Sar Shalom Sharabi (en hebreo: שר שלום שרעבי). también conocido como Rashash, Shemesh, o Rabino Shalom Mizrahi Sharabi (1720-1777), fue un rabino yemenita, un cabalista, un jazán, y un maestro de la halajá, la ley judía. De mayor fue el director de la Yeshivá y Sinagoga Beit El, ubicada en la ciudad vieja de Jerusalén. Su hija se casó con el Rabino Chaim Abraham Gaguin de Jerusalén, el tatarabuelo de Shem Tov Gaguin, el Keter Shem Tov. Su nieto fue el rabino mayor Chaim Abraham Gaguin.Sar Shalom Sharabi nació en la localidad de Sharab, en Yemen. Emigró a Palestina, entonces bajo dominio otomano. De camino a Palestina, estuvo en la India, en Irak, y en Siria. En Damasco, estuvo implicado en una disputa sobre la halajá, la ley judía, relacionada con la cantidad mínima de matzá que una persona debe comer durante el Séder de Pésaj.En Palestina causó una profunda impresión a los sabios y a los rabinos del lugar, y es a menudo mencionado en sus libros. En la Yeshivá Bet El, Sharabi pertenecía a un grupo de 12 mekubalim, entre ellos: Jaim Yosef David Azulai (Jidá), el Rabino Haim de la Rosa (Torat Chacham), el Rabino Yom Tov Algazi y otros sabios de las congregaciones yemenitas y sefardíes. Sharabi permaneció en la Yeshivá Bet El y se convirtió en el Rosh Yeshivá (el director de la yeshivá) un cargo que ejerció hasta su fallecimiento. Sharabi era un devoto de las enseñanzas religiosas del gran rabino y cabalista Isaac Luria, el inventor de la Cábala luriánica.La tradición popular relaciona la partida de Sharabi del Yemen, con un milagro que tuvo lugar después de que una rica mujer musulmana, supuestamente intentó seducir al rabino. En la Yeshivá de Bet El, Sharabi trabajó como sirviente, y ocultó sus conocimientos a los otros, cuando su conocimiento de la Cábala, fue descubierto accidentalmente, se convirtió en un miembro del círculo cabalístico. Según una leyenda, el profeta Eliyahu Hanaví se le aparecía, y los principales cabalistas creían que Sharabi era un fiel seguidor del Arizal HaKadosh.Su nieto, Solomon Moses Hai Gaguin Sharabi, escribió un poema de alabanza, sobre su dominio de las obras cabalísticas Etz Jaim y Shmone Shaarim del Rabino Jaim Vital. Los miembros de la Yeshivá Bet El, continúan postrandose ante su tumba, situada en el Monte de los Olivos, en el aniversario de su defunción. Existe la creencia popular que Sharabi fue el autor del milagro que abrió el Muro de las Lamentaciones (el Kotel) a los visitantes judíos.Sharabi fue uno de los primeros comentaristas de las obras del Rabino Isaac Luria, el Arizal Hakadosh, uno de los principales cabalistas. Su libro de oraciones, el Sidur Kavanot HaRashash, (en hebreo: סידור כוונות הרש"ש) es usado actualmente por los cabalistas, durante la oración, la meditación, y el estudio en la yeshivá. Es un sidur que tiene diversos comentarios, y cuenta con extensas meditaciones cabalísticas. Entre las obras del Rabino Sharabi, se encuentran los siguientes escritos, los cuales incluyen: Emet ve-Shalom, Rehovot ha-Nahar, Derech Shalom, y Nahar Shalom, obra en la cual Sharabi responde a 70 preguntas de los jajamim (sabios) de Túnez, los cuales estaban entre las autoridades rabínicas sefardíes del siglo XVIII. Sharabi también comentó las minhaguim (las costumbres) de los judíos yemenitas, y las recopiló en varios volúmenes. Existe también una edición exclusiva del Shulján Aruj, donde Sharabi ofrece su interpretación sobre las halachot (las leyes rabínicas), así como diversas anotaciones sobre las costumbres de la comunidad judía yemení. Estos volúmenes son todavía usados por la comunidad judía yemení, para tomar decisiones legales en materia de halajá, en los asuntos relacionados con las festividades, el matrimonio, y el Shabat.

The religious buildings of the Jewish community in Britain have never been explored in print. Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished images and photographs taken specially by English Heritage, this book traces the architecture of the synagogue in Britain and Ireland from its discreet Georgian- and Regency-era beginnings to the golden age of the grand "cathedral synagogues" of the High Victorian period. Sharman Kadish sheds light on obscure and sometimes underappreciated architects who designed synagogues for all types of worshipers--from Orthodox and Reform congregations to Yiddish-speaking immigrants in the 1900s. She examines the relationship between architectural style and minority identity in British society and looks at design issues in the contemporary synagogue. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Freaky families, fake Lovecrafts, literary sabotage, coffee-shop assassins, Eucharist-stealing monkeys, mediocre hauntings, discreet dystopias: FLAPPERHOUSE #11.

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Plot centers around Dr. Frankenstein's castle and includes such characters as The monster, Count and Countess Dracula, The mummy, and a reluctant boy werewolf.

(Limelight). From Booklist: Actor-director-producer Leonard has a real gift for storytelling that he displays to the fullest in a breezy, readable memoir of his life in show business. Starting out as an actor in 1930s New York in such forgotten hit plays as Hotel Alimony, Fly Away Home , and Kiss the Boys Goodbye , Leonard had the foresight and financial need to leap first to radio and movies, then to television, in which he created or produced such rerun perennials as Make Room for Daddy, The Andy Griffith Show , and the controversial (for its time) I Spy . Along the way, Leonard met lots and lots of fascinating people--John Garfield, Jack Benny, Danny Thomas, Carl Reiner, and Bill Cosby, to mention a few of the dozens about whom Leonard has a funny story or three to tell. Some of these stories are well known, such as those of the closeness of the writers, actors, and staff of The Dick Van Dyke Show ; others are not, such as those of Leonard's various, sometimes dangerous, adventures around the world while filming I Spy . Jack Helbig

Most people agree that animals count morally. But how, exactly, should we take animals into account? According to a prominent position in contemporary philosophical discussions, animals and people have the very same moral status, so in our moral deliberations the otherwise similar interests of people and animals should be given the same weight and consideration. In How to Count Animals, more or less, Shelly Kagan rejects this view. In its place, Kagan sets out and defends a hierarchical approach, one in which people count more than animals do and some animals count more than others. Unfortunately, most moral theories have not been developed in such a way as to take into account these differences in moral status. By arguing for a hierarchical account of morality--and exploring what appropriate, status sensitive principles might look like--Kagan reveals just how much work needs to be done to arrive at an adequate view of our duties toward animals, and of morality more generally.

Thirty years after a Jewish widow and her children are kept safe by their loyal housekeeper after the Nazis take over Latvia in 1940, she begs her estranged granddaughter to find out what happened to her son.

Nothing and Everything, is a hardcover catalog that accompanies an exhibition of thirty-eight drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculpture spanning eleven decades. The book and exhibition includes works by Carl Andre, Vija Celmins, Jean Dubuffet, Walker Evans, Robert Gober, Peter Hujar, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Levitt, Piero Manzoni, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, among others. Nothing and Everything, investigates one of art's oldest mysteries: how an artwork may simultaneously contain elements of emptiness and fullness, void and profusion. These qualities may appear contradictory but they do not have to be so. Several works, including Peter Hujar's 1975 photograph of the Hudson River and Ellsworth Kelly's drawing Light Reflecting on Water (1950), explore connections between the banal and the sublime, particularly in nature. Diane Arbus's photograph Clouds on-screen at a drive-in movie, N.J. (1960), for example, blurs the line between the mundane and the transcendent with its image of a billowing cloud on the movie screen against the evening sky. More than a statement of modern man's distance from nature, the photograph captures a moment of the sublime bounded by the everyday.

"In Screening Social Justice, award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner presents an ethnographic study of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film production company that makes documentaries intended to mobilize progressive grassroots activism. Ortner positions the work of the company within a tradition of activist documentary filmmaking and within the larger field of "alternative media" that is committed to challenging the mainstream media and telling the truth about the world today. The company's films cover a range of social justice issues, with particular focus on the hidden workings of capitalism, racism, and right-wing extremism. Beyond the films themselves, Brave New Films is also famous for its creative distribution strategies. All of the films are available for free on YouTube. Central to the intention of promoting political activism, the films circulate through networks of other activist and social justice organizations and are shown almost entirely in live screenings in which the power of the film is amplified. Ortner takes the reader inside both the production process and the screenings to show how a film can be made and used to mobilize action for a better world"--

The Sherpas of the Himalayas practice Tibetan Buddhism, a variety of Mahayana Buddhism. This is a general interpretation of Sherpa culture through examining the relationship between the Sherpas' Buddhism and other aspects of their society, and a theoretical contribution to the study of ritual and religious symbolism. In analysing the symbols of Sherpa rituals, professor Ortner leads us toward the discovery of conflict, contradiction, and stress in the wider social and cultural world. Following a general ethnographic sketch, each chapter opens with a brief description of a ritual. The ritual is then dissected, and its symbolic elements are used as guides in the exploration of problematic structures, relationships, and ideas of the culture. The author uses these rituals to illuminate the interconnections between religious ideology, social structure and experience. Professor Ortner analysis of the rituals reveals both the Buddhist pull toward exaggerating the isolation of individuals, and the secular pull that attempts to overcome isolation and to reproduce the conditions for social community.

Surveys Jewish holidays, history, and culture, and suggests non-religious ways to celebrate one's ethnic heritage.

Is there really such a thing as a family curse? The tale of Four Mothers captivates readers with fantastic characters, magical events, foreign colors and scents while telling the story of a dynasty of women cursed to raise their daughters on their own. This is a vibrant first person recounting of matriarchal dynasty with rich strong women who pass their material and spiritual legacy on from one generation to the next. The last woman in the line, Amal, documents the wisdom of her female predecessors from the beginning of memory. The family has known riches and fame as well as poverty and bad fortune, but women have always survived, and prospered . The epic drama echoes the wondrous realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and demonstrates a talent for lavish details. The realistic yet fantastic style and story question the cultural inferiority and oppression of women as well as the role of the family curse within contemporary Israeli society. The story depicts Jerusalem from the end of the 19th century to present day, covering the Turkish and British rule over the ancient city. At the same time it presents an alternative, personal perspective to the history of Jerusalem over the past century. The colorful and rich work presents a precise historiography of the period from woman's viewpoint. Four Mother has been awarded several prizes.

In this moving and often astonishing memoir, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres undertakes something most unusual: an imaginary voyage with Theodor Herzl, the great Zionist theorist and spiritual father of Israel.

Queen Shulamit never expected to inherit the throne of the tropical land of Perach so young. At twenty, grief-stricken and fatherless, she's also coping with being the only lesbian she knows after her sweetheart ran off for an unknown reason. Not to mention, she's the victim of severe digestive problems that everybody think she's faking. When she meets Rivka, an athletic and assertive warrior from the north who wears a mask and pretends to be a man, she finds the source of strength she needs so desperately. Unfortunately for her, Rivka is straight, but that's okay -- Shulamit needs a surrogate big sister just as much as she needs a girlfriend. Especially if the warrior's willing to take her around the kingdom on the back of her dragon in search of other women who might be open to same-sex romance. The real world outside the palace is full of adventure, however, and the search for a royal girlfriend quickly turns into a rescue mission when they discover a temple full of women turned to stone by an evil sorcerer.

The Anatomy of Thatcherism explains how, for the first time in British history, a prime minister's name has become an 'Ism' a symbol of a profound social change. Letwin argues that Thatcherism promoted a moral agenda rather than an economic doctrine or a political theory in order to achieve a fundamental realignment in British politics. She introduces a new term "the vigorous virtues" to describe what Thatcherites have aimed to cultivate in Individual Britons and In the country as a whole. Her definition of Thatcherism is supported by a detailed analysis of the principal Thatcherite policies and the grounds on which they were advocated and opposed, Inside and outside the Conservative Party. Without departing from a lucid and lively style or resorting to technical jargon. Dr. Letwin explains such innovations as schools opting out, budget holding by GPs, and the creation of the first ever competitive spot market in electricity. Just how did the Thatcherite administrations shape the reform of the unions? How is the Thatcherite attitude to the family connected with Thatcherite policies on schools? Why does mon-etarism appear wrongly to be at the heart of Thatcherism? The Anatomy of Thatcherism is a bold and searching book about how Britain changed between 1979 and 1992. It challenges many truisms about British politics, and Is indispensable reading both for those who believe in the future relevance of Thatcherism and for those who want to demolish it. And it will be of particular interest to those con-cerned with the history of British politics, as It shows how Thatcherism both arose out of, and confronted, trends that had per-meated Conservatism for the entire twentieth century.

Style is a fundamental aspect of the human experience, yet exactly what it is and how it works are elusive. Exploring the issue from a computational viewpoint, this book shows how information is deployed in the production and perception of different styles.

Some of the highest moments wiht Reb Shlomo were at the weddings he performed. When he would perform a wedding, he would spend hours teaching what a Jewish wedding really is. He transformed the wedding from a social gathering into hte highest spiritual experience. Everyone would listen spellbound to his chassidic parables, songs and teachings which made those present laugh, cry and sing at the same time. This book has some of Reb Shlomo's unique insights into the holiness of love, weddings, and marriage.