Word: halakah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Halakah & Aggadah. There is no easy entrance to the Talmud's world. It begins with a question: "From which moment on may one recite the Shema [a prayer based on passages from Deuteronomy and Numbers] in the evening?" Then it plunges abruptly into page after crowded page of rabbinical answers, further questions, disputations. The comments themselves are of two kinds: halakah, or interpretation of the law, and aggadah, meaning sayings, parables, narratives or proverbs with a moral significance. The two kinds of commentary are hopelessly, sometimes humorously, interwoven. Argument is seldom pursued to a logical conclusion. In the midst...
...Rosh Hashanah. During the year, according to the Law, all land owned by Jews in Palestine must lie fallow.* That way lies bankruptcy; so Jews have resorted to the legal maneuver of giving full title to their property to a non-Jew, who is not bound by the Halakah. This enables the Jews to work the land with a free conscience...
...does not keep a kosher kitchen, bacon, purchased from a Jewish butcher, is served only on request. Orthodox rabbis are pleased that there are separate hours for men and women to use the building's swimming pool, which is the only one in Jerusalem that observes the rigid Halakah prohibition against mixed bathing...
...eyes." Admiration & Shock. Buber is the most widely read Jewish thinker of the century, although there are plenty of Catholics and Protestants who are more enthusiastic about his work than some of his fellow Jews are. Since he does not follow the detailed rules of the Halakah in his daily life and scorns the narrow legalism of the Talmudic law, he has been mercilessly criticized by Orthodox rabbis as a heretic. Some Reform Jews, on the other hand, feel that Buber has romanticized the Hasidic movement and overemphasized the importance of this unique sect for modern Judaism. And even among...