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5 days ago · Antinomian eruptions of extreme Shabbetaians under the leadership of the self-proclaimed messiah and later Catholic convert Jacob Frank (1726–91) alarmed Gentile authorities almost as much as they did Jews. But the fossilization referred to above was only apparent.
- Ḥayyim Vital
In Safed, Palestine, in about 1570, Vital became the...
- Ḥayyim Vital
5 days ago · Judaism - Monotheism, Covenant, Torah: The human creature is, of course, subject to the natural order. Humans carry on their relationship with God in the world and through the world. The commandments of Torah are obeyed not solely as observances between humans and God but as actions between humans themselves and between humans and the world.
5 days ago · If Reform was a child of Enlightenment rationalism, Conservative Judaism was a child of historical romanticism. It began in 1845, when Zacharias Frankel (1801–75) and a group of followers seceded from a second Reform synod at Frankfurt over the issue of limiting the use of Hebrew to a small core of prayers.
3 days ago · Signature. Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West . Oakley developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio. At age 15, she won a shooting contest against an experienced marksman ...
1 day ago · Gunfire exchanged at Yellowstone National Park leaves one dead (NPS / Jacob W. Frank) By Shawn Garrett, KIRO 7 News July 04, 2024 at 1:30 pm PDT.
4 days ago · Exercises of “core” presidential powers garner “absolute immunity” from prosecution. “Official acts” are “presumptively” immune. “Unofficial acts” enjoy no immunity. No part of ...
5 days ago · Testard struck a deal to publish “Flights” in 2017, and also commissioned Croft to translate Tokarczuk’s most recently completed work, “The Books of Jacob,” a historical novel about Jacob...
