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Rabbi Moishe Kievman Chabad Chayil The 3rd of Tamuz, this year on Sunday, June 29th, marks the 31st Hilula of Rabbi Menachem ...
Philo and Nicomachus extend the tradition. Later philosophers built on these ideas. Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher influenced by Greek philosophy, wrote that the universe was created in ...
Since Pilate served in a major imperial position, historians outside the Bible mention him—the Jewish historian Josephus, Philo the Alexandrian philosopher, and the Roman historian Tacitus. Pilate ...
Other ancient writers describe Pilate as someone who was not above offending the Jews of Judaea. According to the first-century Jewish philosopher Philo and the historian Josephus, Pilate had his ...
That’s a core concept of the great modern Jewish philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel. Miracles, insofar as Heschel would agree with my calling them that—it’s not one of his words—do not ...
Yet Maimonides – though not the earliest Jewish philosopher certainly one of Jewish philosophy’s most prominent and seminal thinkers – was also influenced by Philo and, it should be added ...
Philo, the 1st-century Jewish philosopher notes that many non-Jews disparage the Akedah because “it does not appear a great and admirable deed….for many other men, who have been very ...
Poetry, philosophy and a gambling rabbi: ... And overall, Venice afforded Jewish ghetto inhabitants rare-in-Europe possibilities to interact with Christian neighbors, according to the book. ... “We ...
Poetry, philosophy and a gambling rabbi: A colorful history of Venice’s Jewish ghetto In ‘Shylock’s Venice,’ UK author Harry Freedman paints a vibrant picture of an oft-overlooked side of ...
In 'Shylock's Venice,' UK author Harry Freedman paints a vibrant picture of an oft-overlooked side of Jewish history that goes far deeper than the famous Shakespeare character The post Poetry ...
“It was Jews saying that’s weird that you eat it, and Greeks and Romans saying it’s weird that you don’t,” said Rosenblum, pithily summing up a surprisingly vast ancient literature about Jews and pigs ...