Mitzvot

Mitzvot that seemed essential in the past, including in-marriage, are no longer considered ethical or moral litmus tests.

Paul Golin: God's Covenant, Judaism and Interfaith Marriage Paul Golin 2010

Mitzvot that seemed essential in the past, including in-marriage, are no longer considered ethical or moral litmus tests.

Paul Golin: God's Covenant, Judaism and Interfaith Marriage 2010

Mitzvot that seemed essential in the past, including in-marriage, are no longer considered ethical or moral litmus tests.

Paul Golin: God's Covenant, Judaism and Interfaith Marriage 2010

Mitzvot that seemed essential in the past, including in-marriage, are no longer considered ethical or moral litmus tests.

Paul Golin: God's Covenant, Judaism and Interfaith Marriage 2010

A veritable best seller of the pre-modern age, Seder Mitzvot Nashim (Eyn Schoen Frauenbuechlein) was published in Cracow in 1577, 1585 and 1595 and in Basel in 1602.

Seder Mitzvot Nashim. 2009

Even a book such as Seder Mitzvot Nashim, written to instruct women in their three special mitzvot alluded to previously, contained passages addressed to men and assumed that some husbands would read the book to their illiterate wives.

Poland: Early Modern (1500-1795). 2009

In his list of commandments Maimonides states that women are obligated to know God and his unity and to love, fear, pray and cleave to him (Sefer ha-Mitzvot, positive mitzvot 1 – 6 and end of whole section).

Maimonides. 2009

In Sefer ha-Mitzvot, Moses Maimonides (1135 – 1204) lists sixty positive precepts that are incumbent on every adult male at all times, at all places, and under all circumstances.

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009

A classic example of this is Ezra of Gerona's Ta'amei ha-Mitzvot printed erroneously in the name of Nahmanides.

Gershom Scholem Magid, Shaul 2008

She probably believes that someone who identifies as "Shomer Mitzvot" is in effect not calling himself Orthodox.

Archive 2007-06-01 Kylopod 2007