Rabbi Louis Jacobs Articles By Rabbi Louis Jacobs
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Johanan ben Zakkai
Student of Hillel contributed to the continued study of Torah and the protection of the Sanhedrin.
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Ecclesiastes (Kohelet)
A biblical book with a message for Sukkot.
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Sefer Hasidim
This medieval work describes the ideal life of the pious Jew.
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Ecclesiastes
Despite the cynical tone of Ecclesiastes, it has been given a place of joy and honor in the Jewish cycle of readings.
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Mixed Dancing in Judaism
Jewish men and women didn't always dance together. Some of them still don't.
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The Get, or Bill of Divorce
The get is the bill of divorce that the husband gives to the wife to release her from the marriage.
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Angels
Messengers of God who appear in traditional texts--but discomfort some Jewish thinkers.
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Jacob Emden
Scholar quarreled with almost all his contemporaries.
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Judaism and Mental Illness
Many instances of mental instability are recorded in the Bible and in rabbinic literature.
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Tzedakah & Gemilut Chasadim: Giving & Doing
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Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs (1920-2006) was a Masorti rabbi, the first leader of Masorti Judaism (also known as Conservative Judaism) in the United Kingdom, and a leading writer and thinker on Judaism.
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