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    decided in his heart." A Jewish penitent is traditionally known as a baal teshuva. Numerous guides to the repentance process can be found in rabbinical literature...
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  • בעל תשובה; for a woman, בעלת תשובה, ba'alat teshuva or ba'alas teshuva; plural, בעלי תשובה, ba'alei teshuva, 'owner of return [to God or his way]') is...
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  • Shaarei Teshuva (lit. "Gates of Repentance") (Hebrew: שערי תשובה) may refer to a number of texts: An ethical work authored by Yonah Gerondi (Rabenu Yonah)...
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    Repentance in Judaism Teshuva "Return" Repentance, atonement and higher ascent in Judaism In the Hebrew Bible Altars Korban Temple in Jerusalem Prophecy...
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    Jacob Baal-Teshuva (Jerusalem, 1929) is an Israeli-American author, journalist, art critic, appraiser, collector, and curator. He studied at the Hebrew...
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    against God and against other human beings. Repentance in Judaism (Hebrew: Teshuva), traditionally, consists of regretting having committed the sin, resolving...
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  • more observant of Orthodox Judaism is called teshuva ("return" in Hebrew) making the "returnee" a baal teshuva ("master of return"). Orthodox Jewish outreach...
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  • known as a baal teshuva (lit., "master of repentance" or "master of return") (Hebrew: בעל תשובה; for a woman: בעלת תשובה‎, baalat teshuva; plural: בעלי...
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    ISBN 3-8228-5504-9. Jacob Baal-Teshuva (Hrsg.): Christo, der Reichstag und urbane Projekte. Prestel, München 1993, ISBN 3-7913-1307-X. Jacob Baal-Teshuva: Christo & Jeanne-Claude...
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  • Tzedakah Land of Israel Brit Bar and bat mitzvah Marriage Bereavement Baal teshuva Philosophy Ethics Kabbalah Customs Rites Synagogue Rabbi Texts History...
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  • around 200,000 Israeli Jews aged 20 and above defined themselves as "Baalei teshuva" (בעלי תשובה), Nevertheless, in practice about a quarter of them have a...
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    In Judaism, the High Holy Days, also known as High Holidays or Days of Awe (Yamim Noraim; Hebrew: יָמִים נוֹרָאִים, Yāmīm Nōrāʾīm) consist of: strictly...
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  • pioneered various Jewish educational initiatives geared towards baalei teshuva ("returnee to Judaism") outreach. Packouz was raised in Portland, Oregon...
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    include attending synagogue services and reciting special liturgy about teshuva, as well as enjoying festive meals. Eating symbolic foods, such as apples...
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    in the wake of Israel's victory also fueled the beginnings of the baal teshuva movement, the return of secular Jews to religious Judaism. The war gave...
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    1970s by secular Jews adopting a Haredi lifestyle as part of the baal teshuva movement; however, this has been somewhat offset by those leaving. The...
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    or a Return?: How Aristotle’s Tragic Reversal Illuminates Maimonides’ Teshuva was published on Amazon.com in October 2016. Macht, Stephen Robert (1972)...
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  • available to all and the rest is available to subscribers only, such that the Teshuva cuts off in the middle to non-subscribers). JTA (19 December 2013). "Britain's...
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    artistic life came when he first noticed a fellow student drawing. Baal-Teshuva writes that, for the young Chagall, watching someone draw "was like a vision...
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    are known as the Ten Days of Repentance (עשרת ימי תשובה, Aseret Yemei Teshuva). During this time, in anticipation of Yom Kippur, it is "exceedingly appropriate"...
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