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(book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/1998; ; 533 words
; ...Muslim Period, 638-1099. Edited by Joshua Prawer and Haggai Ben-Shammai. (Jerusalem and New York: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and New York University...clearest for the non-specialist, non-Israeli reader. Haggai Ben-Shammai's essay on the less familiar Karaites also provides interesting...
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Rabbi Hillel on corporate governance: why is it that the 'guideliners' who would instruct us on board standards don't follow their own guidelines?
Magazine article from: Directors & Boards; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...follow their own guidelines? Early in Herod's reign, Rabbi Shammai and Hillel were separately approached by a man demanding to be taught the entire Torah while standing on one foot. Shammai drove him away with a stick. But Hillel told him, Do not...
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Esoteric and exoteric aspects in Judeo-Arabic culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 119 words
; 9789004152335 Esoteric and exoteric aspects in Judeo-Arabic culture. Ed. by Benjamin Hary and Haggai Ben-Shammai. Brill Academic Publishers 2006 338 pages $117.00 Hardcover Etudes sur le Judaisme medieval; v.33 PJ5023 From the 1999 conference...
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Editor's corner.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 6/22/2006; ; 507 words
; ...tradition. It is a conversation that allows for a Hillel and a Shammai, and a Feinstein and a Freehof; that hears the voices of a...reading this issue, you will feel that it was time well spent. Shammai Engelmayer Teaneck, New Jersey Shavuot 5766
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A message from Murray Baumgarten.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 6/22/2006; ; 424 words
; ...citizenship in the contemporary world. The work continues: Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer will take it forward. May JUDAISM go from strength to strength. Sincerely, Murray Baumgarten Editor SHAMMAI ENGELMAYER Managing Editor MARILYN HENRY Editor Emeritus MURRAY...
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Jerusalem in Jewish law and custom: a preliminary typology.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...of these laws do not occur in the Mishnah. In addition, there are over 300 disagreements in Rabbinic literature between Bet Shammai and Bet Hillel, and yet none of them concern the laws of Jerusalem. Lastly, even the four laws found in all four versions are...
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Binding and loosing: a paradigm for ethical discernment from the Gospel of Matthew.
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...to specific situations were common; they appear already in famous arguments between the first-century schools of Hillel and Shammai and continue to be a defining part of the discussions that would ultimately be codified as the Mishnah. For example, the question...
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Ivri: naming ourselves.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; WE THINK OF OURSELVES AS JEWS, AS OTHERS AND WE NOW call us--Yehudim, from our ancestor, Judah, Yehudah. The Bible, however, has other names for us beginning with [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Hebrew and Israelite, from [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] the children of Israel as Jacob came to be
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