Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among BooksU of Nebraska Press, 2007 M01 1 - 199 páginas To learn was to live, and to learn well was to live well. This was the lesson of both cultures of the Modern Orthodox Jewish world in which Ilana Blumberg was educated, with its commitment to traditional Jewish practice and ideas alongside an appreciation for modern, secular wisdom. |
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... meant to educate us for life . In the morning , we prayed and spoke in Hebrew as we studied Torah , Mishnah , Midrash , Jewish law , and history . In the afternoon and into the early evening , we spoke English as we studied math ...
... meant to educate us for life . In the morning , we prayed and spoke in Hebrew as we studied Torah , Mishnah , Midrash , Jewish law , and history . In the afternoon and into the early evening , we spoke English as we studied math ...
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... meant Ortho- dox in the 1940s and 1950s ) , Orthodox summer camps , and yeshiva day schools . They had attained fluency in modern He- brew and classical Judaic texts . My siblings and I were conse- quently second - generation literate ...
... meant Ortho- dox in the 1940s and 1950s ) , Orthodox summer camps , and yeshiva day schools . They had attained fluency in modern He- brew and classical Judaic texts . My siblings and I were conse- quently second - generation literate ...
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... meant for me as a young girl in Conservative settings was that my brother and I could both stand before the congrega- tion to lead it in the hymn that closed the Sabbath services . When we visited my mother's parents ' Orthodox ...
... meant for me as a young girl in Conservative settings was that my brother and I could both stand before the congrega- tion to lead it in the hymn that closed the Sabbath services . When we visited my mother's parents ' Orthodox ...
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... meant beyond the life of study was that a good Jew lived in the world , eyes open . A good Jewish life would be best shaped not only by the teachings of Torah , but also by the most valuable wisdom of non - Jews . Though this may sound ...
... meant beyond the life of study was that a good Jew lived in the world , eyes open . A good Jewish life would be best shaped not only by the teachings of Torah , but also by the most valuable wisdom of non - Jews . Though this may sound ...
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... sense of deep conflict . For more than ten years conflict was so dominantly my experience that I assumed adulthood meant the force that pulled things apart . There were two languages and literatures that I spoke and xvi PREFACE.
... sense of deep conflict . For more than ten years conflict was so dominantly my experience that I assumed adulthood meant the force that pulled things apart . There were two languages and literatures that I spoke and xvi PREFACE.
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Página 71 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 70 - The breath goes now, and some say, No; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
Página 71 - Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Página 70 - Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th 'earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did and meant, But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
Página 71 - Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. But we by a love, so much refined, That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one. Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat.
Página 70 - Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears ; Men reckon what it did and meant ; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love Whose soul is sense — cannot admit Of absence, 'cause it doth remove The thing which elemented it.
Página 90 - Greene the actor-manager took pity on her; she found herself with child by that gentleman and so - who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? - killed herself one winter's night and lies buried at some cross-roads where the omnibuses now stop outside the Elephant and Castle.
Página vi - God! that is not martyrdom! It is the blotting out of a life that has been a protest against wrong. Let me die because of the worth that is in me, not because of my weakness." The rain had ceased, and the light from the breaking clouds fell on Savonarola as he left the Loggia in the midst of his guard, walking, as he had come, with the Sacrament in his hand. But there seemed no glory in the light that fell on him now, no smile of Heaven : it was only that...
Página 92 - ... what are Don Giovanni and War and Peace, if not vast transforming metaphors in our knowledge of ourselves and our society? Second, along with agreeing that metaphor is important, students of metaphor agree that we are well-advised to be wary of metaphor. As George Eliot observes in Middlemarch: For all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts tangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. The difficulty is that for almost all of us, for at least some of the time (probably on quite...
Página 32 - Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Ehad: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.