Tag: Rabbinic

Free Download And the Sages Did Not Know: Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex by Rabbi Sarra Lev
English | January 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1512825174 | 392 pages | MOBI | 0.95 Mb
This book explores the question: How did the rabbis of the first two centuries CE approach bodies that are born with variant genitals―bodies that they could not identify as definitely male or female? The rabbis had constructed a system in which every behavior was governed by one’s sex/gender, posing a conundrum both for people who did not fit into that model and for the rabbinic enterprise itself. Despite this, their texts contain dozens of references to intersex.

Free Download Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking by Michael Fishbane
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0198267339 | 480 Pages | PDF | 29.0 MB
This is a comprehensive study of myth in the Hebrew Bible and myth and mythmaking in classical rabbinic literature (Midrash and Talmud) and in the classical work of medieval Jewish mysticism (the book of Zohar).

Free Download Meir Seidler, "Rabbinic Theology and Jewish Intellectual History: The Great Rabbi Loew of Prague"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138109479, 0415503604 | PDF | pages: 237 | 1.9 mb
Rabbi Loew (the Maharal) of Prague remains one of the most influential and prolific Jewish thinkers of his time. Widely considered one of the fathers of Hassidic thought and a harbinger of Modern Jewish philosophy, his life and work have retained their influence and remain prevalent today.