Resultados para "A" en Judaísmo

Meditación Judía: Una Guía Práctica es una obra accesible y profunda que introduce al lector a la tradición espiritual de la meditación dentro del judaísmo, una tradición que fue una parte auténtica e integral de la vida religiosa judía hasta el siglo XVIII y que muchas personas desconocen hoy en día. En este libro, el rabino y erudito Aryeh Kaplan presenta paso a paso las principales formas de meditación judía —como la meditación con mantras, la contemplación y la visualización.

El más antiguo de los Evangelios conocidos que descubre la vida real de Jesús. El Documento o Fuente Q es el primero de los evangelios conocidos. Anterior a los Evangelios canónicos, fue utilizado por los evangelistas Mateo y Lucas para redactar sus obras. En este libro, César Vidal ha reconstruido el texto del Documento Q traduciéndolo por primera vez al castellano y dando con ello la posibilidad de conocer la realidad histórica de Jesús.

En estas memorias, Rav Berg expone el profundo vínculo entre maestro y estudiante, ilustrando un hermoso retrato de uno de los más grandes Kabbalistas de nuestra era: Rav Yehuda Tzvi Brandwein. Ambientado en Israel durante los turbulentos días anteriores y posteriores a la Guerra de los Seis Días, este libro recuenta el desarrollo de la relación especial entre Rav Berg y Rav Brandwein, y comparte las enseñanzas provenientes de dicha relación. En estas páginas percibimos la pasión de estos Kabbalistas por llevar la sabiduría ancestral de la Kabbalah al mundo contemporáneo.

Finding the Light Through the Darkness invites listeners on a transformative journey. These inspirational essays, rooted in the Bible and the Zohar, help us understand the lessons our soul chose to experience, view difficulties as a chance to change, and realize that everything is part of God’s divine plan. Only then are we able to find joy in spiritual growth. By carrying the torch of Kabbalah masters, Karen Berg, spiritual director of The Kabbalah Centre, reminds us that light isn’t revealed through light; it is revealed through darkness.

Discover the profound historical mystery of the Star of David in this definitive guide to one of the world's most enduring symbols. This book takes you on a transformative journey beyond the surface, revealing the esoteric secrets and sacred geometry that have shaped civilizations for millennia. By exploring the Star’s deep connection to the legendary Seal of Solomon, you will unlock ancient wisdom regarding the balance of opposites; heaven and earth, male and female, and the physical and spiritual realms.

These treasured folktales form Hasidism's legendary storyteller are the crowning jewels of Rebbe Nachman's life work. Each fable vividly communicates how to live with the presence of God in daily life. Tales include: "The Lost Princess," "The Clever One and the Simpleton," "The Rabbi and His Son," and "The Fixer." Rebbe Nachman was the great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism.

¿Por qué existen los judíos? O mejor dicho, ¿por qué quedan judíos en el mundo? No se ha podido identificar ningún otro grupo de personas que haya sobrevivido tanto tiempo en exilio de su tierra. Tampoco hay otro pueblo presente en el mundo cuyos orígenes estén más envueltos en misteriosos y mitos. Ni hay otro identidad que haya vido mas difícil para un pueblo. Ni hay otro pueblo más dispuesto a soportar las dificultades de su identidad.

Though the Torah prohibits eating pig meat, it is not singled out more than other food prohibitions. The pig has become a symbol for people to signal their Jewishness, non-Jewishness, or rebellion from Judaism. Starting with the Hebrew Bible, Jordan D. Rosenblum historicizes the emergence of the pig as a key symbol of Jewish identity, from the Roman persecution of ancient rabbis, to the Spanish Inquisition, to Shakespeare's writings, to modern memoirs of those leaving Orthodox Judaism.

SAMUEL DERMER (1930-2020) Samuel Dermer nació en Czernowitz, Rumania en 1930 y falleció en Santiago de Chile el 2020. Proveniente de una familia observante, fue alumno del cheder donde aprendió Tora y practicó el judaísmo que lo acompañaría hasta el final de sus días. Con la llegada de los nazis la vida familiar cambió rotundamente. Tras una redada, el padre de Samuel no volvió más. Junto a su madre fue deportado al gueto de Transnicia y en 1942 su madre falleció allí de tifus.

Coming from the Hebrew root that means "to receive", Kabbalah is known as the "inner" or "esoteric" dimension of Judaism. Kabbalah for Beginners is your introduction to a great spiritual tradition that will help you deepen your experience of the divine through Kabbalistic portals into the eternal present.

This a lecture given by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan z'tl which discusses the question of the age of the Universe according to Torah thought: Is it around 6000 years old or billions? Rabbi Kaplan goes through various approaches to this question, and concludes with a view based on authoritative sources from over 700 years ago, which lead to a very satisfactory answer. Also briefly touching on other interesting topics, this audiobooklet is an important listen for anyone wanting a non-apologetic answer to this question.

Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter’s The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In this seminal work, Alter describes how the Hebrew Bible’s many authors used innovative literary styles and devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of all time: the revelation of a single God. In so doing, Alter shows, these writers reshaped not only history, but also the art of storytelling itself.

For centuries, many have been taught to believe that the Bible presents a vivid picture of a fiery Hell, where God sadistically torments most of humanity by burning their skin for all eternity. But is this really the picture Scripture paints? Were you raised to view Hell through the lens of the Augustinian-Calvinist tradition, perhaps too intimidated ever to question it? If so, this book is for you. In it, we will challenge the fundamentalist perspective on Hellfire by exploring the original context in which the biblical teachings on Hell were written.

The Kabbalah is divided into three branches—the theoretical, the meditative, and the magical. While many books, both in Hebrew and English, have explored the theoretical Kabbalah, very little has been published regarding the meditative methods of the various schools of Kabbalah. Aryeh Kaplan's landmark work reveals the methodology of the ancient Kabbalists and stresses the meditative techniques that were essential to their discipline, including:

This audiobook answers such key questions as "Why are we here?", "Why is there pain?'", and "How can we make life more enjoyable"? The audiobook describes the emergence of Kabbalah and its prominent figures, the essence of the wisdom, and previously hidden revolutionary Kabbalistic concepts. Lastly, the audiobook explains how we can make life better and more enjoyable. This audiobook will help seekers of spiritual truth take a first step to understanding the roots of human behavior and the laws of nature.

A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland? In this iconoclastic work of history, Shlomo Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel's future.

It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 40s and 50s in a small apartment crowded with books in 12 languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was 12 and a half years old, his mother committed suicide - a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz.

Nearly everyone in the Western world is familiar with the stories in the book of Genesis. Its language is simple. Its powerful sentences are short. And its messages glisten with clarity. But is it possible that the understanding of the book of Genesis we've all grown up with isn't as complete as we'd like to believe? That its deceptively simple sentences and surface appearance hide from contemporary readers a purposeful and intricate structure designed to let its depth and detail and implication resonate with the readers and listeners of its own time?.

Whether complete or only fragmentary, the 930 extant Dead Sea Scrolls irrevocably altered how we look at and understand the foundations of faith and religious practice. Now you can get a comprehensive introduction to this unique series of archaeological documents, and to scholars' evolving understanding of their authorship and significance, with these 24 lectures. Learn what the scrolls are, what they contain, and how the insights they offered into religious and ancient history came into focus.

Kabbalah, it is said, was brought down from heaven by angels. The great mystics of Judaism originally passed its teachings by word of mouth only, believing that the secrets of the kabbalah transcended the written word.