62 research outputs found
Economic utopia of the Torah. Economic concepts of the Hebrew Bible interpreted according to the Rabbinical Literature
Get PDFHebrew Bible offers alternative Economic utopia for building Theocratic society. In this paper, various economic concepts and themes are presented, as found in the Hebrew Bible. These economic concepts include taxation, property rights, labor market, social policy, banking, years of Sabbath and Jubilee, and business cycles. Most economic issues of the Bible are found in the texts of Torah, also known as five Books of Moses. These texts are analyzed by using classical Rabbinical commentaries for better insight. Contrary to the modern Economic theory which is based on the assumptions of scarcity of resources and unlimited needs of consumers, Economics of the Torah is based on God’s resources which are enough for all true needs of His people.Hebrew Bible, History of Economics, History of Economic Thought, Ancient Israel, Judaism
Rashi\u27s Daughters, Book I: Joheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France
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Rashi\u27s Daughters: Book One- Joheved by Maggie Anton
Author, Maggie Anton spoke about her research that went into writing her wonderful triology, Rashi\u27s Daughters . Ms. Anton also sold and signed her books.
In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to take over the family winemaking business and embark on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish world—writing the first Talmud commentary, and teaching it to his daughters. Joheved, her mind and spirit awakened, knows the risk and keeps her learning hidden. When she weds, must she choose between marital happiness and her love of Talmud?https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jewishbookgroup/1055/thumbnail.jp
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Get PDFSumario: 31 fols., vitela; 47 lin. 2 col. 278 x 210 mm.Sumario: Madrid. Biblioteca de la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano. Inventario 15646.Sumario: CANTERA BURGOS, F.: "Nueva serie de manuscritos hebreos en Madrid". Tirada aparte de Sefarad, XVIII-XIX, 1959.Sumario: Los Judíos españoles según las fuentes hebreas. Museu de Belles Arts de València. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, 2002.Sumario: VALLE, Carlos del: "El libro hebreo", en Historia ilustrada del libro españolo: los manuscritos. 2.ª edición. Madrid: Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez, 1996, pp. 147-163
Die Kanaan-Karten des R. Salomo Ben Isaak (Raschi) – Bedeutung und Gebrauch mittelalterlicher hebräischer Karten-Diagramme
No full textAbstractR. Shlomo Yitṣḥaki (Hebrew: שלמה יצחקי), generally known by the acronym Rashi, was a medieval French rabbi who lived between 1040 and 1105 in Troyes (Champagne). Rashi was the author of two comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and on the Tanakh. His commentary on the Talmud, which covers nearly all of the Babylonian Talmud (a total of 30 tractates), has been included in every edition of the Talmud since its first printing by Daniel Bomberg in the 1520 s. His commentary on the most books of the Tanakh – especially on the Chumash – is still an indispensable exegetical tool to almost all students of the Hebrew Bible. This perush al ha-Torah supplemented almost all printed Hebrew Bibles or Chumash Editions and initiated more than 300 super-commentaries, which analyze and elucidate Rashi’s choices of exegesis, grammar, variant readings, Masora and midrash citations. The manuscript editions of his commentary were augmented with various map diagrams of Erets Israel, which disappeared in the printed editions of the Rashi commentary. Abraham Berliner mentioned this loss and recent scholarship is rediscovering these Rashi diagrams and maps. This paper elucidates the so-called Numeri 34 map-diagrams in the oldest extant manuscripts of the Rashi commentary, and their refinement and recycling within the Masora (figurata) of Ashkenazi bible manuscripts.</jats:p
What Is Wrong with the Language of Medicine?
No full textConcerned that the current tendency to speak of medical care in terms
of efficiency and cost control will have a deleterious impact on the practice
of medicine, the author calls for restructuring the health care system and
urges physicians to be more vigorous advocates of equity, care, and human
values. (KIE abstract
Interpreting author intentions by analyzing story modulation
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-76).If we are to understand human intelligence, then we need to understand human story understanding competencies, including our ability to communicate. Communication can be thought of as an externalization of an inner model of the world or an attempt to shape the inner model of the world of another. To communicate effectively, humans must analyze not only what is said, but also how it is said. My goal in this work was to develop a cognitive model of how we produce a coherent argument, explain its elements, and provide a full analysis of authorial intent. In this thesis, I propose a cognitive model of Story Modulation, or how humans glean information about a communicator's intentions or attempt to shape the inner story of their audience via key characteristics of wording. The model explains how we assemble textual evidence such as passive voice, instances of harm, and use of hedging words such as alleged, to tell a coherent story of the communicator's rhetorical goals. I demonstrate this computational model with an implementation, RASHI, that recognizes and systematically highlights intentions. The implementation reads short news-like stories in simple English and identifies modulations in text that reveal the author's intent to influence three areas-sympathy, agency, and doubt. The system gathers objective evidence using a system of modular experts, interprets the evidence with culturally-specfic subjectivity models, and distills the potentially-conflicting interpretations into a short, coherent argument about the author's intentions. I argue that RASHI, as a computational model of human communication, can be used to improve discourse surrounding the media, elevate education in critical reading, facilitate political negotiations and resolutions, and help us bridge gaps across cultures by transforming stories to be more culturally appropriate.by Suri C. Bandler.M. Eng.M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
Accommodating Face Mask for Those with Hearing Impairments:
Get PDFAs COVID-19 continues to spread in our society, wearing face masks have become an integral part of daily life. For users with disabilities, specifically those with hearing impairments, the utilization of face masks creates additional problems. The obstruction of facial and visual expressions from mask wearing poses an increased difficulty in communicating with individuals when lip reading is not accessible; additionally, the elastic straps that hold the mask in place can become entangled or dislodge hearing aids, creating more discomfort for the users. Further, blocking a majority of the face from view makes it harder to see critical vital and life-threatening signs of potential seizures and strokes. While there are some current solutions, many are highly specific, while others are expensive and inefficient. Therefore, this project aims to develop a mask that can alleviate these issues at a more accessible, sustainable, and cost level. The physical and chemical properties of various materials, including hydrophobicity, wettability, and skin biocompatibility, will be evaluated to validate the design. We propose an improved 3-layer mask system with a small clear window through each layer to promote visualization of the mouth and support proper filtration of air flow. A nose pinch will be incorporated to diminish fogging of glasses, as well as a redesigned head strap that repositions the straps away from the ears will prevent the accidental displacement of hearing aids
Reishit Limudim auder elementar-unterricht fuer di israelitische Juge
No full text(The Beginning of Studies for Elementary Instruction of Israelite Children). Author: Shlomo Bloch. Illustrator: unknown. Publisher: G. U. Zelgener. 60 pp (42 blue pages), 35 b/w illustrations.. Yiddish and Hebrew educational text with some German. Contents include: alef-bet charts, Zodiac symbols. Rashi script.Digital imagedigitize
Israel Elfenbein 1915-1964
No full textCorrespondence with and relating to congregations in Nashville, Chicago, New York City, Seagate (Brooklyn). Correspondence with periodicals, organizations. Correspondence relating to the *Elfenbein Jubilee Volume*. Correspondence relating to *Rashi Responsa*. Personal and family correspondence. Personal documents. Financial papers. Correspondence with Cyrus Adler, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Salo Baron, Chaim Bloch, Yosef Burg, Rabbi I. Goldfarb, Dr. Leo Jung, Louis Marshall. Sermons, addresses, talks. Clippings from *Jewish Forum*. Manuscripts by Elfenbein and others relating to Jewish personalities, Jewish history and liturgy and Elfenbein's book *Rashi Responsa*.Inventory: English, 42 pp., typedRabbi, Hebrew scholar, author and editor. Director, Educational Department of the Mizrachi Organization in the U.S. Editor, *Or Hamizrach* and contributor to *Sinai*, *Talpiot*, *Jewish Quarterly Review*, *Jewish Forum*. Born in Buczacz, Poland. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1906
Three Folios and Three Fragments of Rashi's Commentary on the Pentateuch and the Ketuvim
No full textThe Parochial Archive of the Collegiata di Santa Maria Maggiore in Pieve di Cento (Province Bologna), hosts two fragments of a Medieval Hebrew manuscript, datable, on paleographical considerations, to the 14th century and containing parts of Shelomoh ben Yitzchaq (Rashi)'s Commentary. The fragments are described and studied in this article enabling the author to reconnect them to four more fragments (two folios and two stripes) of the very same manuscripts, reused as bookbindings and now preserved at the State Archives in Bologna, described in 1996 by the present author and by Mauro Perani in their catalogue of the Hebrew fragments of manuscripts preserved in the collections of the Bolognese State Archive
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