574 research outputs found
Economic utopia of the Torah. Economic concepts of the Hebrew Bible interpreted according to the Rabbinical Literature
No full textHebrew 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
Crustacean oxi-reductases protein sequences derived from a functional genomic project potentially involved in ecdysteroid hormones metabolism – A starting point for function examination
No full textA transcriptomic assembly originated from hypodermis and Y organ of the crustacean Pontastacus leptodactylus is used here for in silico characterization of oxi-reductase enzymes potentially involved in the metabolism of ecdysteroid molting hormones. RNA samples were extracted from male Y organ and its neighboring hypodermis in all stages of the molt cycle. An equimolar RNA mix from all stages was sequenced using next generation sequencing technologies and de novo assembled, resulting with 74,877 unique contigs. These transcript sequences were annotated by examining their resemblance to all GenBank translated transcripts, determining their Gene Ontology terms and their characterizing domains. Based on the present knowledge of arthropod ecdysteroid metabolism and more generally on steroid metabolism in other taxa, transcripts potentially related to ecdysteroid metabolism were identified and their longest possible conceptual protein sequences were constructed in two stages, correct reading frame was deduced from BLASTX resemblances, followed by elongation of the protein sequence by identifying the correct translation frame of the original transcript. The analyzed genes belonged to several oxi-reductase superfamilies including the Rieske non heme iron oxygenases, cytochrome P450s, short-chained hydroxysteroid oxi-reductases, aldo/keto oxireductases, lamin B receptor/sterol reductases and glucose-methanol-cholin oxi-reductatses. A total of 68 proteins were characterized and the most probable participants in the ecdysteroid metabolism where indicated. The study provides transcript and protein structural information, a starting point for further functional studies, using a variety of gene-specific methods to demonstrate or disprove the roles of these proteins in relation to ecdysteroid metabolism in P. leptodactylus
"Sefer beer Moshe" by Moshe Sertels, son of Isachar, as an example of a bilingual text for the study of the Torah
No full textMoshe Sertels was a son of Issachar and Sarah. He was born circa mid-16th century in Prague. He was a teacher and worked as a translator and exegete. Sertels wrote several texts that attracted wide interest. One of them was a work titled Sefer Beer Moshe, a bilingual commentary on the Torah and five megillot. The construction of the text, its clarity and intelligibility, made it an excellent tool for teaching the Torah in cheders (e.g. such usage of this text was noted in the books of the Cracovian brotherhood Talmud Torah). The article presents the figure of the author and his literary oeuvre with particular focus on the Sefer Beer Moshe as a work that served generations of Ashkenazi Jews to enhance their knowledge of the Torah. The author discusses characteristics of the text and underlines several issues in regard to the Yiddish language in the form that was used in Prague at the turn of the 17th century
Dead Sea Scrolls at Sixty: What HAVE they taught us? What CAN they teach us? What can they NOT teach us?
No full textScholar-in-residence, 2007. Dr. Moshe J. Bernstein, Associate Professor of Bible, Yeshiva University, and author of New Perspectives on Qumran Law and History.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1250/thumbnail.jp
WHO IS RABBI MOSHE \u27YAẔ\u27?
No full textThe name Rabbi Moshe \u27Yaẕ\u27 (י\u27ץ = yishmerehu ẕuro) appears in two letters written, and published, by Rabbi Saul Berlin in 1789 and 1790, respectively, in connection with the Miẕpeh Yoqte\u27el controversy. Accepting the view that Rabbi Moshe is a fictional character, the author suggests the following explanation for the usage of this name: The opening section of the first letter, which has been overlooked by the scholars, provides a clue to the identification. It reads: \u27Moshe Bar \u27Eẕri\u27, a name which appears twice in the Talmud (Baba Batra 174b; Arakhin 23a). The Talmud relates the story of Moshe Bar \u27Eẕri who was the guarantor of his daughter-in-law\u27s Ketubah. His son, Rav Huna, a student, who was pressed hard for money, was unable to implement the advice given him: to divorce his wife so that she should collect money guaranteed by his father, following which they would remarry. Since Rav Huna was a priest, he would not be permitted to remarry his divorcee. The use of the talmudic name is therefore intended to allude to Saul Berlin\u27s special predicament, to the advantages and disadvantages of attempting to secure some assistance from his father, the venerable Ẕevi Hirsch Levin, Rabbi of the Berlin community. Indeed, his father endeavoured to help him, but to no avail. Saul Berlin lost his position as Rabbi in Frankfort, has been considered excommunicated by some, and finally had to go into exile; he died in London shortly after
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The quality of the post academic course ‘management of safety, health and environment (MoSHE) of Delft University of Technology
No full textObjective This article discusses the rise of European postgraduate courses in safety science and the content and quality of the Management of Safety Health and Environment (MoSHE) course of Delft University of Technology. Materials and methods Literature search, document analysis, interviews. Results The different MoSHE years show a varied picture of this post academic program. In the Netherlands the course is unique with a central focus on risk management and sustainability, supported by scientific developments in the areas of safety, health, environment, organizational science and psychology. In all year-groups the quality of the course was assessed with a short questionnaire, collecting opinions of course members on individual presentations and the course as a whole. Quality of the course was regularly discussed through the contacts of the course coordinator with module leaders, and at meetings of course committees, and leading to changes in content of modules. After MoSHE 1 (1989), 14 (2008), and 17 (2012) the courses’ structure, organization and content was changed radically. Only, the quality system of the course remained implicit. Using the model of the European Foundation for Quality Management a first set-up for a quality system is presented. Over the years the academic nature of the program has changed substantially. This is one of the challenges for the future to find a balance between the domains taught and between an academic approach and practical skills. The course could benefit from a greater input of process safety and safety in high-tech-high-hazard sectors.Safety and Security Scienc
Amplicon sequence variant-based meiofaunal community composition revealed by DADA2 tool is compatible with species composition
No full textThe present study is aimed at implementing the morphological identification-free amplicon sequence variant (ASV) concept for describing meiofaunal species composition, while strongly indicating reasonable compatibility with the underlying species. A primer pair was constructed and demonstrated to PCR amplify a 470-490 bp 18S barcode from a variety of meiofaunal taxa, high throughput sequenced using the Illumina 300 x 2 bps platform. Sixteen 18S multi-species HTS assemblies were created from meiofaunal samples and merged to one assembly of similar to 2,150,000 reads. Five quality scores (q = 35, 30, 25, 20, 15) were implemented to filter five 18S barcode assemblies, which served as inputs for the DADA2 software, ending with five reference ASV libraries. Each of these libraries was clustered, applying 3% dissimilarity threshold, revealed an average number of 1.38 +/- 0.078 ASVs / cluster. Hence, demonstrating high level of ASV uniqueness. The libraries which were based on q <= 25 reached a near-asymptote number of ASVs which together with the low average number of ASVs / cluster, strongly indicated fair representation of the actual number of the underlying species. Hence, the q = 25 library was selected to be used as metabarcoding reference library. It contained 461 ASVs and 342-3% clusters with average number of 1.34 +/- 1.036 ASV / cluster and their BLASTN annotation elucidated a variety of expected meiofaunal taxa. The sixteen assemblies of sample-specific paired reads were mapped to this reference library and sample ASV profiles, namely the list of ASVs and their proportional copy numbers were created and clustered
Book Review: Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research
No full textAuthor: Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer, Eds.
Reviewer: Liat Ben-Moshe
Publisher: The Disability Press, 2004
Cost: $30.00, paperback (20% discount for orders of four or more).
ISBN: 0952845083
Available from:
Centre for Disability Studies, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds,
A CD ROM of the book may be requested at the time of book purchase and is supplied free of charge
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