A primary concern of Hermetic Qabalah is the nature of divinity, its conception of which is quite markedly different from that presented in monotheistic religions; in particular there is not the stric ...
The movement was influenced by a desire to interpret aspects of Christianity even more mystically than current Christian Mystics. Greek Neoplatonic documents came into Europe from Constantinople in th ...
The Kabbalah posits that the human soul has three elements, the nefesh, ru'ach, and neshamah. The nefesh is found in all humans, and enters the physical body at birth. It is the source of one's physic ...
According to the Zohar, a foundational text for kabbalistic thought, Torah study can proceed along four levels of interpretation (exegesis). These four levels are called pardes from their initial lett ...
Plato, in his dialogue Alcibíades (circa 390 BC), uses the expression ta es? meaning "the inner things", and in his dialogue Theaetetus (circa 360 BC) he uses ta ex? meaning "the outside things". A ...
Main article: Jewish ethicsJewish ethics may be guided by halakhic traditions, by other moral principles, or by central Jewish virtues. Jewish ethical practice is typically understood to be marked by ...
For more details on this topic, see Conservative Halakha.One view held by Conservative Judaism is that while God is real, the Torah is not the word of God in a literal sense. However, in this view the ...
The name "halakha" is derived from the Hebrew halakh (??????) meaning "to walk" or "to go". Taken literally, therefore, "halakha" translates as "the way to go" rather than "law". "Halakha&qu
The Midrash provides a verse by verse discussion of the entire (written) Tanakh, per the oral Torah. The Talmud, relatedly, discusses and analyses the written Torah - both from an aggadic and halakhic ...
The term "Oral Torah" should not be understood as a monolith. The Jewish Encyclopedia divides the Oral Torah into eight categories, ranked according to the relative level of authoritativeness, which a ...
Kabbalists hold that not only are the words giving a divine message, but indicate a far greater message that extends beyond them. Thus they hold that even as small a mark as a kotzo shel yod (???? ...
Rabbinic Judaism (or in some Christian traditions, Rabbinism) (Hebrew: "Yahadut Rabanit" - ????? ?????) has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codificati ...
Criticism of the Talmud is widespread, in great part through the Internet.The Anti-Defamation League's report on this topic states that antisemitic critics of the Talmud frequently use erroneous trans ...
Originally, Jewish scholarship was oral. Rabbis expounded and debated the Torah (the written Torah expressed in the Hebrew Bible) and discussed the Tanakh without the benefit of written works (other t ...
While epic literary works in verse such as the Mahabharata and Homer's Iliad are ancient and occurred worldwide, the prose novel as a distinct form of storytelling, with developed, consistent human ch ...
