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'Lashes') in Judaism is a tractate of the Mishnah and Talmud. It is the fifth volume of the order of Nezikin . Makkot deals primarily with laws of the beth din ( halachic courts) and the punishments which they may administer, and may be regarded as a continuation of tractate Sanhedrin , of which it originally formed part.
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Exoteric means that Scripture is read in the context of the physical world, human orientation, and human notions. The first three exegetical methods: Peshat-Simple, Remez-Hinted, and Drush-Homiletic belong to the exoteric "Nigleh-Revealed" part of Torah embodied in mainstream Rabbinic literature, such as the Talmud, Midrash, and exoteric-type Jewish commentaries on the Bible.
Edited: Essays in Jewish Historiography [=History and Theory Beiheft 27, edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert]. With a new Introduction and an Appendix. With a new Introduction and an Appendix. Atlanta, 1991: Scholars Press for South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism.
Jewish law, known in Hebrew as Halakha, was transcribed first in the Mishnah and later in the Talmud, with the differing opinions spread out over sixty three tractates. However, later rabbis — namely the Geonim of the Early Middle Ages , the Rishonim of the High and Late Middle Ages , and the Acharonim of modern times — wrote more ...
Meyer is also a renowned editor of Jewish history. Volumes he has edited include Ideas of Jewish History (1974); [12] a four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times (1996–1998, with Assistant Editor Michael Brenner); [13] and Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi: An Autobiography--the German and Early American Years (2007). [14]
Modern Jewish historiography is the development of the Jewish historical narrative into the modern era.While Jewish oral history and the collection of commentaries in the Midrash and Talmud are ancient, with the rise of the printing press and movable type in the early modern period, Jewish histories and early editions of the Torah/Tanakh were published which dealt with the history of the ...
Pulsa deNura, Pulsa diNura or Pulsa Denoura (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פולסי דנורא, romanized: pulsē di-nurā, lit. 'the lashes of fire') is a purportedly ancient Kabbalistic ceremony in which the destroying angels are invoked to block heavenly forgiveness of the subject's sins, allegedly causing all the curses named in the Bible to befall him resulting in his death.