Yeshiva Meor Enaim is a Place Where Jewish Knowledge Enlightens from a Traditional Jewish Approach.
04/10/2025
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Congregation Zohar Yisrael Presents Shiur with Dr Marc Shapiro Congregation Zohar Yisrael Presents Shiur with Dr Marc Shapiro on " Did the Sages Always Tell The Truth and Should We? "
03/16/2025
The Converso Dilemma: Halakhic Responsa and the Status of Forced Converts The year was 1391. Spring was about to turn into summer. By the end of the summer, 80 Jewish communities in Castile and Aragon were torn by violence. A third of the Jewish community had been murdered. Perhaps another third of the Jewish community had converted. Only a third of the Jewish populati...
03/12/2025
MAR 16, 2025: Crypto-Jews and Religious Change by Rabbi Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez - Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Sunday, March 16 11am - 12:30pm MDT 1PM Eastern | 12PM Central | 11AM Mountain | 10AM Pacific About This Talk Learn about the history and cultural significance of crypto-Jews and how religious change has impacted their lives. Rabbi Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez is a knowledgeable and engaging
02/12/2025
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The Transformation of Israelite Religion to Rabbinic Judaism The link between the religion of biblical Israel and the religion we now identify as rabbinic Judaism is often controversial. The controversy is often linked to theological agendas rather than an honest approach to Israel’s history. The religion of ancient Israel is linked to rabbinic Judaism is ....
10/28/2024
The differences between Ashkenazim and Sephardim of the medieval period extend to a whole host of areas including their liturgical practices, approaches to the Biblical and Talmudic study, manner of dress, and of course differences in Hebrew pronunciation. The differences were in part reflective of very different cultural surroundings and the impact of the dominant political and religious cultures of Christianity and Islam.
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10/21/2024
There has been a tremendous amount of controversy surrounding the latest DNA study on Christopher Columbus.
Whatever your opinion is, learn about other Conversos who traveled to the New World, and which were persecuted by the Inquisition.
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Jewish Conquistadors in the New World: The Early Years Three events transpired in 1492 in the Iberian Peninsula, which had tremendous ramifications for years to come. The first was the conquest of Granada, i.e., the last Muslim stronghold, by Castilian and Aragonese forces. The victory ended eight hundred years of Islam-ic rule. The conquest of Grana...
10/20/2024
Intellectual honesty is critical to going beyond the typical religious debates which are typically pointless. Neither side generally understands the other or the fundamental ideas of religious development. According to Rabbi Jacob Neusner z"l, Judaism and Christianity say different things in different ways to different people. How then, can either side truly engage in a meaningful discussion?
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10/15/2024
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A number of Jewish historical works were written during the sixteenth century including Sefer Yuhasin by Abraham Zacuto at the beginning of the century and Semah David by David Gans at the end of the century. The former preceded Dei Rossi’s Me’or Einayim and was intended for the accomplished Talmudic scholar while the latter was intended for the masses. While they differ in content and theme, both of these historical works emphasized the precise knowledge of the rabbis with the underlying goal of preserving the authority of the tradition.
Zacuto’s work affirms the literal truth of all rabbinic accounts, including those with a legendary or mythical tone to them. For Zacuto, history is not an end in itself but must instead serve to strengthen trust in G-d’s power and providence. The history of the Jewish people fulfills the words of the Torah to “remember the days of old.” Both works include a review of non-Jewish history but view it as separate, and both works view any disagreements or discrepancies between Jewish sources and non-Jewish sources are decided by the former. For Gans, writing after Dei Rossi and in response to many of his stances, any account that did was not divinely inspired could not be trusted absolutely. Like Zacuto, Gans affirmed the position rejecting any historical source that contradicted or called into question even the smallest detail of Talmudic Aggadah.
10/14/2024
Jewish Conquistadors in the New World: The Early Years Three events transpired in 1492 in the Iberian Peninsula, which had tremendous ramifications for years to come. The first was the conquest of Granada, i.e., the last Muslim stronghold, by Castilian and Aragonese forces. The victory ended eight hundred years of Islam-ic rule. The conquest of Grana...
10/14/2024
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Jewish identity is complicated because it entails religious, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and national components. Each of these contributes to the identity of who is a Jew. This book surveys biblical and rabbinic views on what constitutes Jewish identity within traditional Judaism but also reviews the positions of Reform and Conservative Judaism. This book also discusses the problem of conversion to Judaism and the case of apostasy. Both of these issues have far reaching impact for American Jews as well as Jewish communities throughout the world.
Who is a Jew?: An Introduction to a Complex Question (Introduction to Judaism Series Book 3) Jewish identity is complicated because it entails religious, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and national components. Each of these contributes to the identity of who is a Jew. This book surveys biblical and rabbinic views on what constitutes Jewish identity within traditional Judaism but also revi...
10/30/2024