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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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Moses directed the Israelites that when God delivered enemies into their power, the Israelites took captives, an Israelite saw among the captives a beautiful woman, he desired her, and wanted to marry her, the Israelite was to bring her into his house and have her trim her hair, pare her nails, discard her captive's garb, and spend a month lamenting her father and mother.
"Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." (Deuteronomy 25:4.) (illustration circa 1900 by James Shaw Crompton) Ki Teitzei, Ki Tetzei, Ki Tetse, Ki Thetze, Ki Tese, Ki Tetzey, or Ki Seitzei (כִּי־תֵצֵא —Hebrew for "when you go," the first words in the parashah) is the 49th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of ...
Other notable books include Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism (1988); [9] National Jewish Book Award winner in Jewish Thought, 1989 Jewish Identity in the Modern World (1990); [10] and a collection of essays entitled Judaism Within Modernity (2001). [11] Meyer is also a renowned editor of Jewish history.
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.
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.
"Sephardic Identity and Its Discontents: The Novels of A. B. Yehoshua" in Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination, Ed. Yael Halevi-Wise (Stanford University Press, 2012). Halevi-Wise, Yael. "A. B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani and the Playful Subjectivity of History,” in Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in ...