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Divine providence ( Hebrew: השגחה פרטית Hashgochoh Protis or Hashgaha Peratit, lit. divine supervision of the individual) is discussed throughout rabbinic literature, by the classical Jewish philosophers, and by the tradition of Jewish mysticism . The discussion brings into consideration the Jewish understanding of nature, and its ...
Jewish thought. Jewish thought ( Hebrew: מחשבת ישראל, Machshevet Yisrael, or machshavah ), also known as Judaic thought or Hebraic thought, is a field of Jewish studies that deals with the products of Jewish thought and culture throughout the ages, and their historical development. The field also deals with the connections, parallels ...
Josephus. Flavius Josephus [a] ( / dʒoʊˈsiːfəs /; [8] Greek: Ἰώσηπος, Iṓsēpos; c. AD 37 – c. 100) was a Roman–Jewish historian and was a governor and military leader in Galilee. Best known for writing The Jewish War, he was born in Jerusalem —then part of the Roman province of Judea —to a father of priestly descent and a ...
Sidney Morgenbesser was born on September 22, 1921, in New York City and raised in Manhattan's Lower East Side. [1] [2] Morgenbesser undertook philosophical study at the City College of New York (B.S.S., 1942) and rabbinical study at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (B.J.P., 1941). Following World War II, he pursued graduate study in ...
Yuval Noah Harari. Yuval Noah Harari ( Hebrew: יובל נח הררי [juˈval ˈnoaχ haˈʁaʁi]; born 1976) [1] is an Israeli author, public intellectual, [2] [3] [4] historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [1] He is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of ...
Hermann Cohen. Hermann Cohen (4 July 1842 – 4 April 1918) was a German Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century". [3]
Yeshivat Har Etzion (YHE; Hebrew: ישיבת הר עציון), commonly known in English as "Gush" and in Hebrew as "Yeshivat HaGush", is a hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, in Gush Etzion. It is considered one of the leading institutions of advanced Torah study in the world and with a student body of roughly 480, it is one of the largest ...
