RS110 Lecture 4: Judaism - Module 3 Notes

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS110
• Professor: Peter Frick

Document Summary

Medieval judaism: centre in babylonia (today iran) Module 3 medieval judaism: around 500 bc and later, intellectual and religious life of judaism shifted to. The eternity of israel jewish people survived at all odds. Initially to brazil, peru, central america (costa rica: 1654: jews migrated from brazil to new england, did not come directly from europe, came to north america via south america. Is the attempt to experience the religion at a deeper level than what is obvious on the surface: for those that were not satisfied by the intellectually philosopher systems of the. Halevi and maimonides: for those people who want to experience, some people need to understand religion mentally / intellectually. What they believe has to be grounded by reason: others people don"t care much, they want to feel the religion. Why: main criticism was that these speculations did not had anything to do with the torah. Istanbul: sultan gave give him a choice.