The Sabbath in Jewish History
3 Lectures
Item #: S525
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The Prophetic Moral Imperative
From the Haftorah Series
3 Lectures
Item #: S382
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4 Lectures
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The Book of Melochim
3 Lectures
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4 Lectures
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The Books of Daniel, Iyov, & Ezra
3 Lectures
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Ancient I / 2500 - 539 BCE
From Avraham to Ezra
All of Jewish history is the history of people, and not necessarily of events or forces in the world. This is the Jewish view of history, and it stands in contrast to the idea proposed by Karl Marx that history has almost nothing to do with people. In Marx’s view, which is now a tenet of modern historiography, the entire gamut of human experience reflects impersonal patterns of economic and political changes.
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SCRIBES
One of the most honored professions in Jewish life is being a scribe: a sofer. It has been the profession of many great men in Jewish history, chief among them the great Ezra who succeeded in rebuilding the Second Commonwealth and Temple. The word sofer in Hebrew literally means "one who counts." Since a scribe in essence "counts" the holy letters and words of the Torah as he writes them, the word came to describe the scribe who writes these holy parchments. Read More