The Shabbat elevator and other Sabbath subterfuges : an unorthodox essay on circumventing custom and Jewish character /
This book focuses on the topic of 'circumventing custom' with special emphasis on the ingenious ways Orthodox (and other) Jews have devised to avoid breaking the extensive list of activities forbidden on the Sabbath. After examining the sources of Sabbath observance as set forth in the Old...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, MD :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
[2002]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Concept of Custom
- The Sabbath in the Old Testament
- The Sabbath in the New Testament
- The Sabbath in Rabbinical Tradition
- The Shabbat Elevator
- The Light in the Refrigerator
- The Eruv as Symbolic Space
- Other Sabbath Customs
- The Shabbes Goy
- Circumvention and Jewish Mentality
- Obsession and Religion According to Freud
- Anal Erotic Character
- Self-Imposed Repression
- The Love of Argument.