Shema Yisrael Essays

  • The Importance Of Prayer In Spirituality

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    not be ignored. Although the specific details of these are unobtainable there were many practices at the time which included daily prayer at different times of the day (e.g. Shema and the Tefillah). Repetitive daily prayer is a simple but common style that has been maintained by many spiritual traditions. Lamm promotes the Shema, contending “to profess the unity of God and the love for God is life affirming”. It could be alleged that the content of this prayer influenced Jesus, who regularly disappears

  • Your Kingdom Come: Exploring the Meaning of this Biblical Phrase

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    Prayer is an important part of our daily lives. In praying regularly we grow closer to God for we are communicating with God. In prayer we may be asking him for help or thanking and praising him for His blessings but we are speaking with the Lord and He sincerly wants to hear and answer the prayers of His people. The second petition in the Lord’s prayer is your kingdom come. This petition is mentioned in Luke 11 when Jesus is teaching his disciples to pray and in Matthew 6:10 in Jesus’ sermon on

  • Judaica Jewelry: The Jewish Popular Culture

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    The Jewish culture is one of the most substantial in terms of history and tradition. Stretching from the earliest days of civilization, the Jewish people and their culture have been a significant part of society. To this day, marks of the Jewish tradition are still very evident in pop culture and in society as a whole. Jewish cuisine is highly popular and Jewish celebrations are also very prevalent all over the world. The descendants of this culture are showing no signs of slowing down and they figure

  • Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

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    easy it would be to lose hope or give up if the means of the suffering wa... ... middle of paper ... ...ed the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips." This part of the book transferred from an easy reading autobiography to a complex psychiatric journal describing, in detail, the theory behind logotherapy. This section gets heavy into psychiatric jargon making it hard to understand

  • Jewish Christians: Messianic Judaism

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    Search Premier. 24 Nov. 2012. Kollontai, Pauline. "Messianic Jews and Jewish Identity." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 3 (2004): 195-205. Academic Search Premier. 25 Nov. 2012. Skyes, Loren. "Messianic Judaism: Questions and Answers." Shema. Congregation Shema Yisrael. 26 Nov. 2012 . Yaakov, Ariel. "A Different Kind of Dialogue: Messianic Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relation." Cross Currents 62 (2012): 318-28. Academic Search Premier. 25 Nov. 2012. Yangarber-Hicks, Natalia. "Messianic Believers:

  • Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

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    Man’s Search for Meaning This book was written as a record of a person’s involvements in a concentration camp during World War II, and the psychology of the prisoners who were there with him to experience the rough and hard times every day. Viktor Frankl's was a man who was a part of this experience, along with his wife, father, mother and brother who all died in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. All endured extreme hunger, cold and cruelty, first in Auschwitz then Dachau; Frankl himself was

  • Would The Night Of Broken Glass Be Disregarded?

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    The Night of Broken Glass was a series of violent attacks on the German Jewish people, homes, businesses, and synagogues on the night of November 9th, 1938. Also known as Kristallnacht, this night brought devastation to Jews all across Germany, German-annexed Austria, and East Prussia, a federated state of Germany. In other words, all Jews in the Third Reich, the German government from 1933-1945. Called the Night of Broken Glass because of the shattered glass found on the streets from the windows

  • The Nation of Israel

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    The Nation of Israel The nation of Israel has played a critical role in the formation of Western and Eastern ideologies and has had an unmistakably profound impact upon the theological and cultural evolution of mankind. Former U.S. President John Adams, commenting on the historical importance of the Hebrews, once said the following: "I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still