...Torah, saying the blessing for the reading, and by helping to lead the service, the Bar Mitzvah will show he has acquired the knowledge and skill to accept this responsibility and its privileges. Becoming a Bar Mitzvah is not itself a religious service. That is, the Sabbath services are not being conducted because of the Bar Mitzvah. The reverse is true: The boy marks the fact that he is a Bar Mitzvah by participating in the Sabbath service. If no one was celebrating a Bar Mitzvah, the services would still be conducted and the portions read by the boy would be read by another adult member of the congregation. The Sabbath service at Congregation Tifereth Israel is a traditional service conducted almost entirely in Hebrew, the Jewish language of prayer. The form and structure of the service are 1,800 to 2,000 years old, with some sections dating back 2,500 years. For example, the "Musaf" service dates almost to the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. and was written to replace the sacrificial ceremony in the temple. (It is interesting to note that the synagogue itself, as an institution, dates to that event, when the Jews were exiled to Babylonia (now Iraq) and established houses of worship there.) The Torah Service is the central part of the morning, and marks the reading of the weekly portion of the Torah scrolls. The Torah contains the entire text of the five books of Moses, hand written in Hebrew characters on parchment and unchanged...
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...Worship Observation Paper Assignment Sheet THRS 2105 Spring During the semester, you must attend/observe one service of Jewish worship and present your observations in a five page paper. (If you regularly attend a Jewish worship service, you should visit a different denomination.) A list of synagogues of various denominations will be posted on line. You are welcome to visit a synagogue outside the list as long as you check in with me first. There are three components to the assignment. 1) Preparation Once you have decided what synagogue you will visit, you are expected to do a minimal amount of basic research on the historical background of the denomination, the worship style, its institutional organization and its place in the American religious scene. You may also want to do some research into the specific synagogue’s community you plan to visit, especially if it is of historic interest. Many religious denominations (and many individual synagogues) have web pages with helpful information. This preparation is important as it will help make your visit more comfortable and will enable you to get more out of the experience. Your finished paper should include a brief (one and a half to two pages) introduction to the tradition. Keep in mind that you must cite in a footnote or endnote all sources which you quote or paraphrase, as well as works to which you refer or from which you have culled information. Take notes carefully so that you don't have to go back to relocate...
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...and the preparation of the divine services in the context of a secular or monastic liturgy. Chevra Kadisha - The organization of Jewish men and women who see to it that the bodies of the Jews are prepared for burial according to Jewish tradition and are protected from desecration, willful or not, until burial. El Malei Rachamin - A funeral prayer used by the Ashkenazi Jewish community. Hasped - This word has direct physical meaning of "enclosed with a hasp" as thus used in Garth's 'Dispensary'. Kaddish - Hymm of praises to God found in the Jewish prayer service. Central theme is the magnification and sanctification of God's name. Kever - The custom of visiting the graveside of parents or close relatives and praying there. ( grave of the fathers) Kriah - Hebrew word meaning tearing. It refers to the act of tearing one's clothes of cutting a black ribbon worn on one's clothes. Levaya - Hebrew word for funeral. Menorah - A 9 branched candelabrum lit during the eight day holiday of Hanukkah. Mogen David -Means "shield of David" but is used to refer to the six pointed Star of David. Rabbi - Jewish scholar or teacher of the Torah. Meaning "My Master" Shabbat - Jewish day of rest and the seventh day of the week, on which religious Jews remember the Biblical creation of the heavens and the earth. Shivah- Jewish Sabath - Mourning period following the funeral and lasting...
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...Running Head: EZRA AND HEROD THE GREAT Ezra and Herod the Great Ezra and Herod the Great, two important figures taking part in the history of the Jews. Who are they? What were their contributions to Jewish life? How did they affect the way of life of the Jews at the beginning of the Common Era? The object of the assignment is to discuss these events. Ezra was a man of great importance to the development of Judaism. He was known as Ezra the Scribe and Ezra the Priest (Hirsch, 2002). According to Niswonger, Ezra was one of the people who led the Jews back to their lands after the exile by the Persians (1988). Ezra stressed that marriages to pagan was deeply offensive. He taught that in order to establish and build the Jewish identity, Jew should only marry within their community (Niswonger, 1988). Niswonger states that Ezra was not only a scribe, but “a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses (1988, p.55). Ezra stresses the importance of the oral traditions of the Synagogues. The lecture teaches us that Ezra was an instrumental in the acceptance of the Torah, the Jewish bible as their cannon (Price, 2008). Because of the teachings of Ezra, the Jews became a people together who followed the book and the oral laws as interpreted by the scribes (Price, 2008). Niswonger teaches that these scribes were often referred to as “The Great Synagogue (1988, p. 73). Ezra was a very important part of the value that the Jews placed on the Law of the Torah and...
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...MY PROJECT ON JUDAISM FESTIVAL NAME: SANATEA BRYCE AND KHIMARELY WHITE SCHOOL: CAMPERDOWN HIGH SCHOOL TITLE:JUDAISM FESTIVALS SUBJECT: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TEACHER’S NAME: MRS TREASURE- SMITH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all I would like to thank god my creator who has given me the knowledge to understand this project that My religious education teacher Mrs Treasure smith has given to me, I also thank Aunty Donna for putting a little effort in helping me With this project. Once again a big thank you all……………………………………………………!! INTRODUCTION This project is base on Judaism festivals or festivals in Judaism. it plays a very important role in our life because it helps you to know more about religious education. Many children nowadays take religious education for granted the important of other religions and our religion which is Christianity. Without thinking about how important it would be to know about other religions and ower own religion. Understanding how ower religion and other religions operate, the good ideas that lies behind reading and knowing more about what happening in different part of the world and what type of rules do some Caribbean places followed by like for example India which is where you can go and find Hinduism let their young ones married at an early age but like we Jamaica ower children start that at the latest 18 years of age. This is what religious education set for us to learn. TABLE OF CONTENT ROSH HASHANAH……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5 ...
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...Marriage in Judaism Chair Throne for the bride (Figure 2) Singing, celebrating of the chatan (Figure 4) Breaking of the Glass (Figure 3) Religious Symbol for Judaism (Figure 1) Marriage in Judaism is an important of the Jewish tradition. Judaism believes in the concept of soul mates, called bashert. The purpose of marriage is love and companionship, not just childbearing, but it is traditionally expected to fulfil the commandment to have kids. The husband and women are believed to merge into a single soul once married. The wedding can be held on any day of the week apart from during the Jewish Sabbath and also on major Jewish festivals such as the Day of Atonement or Jewish New Year (when Jews are required to refrain from work. Nine major festive held on the Jewish weddings are the Kabbalat Panim, The Badeke, The Chuppah, The Blessings of Betrothal (Kiddushin), The Giving of the Ring, The Ketubah (Marriage Contract), The Seven Blessings, The Breaking the Glass, The Yichud and finally The Festive Meal (Seudah). Within four days before the wedding, the bride performs the ritual of 'mikvah', a ritual bath fed by pure rain or spring water. It is accompanied by a blessing and an appropriate prayer this is to effect spiritual purification in preparation for the physical relationship of marriage. Kabbalat Panim The first festive Jews celebrate is the Kabbalat Panim this is where the chatan (groom) and the Kallah (bride) are not to see each other for one week prior to...
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...Pyxplot Users’ Guide A Scientific Scripting Language, Graph Plotting Suite and Vector Graphics Toolkit. Version 0.9.2 d sin θ = nλ ∇ · D = ρfree ¨ ∇ × E = − ∂B q(t) = − RR ∂t ˙ R2 ds2 = 1 − 2GM rc2 ∇·B =0 dL = dt2 xa + Γa xb xc = 0 ¨ bc ˙ ˙ ∇ × H =1 Jfree − ∂D ∂t L 4πF 2 H(t) = ˙ R R h ¯ 2 ∂2ψ 2m ∂x2 + V ψ = Eψ ∆φ Lead Developer: Dominic Ford Lead Tester: Ross Church Email: coders@pyxplot.org.uk This manual is also available in HTML, at http://www.pyxplot.org.uk/0.9/doc/html/ September 2012 Contents I 1 Introduction to Pyxplot Introduction 1.1 What is Pyxplot? . . . . . . 1.2 Compatibility with gnuplot . 1.3 The structure of this manual 1.4 An introductory tour . . . . 1.5 License . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6 Spelling conventions . . . . . 1.7 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 3 4 4 4 9 10 10 11 11 11 12 13 13 14 15 15 16 18 20 20 22 23 24 25 27 27 28 28 29 30 30 31 34 2 Installation 2.1 Installation within Linux distributions . . . . 2.2 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.1 Dependencies in Debian and Ubuntu 2.2.2 Dependencies in MacOS . . . . . . . 2.3 Installation from source archive . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 System-wide installation . . ...
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...“Loyalty of the Ancient Jews” 17 February 2010 It is interesting how many of the values of the Jews can be seen from the earliest of their documents, and through these writings we can see how they attempted to remain steadfast to their morals and beliefs. As I read the excerpts of ancient writings in our Encounters in World History book, what seemed to stand out most to me about the Jewish values, was the concept of unwavering commitment to the ways of Yahweh. I’m not saying that the Jewish people were always successful in this endeavor, but it appears that the endeavor itself never changed. There was always a deep sense in their historical writings that committing to the ways of their creator was not only the correct, but the most absolute valuable thing they could do with their existence. We can trace this theme of commitment from Yahweh back to the creation story of the Jews which is found in the book of Genesis. After Yahweh created man he commanded to Adam that “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die” (49). This appears to be the first instruction that man ever received from the Creator. As the story goes, Adam and Eve both ate from the tree exposing them to the knowledge of good and evil. Yahweh went on to say “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it...
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...In The Wake of The Plague In the Wake of the Plague, Cantor reasons his thesis that the Black Plague had tremendously altered the history of Europe and the lives of its people. Furthermore, he reasons that the plague has not just had an effect on a particular estate or a specific aspect in a society, but affected everyone alike in many different aspects. He specifically states in his writing how the plague had affected the nobilities, the priests, and the peasants. Subsequently, he argues that the plague had an impact on the population change, economics, literature, and science of medieval Europe. Cantor makes a coherent and clear argument that justifies his thesis through organizing the novel in three parts: biomedical context, people, and history. The first part serves as an introductory reading that defines the Black Plague in biological terms and gives background information of how the plague swept the entire continent of Europe. The second part serves as the body of his argument, where he refers to how the plague had affected all three estates of people: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. The body of the argument is not necessarily organized in a chronological order, but organized in different estates of people. In the third chapter, Cantor uses the example of Princess Joan and the incident of Bordeaux fire to explain how a noble family was affected by the plague. When Edward III asked Pedro to rescue Princess Joan from Bordeaux where the plague was spread, the...
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...Name: Instructors name: Course: Date: Jewish Holy Day of Hanukkah With many religions worldwide, there are special and dedicated times of the year where followers celebrate the associated holidays with the religion practiced. I had the privilege of celebrating one of the historic Jewish Holy Days called Hanukkah or Chanukah with my friends from the Jewish community. Chanukah or Hanukkah celebrates Jewish rededication of their temple in Jerusalem during the second century. Chanukah or Hanukkah as I came to learn means dedication in Hebrew and it commemorates a miracle which is oil based. The festival ran for eight consecutive days and each of the days was marked with games, dances, songs, oily fried foods, candle lighting and a lot of joy and laughter. Each day of Hanukkah we thanked God by reciting a complete ‘Hallel’ during the Morning Prayer service. We also inserted a special thanks giving prayer and read from the Torah. After each Morning Prayer service we ate oily fried foods such as fried potato pancakes also known as latkes, deep fried doughnuts also known as sufganiyot, cheese and a lot of dairy foods. We also got to play dreidel games. From the brief history given I came to learn that during the ancient days, the Greek oppressors banned Torah schools and so the young children would study deep in the forest. All this while, they would post sentry to make them aware of Greek patrols. When the soldiers came, the kids would hide or bury their texts into the...
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...For the fieldwork project, I was primarily going to observe a Buddhist temple, but because of circumstances I wasn’t able to visit. So, I decided to observe a Jewish Synagogue instead. This synagogue goes by the name Congregation Beth Am. Congregation Beth Am is located at 2030 W Fletcher Ave, Tampa, FL 33612. The reason I chose to observe this religion was because it was a different denomination, though has some similarity and the difference from the Christian denomination. I am personally a Baptist Christian and was raised on that faith. When I made my parents aware of my observation of this synagogue they were both interested and concerned. They were interested because they know how much I enjoy branching out and educating myself on what...
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...Alcohol: Permitted or Forbidden in Judaism? Alcohol use in Jewish Law is contradicting. There are several examples in the Torah and other Jewish sources, where alcohol, which is most of the time wine, is permitted and sometimes even suggest but on the other hand, sometime alcohol is condemned. I will discuss the different sides and state what the Jewish Law is trying to allow or condemn alcohol use and abuse. In places in the Torah wine seems to be a very important attribute to several different occasions in Judaism. Wine is used for Havdallah and Kiddush on every Sabbath and many other Jewish holidays. Mitzvot and blessings are recited on a cup of win. Under the Chupah we bless the couple over a cup of wine, a circumcision we do the same and we also have four cups of wine at the Passover Seder. Even in text, wine is described as “bringing joy to God and man”(Judges 9:13). Even during the Holy Temple days, wine was used for sacrifice and even has it even has its own blessing (Hagafen). Even with all of these uses of wine for Jewish circumstances, the Torah clearly states “Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you will not die—it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations…”(Leviticus 10:9) The Torah is very clear in that drinking wine is not permitted. Noah, whose righteousness help God spare the world, was condemned for his excessive wine consumption. Other texts also...
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...Signature assignment: The Impact of Jewish life in Florida Michael Otero West Coast University Abstract This paper identifies and shows my reflection on the Jewish museum of Florida which exhibits the richness and diversity of Jewish life from 1763 to the present Jews, non-Jews, Florida residents and visitors alike. I examined how Jews during these times grew to develop a dynamic variety of ethnic groups, all seeking to balance the continuity and traditions of their heritage wit the values and customs of a larger society. This paper also explains the central issues rose from the museum and historical purpose it served as the Jewish community made its contributions in Florida. Topics * Identify and explain the central issues raised by the museum. * Formulate a distinct, individual point of view (personal reflection) that engages critically with various perspectives offered by the museum. * Evaluate the evidence that the museum offers for its point of view. * Consider how the site/exhibit/museum uses cultural, political, and (or) historical contexts to present its issues and purposes. * Exhibit your knowledge of how the museum presents and uses cultural worldview frameworks, and also how you use your own knowledge of those frameworks to engage the museum. The Jewish museum of Florida located in Miami was home to congregation Beth Jacob and was the first synagogue on south beach. The synagogue is the building in which congregation meets...
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...contrasts in the film The Pianist allows the viewer an understanding of the extreme emotional distress, sadness and despair of the characters. Color emphasizes the differences between the life of the Polish and that of the Jewish people separated only by a dark wall Through the multiple layers of color symbolization the viewer is able to recognize first the happiness and normalcy of the Szpilman family. The film opens with brightly colored scenes and their daily life of the Jewish and Polish in Warsaw. The appearance of the characters is clean with rich and colorful clothing. Wladyslaw, the protagonist, is dressed in soft blue suits giving him a very content and soft appearance. The apartment in which the Szpilman family lives is full of warm colors and rich furniture. There is a welcoming atmosphere and a comfortable, homey feel to the apartment. When outside the sun is shining and people smile in the streets. The Jewish people interact with the Polish comfortably, there seems to be no noticeable differences between the two nationalities living in Warsaw. All seem happy as the war approaches and all seem oblivious to the horrors to come. When the Germans invade Warsaw and the war progresses the Jewish people are moved out of Warsaw and into the Jewish district. As the mood of the characters changes to depression and fear the colors become more shadowed. There are many greys, browns and blues combined with low natural lighting that...
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...will not affect the accessibility of data. • Ad hoc capability of query implementation: This model provides a simple method to implement and manipulate data. Purpose of the entity – relationship model The entity – relationship model is a conceptual level model that facilitates database design. From the vantage point of acme global the ER model will provide great assistance in visual representations. They will be able to understand the required data of their clients. The ER model will also increase all productivity with the integration of relational database model. Overall your client’s solution and file design will be implemented in a safe and simple model. Essential components of an ER Model • Entity: Object that exists and that can be distinguished from other objects. • Attributes: The properties related to a particular entity are known as attributes. • Relationship: The term defines how two or more entities are related to each other. There are variations of relationships exist in ER model. o One to one relationship: Only one...
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