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The “Golem” is a legend of an artificial human-like creature crafted out of mud who served a physical protector of the jews. With a carved

https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/16612-he-cast-a-look-and-went-mad At JTS  Museum Notes: One of the few paintings in Western art to illustrate a Talmudic narrative, “He Cast a Look and Went Mad”

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Ground Rules for Group Communication

Future Shock and Jewish Life Expanding our vision of synagogue life as antidote for Future Shock Rabbi Nicolas Behrmann Table of Contents Future Shock Personal

Steps to Creativity (the Sephirot) The kabbalistic model of creative process, both Divine and human, is depicted by ten sephirot with twenty-two pathways linking them. It is

Conversation # one“does not fear that he will be stripped of his emotions if he becomes Maimonides and re-experiences his Judaism: he is not concerned

Despite great odds and powerful forces, the Jewish people has survived for thousands of years. During its historical experience it has mastered the art of

Art found Jewish activity in the middle man roles of buying and selling significant artists and collection. Then in the Jewish artists, six of whom

The Hebrew word Avodah jointly means work, worship, and service. The various usages of this Hebrew word, found first in Genesis 2:15, tell us that

Creativity is a mitzvah of necessity in our times, especially in light of the pandemic of Covid. Creativity is a response to the impact of