Die Synagoge der chassidischen Gruppe Zanz
Und hier das Merkmal der modernen Breslover, die so ganz und gar nichts mit den original Breslovern im ultra - orthodoxen Mea Shearim / Jerusalem gemein haben.
Photos: Miriam Woelke
Orthodoxes Judentum in Jerusalem / Jewish Zionist Orthodox / יהדות אורטודכסית - חרדית וציונית
Remark: Gemäss talmudischer und kabbalistischer Literatur handelte es sich nicht um einen Apfel, den die beiden ersten Menschen da aßen, sondern entweder um eine andere Frucht oder etwas, von dem wir keine Ahnung haben. Die Thora spricht zumeist in der Symbolsprache und der Apfel steht für etwas ganz anderes. Eine Meinung im Talmud lautet, dass die Beiden betrunken waren, andere behaupten, es handele sich um ein uns unbekanntes Konzept. Tatsache ist, dass niemand weiss, was genau die Beiden taten. Ebenso wenig wissen wir, was ein "Baum des Wissens" ist.
The Secrets (Ha-Sodot) (הסודוח) Avi Nesher takes us inside an all-female Orthodox Jewish seminary (midrasha) in the spiritually infused ancient town of Safed — birthplace of Kabbalah. Naomi is a passionately devoted student of the religious texts. Her mother has just died, and she postpones her marriage to a humorless Rabbinical student who responds like an automaton. She and a fellow student befriend and try to save a dying woman named Anouk (Fanny Ardant) by bringing her back to G–d before she dies. The two students begin a complex relationship, including the steamiest backrubs I've seen in a long time. The performances were spot-on emotionally, and the story does draw in even those in the audience (certainly including your reviewer). The insight into Orthodox theology, and especially its treatment of women as incapable of full religious understanding and participation, not to mention condemning lesbianism without thinking it important enough to mention even once in the Torah. I couldn't help thinking, though, that the struggle the women of the seminary undertake to pry Orthodox Judaism from its misogynist roots, is inescapably futile. The theology is so rigid and dogmatic that it seems to an outsider to be irredeemable — there is no way for Orthodox Judaism to be both Orthodox and modern, even in the very loose sense of the last millennium. It is a testament to faith that these women hold unswervingly to their own beliefs in the face of all obstacles, but certainly in this case I would say that unquestioned blind faith is not a good thing. Recommended for general audiences, highly recommended for those especially interested in the subject matter.
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Schabbat
Freitag, 23. November 2012:
Kerzenzuenden: 16.01 Uhr (4.01 pm)
Schabbat, 24. November 2012
Schabbat enden: 17.15 Uhr (5.15 pm)
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