Sacred space, sacred time in Judaism. Volume 1 / Simcha Fishbane, Eric Levine, editors ; Yosef Robinson, managing editor

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fishbane, Simcha, editor.

Levine, Eric Michael, editor.

Robinson, Yosef, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacred space.

Holy, The--Judaism.

Holy, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Touro University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"The collection of essays in this first volume of a two-volume set devoted to the examination of sacred time and space in Judaism represents the exquisite work of renowned Judaic scholars. The excellent scholarship represented in this and the volume to follow are expressive of the commitment to intellectual inquiry and the transmission of knowledge. These essays ask and examine such essential questions as: What constitutes holiness, sacredness, sanctity? What do our foundational texts say about holiness? How has the Jewish people understood the notion of the sacred throughout history? What constitutes a holy people? Is that quality an intrinsic or created, or even an earned status? The contributors to these volumes grapple with these and many other challenging questions as they seek to contribute to the continued flourishing of Jewish life and the quest of the Jewish people individually and collectively to seek a sacred existence in space and time"--4c De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Introduction : The meaning of sanctity and the sanctity of meaning / Mervin F. Verbit

Believing but not waiting : Observations on chapter 11 of Maimonides’s Hilkhot Melakhim / Michael A. Shmidman

Sacred space : Myth and ritual in the Halakhot concerning Jerusalem / Meir Bar-Ilan

Individual and community sacred space and life in Judaism / John D. Loike and Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser

Finding sacred spaces in the darkest of places : Jewish observance during the Holocaust / Karen Sutton

Between the sacred and rational : Moses Mendelssohn’s religious perspective of non-Jews / Zvi Jonathan Kaplan

Where heaven and earth meet : Mapped topographies of sacred space in emerging early Judaism to ca. 220 CE, a proposed conceptual framework / Jack N. Lightstone

Se’udat mitzvah : Obligatory feasts and their typologies / Simcha Fishbane

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed August 17, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Sacred space, sacred time in Judaism

ISBN:

9798887197883

OCLC:

1592906147

Access Restriction:

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