המקרא בְּאֹמֶר ובתמונה (original) (raw)

Stiebel, G.D., Ecker, A., Gorzalczany, A., Tepper, Y., Shadman, A., Dan-Goor, S., and Koch, I. eds. 2024. In Centro, Collected Papers IV: Faith. Tel Aviv.

Preface "Faith, liberty, friendship, chief blessings of the human mind" (Tacitus) "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." (Emo Philips) "He who believes does not know he believes. He who knows he believes does not believe" (Joshua Sobol) Oren Hasson opens his discussion of the "Evolution of God" with a quote from Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking Glass, according to which: …the Queen tells Alice that she is "'just one hundred and one, five months and a day.' 'I can't believe that!' said Alice. 'Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. 'Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.' Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said: 'one can't believe impossible things.'" In Centro IV x* Alice was wrong, of course. We believe in many highly improbable things. Sometimes it even seems to us, especially when we contemplate the beliefs of others, that the more impossible things are, the more easily we are persuaded to believe in them. Pay attention what people believe or believed: according to the Papago native American tribe, living in Arizona, out of the primordial chaos was born a child named 'First Born'. He created the earth with the help of song-a motif of sacred importance among the native Americans. 'First Born' only created the sun after the explicit request of humans, who wanted to see one another and live in peace with one another. The Greeks believed that the Titans created the world, that Prometheus created humans and became their patron, and they also believed that the first woman, Pandora, was created by Hades, god of the volcano and the underworld. The statement about the social role of man and woman in our world is deeply embedded and emphasized in this creation narrative. The god Ngāi, who resides atop Mount Kenya, promised the promised land, namely, the highlands of Kenya, with its fertile lands, to the chosen people, the Kikuyu tribe. Most believers in a singular God believe that his son, Jesus, born of a virgin, is the Messiah who brought redemption to the world and that there is none beside him. Hundreds of millions of others believe that God changed his covenant with the descendants of Abraham for the sake of his covenant with the prophet Muhammad. A negligible minority of monotheistic believers are more optimistic, still hoping that the Messiah has not yet come and that there is still room to expect a better world. An even smaller minority within this minority was more precise in its expectations and believed that the late Lubavitcher Rebbe is the Messiah, and behold, the end of days is upon us. Many of these believers continued to believe this even when the rabbi was on his deathbed, and many of them still believe

זכויות, הלכה, והאדם שביניהן, תשעב (Human Rights, Jewish Law, and Humankind)

2012

חיבור זה עוסק ביחסי הגומלין שבין היהדות, ובאופן קונקרטי – ההלכה, לבין שיח זכויות האדם. למושג זכויות האדם כמה משמעויות. הספר מבקש לאמץ כאן דרך ביניים המכירה בכך שזכויות האדם הן גורם מתווך בין ערכים לבין חובות, או, מנקודת מבט תרבותית, דרך ביטוי פרטיקולרית למערכת ערכים העומדת בבסיס זכויות אלו. ליהדות פנים רבות. החיבור מתמקד בהופעתה הנורמטיבית – בהלכה. טענתי היא שהשיח ההלכתי מתאפיין במערכת ערכים המשפיעה על ההכרעות הניתנות במסגרתו, כמו גם על אופיו ועיצובו. השפעה זו מתבטאת לעתים בגלוי, אך לרוב באופן סמוי, כגורם בעל השפעה בתהליך הפרשני. ברובד הסמוי, העקיף לעתים, יש מכנה משותף רחב מאוד בין היהדות לבין זכויות האדם, והוא מתבטא בשורשים המניעים את המערכות הללו, כל אחת בדרכה. הפרק המצורף לדוגמא - המפגש הסמוי: שיקולים מוסריים כשיקולים פרשניים מנחים.

השיטה האפיסטולרית ביצירותיו של אברהם מאפו.. הרומן ''עיט צבוע'' כדוגמה

مجلة كلية اللغات, 2017

The current research addresses the epistolary style in Hebrew literature in the Enlightenment Era. The researcher addressed this style of writing in Abraham's novel (the hypocrite) that has become as mailbox of all the novel's characters. The novelist utilized these letters to present the secrets and thoughts of the characters as well as their feelings. Generally, this novel was composed entirely of letters that aimed at preparing the readers, who were living outside Israel, to comprehend the implicit meaning of the novel. The writer in his novel depicted the Jewish people in a particular time who characterized as a conservative community. He found out that letters werean appropriate means to uncover the thoughts of characters. Those letters revolved around (criticism, piece of advice, guidance, cheating, and conspiracy). Abraham Mapu put forward in-depth information through this type of writing. It was clearly observed that the main plot of the novel concentrated on letters...

Tamar through Lucius' eyes -Naama Zahavi-Ely (talk in Hebrew, plus an English translation)

talk given at the World Congress of Jewish Stuies, 2013

Cooking and the male gaze: Tamar as viewed by Lucius (II Samuel 13 and Apuleus' Golden Ass 2:7). A comparison of two texts from the Ancient World that refer to a similar cooking activity by a woman in the context of male erotic reaction to it. The texts are not related to each other as a literary tradition; however, the similarities in the everyday activity portrayed in both allow them to illuminate each other to the modern reader.

Music and Musical Instruments in Hebrew Secular Poetry in Spain: The Song of Praise of Yosef ben Ṣaddīq in Honor of Yiṣḥaq ben Baron / נגינה וכלי נגינה בשירת החול העברית בספרד: שיר השבח של יוסף אבן צדיק לכבוד יצחק אבן ברון

יוסף טובי נגינה וכלי נגינה בשירת החול העברית בספרד: שיר השבח של יוסף אבן צדיק לכבוד יצחק אבן ברון, דפים למחקר בספרות 16-17 (תשסט) 101-137

Medieval Arabic sources attest that Arabic poetry, especially the muwaššaḥāt, were performed in the courts of the kings with music, usually by the qaynah (pl. qiyān), the captive female slave, specifically educated and raised to be a singer, music player and dancer at the courtly banquets. No wonder, then, that this character of the qaynah frequently appears in medieval Arabic poetry, in particular that of Andalusia. The regular musical instrument used at these banquets was the lute (Ar. al-'ūd; Heb. kinnor or nevel). This object was highly esteemed in Arabic literature and was considered the foremost musical instrument. From the mid-tenth century Hebrew secular verse in Andalusia adopted the theme of music, and in fact reflected all its details as they appear in Arabic poetry. The present paper surveys in detail the occurrences of music in all its aspects in Andalusian Hebrew poetry, from Dunaš ben Labrạt at the court of Ḥisday ben Šaprūt in Cordova in the third quarter of the ...