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...time in an office that removes him from his fellow man, Pope Kiril walks incognito in the streets of the city. In the space of an hour, he proves that he is still a regular guy by hobnobbing with the ragazzi of Rome, exhibits his ecumenism by reciting the Shema Yisrael in the house of a dying Jew, and outdoes Dear Abby by cementing a broken marriage. His ex-cathedra advice: Love one another. In his spare time, Pope Kiril befriends a radical theologian, Father Telemond (Oskar Werner), soothes the internecine squabbles of the Roman Curia, and ends the possibility...
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...
...destiny and fulfillment" are more important than the idea of a deity, Wine has rewritten the Reform ritual to give it a more humanistic cast. At Friday evening services, for example, "You shall love the Lord your God" becomes: "We revere the best in man." Wine has eliminated the Shema, the traditional Jewish confession of faith...
Short & Eloquent. How the nation prays has changed mightily over the years, but the Shema (Hear, 0 Israel) remains the most common set prayer in Judaism, and the Lord's Prayer is predictably the favorite Christian formula. "Everybody knows it," says one Atlanta minister. "It's reasonably short and really rather eloquent." Thanks to Protestantism's liturgical revival, congregations have found new inspiration in the stately collects and antiphons of the prayer books, the classic prayers of the church fathers. One modern prayer that has been widely reprinted is a request for God's blessing upon...
Jesus' parents were devout Jews, who probably had a mezuzah (a roll of parchment containing an ancient Hebrew prayer known as the Shema) on the doorpost of their modest home in Nazareth and kept a kosher kitchen. "We may deduce," Aron says, "that Jesus observed the dietary laws." Aron believes that Mary probably put tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary...