Communion+with+God
111CHOSEN PEOPLE — CHOSEN PEOPLE, a common designation for the people of Israel, expressing the idea that the people of Israel stands in a special and unique relationship to the universal deity. This idea has been a central one throughout the history of Jewish… …
112COMMANDMENTS, REASONS FOR — (Heb. טַעֲמֵי הַמִּצְווֹת, Ta amei ha Mitzvot). The search for reasons for the commandments of the Torah springs from a tendency to transcend mere obedience to them by investing them with some intrinsic meaning. The Pentateuch itself offers… …
113CRESCAS (or Cresques), ḤASDAI BEN JUDAH — (c. 1340–winter 1410–11), Catalonian rabbi, philosopher, and statesman. Crescas was born into an old Barcelonan family of rabbis and merchants. He studied Talmud and philosophy there under Rabbi nissim b. reuben gerondi (c. 1310–1376) and… …
114TABERNACLE — (Lat. tabernaculum, tent ; taberna, hut ; the word renders the Heb. mishkan), the portable sanctuary constructed by the Children of Israel in the wilderness at the command of God. (The word has no connection with the Festival of Tabernacles –… …
115Problem of Hell — The problem of hell is an argument against the existence of God. It is a variant of the problem of evil, applying specifically to religions which hold both that:# An omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnibenevolent (all… …
116Vishishtadvaita — Vedanta (IAST IAST|Viśishṭādvaita Vedanta ;Sanskrit: विशिष्टाद्वैत)) is a sub school of the Vedānta (literally, end or the goal of Knowledge , Sanskrit) school of Hindu philosophy, the other major sub schools of Vedānta being Advaita and Dvaita …
117Derek Prince — Born August 14, 1915(1915 08 14) Bangalore, India Died September 24, 2003(2003 09 24) (aged 88) Jerusalem, Israel Occupation International Bible …
118Shree Maa — is a Hindu Mystic who was born near Kamakhya, Assam, India. She was descended from the family of the famous Bengali mystic, Ramprasad Sen. Shree Maa s great uncle was Atulananda Saraswati, a Sannyasi or renunciate who never married, but spent his …
119Neale Donald Walsch — es un novelista estadounidense, autor de los tres volúmenes del best seller Conversaciones con Dios . Los libros de la serie son: Conversaciones con Dios (libros 1 3), Amistad Con Dios , Unión común con Dios, El Dios del Mañana y Que Dios Quiere …
120ETHICAL LITERATURE — (Heb. סִפְרוּת הַמּוּסָר, sifrut ha musar). There is no specific ethical literature as such in the biblical and talmudic period insofar as a systematic formulation of Jewish ethics is concerned. Even the wisdom literature of the Bible, though… …
