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...were married on Sunday at Temple Emanuel in Newton Center, Mass. The four-day, traditional Jewish wedding ceremony included ritual bathing, recitations of the Torah, and prayer services led by family and friends, rather than religious officials...
...respected New York college opens with the assertion: "The current downturn is the first post World War II recession that has its roots in widespread moral failure." It's an interesting, if debatable contention, but equally interesting is the authorities Levine cites as he makes his argument: the Jewish torah, the mishna (transcribed oral law), talmud, the work of medieval jurists like Maimonides, and host of rabbinical opinions (responsas) ever since. Levine is an Orthodox rabbi as well as a prof, and his institution is Yeshiva University. The book is titled Judaism and Economics; and his article's title...
...SawYouAtSinai, which was launched in 2004, takes its matchmaking seriously. Members fill out comprehensive profiles detailing their religious observance and outlook (frequency of Torah study? Black hat or knitted yarmulke?) and can't access an individual's profile until that person has been suggested as a match. That crucial limitation has allowed the site to win the blessing of well-known Orthodox rabbis and thereby reassure hesitant singles concerned about the propriety of online dating...
...Kabbalah Misconceptions Your article "A Brief History of: Kabbalah" is a monument to the ignorance of today's popular culture. Kabbalah is the oral tradition of the mystical aspect of the Torah. Those who lack the oral tradition are at best pretenders. I hope the description of Madonna as a practitioner was a joke, because it can't be taken seriously. Kabbalah did not cohere around a book; the book was an attempt to record in writing a tradition that had been around for centuries. The Zohar may have been first published in the 13th century, but it was written...
Kabbalah cohered and still revolves around its essential book, the Zohar--a gargantuan work penned in 13th century Spain by Moses de León--that explores divine mysteries under the guise of a commentary on the Torah. But it wasn't until the 18th century emergence of Hasidism as a Jewish movement in Eastern Europe that Kabbalah began to expand beyond its tiny group of scholars. Many Kabbalist masters, however, were killed in the Holocaust, causing the practice to languish temporarily...