Word: rashi
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...midterm" - applies, in spades, to his crumbling life. And yet for most of the movie he hangs in there, behaving honorably, seeking the wisdom of his ancestors, trying to observe the Jewish concept of Hashem. "Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you," says Elie Wiesel's Rashi. To absorb God's body blows, this disquieting, haunting movie says, is to be fully alive. To do otherwise could kill...
...Rashi Fein, Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Emeritus...
...they severely downgraded Ishmael. Initially, says Shaul Magid, professor of Midrash at New York City's Jewish Theological Seminary, Jewish parents named their boys after Abraham's Arab son, but the custom evaporated as they began living under Muslim rule. By the 11th century the great biblical scholar Rashi, citing earlier authorities, described Ishmael as a "thief" whom "everybody hates," an insult that can still be found in his prominently placed commentary in many Torah editions today and that is taught inmany Orthodox religious schools. IbnKathir, a 13th century Koranic commentator, struck back by claiming the Jews had "dishonestly...
Speaking next on Judaism was forum organizer Stern. Citing a passage from the Jewish commentator Rashi, Stern highlighted what she said was a fundamental Jewish "tension between the universal, defined by the creation, and the particular, defined by Jewish...
...Rashi Fein, professor of economics of medicine at the Medical School, when asked whether the AMA spoke for a majority of doctors, replied, "It doesn...