by hadassah | Feb 4, 2024 | Dead Sea Scrolls
Why is it important to study the Dead Sea Scrolls? Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman. Produced by Down Low Pictures for COJS. You can literally hold in your hands a library from 2,000 years ago and find out what kind of books stood in the core of the inter-Jewish...
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2024 | Philosophic Speculation
R. Joseph Albo, Sefer ha-`Ikarim Human happiness depends upon theoretical knowledge and practical conduct, as the Philosopher explains in the book On the Soul. But it is not possible by the human intellect alone to arrive at a proper knowledge of the true and...
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2024 | Philosophic Speculation
R. Hasdai Crescas, The Light of the Lord The basis of all faith and the taproot of all beginnings, that paves the way towards understanding the truth of the elements of the divine Torah, is the believe in the existence of God, the Blessed. Therefore the purpose...
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2024 | Philosophic Speculation
Illuminated Page from Fourteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript of the Hebrew Translation of Maimonides’s Guide for the Perplexed Cod. Heb. 37 from the Royal Library in Copenhagen, a Hebrew translation of Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed written originally in...
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2024 | Mystical Speculation
Introduction to Sefer Hasidim This is called “Book of the Pious.” Its contents are sweet and most desirable. It is written for those who fear God and revere His name. There is a Hasid whose heart desires the love of His Creator, to do His will completely. But...
