Using Lotteries in Logic of Halakhah Law. The Meaning of Randomness in Judaism
There are many phenomena in the Bible connected to the idea of the random, generally in a positive light, but sometimes in a negative one. Both in the Talmudic literature and in the Halakhah texts, the ḥazal (the Sages) also relate to random processes. As we will see here, for them every chance even...
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| description | There are many phenomena in the Bible connected to the idea of the random, generally in a positive light, but sometimes in a negative one. Both in the Talmudic literature and in the Halakhah texts, the ḥazal (the Sages) also relate to random processes. As we will see here, for them every chance event has a clear meaning, usually even a holy one. In fact, every culture in the world relates to randomness. However, from the Greek philosophers until the rationalism of the 19th century, a process of denuding randomness of its holiness has been taking place. In Judaism, a lottery is not a blind process; moreover the randomness has a clear and profound theological meaning. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3ccc208951cf400abd828a793f856d862022-12-21T21:49:10ZengSciendoStudia Humana2299-05182017-06-016210711510.1515/sh-2017-0014sh-2017-0014Using Lotteries in Logic of Halakhah Law. The Meaning of Randomness in JudaismMerzbach Ely0Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, IsraelThere are many phenomena in the Bible connected to the idea of the random, generally in a positive light, but sometimes in a negative one. Both in the Talmudic literature and in the Halakhah texts, the ḥazal (the Sages) also relate to random processes. As we will see here, for them every chance event has a clear meaning, usually even a holy one. In fact, every culture in the world relates to randomness. However, from the Greek philosophers until the rationalism of the 19th century, a process of denuding randomness of its holiness has been taking place. In Judaism, a lottery is not a blind process; moreover the randomness has a clear and profound theological meaning.https://doi.org/10.1515/sh-2017-0014random phenomenatalmudhalakhahlottery |
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| title | Using Lotteries in Logic of Halakhah Law. The Meaning of Randomness in Judaism |
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| title_short | Using Lotteries in Logic of Halakhah Law. The Meaning of Randomness in Judaism |
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