ISBN:
1568210779
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 153 S.
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. Rowman & Littlefield ed.
Year of publication:
2006
Series Statement:
The Orthodox Forum series
DDC:
296.3
Keywords:
Rabbanut harashit l'Yisrael (Office of the Chief Rabbi)
;
Palestine in Judaism Congresses
;
Orthodoxes Judentum
;
Zionismus
;
Kongress USA
;
Orthodox Judaism Congresses
;
United States
;
Orthodox Judaism Congresses
;
Israel
;
Religious Zionism Congresses
;
Palestine Congresses
;
In Judaism
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
The creation of the State of Israel has dramatically affected the status and self-identity of Jews around the world. For religious Jews, Israel has a special dimension as a religious reality. Israel is not simply a secular, sociopolitical entity that is important because it is a Jewish state. It is also the land promised to the Jewish people by God in the Torah itself
Abstract:
The authors of the essays in Israel as a Religious Reality perceive the State of Israel as having halakhic significance for all of Judaism and Jewry. These leading thinkers from the disciplines of halakhah, Israeli law, the social sciences, and philosophy consider such issues as the mitzvah of making aliyah - moving to Israel - and the prohibition against leaving the Holy Land; how religious Zionists face up theologically to living in Galut - the Diaspora; for observant Jewry, the advantages and disadvantages of a central rabbinic authority; the halakhic status and authority of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel; and the extent to which Orthodox Jews view their religious realities differently, depending on whether they live in Israel or in the Diaspora
Note:
Papers of the Third Conference of The Orthodox Forum, held November 25-26, 1990, in New York City. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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