ellauri026.html on line 190: Ortodoksijuutalaiseen rabbisukuun syntynyt Cohen ei ollut koskaan tyytymätön uskontoonsa, eikä hän nähnyt ristiriitaa zen-harjoituksensa ja juutalaisuutensa välillä. Toisinaan hän jopa kutsui itseään nimellä Jikan Eliezer, yhdistelmällä buddhalaista ja heprealaista nimeään. Hänen myöhemmistä teksteistään voi havaita, kuinka traditiot ovat sulautuneet yhteen Cohenin kertojanäänessä. On kuin kohen, aaronilainen pappi, puhuisi koanien, zeniläisten paradoksien kielellä. Mikä sopisikaan Leonard Cohenille paremmin.
ellauri073.html on line 225: Selvästikin oikea johtaja ei ole vaan joku jolla on samanlaiset mielipiteet kuin sulla, eikä sellanen joka susta vaan on hyvä tyyppi. Oikea johtaja on joku joka oman supervoimansa ja karismansa ja esimerkkinsä avulla antaa inspistä porukoille, "inspis" nyt vakavasti ja epäkliseisessti ymmärrettynä (mitähän sekin olisi...) Oikea johtaja saa "meidät" tekemään asioita jotka "meistä" tuntuu "sieltä" hyvältä. Se on "mystinen" kyky, vaikee määritelä, mutta kyllä "me" se tunnistetaan kun nähdään, jopa (ja varsinkin tekis mieli sanoa) lapsina. "Sä" muistat sen varmaan joissain tosi mahtavissa koutseissa, opettajissa, tai jossain erikoisviileässä isommassa kaverissa jota kazoit "ylöspäin" (kiinnostava ilmaus) ja halusit matkia. Jotkut "meistä" muistaa nähneensä tän piirteen lapsena jossain pastorissa tai rabbissa, tai parzikajohtajassa, tai vanhemmassa tai kaverin vanhemmassa, tai jonkun kesätyön bossissa. Joo, nää oli kaikki "auktoriteettihahmoja", mutta tää on jotain aivan erikoista auktoriteettia (höpön höpön, se on kaikki just sitä samaa tavallista alfasusimeininkiä). Jos olit intissä, tiedät kuink tosi helppoa on sanoa mitkä kapiaisista oli oikeita johtajia ja mitkä ei, ja miten vähän nazat siihen vaikuttaa. (Tää on kuin ote Tuntemattomasta sotilaasta.) Johtajan oikea arvovalta on supervoima jonka sille myönnät mieluusti (no en takuulla), ja annat sille tän powerin ihan mielellään, olematta alistunut tai kaunainen, se tuntuu "oikealta". (Vitut, sellaista hemmoa ei mulle olekaan). Ihan syvältä, sä aina tykkäät siitä miltä oikea johtaja saa sut tuntumaan, sä paiskit töitä kovemmin tai oikein venytät ja ajattelet ettet ois tähän pystynyt ellei sulla olis ollut tätä heppua jota sä kunnioitit ja johka sä uskoit ja jota sä haluut miellyttää. (HYI HELVETTI! Jopa on paxua.)
ellauri109.html on line 541: In March, 1959, The New Yorker published Roth’s story “Defender of the Faith,” in which a Jewish enlisted man tries to manipulate a Jewish sergeant into giving him special treatment out of ethnic kinship. Various rabbis and Jewish community leaders accused Roth of cultural treason. “What is being done to silence this man?” Emanuel Rackman, the president of the Rabbinical Council of America, wrote. “Medieval Jews would have known what to do with him.”
ellauri111.html on line 435: (Excuse the shouting, but) THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO PLEASE GOD AND GET TO HEAVEN AND THAT IS THROUGH HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO SHED HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD TO PAY FOR OUR SINS. JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO GOD (ref. John 14:6). There is no other Saviour but Jesus. No one else can get us into heaven--not the pope, the Roman Catholic priest, Buddha, Muhammad, rabbis, et al. Only Jesus. He is the prophesied Jewish Messiah, the lion of the tribe of Judah, and the Son of David!
ellauri156.html on line 539: His One Sin: The rabbis agree that Abner deserved this violent death, though opinions differ concerning the exact nature of the sin that entailed so dire a punishment on one who was, on the whole, considered a "righteous man" (Gen. R. lxxxii. 4). Some reproach him that he did not use his influence with Saul to prevent him from murdering the priests of Nob (Yer. Peah, i. 16a; Lev. R. xxvi. 2; Sanh. 20a)—convinced as he was of the innocence of the priests and of the propriety of their conduct toward David, Abner holding that as leader of the army David was privileged to avail himself of the Urine and Thumbeline (I Sam. xxii. 9-19). Instead of contenting himself with passive resistance to Saul's command to murder the priests (Yalḳ., Sam. 131), Abner ought to have tried to restrain the king by the balls. Others maintain that Abner did make such an attempt, but in vain (Saul had not enough to get a proper hold of), and that his one sin consisted in that he delayed the beginning of David's reign over Israel by fighting him after Saul's death for two years and a half (Sanh. l.c.). Others, again, while excusing him for this—in view of a tradition founded on Gen. xlix. 27, according to which there were to be two kings of the house of Benjamin—blame Abner for having prevented a reconciliation between Saul and David on the occasion when the latter, in holding on to the skirt of Saul's robe (I Sam. xxiv. 11), showed how unfounded was the king's mistrust of him, seeing Saul had no balls to speak of. Old Saul was inclined to be happy with a pacifier; but Abner, representing to him that the naked David might have found a piece of garment anywhere — even just a piece of sackcloth caught on a thorn — prevented the reconciliation (Yer. Peah, l.c., Lev. R. l.c., and elsewhere). Moreover, it was wrong of Abner to permit Israelitish youths to kill one another for sport (II Sam. ii. 14-16). No reproach, however, attaches to him for the death of Asahel, since Abner killed him in self-defense (Sanh. 49a).
ellauri160.html on line 583: Scholars believe the reason Jews in Babylon undertook to draw demons between the 5th and the 7th centuries has to do with a series of relaxations of the strictures, which rabbis gave the Jews as a way of dealing with the challenged posed by the increasing strength of Christianity. Fearing that Jews might prefer the new religion, the rabbis agreed to allow magic that included visual images. The demons Vilozny researched were drawn on “incantation bowls” – simple pottery vessels the insides of which were covered with inscriptions and drawings.
ellauri163.html on line 862: David Émile Durkheim was born 15 April 1858 in Épinal, Lorraine, France, to Mélanie (Isidor) and Moïse Durkheim, coming into a long lineage of devout French Jews. As his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had all been rabbis, young Durkheim began his education in a rabbinical school. However, at an early age, he switched schools, deciding not to follow in his family's footsteps. I bet dad, grandad and greatgranddad were all very disappointed. In fact, Durkheim led a completely secular life, whereby much of his work was dedicated to demonstrating that religious phenomena stemmed from social rather than divine factors. Despite this fact, Durkheim did not sever ties with his family or with the Jewish community. Actually, many of his most prominent collaborators and students were Jewish, some even blood-related.
ellauri194.html on line 287: In the early 19th century, some Hasidic rabbis identified the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon as "The War of Gog and Magog". But as the century progressed, apocalyptic expectations receded as the populace in Europe began to adopt an increasingly secular worldview. This has not been the case in the United States, where a 2002 poll indicated that 59% of Americans believed the events predicted in the Book of Revelation would come to pass. During the Cold War the idea that Soviet Russia had the role of Gog gained popularity, since Ezekiel's words describing him as "prince of Meshek" – rosh meshek in Hebrew – sounded suspiciously like Russia and Moscow. Even some Russians took up the idea, apparently unconcerned by the implications ("Ancestors were found in the Bible, and that was enough"), as did Ronald Reagan.
ellauri243.html on line 732: Endymion is Disraeli in his youth except in the story he is a true-blood British aristocrat. Zenobia, a queen of fashion, is based on his Lady Blessington with a combination of some other great lady. She was Benjamin Disraeli´s first great patroness, who opened the avenue of his wonderful career. Zenobia later retires to the background to give place to Lady Montfort. She is a combination of Lady Blessington and Mrs. Wyndham Lewis (the latter Disraeli married) so we have in Lady Montfort at once the patroness and the wife. It would be interesting to know if the rabbis got to cut Benjy´s prepuce before the falling-out with the synagogue? Maybe that is what the fight was all about?
ellauri264.html on line 511: In the century after it was published by Karo (whose vision was a unified Judaism under the Sephardic traditions) it became the code of law for Ashkenazim, together with the later commentaries of Moses Isserles and the 17th century Polish rabbis.
ellauri264.html on line 565: The prohibition applies only if the food is prepared exclusively by non-Jews. A small amount of Jewish participation can suffice to keep the food kosher. Different rabbis have different views on the absolute minimum: Sephardi poskim state that the minimum participation is to light the fire and place the pot on it to cook, while Ashkenazim are satisfied with merely lighting the fire, or even making a slight adjustment to a fire which was already lit by a non-Jew. Or just by looking at the knob on the stove like Kim Young Il.
ellauri336.html on line 354: Let’s be honest it’s a very small minority that still practices the head shaving tradition. Most rabbis don’t believe in it. I’m chassidish and don’t practice that minhag as well as none of my friends do.
ellauri350.html on line 461: Pysy fyysisesti aktiivisena millä tahansa sinulle sopivalla tavalla. Tee kaikkea muuta kuin pysy istumassa! Ja ei, sinun ei tarvitse tehdä joogaa, juosta maratoneja tai mennä syvänmeren kalastukseen, jos nuo asiat rasittavat tai häiritsevät sinua. Unohda tupakka ja päihteiden väärinkäyttö . Mutta tiedät sen jo – ja sekakäyttäjänä et luultavasti lue tätä kolumnia. Ole vastuullisesti varovainen. Harkitse asioita, joita äitisi, rabbisi, opettajasi sekä lääkärit ja sairaanhoitajat ovat neuvoneet – turvavyön käyttämisestä sukupuolitaudeilta suojaamiseen ja lääkärikäynneillä pysymiseen. Vältä liikalihavuutta. Syö oikea määrä ravitsevaa ruokaa. Tiedät mikä on mahdollista sinulle. Onko sinulla paras ystävä. Ota kaksi. Ota paxi, ota kaxi, ota Fazerin paxeja kaxi. Tee elämässäsi jotain arvokasta tai merkityksellistä. Ole vaikka arvostettu psykologiprofessori. Se siitä.
ellauri368.html on line 341: It is an unusual book in that it satirizes the language and style of early hasidic rabbis writing in Hebrew, which was not the vernacular of the Jews of its time. To make his work available and accessible to his contemporaries, Perl translated his own work into Yiddish. It is currently in print only in an English translation, by Dov Taylor, published by Westview Press.
xxx/ellauri148.html on line 195: And the land shall mourn (Zech. 12:12). What is the reason of the mourning? R. Dosa and the rabbis differ about it. R. Dosa says: “[They will mourn] over the Messiah who will be slain, “ and the say; “[The will mourn] over the Evil Inclination which will be killed [in the days of the Messiah]…” Babylonian Talmud Sukkah 52a[7]
xxx/ellauri148.html on line 197: The rabbis have taught; The Holy One, blessed be He, will say to Messiah ben David, may he be revealed soon in our day!; “Ask of Me anything, and I shall give it to you, for it is written, The Lord said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee, ask of Me and I will give the nations for thy inheritance (Psalms 2:7-8)” And when he will see that Messiah ben Joseph will be slain, he will say before Him: “Master of the World! I ask nothing of you except life! God will say to him: “Even before you said, ‘life,’ your father David prophesied about you as it is written, He asked life of Me, Thou gavest it him (Ps. 21:5) Babylonian Talmud Sukkah 52a
xxx/ellauri149.html on line 319: I know I know. Toi oli Singerin arvio sen isästä rabbista. Pro taloustiede lue uskonto.
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 239: The Lithuanian rabbis (like Itchele's mom's folks) feared that Hasidism demoted the traditional importance on Torah study, from its pre-eminent status in Jewish life. Some Hasidic interpretations saw mystical prayer as the highest activity, but their practitioners thought that through this, all their Jewish study and worship would become easier. By the mid-19th Century, the schism between the two interpretations of Eastern European Judaism had mostly healed, as Hasidism revealed its dedication to bookwormship, and the Lithuanian World saw advantages in the Hasidic shared fun.
xxx/ellauri166.html on line 446: The earliest known tefillin were tiny and probably worn all day, except Saturdays. They were found together with other Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judean desert, in the mid-twentieth century. They were dated by archaeologists as far back as the 1st or 2nd centuries BCE. Although their texts are more varied than rabbinic tefillin, it is clear that they are based on a specific understanding of the same four verses noted above as associated by the rabbis with the tefillin ritual.
xxx/ellauri215.html on line 139: Various rabbis and Jewish community leaders accused Roth of cultural treason. “What is being done to silence this man?” Emanuel Rackman, the president of the Rabbinical Council of America, wrote. “Medieval Jews would have known what to do with him.”
xxx/ellauri232.html on line 252: Oletetaan, että rukoilen jotain. Joko on hyvä, että näin tapahtuu, tai sitten ei. Jos on, niin Jumala ei tarvitse rukoustani saadakseen sen tapahtumaan. Hän toteuttaa sen joka tapauksessa, koska se on hyvää ja Jumala on hyvä. Jos se ei ole hyvä, niin Jumala ei saa sitä aikaan, vaikka kuinka kovasti rukoilen. Todiste on ei kukaan muu kuin Mooses. Kun Mooses rukoili, että Jumala antaisi anteeksi israelilaisille, Jumala antoi heille anteeksi, koska Jumala antaa anteeksi. Mutta kun hän rukoili, että hänen, Mooseksen, sallittaisiin ylittää Jordan ja päästä Luvattuun maahan, Jumala ei hyväksynyt hänen pyyntöään. Hän käski häntä lopettamaan rukouksen. Se ei tapahtunut kuinka kovaa tai pitkään Mooses rukoili. Joten rukous ei muuta Jumalan mieltä missään yksinkertaisessa mielessä. ( http://www.rabbisacks.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Letters-to-the-Next-Generation-2-Reflections-on-Jewish-Life.pdf )
xxx/ellauri233.html on line 162: The rise of modern, centralized states in Europe by the early 19th century heralded the end of Jewish judicial autonomy and social seclusion. Their communal corporate rights were abolished, and the process of emancipation and acculturation that followed quickly transformed the values and norms of the public. Estrangement and apathy toward Judaism were rampant. The process of communal, educational and civil reform could not be restricted from affecting the core tenets of the faith. The new academic, critical study of Judaism (Wissenschaft des Judentums) soon became a source of controversy. Rabbis and scholars argued to what degree, if at all, its findings could be used to determine present conduct. The modernized Orthodox in Germany, like rabbis Isaac Bernays and Azriel Hildesheimer, were content to cautiously study it while stringently adhering to the sanctity of holy texts and refusing to grant Wissenschaft any say in religious matters. On the other extreme were Rabbi Abraham Geiger, who would emerge as the founding father of Reform Judaism, and his supporters. They opposed any limit on critical research or its practical application, laying more weight on the need for change than on continuity.
xxx/ellauri233.html on line 171: Truth be told, Harry Kemelman did not like David Small very much. "He's not a very likable person," Kemelman said of the fictional rabbi. "No congregation would tolerate him. I wish there were more rabbis like him."
xxx/ellauri233.html on line 393: Through his annotations and emendations of Talmudic and other texts, he became one of the most familiar and influential figures in rabbinic study since the Middle Ages. He is considered as one of the Anachronim, and by some as one of the Rishonim. The Acharonim "the last ones" follow the Rishonim, the "first ones"—the rabbinic scholars between the 11th and the 16th century following the Geonim and preceding the Shulchan Aruch. According to many rabbis the Shulkhan Arukh is an Acharon. Some hold that Rabbi Yosef Karo's first bestseller Beit Yosef has the halakhic status of a Rishon, while his later blockbuster Shulkhan Arukh has the status of an Acharon. The publication of the Shulchan Aruch thus marks the transition from the era of Rishonim to that of Acharonim. According to the widely held view in Orthodox Judaism, the Acharonim generally cannot dispute the rulings of rabbis of previous eras unless they find support from other rabbis in previous eras. Yet the opposite view exists as well.
xxx/ellauri233.html on line 397: When Hasidic Judaism became influential in his native town, the Vilna Gaon joined the "opposers" or Misnagdim, rabbis and heads of the Polish communities, to curb Hasidic influence. When Hasidic Judaism became influential in Vilna, the Vilna Gaon joined rabbis and heads of the Polish communities, to speak against Hasidic influence.
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