live that way. Yes, we have to fight to maintain our unions through compromises and self-denial. But through our efforts we acquire some merit by supplying a model of stability to and for our children. In this way, we may say to ourselves that we have done our part in sustaining human existence on earth, where, frankly, our presence is not a given unless we properly apply ourselves to the task.

Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing

Author : Sharada Sugirtharajah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000556271
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing written by Sharada Sugirtharajah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the theme of happiness and well-being from religious, spiritual, philosophical, psychological, humanistic, and health perspectives. Taking a non-binary approach, it considers how happiness in particular has been understood and appropriated in religious and non-religious strands of thought. The chapters offer incisive insight from a variety of perspectives, including humanism, atheism and major religions such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism. Together they demonstrate that although worldviews might vary substantially, there are concurrences across religious and non-religious perspectives on happiness that provide a common ground for further cross-cultural and interreligious exploration. What the book makes clear is that happiness is not a static or monolithic category. It is an ongoing process of being and becoming, striving and seeking, living ethically and meaningfully, as well as arriving at a tranquil state of being. This multifaceted volume makes a fresh contribution to the contemporary study of happiness and is valuable reading for scholars and students from religious studies and theology, including those interested in interreligious dialogue and the psychology of religion, as well as positive psychology.

An Ode to Joy

Author : Erica Brown
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031282299
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book An Ode to Joy written by Erica Brown and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his rather sudden passing in 2020, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was one of the most eloquent and influential religious leaders of the generation. As Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth for over two decades, he offered a universal message cultivated from the Jewish and Western cannons he knew so well. One concept that figured prominently in his work was joy. “I think of Judaism as an ode to joy,” he once wrote. “Like Beethoven, Jews have known suffering, isolation, hardship, and rejection, yet they never lacked the religious courage to rejoice.” In this volume, organized by the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership, academics and writers explore the significance of joy within the Jewish tradition. These essays and reflections discuss traditional Jewish primary sources, including Biblical, Rabbinic and Hebrew literature, Jewish history and philosophy, education, the arts, and positive psychology, and of course, through the prism of Lord Sacks’ work.

The Invention of Jewish Identity

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004799
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Jewish Identity written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews from all ages have translated the Bible for their particular times and needs, but what does the act of translation mean? Aaron W. Hughes believes translation has profound implications for Jewish identity. The Invention of Jewish Identity presents the first sustained analysis of Bible translation and its impact on Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century. Hughes examines some of the most important Jewish thinkers -- Saadya Gaon, Moses ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Judah Messer Leon, Moses Mendelssohn, Martin Buber, and Franz Rosenzweig -- and their work on biblical narrative, to understand how linguistic and conceptual idioms change and develop into ideas about the self. The philosophical issues behind Bible translation, according to Hughes, are inseparable from more universal sets of questions that affect Jewish life and learning.

A Short History of Jewish Ethics

Author : Alan L. Mittleman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140518941X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Jewish Ethics written by Alan L. Mittleman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Short History of Jewish Ethics traces the development of Jewish moral concepts and ethical reflection from its Biblical roots to the present day. Offers an engaging and thoughtful account of Jewish ethics Brings together and discusses a broad range of historical sources covering two millennia of writings and conversations Combines current scholarship with original insights Written by a major internationally recognized scholar of Jewish philosophy and ethics

Philo of Alexandria

Author : D.T. Runia
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004216855
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Philo of Alexandria written by D.T. Runia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, prepared with the collaboration of the International Philo Bibliography Project, is the third in a series of annotated bibliographies on the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria. It contains a listing of all scholarly writings on Philo for the period 1997 to 2006.

Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands)

Author : Dan Ben Amos
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827608713
Total Pages : 873 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands) written by Dan Ben Amos and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg?s timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.

Lenn E. Goodman: Judaism, Humanity, and Nature

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004280766
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Lenn E. Goodman: Judaism, Humanity, and Nature written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His prolific scholarship has covered the entire history of philosophy from antiquity to the present with a focus on medieval Jewish philosophy.

Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought

Author : James A. Diamond
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004234063
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought by : James A. Diamond

Download or read book Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought written by James A. Diamond and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the “medieval” function as a bearer of Jewish identity in a changing secular world? Each chapter in Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought addresses a different Jewish return to the medieval by using a language of renewal.

H+/-

Author : Gregory R. Hansell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456815679
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book H+/- written by Gregory R. Hansell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

David Shatz: Torah, Philosophy, and Culture

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004326480
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book David Shatz: Torah, Philosophy, and Culture written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Shatz is the Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Thought at Yeshiva University and the editor of the Torah u-Madda Journal.

The Art of Mystical Narrative

Author : Eitan P. Fishbane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190885475
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Mystical Narrative written by Eitan P. Fishbane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the study of Judaism, the Zohar has captivated the minds of interpreters for over seven centuries, and continues to entrance readers in contemporary times. Yet despite these centuries of study, very little attention has been devoted to the literary dimensions of the text, or to formal appreciation of its status as one of the great works of religious literature. The Art of Mystical Narrative offers a critical approach to the zoharic story, seeking to explore the interplay between fictional discourse and mystical exegesis. Eitan Fishbane argues that the narrative must be understood first and foremost as a work of the fictional imagination, a representation of a world and reality invented by the thirteenth-century authors of the text. He claims that the text functions as a kind of dramatic literature, one in which the power of revealing mystical secrets is demonstrated and performed for the reading audience. The Art of Mystical Narrative offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the Zohar and on the intersections of literary and religious studies.

Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah

Author : Frederick E. Greenspahn
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814732860
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah written by Frederick E. Greenspahn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title describes recent discoveries and insights into the various expressions of Jewish mysticism from antiquity to the modern day. From mystical outpourings in ancient Palestine to the Kabbalah Centre, this volume explores the various expressions of Jewish mysticism from antiquity to the present day.

Menachem Kellner: Jewish Universalism

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004298282
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Menachem Kellner: Jewish Universalism written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menachem Kellner is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa and now chair of the Department of Philosophy and Jewish thought at Shalem College in Jerusalem.

Happiness

Author : Zelig Pliskin
Publisher : Mesorah Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781578194544
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Happiness written by Zelig Pliskin and published by Mesorah Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit of happiness is universal, yet elusive. This book shows where to find happiness and how. It's everywhere, even better; it's within ourselves, if we only know how to mine it. In 107 very concise, easy-to-read chapters, this joyous little book takes us on a successful pursuit of happiness. The author has perfected his methods, and with a little determination and practice so will we. He starts the book by telling of an encounter with a beggar in Jerusalem. I gave him a coin and laugh and wished him well. He blessed me, 'May you smile and laugh the entire year. ' I felt that I gained more from him than he had gained from me. Are you ready to smile and laugh? Open the book and begin.